Labsby Glyph
01.AI
Kai-Fu Lee's lab behind the open Yi models, now focused on enterprise AI products.
Flagship: Yi-34B
Every lab
30 of 232 labs
Alibaba DAMO Academy
Alibaba's research academy, whose language technology lab builds VideoLLaMA and the SeaLLMs Southeast Asian language models.
Part of Alibaba Group
Alibaba Qwen
The Qwen family, the most downloaded open-weight models, from Alibaba Cloud's Tongyi lab.
Flagship: Qwen3.8 Max (0902)78 papers
BAAI (Beijing Academy of AI)
The BGE embedding models used across open retrieval stacks, the Emu multimodal models and FlagOpen.
Flagship: BGE-M3
Baichuan AI
Beijing AI company, one of China's AI Tigers, known for the open Baichuan language models and medical models.
Baidu (ERNIE)
The ERNIE models and PaddlePaddle, and earlier Deep Speech 2 from its Silicon Valley lab.
Part of Baidu
Beijing Institute for General Artificial Intelligence (BIGAI)
Beijing AGI research institute founded in 2020 by Song-Chun Zhu with Beijing municipal government support.
ByteDance Seed
ByteDance's model team behind Doubao, the UI-TARS computer-use agents and Seedance video generation.
Part of ByteDance
DeepSeek
Frontier-class open-weight models trained cheaply: DeepSeek-V3's efficient MoE and R1's open reasoning recipe.
Flagship: DeepSeek V4P1 Flash22 papers
Huawei Noah's Ark Lab
Huawei's AI research center, known for PanGu language models and efficient models such as TinyBERT and GhostNet.
Part of Huawei
iFLYTEK
Chinese speech and language AI company, known for voice recognition and, with HIT, the Chinese BERT-wwm and MacBERT models.
inclusionAI (Ant Group)
Ant Group's open model lab behind the Ling language models and Ring reasoning models.
Part of Ant Group
Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR), Tsinghua University
Tsinghua institute for applied AI research in health, transportation and IoT, led by Dean Zhang Ya-Qin.
Part of Tsinghua University
Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Peking University
Peking University institute announced on 27 April 2019 to coordinate university-wide AI research and training.
Part of Peking University
Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASIA)
Chinese Academy of Sciences institute founded in 1956 for intelligence science, pattern recognition and robotics.
Part of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Kling AI (Kuaishou)
Kuaishou's generative video unit behind the Kling video model, plus open work such as LivePortrait and Kolors.
Part of Kuaishou Technology
Megvii
Beijing computer vision company behind Face++, with research on efficient networks such as ShuffleNet and the YOLOX detector.
Meituan LongCat
Meituan's LongCat team, which releases the open LongCat-Flash mixture-of-experts language models.
Part of Meituan
MiniMax
Lightning attention for million-token context in open models, plus Hailuo video and speech models.
ModelBest (OpenBMB)
Tsinghua-incubated Beijing company best known for the open MiniCPM small language and on-device multimodal models.
Moonshot AI
The Kimi models: long context early, then the open-weight Kimi K2 trained with the Muon optimizer.
Flagship: Kimi K3
RedNote hi lab
Xiaohongshu's AI lab, releasing the open dots.llm1 language model and dots.ocr document parser.
Part of Xiaohongshu (RedNote)
Shanghai AI Laboratory
The InternLM and InternVL open models and the OpenCompass evaluation platform.
Skywork AI (Kunlun Tech)
Kunlun Tech's AI unit releasing the open Skywork language, reasoning and reward models.
Part of Kunlun Tech
StepFun
Shanghai AI company, one of China's AI Tigers, releasing open speech, video and multimodal reasoning models.
Tencent Hy (Hunyuan)
Tencent's Hunyuan models, with open releases in MoE language, video (HunyuanVideo) and 3D generation.
Part of Tencent
Tsinghua KEG
Tsinghua's knowledge engineering group: AMiner, the GLM and ChatGLM models (with Zhipu), CogVLM and AgentBench.
Part of Tsinghua University
Tsinghua NLP Lab (THUNLP)
Tsinghua natural language processing lab known for knowledge-enhanced language models and the MiniCPM small LLMs.
Part of Tsinghua University
Xiaomi MiMo
Xiaomi's large model team, releasing the open MiMo reasoning and MiMo-VL vision-language models.
Part of Xiaomi
Z.ai (Zhipu AI)
The GLM models, spun out of Tsinghua University's KEG lab; GLM-4.5 and later are open weights.
Flagship: GLM-5.3
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.