Labsby Glyph
1X Technologies
Humanoid robotics company, founded as Halodi Robotics, building home robots and a world model for robot learning.
Every lab
106 of 232 labs
Adobe Research
Adobe's research lab for graphics, imaging and generative AI, including 3D reconstruction and fast diffusion distillation.
Part of Adobe Inc.
AI Now Institute
Independent research institute founded in 2017 producing policy research on the social impact of AI and industry power.
Ai2 (Allen Institute for AI)
Fully open models with their data and training code: OLMo, Tulu, Molmo, and the Dolma corpus.
Flagship: OLMo7 papers
Alignment Research Center (ARC)
Berkeley non-profit founded by Paul Christiano in 2021, working on theory for mechanistic explanations of neural networks.
Amazon AGI and Amazon Science
The Amazon Nova models and Nova Act agents, plus Chronos forecasting models from Amazon Science.
Flagship: Amazon Nova
Anthropic
The Claude models, Constitutional AI and interpretability research on what happens inside models.
Flagship: Claude Fable 5.16 papers
Apple Machine Learning Research
On-device models for Apple Intelligence, the MLX framework for Apple silicon, and studies of reasoning limits.
Part of Apple
Arcee AI
US company releasing open-weight models such as AFM and Trinity, and creator of the MergeKit model-merging toolkit.
Berkeley AI Research (BAIR)
Diffusion models (DDPM), NeRF, robot learning, and open chat models such as Vicuna.
Part of UC Berkeley14 papers
Berkeley Sky Computing Lab
The systems lab after AMPLab (Spark) and RISELab (Ray): vLLM, SkyPilot and Chatbot Arena.
Part of UC Berkeley14 papers
Bloomberg AI Engineering
Bloomberg's AI group, known for BloombergGPT, a 50-billion-parameter language model trained for finance.
Part of Bloomberg L.P.
Cartesia
Real-time voice AI company pioneering new model architectures, maker of the Sonic text-to-speech models.
Center for AI Safety (CAIS)
San Francisco nonprofit doing technical AI safety research and field-building; organized the 2023 Statement on AI Risk.
Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence (CHAI)
UC Berkeley AI safety research center founded in 2016 by a group led by Stuart Russell.
Part of University of California, Berkeley
Cerebras Systems
Maker of wafer-scale AI chips whose research team released open Cerebras-GPT and BTLM language models.
Character.AI
Consumer chatbot company founded by LaMDA developers Noam Shazeer and Daniel de Freitas, training its own conversational models.
CILVR Lab (Computational Intelligence, Learning, Vision, and Robotics)
NYU machine learning and vision lab founded in 2009 by Yann LeCun and Rob Fergus.
Part of New York University
CMU Database Group
Database systems research and teaching in the open: self-driving databases, NoisePage and the Database of Databases.
Part of Carnegie Mellon University
CMU Language Technologies Institute (LTI)
CMU institute for language technologies, begun in 1986 as the Center for Machine Translation and renamed LTI in 1996.
Part of Carnegie Mellon University
CMU Machine Learning Department
The world's first machine learning department: Libratus poker, Transformer-XL, XLNet and Mamba.
Part of Carnegie Mellon University10 papers
CMU Robotics Institute
CMU robotics department founded in 1979, known for computer vision, autonomous vehicles and the first robotics PhD program.
Part of Carnegie Mellon University
Cognition
San Francisco company behind Devin, an autonomous AI software engineer, and its own SWE agent models.
Columbia Data Science Institute
University-wide data science institute at Columbia, founded in 2012 within Columbia Engineering.
Part of Columbia University
Common Crawl Foundation
501(c)(3) nonprofit that crawls the web monthly and publishes a free open archive of web data collected since 2008.
Contextual AI
Enterprise RAG company founded by RAG co-author Douwe Kiela, known for RAG 2.0 and the KTO alignment method.
Covariant
American AI and robotics company, formerly Embodied Intelligence, headquartered in Emeryville, California.
Databricks Mosaic Research
Open models (MPT, DBRX) and training at scale, from the MosaicML team Databricks bought in 2023; Spark lineage.
Part of Databricks3 papers
DatologyAI
Data curation company that researches how selecting and synthesizing training data makes models better and cheaper.
Deep Cogito
San Francisco lab releasing open Cogito models trained with iterated distillation and amplification.
EleutherAI
Grassroots open research: The Pile, GPT-NeoX and Pythia, and the LM Evaluation Harness everyone uses.
Epoch AI
Data on AI's trajectory: training compute trends, data limits, and the FrontierMath benchmark.
Essential AI
San Francisco lab led by Ashish Vaswani, publishing open pretraining research, datasets and the Rnj-1 model.
