# Labs: AI, data and research labs

> 230 research labs (49 company labs, 90 startup labs, 25 nonprofits, 50 academic labs, 16 government labs) in 18 countries: what each is known for, who leads it, its landmark papers, flagship models, funding, compute deals and official links, every fact with its source. By fru.dev.

Each lab has its type (company lab, startup lab, nonprofit, academic, government), parent organization, founding year, headquarters, leaders (from leaders.fru.dev where tracked, else the lab's own pages), a one-line known-for, 3 to 5 landmark contributions linked to the paper or post, flagship models (the best ranked on models.fru.dev where ranked), its papers on papers.fru.dev, funding and compute deals from official announcements, and its website, blog, GitHub, Hugging Face and X. A weekly run (Mondays 11:30 UTC) pulls leaders, models, papers, blogs and funding from the other fru.dev sites and logs every change; links are re-checked monthly. History is append-only (/changes). Last rebuilt: 2026-09-26 02:26:43 UTC.

## About this data

Facts from each lab's own pages, Wikidata, Wikipedia and arXiv, with the source linked; leaders, models and papers come from the fru.dev sites that track them. Synced every Monday and re-checked monthly; unverified labs are marked. The list grows as new labs are added. Photos from Wikimedia Commons and official company pages, with credit. Logos via logo.dev; trademarks belong to their owners.

## Pages

- [All labs](https://labs.fru.dev/): the table of every lab with type, founding year and flagship model
- [Company labs](https://labs.fru.dev/types/company)
- [Startup labs](https://labs.fru.dev/types/startup)
- [Nonprofits](https://labs.fru.dev/types/nonprofit)
- [Academic labs](https://labs.fru.dev/types/academic)
- [Government labs](https://labs.fru.dev/types/government)
- [Models by lab](https://labs.fru.dev/models)
- [Leaders](https://labs.fru.dev/leaders)
- [Changes (append-only history)](https://labs.fru.dev/changes)
- [Sources and method](https://labs.fru.dev/about)

## Labs

- [01.AI](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/01-ai): startup lab, 2023. Kai-Fu Lee's lab behind the open Yi models, now focused on enterprise AI products.
- [1X Technologies](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/1x): startup lab, 2014. Humanoid robotics company, founded as Halodi Robotics, building home robots and a world model for robot learning.
- [Adept AI Labs](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/adept): startup lab. Agent startup that trained models to act in software, releasing the open Persimmon-8B and Fuyu-8B multimodal models.
- [Adobe Research](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/adobe-research): company lab. Adobe's research lab for graphics, imaging and generative AI, including 3D reconstruction and fast diffusion distillation.
- [AI Now Institute](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/ai-now-institute): nonprofit, 2017. Independent research institute founded in 2017 producing policy research on the social impact of AI and industry power.
- [AI Singapore](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/ai-singapore): government, 2017. Singapore's national AI programme launched in May 2017, which develops the SEA-LION Southeast Asian language models.
- [Ai2 (Allen Institute for AI)](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/ai2): nonprofit, 2014. Fully open models with their data and training code: OLMo, Tulu, Molmo, and the Dolma corpus.
- [AI21 Labs](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/ai21-labs): startup lab, 2017. Jamba, the first production-scale hybrid of Transformer and Mamba layers.
- [AI4Bharat](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/ai4bharat): academic. IIT Madras lab building open datasets, tools and models for Indian languages.
- [Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii)](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/amii): nonprofit, 2002. Independent non-profit AI institute in Edmonton, begun in 2002 as AICML and one of three Pan-Canadian AI Strategy institutes.
- [Aleph Alpha](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/aleph-alpha): startup lab, 2019. German company building sovereign LLMs for enterprises and governments, including Pharia models and tokenizer-free T-FREE research.
- [Alibaba DAMO Academy](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/alibaba-damo-academy): company lab. Alibaba's research academy, whose language technology lab builds VideoLLaMA and the SeaLLMs Southeast Asian language models.
- [Alibaba Qwen](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/qwen): company lab, 2023. The Qwen family, the most downloaded open-weight models, from Alibaba Cloud's Tongyi lab.
- [Alignment Research Center (ARC)](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/alignment-research-center): nonprofit, 2021. Berkeley non-profit founded by Paul Christiano in 2021, working on theory for mechanistic explanations of neural networks.
- [Amazon AGI and Amazon Science](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/amazon-agi): company lab. The Amazon Nova models and Nova Act agents, plus Chronos forecasting models from Amazon Science.
- [Amsterdam Machine Learning Lab (AMLab)](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/amsterdam-amlab): academic. University of Amsterdam lab on deep generative models, probabilistic ML and geometric deep learning.
- [Answer.AI](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/answer-ai): startup lab, 2023. R&D lab from Jeremy Howard and Eric Ries turning foundational research into practical tools, such as FSDP+QLoRA and ModernBERT.
