Labsby Glyph
Cambridge Machine Learning Group (MLG)
Machine learning group in the Cambridge Department of Engineering, known for probabilistic and Bayesian machine learning.
Part of University of Cambridge
Every lab
14 of 232 labs
Centre for the Governance of AI (GovAI)
AI governance think tank founded at Yale in 2016, now an independent non-profit with offices in London and Washington, DC.
EdinburghNLP
University of Edinburgh NLP group, known for machine translation work including subword (BPE) units and the Nematus toolkit.
Part of University of Edinburgh
ElevenLabs
AI audio research and product company known for natural-sounding speech synthesis and voice agent models.
Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit
UCL unit set up by the Gatsby Charitable Foundation in 1998 for theoretical neuroscience and machine learning; Geoffrey Hinton was founding director.
Part of University College London
Google DeepMind
AlphaGo and AlphaFold, deep reinforcement learning, and Google's Gemini models.
Flagship: Gemini 4 Argon12 papers
Isomorphic Labs
AI-first drug discovery spun out of DeepMind; co-developed AlphaFold 3.
Part of Alphabet
Oxford Applied and Theoretical Machine Learning Group (OATML)
Oxford Computer Science group led by Yarin Gal, working on Bayesian deep learning, uncertainty and AI safety.
Part of University of Oxford
Stability AI
Stable Diffusion, the open image model release that opened up generative imaging in 2022.
Synthesia
London AI video company that researches neural rendering and synthetic avatars for business video.
The Alan Turing Institute
UK national institute for data science and AI, an independent charity based at the British Library, founded in 2015.
UK AI Security Institute
The first state AI safety institute (renamed Security in 2025): pre-deployment testing and the Inspect eval framework.
Part of Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Visual Geometry Group (VGG), University of Oxford
Oxford computer vision group known for the VGG convolutional networks and the VGGFace2 dataset.
Part of University of Oxford
Wayve
London autonomous driving company using end-to-end learning, known for the GAIA generative driving world models.
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.