EvolutionaryScale
Frontier AI lab for the life sciences, maker of the ESM3 generative protein language model and ESM Cambrian.
Figure AI
Humanoid robot company founded by Brett Adcock, developer of the Figure robots and the Helix vision-language-action model.
Generate:Biomedicines
Therapeutics company pioneering generative biology, known for the Chroma generative model for protein design.
Genmo
Video generation lab that released Mochi 1, an open-source text-to-video model.
Google Research
The Transformer, BERT and T5, plus MapReduce and TensorFlow: much of the base of modern AI.
Part of Google45 papers
Hazy Research
Chris Re's Stanford group on ML systems, known for FlashAttention, Snorkel weak supervision and structured state space models.
Part of Stanford University
Hugging Face
The Hub for open models and datasets and the Transformers library; also BLOOM, StarCoder, FineWeb and SmolLM.
IBM Research
Deep Blue and Watson, relational databases and quantum computing, and today the open Granite models.
Flagship: IBM Granite
Imbue
AI lab founded in 2021 that trained a 70B model from scratch and builds tools that put software under users' control.
Inflection AI
Public benefit corporation that built Pi, a personal AI assistant powered by the Inflection AI model stack.
Intel Labs
Intel's research organization; its Intelligent Systems Lab created the MiDaS monocular depth models and DPT.
Part of Intel
J.P. Morgan AI Research
JPMorgan Chase's AI research group studying AI agents, finance foundation models, synthetic data and document AI.
Part of JPMorgan Chase
Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence
Harvard institute studying intelligence in brains and machines, funded by a Chan Zuckerberg gift in 2021.
Part of Harvard University
Liquid AI
Liquid foundation models (LFM) for devices, built on liquid neural network research from MIT CSAIL.
Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI)
Berkeley nonprofit founded in 2000 as the Singularity Institute, focused on existential risk from superintelligent AI.
Machine Learning Center at Georgia Tech (ML@GT)
Interdisciplinary machine learning research center at Georgia Tech, founded in 2016.
Part of Georgia Institute of Technology
Magic
AGI startup building code models with ultra-long context, including 100M-token context windows and the HashHop eval.
Meta FAIR
PyTorch, the open Llama models, Segment Anything and self-supervised vision (DINO).
Part of Meta40 papers
Meta Superintelligence Labs
Meta's frontier model effort, formed in 2025 under Alexandr Wang; it builds the Muse models and now houses FAIR.
Flagship: Muse Spark 1.1
METR
Evaluating dangerous capabilities: the time-horizon measure of how long a task AI agents can finish.
Microsoft AI
Copilot for consumers and Microsoft's own MAI models, led by Mustafa Suleyman since 2024.
Part of Microsoft
Microsoft Research
ResNet, LoRA, DeepSpeed and the small Phi models, from a lab spanning systems, theory and AI.
Flagship: Phi-456 papers
Midjourney
Self-described independent research lab led by David Holz, known for the Midjourney text-to-image models.
MIT CSAIL
MIT's largest lab: robotics, the Julia language, adversarial robustness and the lottery ticket hypothesis.
Part of MIT
MIT Data Systems Group (DSG)
MIT CSAIL group researching data management, from query processing to learned database systems such as SageDB.
Part of Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT-IBM Computing Research Lab (formerly MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab)
MIT and IBM joint research lab, evolved from the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab that began in 2017.
Part of Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Netflix Research
Netflix's research group publishing on machine learning, recommendation and video encoding.
Part of Netflix
Nomic AI
Company behind GPT4All for local LLMs and the reproducible Nomic Embed text embedding models.
Nous Research
The open Hermes fine-tunes, YaRN context extension, and decentralized training over the internet.
NSF AI Institute for Foundations of Machine Learning (IFML)
NSF AI institute led by UT Austin, designated in 2020, working on foundational machine learning theory and tools.
Part of The University of Texas at Austin
NVIDIA Research
StyleGAN, Megatron-LM for training giant models, Instant NeRF, and the open Nemotron models.
Flagship: Nemotron-4 340B89 papers
NYU Center for Data Science
NYU's university-wide data science center, founded in 2013 with Yann LeCun as founding director.
Part of New York University
OpenAI
The GPT models and ChatGPT, and the scaling results that set off the large language model race.
Flagship: GPT-6 Astra8 papers
Periodic Labs
AI research company building AI scientists and autonomous laboratories for the physical sciences.
Perplexity
AI answer engine company that also releases open models such as the pplx-embed embedding family.
Physical Intelligence
General-purpose robot foundation models: the pi-zero vision-language-action family, open-sourced as openpi.
Poolside
AI company developing foundation models for software development, including the open-weight Laguna coding models.