- [Anthropic](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/anthropic): startup lab, 2021. The Claude models, Constitutional AI and interpretability research on what happens inside models.
- [Apollo Research](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/apollo-research): nonprofit, 2023. AI safety organization focused on evaluating and monitoring scheming and deception in frontier AI systems.
- [Apple Machine Learning Research](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/apple-ml-research): company lab. On-device models for Apple Intelligence, the MLX framework for Apple silicon, and studies of reasoning limits.
- [Arcee AI](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/arcee-ai): startup lab. US company releasing open-weight models such as AFM and Trinity, and creator of the MergeKit model-merging toolkit.
- [BAAI (Beijing Academy of AI)](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/baai): nonprofit, 2018. The BGE embedding models used across open retrieval stacks, the Emu multimodal models and FlagOpen.
- [Baichuan AI](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/baichuan): startup lab, 2023. Beijing AI company, one of China's AI Tigers, known for the open Baichuan language models and medical models.
- [Baidu (ERNIE)](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/baidu-ernie): company lab. The ERNIE models and PaddlePaddle, and earlier Deep Speech 2 from its Silicon Valley lab.
- [Beijing Institute for General Artificial Intelligence (BIGAI)](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/bigai): government, 2020. Beijing AGI research institute founded in 2020 by Song-Chun Zhu with Beijing municipal government support.
- [Berkeley AI Research (BAIR)](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/berkeley-bair): academic. Diffusion models (DDPM), NeRF, robot learning, and open chat models such as Vicuna.
- [Berkeley Sky Computing Lab](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/berkeley-sky): academic. The systems lab after AMPLab (Spark) and RISELab (Ray): vLLM, SkyPilot and Chatbot Arena.
- [Black Forest Labs](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/black-forest-labs): startup lab, 2024. The FLUX image models, from the researchers behind latent diffusion and Stable Diffusion.
- [Bloomberg AI Engineering](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/bloomberg-ai): company lab. Bloomberg's AI group, known for BloombergGPT, a 50-billion-parameter language model trained for finance.
- [ByteDance Seed](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/bytedance-seed): company lab. ByteDance's model team behind Doubao, the UI-TARS computer-use agents and Seedance video generation.
- [Cambridge Machine Learning Group (MLG)](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/cambridge-mlg): academic. Machine learning group in the Cambridge Department of Engineering, known for probabilistic and Bayesian machine learning.
- [Canadian Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute (CAISI)](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/canada-aisi): government, 2024. Canada's AI safety institute, founded in November 2024 and led by ISED with NRC and CIFAR research partners.
- [Cartesia](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/cartesia): startup lab. Real-time voice AI company pioneering new model architectures, maker of the Sonic text-to-speech models.
- [Center for AI Safety (CAIS)](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/center-for-ai-safety): nonprofit, 2022. 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)](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/berkeley-chai): academic, 2016. UC Berkeley AI safety research center founded in 2016 by a group led by Stuart Russell.
- [Centre for the Governance of AI (GovAI)](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/govai): nonprofit, 2016. AI governance think tank founded at Yale in 2016, now an independent non-profit with offices in London and Washington, DC.
- [Cerebras Systems](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/cerebras): startup lab, 2015. Maker of wafer-scale AI chips whose research team released open Cerebras-GPT and BTLM language models.
- [Chai Discovery](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/chai-discovery): startup lab. Company building AI models of biochemical structure and interaction for molecular design, starting with Chai-1.
- [Character.AI](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/character-ai): startup lab, 2022. 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)](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/nyu-cilvr): academic, 2009. NYU machine learning and vision lab founded in 2009 by Yann LeCun and Rob Fergus.
- [Cleanlab](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/cleanlab): startup lab. Data-centric AI company built on confident learning, a method for finding label errors in datasets.
- [CMU Database Group](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/cmu-database-group): academic. Database systems research and teaching in the open: self-driving databases, NoisePage and the Database of Databases.
- [CMU Language Technologies Institute (LTI)](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/cmu-language-technologies-institute): academic, 1986. CMU institute for language technologies, begun in 1986 as the Center for Machine Translation and renamed LTI in 1996.
- [CMU Machine Learning Department](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/cmu-ml): academic, 2006. The world's first machine learning department: Libratus poker, Transformer-XL, XLNet and Mamba.
- [CMU Robotics Institute](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/cmu-robotics-institute): academic, 1979. CMU robotics department founded in 1979, known for computer vision, autonomous vehicles and the first robotics PhD program.
- [Cognition](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/cognition): startup lab. San Francisco company behind Devin, an autonomous AI software engineer, and its own SWE agent models.
- [Cohere and Cohere Labs](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/cohere): startup lab, 2019. Enterprise models (Command, Embed, Rerank) and Cohere Labs' open multilingual Aya research.
