Labsby GlyphKakao AI (Kanana)
Kakao's AI effort behind the Kanana bilingual Korean-English models, building on Kakao Brain's earlier KoGPT.
Part of Kakao Corporation
Every lab
7 of 232 labs
Korea AI Safety Institute
South Korea's AI safety institute, founded in November 2024 under ETRI and based in Bundang, Seongnam.
Part of Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
LG AI Research
LG Group's AI research institute and developer of the EXAONE family of Korean-English language and reasoning models.
Part of LG Corporation
NAVER Cloud AI (CLOVA)
NAVER's AI research organization behind the HyperCLOVA X Korean language models and vision work such as CutMix and Donut.
Part of NAVER Corporation
Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT)
Samsung's advanced research institute; its SAIL Montreal AI lab released the Tiny Recursive Model for puzzle reasoning.
Part of Samsung Electronics
Samsung Research
Samsung Electronics' R&D hub, running AI centers in Seoul, Mountain View, Toronto, Cambridge, Warsaw, New York and Montreal.
Part of Samsung Electronics
Upstage
South Korean AI company known for the Solar language models and depth up-scaling, plus document AI.
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.