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
1X Technologies
Humanoid robotics company, founded as Halodi Robotics, building home robots and a world model for robot learning.
Adept AI Labs
Agent startup that trained models to act in software, releasing the open Persimmon-8B and Fuyu-8B multimodal models.
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.
AI Singapore
Singapore's national AI programme launched in May 2017, which develops the SEA-LION Southeast Asian language models.
Ai2 (Allen Institute for AI)
Fully open models with their data and training code: OLMo, Tulu, Molmo, and the Dolma corpus.
Flagship: OLMo7 papers
AI21 Labs
Jamba, the first production-scale hybrid of Transformer and Mamba layers.
AI4Bharat
IIT Madras lab building open datasets, tools and models for Indian languages.
Part of IIT Madras
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.
Aleph Alpha
German company building sovereign LLMs for enterprises and governments, including Pharia models and tokenizer-free T-FREE research.
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
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
Amsterdam Machine Learning Lab (AMLab)
University of Amsterdam lab on deep generative models, probabilistic ML and geometric deep learning.
Part of University of Amsterdam
Answer.AI
R&D lab from Jeremy Howard and Eric Ries turning foundational research into practical tools, such as FSDP+QLoRA and ModernBERT.
Anthropic
The Claude models, Constitutional AI and interpretability research on what happens inside models.
Flagship: Claude Fable 5.16 papers
Apollo Research
AI safety organization focused on evaluating and monitoring scheming and deception in frontier AI systems.
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.
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.
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
Black Forest Labs
The FLUX image models, from the researchers behind latent diffusion and Stable Diffusion.
Flagship: FLUX
Bloomberg AI Engineering
Bloomberg's AI group, known for BloombergGPT, a 50-billion-parameter language model trained for finance.
Part of Bloomberg L.P.
ByteDance Seed
ByteDance's model team behind Doubao, the UI-TARS computer-use agents and Seedance video generation.
Part of ByteDance
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
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
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
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.
Cerebras Systems
Maker of wafer-scale AI chips whose research team released open Cerebras-GPT and BTLM language models.
Chai Discovery
Company building AI models of biochemical structure and interaction for molecular design, starting with Chai-1.
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
Cleanlab
Data-centric AI company built on confident learning, a method for finding label errors in datasets.
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.
Cohere and Cohere Labs
Enterprise models (Command, Embed, Rerank) and Cohere Labs' open multilingual Aya research.
Flagship: Command A
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.
CWI Database Architectures
Column stores and vectorized execution: MonetDB, X100 (Vectorwise) and the research that became DuckDB.
Part of CWI
Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IDSIA)
Swiss AI institute in Lugano founded in 1988, known for early deep learning and recurrent network research.
Part of USI and SUPSI
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.
Decart
Real-time generative video lab, known for Oasis, a playable AI-generated game world model.
Deep Cogito
San Francisco lab releasing open Cogito models trained with iterated distillation and amplification.
DeepL
German AI research company known for the DeepL Translator and its own translation-focused language models.
DeepSeek
Frontier-class open-weight models trained cheaply: DeepSeek-V3's efficient MoE and R1's open reasoning recipe.
Flagship: DeepSeek V4P1 Flash22 papers
Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR)
Independent, community-rooted AI research institute founded by Timnit Gebru in December 2021.
DuckLabs (DuckDB Labs)
The company of DuckDB's creators, the in-process analytics database born at CWI; Amazon agreed to buy it in 2026.
EdinburghNLP
University of Edinburgh NLP group, known for machine translation work including subword (BPE) units and the Nematus toolkit.
Part of University of Edinburgh
EleutherAI
Grassroots open research: The Pile, GPT-NeoX and Pythia, and the LM Evaluation Harness everyone uses.
ElevenLabs
AI audio research and product company known for natural-sounding speech synthesis and voice agent models.
EPFL Machine Learning and Optimization Laboratory (MLO)
EPFL lab on optimization and distributed machine learning, known for sent2vec and the MEDITRON medical LLMs.
Part of EPFL
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.
ETH AI Center
ETH Zurich's cross-department AI hub and a driver of the Swiss AI Initiative's open Apertus model.
Part of ETH Zurich
European AI Office
European Commission body that implements the EU AI Act, especially rules for general-purpose AI models.
Part of European Commission
European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS)
Pan-European AI network of excellence founded in 2018, with institutes and units at research institutions across Europe.
EvolutionaryScale
Frontier AI lab for the life sciences, maker of the ESM3 generative protein language model and ESM Cambrian.
FAR.AI
AI security research and adoption non-profit, known for adversarial attacks on superhuman Go AIs and the tuned lens.
Figure AI
Humanoid robot company founded by Brett Adcock, developer of the Figure robots and the Helix vision-language-action model.
Fish Audio
Develops AI voice generation and speech-to-text models for creators and enterprises.
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
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.
German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)
German AI research center founded in 1988 as a non-profit public-private partnership, with sites across Germany.