- [Columbia Data Science Institute](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/columbia-data-science-institute): academic, 2012. University-wide data science institute at Columbia, founded in 2012 within Columbia Engineering.
- [Common Crawl Foundation](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/common-crawl): nonprofit, 2007. 501(c)(3) nonprofit that crawls the web monthly and publishes a free open archive of web data collected since 2008.
- [Contextual AI](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/contextual-ai): startup lab, 2023. Enterprise RAG company founded by RAG co-author Douwe Kiela, known for RAG 2.0 and the KTO alignment method.
- [Covariant](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/covariant): startup lab. American AI and robotics company, formerly Embodied Intelligence, headquartered in Emeryville, California.
- [CWI Database Architectures](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/cwi-database-architectures): academic. Column stores and vectorized execution: MonetDB, X100 (Vectorwise) and the research that became DuckDB.
- [Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IDSIA)](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/idsia): academic, 1988. Swiss AI institute in Lugano founded in 1988, known for early deep learning and recurrent network research.
- [Databricks Mosaic Research](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/databricks-mosaic-research): company lab, 2023. Open models (MPT, DBRX) and training at scale, from the MosaicML team Databricks bought in 2023; Spark lineage.
- [DatologyAI](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/datologyai): startup lab, 2023. Data curation company that researches how selecting and synthesizing training data makes models better and cheaper.
- [Decart](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/decart): startup lab, 2023. Real-time generative video lab, known for Oasis, a playable AI-generated game world model.
- [Deep Cogito](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/deep-cogito): startup lab. San Francisco lab releasing open Cogito models trained with iterated distillation and amplification.
- [DeepL](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/deepl): startup lab, 2017. German AI research company known for the DeepL Translator and its own translation-focused language models.
- [DeepSeek](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/deepseek): startup lab, 2023. Frontier-class open-weight models trained cheaply: DeepSeek-V3's efficient MoE and R1's open reasoning recipe.
- [Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR)](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/dair-institute): nonprofit, 2021. Independent, community-rooted AI research institute founded by Timnit Gebru in December 2021.
- [DuckLabs (DuckDB Labs)](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/ducklabs): startup lab. The company of DuckDB's creators, the in-process analytics database born at CWI; Amazon agreed to buy it in 2026.
- [EdinburghNLP](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/edinburgh-nlp): academic. University of Edinburgh NLP group, known for machine translation work including subword (BPE) units and the Nematus toolkit.
- [EleutherAI](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/eleutherai): nonprofit, 2020. Grassroots open research: The Pile, GPT-NeoX and Pythia, and the LM Evaluation Harness everyone uses.
- [ElevenLabs](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/elevenlabs): startup lab, 2022. AI audio research and product company known for natural-sounding speech synthesis and voice agent models.
- [EPFL Machine Learning and Optimization Laboratory (MLO)](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/epfl-mlo): academic. EPFL lab on optimization and distributed machine learning, known for sent2vec and the MEDITRON medical LLMs.
- [Epoch AI](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/epoch-ai): nonprofit, 2022. Data on AI's trajectory: training compute trends, data limits, and the FrontierMath benchmark.
- [Essential AI](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/essential-ai): startup lab. San Francisco lab led by Ashish Vaswani, publishing open pretraining research, datasets and the Rnj-1 model.
- [ETH AI Center](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/eth-ai-center): academic, 2020. ETH Zurich's cross-department AI hub and a driver of the Swiss AI Initiative's open Apertus model.
- [European AI Office](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/eu-ai-office): government, 2024. European Commission body that implements the EU AI Act, especially rules for general-purpose AI models.
- [European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS)](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/ellis): nonprofit, 2018. Pan-European AI network of excellence founded in 2018, with institutes and units at research institutions across Europe.
- [EvolutionaryScale](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/evolutionaryscale): startup lab. Frontier AI lab for the life sciences, maker of the ESM3 generative protein language model and ESM Cambrian.
- [FAR.AI](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/far-ai): nonprofit. AI security research and adoption non-profit, known for adversarial attacks on superhuman Go AIs and the tuned lens.
- [Figure AI](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/figure-ai): startup lab, 2022. Humanoid robot company founded by Brett Adcock, developer of the Figure robots and the Helix vision-language-action model.
- [Fish Audio](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/fish-audio): company lab. 
- [Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/gatsby-unit): academic, 1998. UCL unit set up by the Gatsby Charitable Foundation in 1998 for theoretical neuroscience and machine learning; Geoffrey Hinton was founding director.
- [Generate:Biomedicines](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/generate-biomedicines): startup lab. Therapeutics company pioneering generative biology, known for the Chroma generative model for protein design.
- [Genmo](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/genmo): startup lab. Video generation lab that released Mochi 1, an open-source text-to-video model.
