Labsby Glyph
Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii)
Independent non-profit AI institute in Edmonton, begun in 2002 as AICML and one of three Pan-Canadian AI Strategy institutes.
Every lab
8 of 232 labs
Canadian Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute (CAISI)
Canada's AI safety institute, founded in November 2024 and led by ISED with NRC and CIFAR research partners.
Part of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada
Cohere and Cohere Labs
Enterprise models (Command, Embed, Rerank) and Cohere Labs' open multilingual Aya research.
Flagship: Command A
IVADO
Quebec's largest interdisciplinary AI research, training and knowledge transfer consortium, led by Université de Montréal.
Part of Université de Montréal
Mila
Yoshua Bengio's institute: neural language models, attention for translation, GANs and Theano.
University of Toronto Machine Learning Group
Machine learning faculty group in Toronto's Department of Computer Science, home of the AlexNet and dropout papers.
Part of University of Toronto
Vector Institute
Toronto's independent AI institute, home to deep learning researchers and work such as neural ODEs.
Waabi
Self-driving company founded by Raquel Urtasun, using generative AI simulation such as UniSim for autonomous trucks.
Questions
What counts as a lab here?
A research organization that builds or studies AI or data systems and publishes: labs inside large companies (Google DeepMind, Meta FAIR, Microsoft Research), startups whose business is models (OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral AI, DeepSeek), nonprofits (Ai2, EleutherAI, METR), university labs (MIT CSAIL, Mila, Berkeley), government institutes (the UK AI Security Institute, the US CAISI) and data systems groups (CWI, DuckLabs, TUM).
Where do the facts come from?
Founding year, headquarters and handles come from Wikidata, Wikipedia or the lab's own pages. Landmark contributions link to the paper or the lab's own post (arXiv titles are checked against arXiv). Leaders come from leaders.fru.dev, which cites a source for each role; models from models.fru.dev; papers from papers.fru.dev. Every fact on a lab page links its source.
How is the flagship model chosen?
Where the lab is ranked on models.fru.dev, it is its best-ranked model there this week. Otherwise it is the newest model on the lab's own model page.
How often is it updated?
Every Monday a run pulls leaders, models, papers, blogs and funding from the other fru.dev sites and logs what moved. On the first Monday of each month it also re-checks every lab's website and landmark links. Nothing is overwritten silently: every change is kept on the Changes page.