Google DeepMind
AlphaGo and AlphaFold, deep reinforcement learning, and Google's Gemini models.
Flagship: Gemini 4 Argon12 papers
Google Research
The Transformer, BERT and T5, plus MapReduce and TensorFlow: much of the base of modern AI.
Part of Google45 papers
Gradium
Builds low-latency voice AI models for conversational agents; the $100M total includes a $30M extension of its seed round.
H Company
Paris startup building computer-use agents and the open Holo models that navigate user interfaces.
Harmonic
Company building mathematical superintelligence; its Aristotle system reached gold-medal level at the 2025 IMO.
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
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
Hugging Face
The Hub for open models and datasets and the Transformers library; also BLOOM, StarCoder, FineWeb and SmolLM.
Hume AI
Voice AI company grounded in emotion science, known for the Empathic Voice Interface and Octave text-to-speech.
IBM Research
Deep Blue and Watson, relational databases and quantum computing, and today the open Granite models.
Flagship: IBM Granite
Ideogram
Maker of the Ideogram text-to-image models, noted for rendering legible text inside generated images.
iFLYTEK
Chinese speech and language AI company, known for voice recognition and, with HIT, the Chinese BERT-wwm and MacBERT models.
Imbue
AI lab founded in 2021 that trained a 70B model from scratch and builds tools that put software under users' control.
Inception (G42)
G42's AI product and research company, known for the Jais Arabic-centric open language models.
Part of G42
Inception Labs
AI research and product company building diffusion-based large language models, starting with Mercury.
inclusionAI (Ant Group)
Ant Group's open model lab behind the Ling language models and Ring reasoning models.
Part of Ant Group
Inflection AI
Public benefit corporation that built Pi, a personal AI assistant powered by the Inflection AI model stack.
Inria (National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology)
French national research institute for computer science and applied mathematics, where scikit-learn and Software Heritage began.
Institut national pour l'évaluation et la sécurité de l'intelligence artificielle (INESIA)
France's National Institute for AI Evaluation and Security, created by the French government on 31 January 2025.
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
Intel Labs
Intel's research organization; its Intelligent Systems Lab created the MiDaS monocular depth models and DPT.
Part of Intel
Isomorphic Labs
AI-first drug discovery spun out of DeepMind; co-developed AlphaFold 3.
Part of Alphabet
IVADO
Quebec's largest interdisciplinary AI research, training and knowledge transfer consortium, led by Université de Montréal.
Part of Université de Montréal
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
Japan AI Safety Institute (J-AISI)
Japan's AI safety institute, launched on 14 February 2024 within IPA to develop AI safety evaluation methods and standards.
Part of Information-technology Promotion Agency
Jina AI
Search AI company founded by Han Xiao, known for open embedding, reranker and reader models.
Kakao AI (Kanana)
Kakao's AI effort behind the Kanana bilingual Korean-English models, building on Kakao Brain's earlier KoGPT.
Part of Kakao Corporation
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
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
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
Kyutai
Open-science lab funded by Xavier Niel and partners: Moshi real-time voice and Hibiki live translation.
LAION
Open image-text datasets (LAION-400M, LAION-5B) that trained Stable Diffusion and OpenCLIP.
Latent Labs
Frontier AI lab building generative models of biology, known for Latent-X for de novo protein binder design.
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
LightOn
French enterprise generative AI company, co-developer of ModernBERT and maker of late-interaction retrieval models.
Lightricks
Jerusalem creative-app company behind Facetune and the open LTX-Video real-time video generation models.
Liquid AI
Liquid foundation models (LFM) for devices, built on liquid neural network research from MIT CSAIL.
Luma AI
Generative video company behind Dream Machine and the Ray video models, with research on pretraining such as Inductive Moment Matching.
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.
Matsuo-Iwasawa Laboratory, University of Tokyo
University of Tokyo deep learning lab working on world models, robotics and LLMs, with many spin-off startups.
Part of The University of Tokyo
Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
Causal inference and kernel methods (Scholkopf), and the SMPL body model used across graphics and vision.
Part of Max Planck Society
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
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.
Mila
Yoshua Bengio's institute: neural language models, attention for translation, GANs and Theano.
MiniMax
Lightning attention for million-token context in open models, plus Hailuo video and speech models.
Mistral AI
Europe's leading model maker: efficient open-weight models, Mixtral's mixture of experts, and Le Chat.
Flagship: Mistral Medium 3
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
ModelBest (OpenBMB)
Tsinghua-incubated Beijing company best known for the open MiniCPM small language and on-device multimodal models.
Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI)
Graduate research university dedicated to AI in Masdar City, Abu Dhabi, licensed in 2020.
Moonshot AI
The Kimi models: long context early, then the open-weight Kimi K2 trained with the Muon optimizer.
Flagship: Kimi K3
National Institute of Informatics (NII) and LLM-jp
Japan's national informatics institute, established in 2000, whose LLM R&D center runs the open LLM-jp project.