- [German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/dfki): nonprofit, 1988. German AI research center founded in 1988 as a non-profit public-private partnership, with sites across Germany.
- [Google DeepMind](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/google-deepmind): company lab, 2010. AlphaGo and AlphaFold, deep reinforcement learning, and Google's Gemini models.
- [Google Research](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/google-research): company lab, 2000. The Transformer, BERT and T5, plus MapReduce and TensorFlow: much of the base of modern AI.
- [H Company](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/h-company): startup lab, 2023. Paris startup building computer-use agents and the open Holo models that navigate user interfaces.
- [Harmonic](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/harmonic): startup lab, 2023. Company building mathematical superintelligence; its Aristotle system reached gold-medal level at the 2025 IMO.
- [Hazy Research](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/hazy-research): academic. Chris Re's Stanford group on ML systems, known for FlashAttention, Snorkel weak supervision and structured state space models.
- [Huawei Noah's Ark Lab](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/huawei-noahs-ark-lab): company lab. Huawei's AI research center, known for PanGu language models and efficient models such as TinyBERT and GhostNet.
- [Hugging Face](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/hugging-face): startup lab, 2016. The Hub for open models and datasets and the Transformers library; also BLOOM, StarCoder, FineWeb and SmolLM.
- [Hume AI](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/hume-ai): startup lab. Voice AI company grounded in emotion science, known for the Empathic Voice Interface and Octave text-to-speech.
- [IBM Research](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/ibm-research): company lab, 1945. Deep Blue and Watson, relational databases and quantum computing, and today the open Granite models.
- [Ideogram](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/ideogram): startup lab. Maker of the Ideogram text-to-image models, noted for rendering legible text inside generated images.
- [iFLYTEK](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/iflytek): startup lab, 1999. Chinese speech and language AI company, known for voice recognition and, with HIT, the Chinese BERT-wwm and MacBERT models.
- [Imbue](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/imbue): startup lab, 2021. AI lab founded in 2021 that trained a 70B model from scratch and builds tools that put software under users' control.
- [Inception (G42)](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/inception-g42): company lab. G42's AI product and research company, known for the Jais Arabic-centric open language models.
- [Inception Labs](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/inception-labs): startup lab. AI research and product company building diffusion-based large language models, starting with Mercury.
- [inclusionAI (Ant Group)](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/inclusionai): company lab. Ant Group's open model lab behind the Ling language models and Ring reasoning models.
- [Inflection AI](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/inflection-ai): startup lab, 2022. 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)](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/inria): government, 1967. 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)](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/france-inesia): government, 2025. 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](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/tsinghua-air): academic. Tsinghua institute for applied AI research in health, transportation and IoT, led by Dean Zhang Ya-Qin.
- [Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Peking University](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/pku-institute-for-ai): academic, 2019. Peking University institute announced on 27 April 2019 to coordinate university-wide AI research and training.
- [Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASIA)](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/casia): government, 1956. Chinese Academy of Sciences institute founded in 1956 for intelligence science, pattern recognition and robotics.
- [Intel Labs](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/intel-labs): company lab. Intel's research organization; its Intelligent Systems Lab created the MiDaS monocular depth models and DPT.
- [Isomorphic Labs](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/isomorphic-labs): company lab, 2021. AI-first drug discovery spun out of DeepMind; co-developed AlphaFold 3.
- [IVADO](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/ivado): academic. Quebec's largest interdisciplinary AI research, training and knowledge transfer consortium, led by Université de Montréal.
- [J.P. Morgan AI Research](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/jpmorgan-ai-research): company lab. JPMorgan Chase's AI research group studying AI agents, finance foundation models, synthetic data and document AI.
- [Japan AI Safety Institute (J-AISI)](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/japan-aisi): government, 2024. Japan's AI safety institute, launched on 14 February 2024 within IPA to develop AI safety evaluation methods and standards.
- [Jina AI](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/jina-ai): startup lab, 2020. Search AI company founded by Han Xiao, known for open embedding, reranker and reader models.
- [Kakao AI (Kanana)](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/kakao-ai): company lab. Kakao's AI effort behind the Kanana bilingual Korean-English models, building on Kakao Brain's earlier KoGPT.
- [Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/kempner-institute): academic, 2021. Harvard institute studying intelligence in brains and machines, funded by a Chan Zuckerberg gift in 2021.
- [Kling AI (Kuaishou)](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/kling-ai): company lab, 2024. Kuaishou's generative video unit behind the Kling video model, plus open work such as LivePortrait and Kolors.
- [Korea AI Safety Institute](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/korea-aisi): government, 2024. South Korea's AI safety institute, founded in November 2024 under ETRI and based in Bundang, Seongnam.
- [Kyutai](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/kyutai): nonprofit. Open-science lab funded by Xavier Niel and partners: Moshi real-time voice and Hibiki live translation.