Prime Intellect
San Francisco company training models over decentralized compute, known for the INTELLECT series and RL environments.
Princeton Language and Intelligence (PLI)
Princeton university-wide initiative on large AI models and their use across the sciences and humanities.
Part of Princeton University
Princeton NLP Group
Princeton natural language processing group behind SimCSE, SWE-bench and Tree of Thoughts.
Part of Princeton University
Qualcomm AI Research
Qualcomm's AI research group, focused on efficient on-device AI such as quantization and model compression.
Part of Qualcomm
Recursion
AI drug discovery company that builds foundation models of cell biology from large-scale microscopy data.
Redwood Research
Nonprofit AI safety and security research organization that pioneered the AI control agenda.
Reflection AI
Lab founded by former Google DeepMind researchers Misha Laskin and Ioannis Antonoglou to build open frontier models.
Reka
Natively multimodal models (Core, Flash, Edge) from former DeepMind and Meta researchers.
Runway
New York generative video company behind the Gen-3 and Gen-4 video models and the GWM-1 world model.
Safe Superintelligence (SSI)
Ilya Sutskever's lab with one goal and one product, a safe superintelligence; it has published nothing yet.
Salesforce AI Research
BLIP vision-language models, CodeT5, and xLAM action models for agents.
Part of Salesforce
Scale Labs (Scale AI)
Scale AI's research arm for evaluation and alignment, co-creator of Humanity's Last Exam and SWE-Bench Pro.
Part of Scale AI
ServiceNow AI Research
ServiceNow's AI research group, co-steward of the BigCode StarCoder project and maker of the Apriel models.
Part of ServiceNow
Sesame
Conversational voice company whose Conversational Speech Model aims to cross the uncanny valley of AI voice.
Snap Research
Snap's research group, known for efficient generative image models that run on mobile devices.
Part of Snap Inc.
Snorkel AI
Data-centric AI company spun out of the Stanford AI Lab, originating from the Snorkel weak supervision project.
Snowflake AI Research
Arctic: open embedding models, the Arctic LLM, SwiftKV inference and text-to-SQL research.
Part of Snowflake5 papers
Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL)
Stanford's umbrella AI lab for research and teaching across machine learning, vision, NLP and robotics since 1963.
Part of Stanford University
Stanford DAWN
Five-year Stanford project (2018 to 2022) on tools to democratize ML, including DAWNBench, Snorkel and ColBERT.
Part of Stanford University
Stanford HAI and CRFM
The AI Index, the term foundation models, the HELM benchmark and Alpaca, from Stanford's AI institute.
Part of Stanford University12 papers
Stanford NLP Group
Stanford natural language processing group behind GloVe, SQuAD, CoreNLP, Stanza and DSPy.
Part of Stanford University
Suno
Music generation company whose models create songs with vocals from prompts; earlier released the open Bark audio model.
Thinking Machines Lab
Mira Murati's lab: Tinker, a fine-tuning API, and open research notes on reproducible inference.
Together AI
AI cloud company co-founded by researchers including Tri Dao, with research such as RedPajama and Mixture-of-Agents.
Toyota Research Institute
Toyota's research subsidiary for AI, robotics, automated driving and materials, known for diffusion-policy robot learning.
Part of Toyota Motor Corporation
Twelve Labs
Video-native AI company with offices in San Francisco and Seoul, building the Marengo and Pegasus video models.
UCLA NLP
UCLA NLP group, known for the VisualBERT vision-language model and the MathVista benchmark.
Part of University of California, Los Angeles
Unsloth AI
Open-source toolkit maker for fast, memory-efficient fine-tuning and local running of LLMs, with many quantized models.
US Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI)
NIST's AI testing center, founded as the US AI Safety Institute and renamed CAISI in 2025; evaluates frontier and foreign models.
Part of NIST
UW Database Group
University of Washington group on data management systems, cloud services, probabilistic databases and data pricing.
Part of University of Washington
UW NLP
University of Washington natural language processing group behind ELMo, Self-Instruct and QLoRA.
Part of University of Washington
Waymo Research
Waymo's autonomous driving research group, publisher of the Waymo Open Dataset and end-to-end driving models such as EMMA.
Part of Waymo (Alphabet)
World Labs
Fei-Fei Li's spatial intelligence company: models that generate explorable 3D worlds (Marble).
Writer
Enterprise generative AI platform company that trains its own Palmyra family of large language models.
xAI (SpaceXAI)
The Grok models and the Colossus supercomputer in Memphis; now a division of SpaceX.
Part of SpaceX
Zyphra
San Francisco lab training open multimodal models, known for Zamba SSM-hybrid language models and Zonos text-to-speech.
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.