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
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
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
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.
Preferred Networks
Japanese deep learning company that created Chainer and Optuna and develops the PLaMo Japanese language models and its own AI chips.
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
Profluent
AI protein design company that created OpenCRISPR-1, described as the first AI-designed gene editor.
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.
RedNote hi lab
Xiaohongshu's AI lab, releasing the open dots.llm1 language model and dots.ocr document parser.
Part of Xiaohongshu (RedNote)
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.
RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project (AIP)
RIKEN AI research center launched in 2016, covering mathematical foundations of ML, scientific AI and societal AI.
Part of RIKEN
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.
Sakana AI
Nature-inspired methods: evolutionary model merging and The AI Scientist, from a Transformer co-author.
Salesforce AI Research
BLIP vision-language models, CodeT5, and xLAM action models for agents.
Part of Salesforce
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
Sarvam AI
Bengaluru company building language models for Indian languages, part of India's sovereign LLM programme.
SB Intuitions
SoftBank subsidiary developing homegrown Japanese large language models under the Sarashina name.
Part of SoftBank Corp.
Scale AI
Scale AI, Inc. is an American artificial intelligence infrastructure and software company based in San Francisco, California.
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
SenseTime
Hong Kong-listed AI company known for computer vision research and the SenseNova foundation model series.
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.
Shanghai AI Laboratory
The InternLM and InternVL open models and the OpenCompass evaluation platform.
Singapore AI Safety Institute (Digital Trust Centre)
Singapore's AI safety institute: the NTU Digital Trust Centre, founded in 2022 and designated the AISI in 2024, working with IMDA.
Part of Nanyang Technological University
Skild AI
Robotics company building an omni-bodied robot foundation model, the Skild Brain, to control any robot for any task.
Skywork AI (Kunlun Tech)
Kunlun Tech's AI unit releasing the open Skywork language, reasoning and reward models.
Part of Kunlun Tech
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
Software Heritage
Non-profit archive of publicly available source code, launched by Inria in 2016 with UNESCO support.
Part of Inria
Sony AI
Sony Group's AI research subsidiary, known for the GT Sophy racing agent and the FHIBE fairness benchmark dataset.
Part of Sony Group
Spotify Research
Spotify's research team working on audio intelligence, recommendation and search, known for the Podcast Dataset and Basic Pitch.
Part of Spotify
Stability AI
Stable Diffusion, the open image model release that opened up generative imaging in 2022.
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
StepFun
Shanghai AI company, one of China's AI Tigers, releasing open speech, video and multimodal reasoning models.
Suno
Music generation company whose models create songs with vocals from prompts; earlier released the open Bark audio model.
Swiss AI Initiative
Swiss open foundation model effort started in December 2023 by ETH Zurich, EPFL and CSCS, which released the Apertus LLM.
Synthesia
London AI video company that researches neural rendering and synthetic avatars for business video.
Technology Innovation Institute (TII)
Abu Dhabi government-funded research institute, part of ATRC, that develops the Falcon open language models.
Part of Advanced Technology Research Council
Tencent Hy (Hunyuan)
Tencent's Hunyuan models, with open releases in MoE language, video (HunyuanVideo) and 3D generation.
Part of Tencent
The Alan Turing Institute
UK national institute for data science and AI, an independent charity based at the British Library, founded in 2015.
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
Transluce
Independent nonprofit research lab building open tools for public oversight and understanding of AI systems.
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
Tübingen AI Center
Tübingen machine learning center of about 25 research groups, funded by the German federal and Baden-Württemberg governments.
Part of University of Tübingen
TUM Database Systems
Compiled query execution in main-memory and disk-based systems (HyPer, Umbra), from Thomas Neumann's group.
Part of Technical University of Munich
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
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
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
Unsloth AI
Open-source toolkit maker for fast, memory-efficient fine-tuning and local running of LLMs, with many quantized models.
Upstage
South Korean AI company known for the Solar language models and depth up-scaling, plus document AI.
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
Vector Institute
Toronto's independent AI institute, home to deep learning researchers and work such as neural ODEs.
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
Voyage AI
Embedding and reranking model company for retrieval, acquired by MongoDB in 2025.
Waabi
Self-driving company founded by Raquel Urtasun, using generative AI simulation such as UniSim for autonomous trucks.
Wadhwani Institute for Artificial Intelligence (Wadhwani AI)
Independent non-profit founded in 2018 building AI for underserved communities in health, agriculture and education.
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)
Wayve
London autonomous driving company using end-to-end learning, known for the GAIA generative driving world models.
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
Xiaomi MiMo
Xiaomi's large model team, releasing the open MiMo reasoning and MiMo-VL vision-language models.
Part of Xiaomi
Yandex Research
Yandex's research team for machine learning, known for CatBoost gradient boosting and the open YaLM-100B model.
Part of Yandex
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
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.