- [LAION](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/laion): nonprofit. Open image-text datasets (LAION-400M, LAION-5B) that trained Stable Diffusion and OpenCLIP.
- [Latent Labs](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/latent-labs): startup lab. Frontier AI lab building generative models of biology, known for Latent-X for de novo protein binder design.
- [LG AI Research](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/lg-ai-research): company lab. LG Group's AI research institute and developer of the EXAONE family of Korean-English language and reasoning models.
- [LightOn](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/lighton): startup lab, 2016. French enterprise generative AI company, co-developer of ModernBERT and maker of late-interaction retrieval models.
- [Lightricks](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/lightricks): startup lab, 2013. Jerusalem creative-app company behind Facetune and the open LTX-Video real-time video generation models.
- [Liquid AI](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/liquid-ai): startup lab, 2023. Liquid foundation models (LFM) for devices, built on liquid neural network research from MIT CSAIL.
- [Luma AI](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/luma-ai): startup lab. 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)](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/miri): nonprofit, 2000. Berkeley nonprofit founded in 2000 as the Singularity Institute, focused on existential risk from superintelligent AI.
- [Machine Learning Center at Georgia Tech (ML@GT)](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/georgia-tech-ml-center): academic, 2016. Interdisciplinary machine learning research center at Georgia Tech, founded in 2016.
- [Magic](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/magic): startup lab. AGI startup building code models with ultra-long context, including 100M-token context windows and the HashHop eval.
- [Matsuo-Iwasawa Laboratory, University of Tokyo](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/utokyo-matsuo-lab): academic. University of Tokyo deep learning lab working on world models, robotics and LLMs, with many spin-off startups.
- [Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/mpi-is): academic, 2011. Causal inference and kernel methods (Scholkopf), and the SMPL body model used across graphics and vision.
- [Megvii](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/megvii): startup lab, 2011. Beijing computer vision company behind Face++, with research on efficient networks such as ShuffleNet and the YOLOX detector.
- [Meituan LongCat](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/meituan-longcat): company lab. Meituan's LongCat team, which releases the open LongCat-Flash mixture-of-experts language models.
- [Meta FAIR](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/meta-fair): company lab, 2013. PyTorch, the open Llama models, Segment Anything and self-supervised vision (DINO).
- [Meta Superintelligence Labs](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/meta-superintelligence-labs): company lab, 2025. Meta's frontier model effort, formed in 2025 under Alexandr Wang; it builds the Muse models and now houses FAIR.
- [METR](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/metr): nonprofit, 2022. Evaluating dangerous capabilities: the time-horizon measure of how long a task AI agents can finish.
- [Microsoft AI](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/microsoft-ai): company lab, 2024. Copilot for consumers and Microsoft's own MAI models, led by Mustafa Suleyman since 2024.
- [Microsoft Research](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/microsoft-research): company lab, 1991. ResNet, LoRA, DeepSpeed and the small Phi models, from a lab spanning systems, theory and AI.
- [Midjourney](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/midjourney): startup lab. Self-described independent research lab led by David Holz, known for the Midjourney text-to-image models.
- [Mila](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/mila): academic, 1993. Yoshua Bengio's institute: neural language models, attention for translation, GANs and Theano.
- [MiniMax](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/minimax): startup lab, 2021. Lightning attention for million-token context in open models, plus Hailuo video and speech models.
- [Mistral AI](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/mistral-ai): startup lab, 2023. Europe's leading model maker: efficient open-weight models, Mixtral's mixture of experts, and Le Chat.
- [MIT CSAIL](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/mit-csail): academic, 2003. MIT's largest lab: robotics, the Julia language, adversarial robustness and the lottery ticket hypothesis.
- [MIT Data Systems Group (DSG)](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/mit-data-systems-group): academic. MIT CSAIL group researching data management, from query processing to learned database systems such as SageDB.
- [MIT-IBM Computing Research Lab (formerly MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab)](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/mit-ibm-computing-research-lab): academic, 2017. MIT and IBM joint research lab, evolved from the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab that began in 2017.
- [ModelBest (OpenBMB)](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/modelbest): startup lab. 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)](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/mbzuai): academic, 2020. Graduate research university dedicated to AI in Masdar City, Abu Dhabi, licensed in 2020.
- [Moonshot AI](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/moonshot-ai): startup lab, 2023. The Kimi models: long context early, then the open-weight Kimi K2 trained with the Muon optimizer.
- [National Institute of Informatics (NII) and LLM-jp](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/nii-llm-jp): government, 2000. Japan's national informatics institute, established in 2000, whose LLM R&D center runs the open LLM-jp project.
- [NAVER Cloud AI (CLOVA)](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/naver-clova): company lab. NAVER's AI research organization behind the HyperCLOVA X Korean language models and vision work such as CutMix and Donut.
- [Netflix Research](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/netflix-research): company lab. Netflix's research group publishing on machine learning, recommendation and video encoding.
- [Nomic AI](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/nomic-ai): startup lab. Company behind GPT4All for local LLMs and the reproducible Nomic Embed text embedding models.
- [Nous Research](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/nous-research): startup lab. The open Hermes fine-tunes, YaRN context extension, and decentralized training over the internet.
- [NSF AI Institute for Foundations of Machine Learning (IFML)](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/ut-austin-ifml): academic, 2020. NSF AI institute led by UT Austin, designated in 2020, working on foundational machine learning theory and tools.
- [NVIDIA Research](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/nvidia-research): company lab, 2006. StyleGAN, Megatron-LM for training giant models, Instant NeRF, and the open Nemotron models.
- [NYU Center for Data Science](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/nyu-center-for-data-science): academic, 2013. NYU's university-wide data science center, founded in 2013 with Yann LeCun as founding director.
- [OpenAI](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/openai): startup lab, 2015. The GPT models and ChatGPT, and the scaling results that set off the large language model race.
- [Oxford Applied and Theoretical Machine Learning Group (OATML)](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/oxford-oatml): academic. Oxford Computer Science group led by Yarin Gal, working on Bayesian deep learning, uncertainty and AI safety.
- [Periodic Labs](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/periodic-labs): startup lab. AI research company building AI scientists and autonomous laboratories for the physical sciences.
- [Perplexity](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/perplexity): startup lab, 2022. AI answer engine company that also releases open models such as the pplx-embed embedding family.
- [Physical Intelligence](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/physical-intelligence): startup lab, 2024. General-purpose robot foundation models: the pi-zero vision-language-action family, open-sourced as openpi.
- [Poolside](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/poolside): startup lab. AI company developing foundation models for software development, including the open-weight Laguna coding models.
- [Preferred Networks](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/preferred-networks): startup lab, 2014. Japanese deep learning company that created Chainer and Optuna and develops the PLaMo Japanese language models and its own AI chips.
- [Prime Intellect](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/prime-intellect): startup lab. San Francisco company training models over decentralized compute, known for the INTELLECT series and RL environments.
- [Princeton Language and Intelligence (PLI)](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/princeton-pli): academic. Princeton university-wide initiative on large AI models and their use across the sciences and humanities.
- [Princeton NLP Group](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/princeton-nlp): academic. Princeton natural language processing group behind SimCSE, SWE-bench and Tree of Thoughts.
- [Profluent](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/profluent): startup lab. AI protein design company that created OpenCRISPR-1, described as the first AI-designed gene editor.
- [Qualcomm AI Research](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/qualcomm-ai-research): company lab. Qualcomm's AI research group, focused on efficient on-device AI such as quantization and model compression.
- [Recursion](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/recursion): startup lab, 2013. AI drug discovery company that builds foundation models of cell biology from large-scale microscopy data.
- [RedNote hi lab](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/rednote-hilab): company lab. Xiaohongshu's AI lab, releasing the open dots.llm1 language model and dots.ocr document parser.
- [Redwood Research](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/redwood-research): nonprofit. Nonprofit AI safety and security research organization that pioneered the AI control agenda.
- [Reflection AI](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/reflection-ai): startup lab, 2024. Lab founded by former Google DeepMind researchers Misha Laskin and Ioannis Antonoglou to build open frontier models.
- [Reka](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/reka): startup lab, 2022. Natively multimodal models (Core, Flash, Edge) from former DeepMind and Meta researchers.
- [RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project (AIP)](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/riken-aip): government, 2016. RIKEN AI research center launched in 2016, covering mathematical foundations of ML, scientific AI and societal AI.
- [Runway](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/runway): startup lab, 2018. New York generative video company behind the Gen-3 and Gen-4 video models and the GWM-1 world model.
- [Safe Superintelligence (SSI)](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/safe-superintelligence): startup lab, 2024. Ilya Sutskever's lab with one goal and one product, a safe superintelligence; it has published nothing yet.
- [Sakana AI](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/sakana-ai): startup lab, 2023. Nature-inspired methods: evolutionary model merging and The AI Scientist, from a Transformer co-author.
- [Salesforce AI Research](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/salesforce-ai-research): company lab, 2016. BLIP vision-language models, CodeT5, and xLAM action models for agents.
- [Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT)](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/samsung-sait): company lab. Samsung's advanced research institute; its SAIL Montreal AI lab released the Tiny Recursive Model for puzzle reasoning.
- [Samsung Research](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/samsung-research): company lab. Samsung Electronics' R&D hub, running AI centers in Seoul, Mountain View, Toronto, Cambridge, Warsaw, New York and Montreal.
- [Sarvam AI](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/sarvam-ai): startup lab, 2023. Bengaluru company building language models for Indian languages, part of India's sovereign LLM programme.
- [SB Intuitions](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/sb-intuitions): company lab, 2023. SoftBank subsidiary developing homegrown Japanese large language models under the Sarashina name.
- [Scale Labs (Scale AI)](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/scale-labs): company lab. Scale AI's research arm for evaluation and alignment, co-creator of Humanity's Last Exam and SWE-Bench Pro.
- [SenseTime](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/sensetime): startup lab, 2014. Hong Kong-listed AI company known for computer vision research and the SenseNova foundation model series.
- [ServiceNow AI Research](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/servicenow-research): company lab. ServiceNow's AI research group, co-steward of the BigCode StarCoder project and maker of the Apriel models.
- [Sesame](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/sesame): startup lab. Conversational voice company whose Conversational Speech Model aims to cross the uncanny valley of AI voice.
- [Shanghai AI Laboratory](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/shanghai-ai-lab): government. The InternLM and InternVL open models and the OpenCompass evaluation platform.
- [Singapore AI Safety Institute (Digital Trust Centre)](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/singapore-aisi): government, 2022. Singapore's AI safety institute: the NTU Digital Trust Centre, founded in 2022 and designated the AISI in 2024, working with IMDA.
- [Skild AI](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/skild-ai): startup lab. Robotics company building an omni-bodied robot foundation model, the Skild Brain, to control any robot for any task.
- [Skywork AI (Kunlun Tech)](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/skywork-ai): company lab. Kunlun Tech's AI unit releasing the open Skywork language, reasoning and reward models.
- [Snap Research](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/snap-research): company lab. Snap's research group, known for efficient generative image models that run on mobile devices.
- [Snorkel AI](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/snorkel-ai): startup lab, 2019. Data-centric AI company spun out of the Stanford AI Lab, originating from the Snorkel weak supervision project.
- [Snowflake AI Research](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/snowflake-ai-research): company lab. Arctic: open embedding models, the Arctic LLM, SwiftKV inference and text-to-SQL research.
- [Software Heritage](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/software-heritage): nonprofit, 2016. Non-profit archive of publicly available source code, launched by Inria in 2016 with UNESCO support.
- [Sony AI](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/sony-ai): company lab, 2020. Sony Group's AI research subsidiary, known for the GT Sophy racing agent and the FHIBE fairness benchmark dataset.
- [Spotify Research](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/spotify-research): company lab. Spotify's research team working on audio intelligence, recommendation and search, known for the Podcast Dataset and Basic Pitch.
- [Stability AI](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/stability-ai): startup lab, 2019. Stable Diffusion, the open image model release that opened up generative imaging in 2022.
- [Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL)](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/stanford-ai-lab): academic, 1963. Stanford's umbrella AI lab for research and teaching across machine learning, vision, NLP and robotics since 1963.
- [Stanford DAWN](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/stanford-dawn): academic, 2018. Five-year Stanford project (2018 to 2022) on tools to democratize ML, including DAWNBench, Snorkel and ColBERT.
- [Stanford HAI and CRFM](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/stanford-hai): academic, 2019. The AI Index, the term foundation models, the HELM benchmark and Alpaca, from Stanford's AI institute.
- [Stanford NLP Group](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/stanford-nlp-group): academic. Stanford natural language processing group behind GloVe, SQuAD, CoreNLP, Stanza and DSPy.
- [StepFun](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/stepfun): startup lab. Shanghai AI company, one of China's AI Tigers, releasing open speech, video and multimodal reasoning models.
- [Suno](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/suno): startup lab, 2022. Music generation company whose models create songs with vocals from prompts; earlier released the open Bark audio model.
- [Swiss AI Initiative](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/swiss-ai-initiative): academic, 2023. Swiss open foundation model effort started in December 2023 by ETH Zurich, EPFL and CSCS, which released the Apertus LLM.
- [Synthesia](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/synthesia): startup lab, 2017. London AI video company that researches neural rendering and synthetic avatars for business video.
- [Technology Innovation Institute (TII)](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/technology-innovation-institute): government, 2020. Abu Dhabi government-funded research institute, part of ATRC, that develops the Falcon open language models.
- [Tencent Hy (Hunyuan)](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/tencent-hunyuan): company lab, 2023. Tencent's Hunyuan models, with open releases in MoE language, video (HunyuanVideo) and 3D generation.
- [The Alan Turing Institute](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/alan-turing-institute): nonprofit, 2015. UK national institute for data science and AI, an independent charity based at the British Library, founded in 2015.
- [Thinking Machines Lab](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/thinking-machines-lab): startup lab, 2025. Mira Murati's lab: Tinker, a fine-tuning API, and open research notes on reproducible inference.
- [Together AI](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/together-ai): startup lab. AI cloud company co-founded by researchers including Tri Dao, with research such as RedPajama and Mixture-of-Agents.
- [Toyota Research Institute](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/toyota-research-institute): company lab, 2015. Toyota's research subsidiary for AI, robotics, automated driving and materials, known for diffusion-policy robot learning.
- [Transluce](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/transluce): nonprofit. Independent nonprofit research lab building open tools for public oversight and understanding of AI systems.
- [Tsinghua KEG](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/tsinghua-keg): academic. Tsinghua's knowledge engineering group: AMiner, the GLM and ChatGLM models (with Zhipu), CogVLM and AgentBench.
- [Tsinghua NLP Lab (THUNLP)](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/thunlp): academic. Tsinghua natural language processing lab known for knowledge-enhanced language models and the MiniCPM small LLMs.
- [Tübingen AI Center](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/tuebingen-ai-center): academic. Tübingen machine learning center of about 25 research groups, funded by the German federal and Baden-Württemberg governments.
- [TUM Database Systems](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/tum-database-systems): academic. Compiled query execution in main-memory and disk-based systems (HyPer, Umbra), from Thomas Neumann's group.
- [Twelve Labs](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/twelve-labs): startup lab. Video-native AI company with offices in San Francisco and Seoul, building the Marengo and Pegasus video models.
- [UCLA NLP](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/ucla-nlp): academic. UCLA NLP group, known for the VisualBERT vision-language model and the MathVista benchmark.
- [UK AI Security Institute](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/uk-aisi): government, 2023. The first state AI safety institute (renamed Security in 2025): pre-deployment testing and the Inspect eval framework.
- [University of Toronto Machine Learning Group](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/uoft-machine-learning): academic. Machine learning faculty group in Toronto's Department of Computer Science, home of the AlexNet and dropout papers.
- [Unsloth AI](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/unsloth): startup lab. Open-source toolkit maker for fast, memory-efficient fine-tuning and local running of LLMs, with many quantized models.
- [Upstage](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/upstage): startup lab, 2020. 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)](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/us-caisi): government, 2023. NIST's AI testing center, founded as the US AI Safety Institute and renamed CAISI in 2025; evaluates frontier and foreign models.
- [UW Database Group](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/uw-database-group): academic. University of Washington group on data management systems, cloud services, probabilistic databases and data pricing.
- [UW NLP](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/uw-nlp): academic. University of Washington natural language processing group behind ELMo, Self-Instruct and QLoRA.
- [Vector Institute](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/vector-institute): nonprofit, 2017. Toronto's independent AI institute, home to deep learning researchers and work such as neural ODEs.
- [Visual Geometry Group (VGG), University of Oxford](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/oxford-vgg): academic. Oxford computer vision group known for the VGG convolutional networks and the VGGFace2 dataset.
- [Voyage AI](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/voyage-ai): startup lab. Embedding and reranking model company for retrieval, acquired by MongoDB in 2025.
- [Waabi](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/waabi): startup lab, 2021. Self-driving company founded by Raquel Urtasun, using generative AI simulation such as UniSim for autonomous trucks.
- [Wadhwani Institute for Artificial Intelligence (Wadhwani AI)](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/wadhwani-ai): nonprofit, 2018. Independent non-profit founded in 2018 building AI for underserved communities in health, agriculture and education.
- [Waymo Research](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/waymo-research): company lab. Waymo's autonomous driving research group, publisher of the Waymo Open Dataset and end-to-end driving models such as EMMA.
- [Wayve](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/wayve): startup lab, 2017. London autonomous driving company using end-to-end learning, known for the GAIA generative driving world models.
- [World Labs](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/world-labs): startup lab. Fei-Fei Li's spatial intelligence company: models that generate explorable 3D worlds (Marble).
- [Writer](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/writer): startup lab. Enterprise generative AI platform company that trains its own Palmyra family of large language models.
- [xAI (SpaceXAI)](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/xai): company lab, 2023. The Grok models and the Colossus supercomputer in Memphis; now a division of SpaceX.
- [Xiaomi MiMo](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/xiaomi-mimo): company lab. Xiaomi's large model team, releasing the open MiMo reasoning and MiMo-VL vision-language models.
- [Yandex Research](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/yandex-research): company lab. Yandex's research team for machine learning, known for CatBoost gradient boosting and the open YaLM-100B model.
- [Z.ai (Zhipu AI)](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/zhipu-ai): startup lab, 2019. The GLM models, spun out of Tsinghua University's KEG lab; GLM-4.5 and later are open weights.
- [Zyphra](https://labs.fru.dev/labs/zyphra): startup lab. San Francisco lab training open multimodal models, known for Zamba SSM-hybrid language models and Zonos text-to-speech.

## Data

- [Everything as plain text](https://labs.fru.dev/llms-full.txt)
- [Sitemap](https://labs.fru.dev/sitemap.xml)
- [JSON: labs](https://labs.fru.dev/api/labs)
- [JSON: leaders](https://labs.fru.dev/api/leaders)
- [JSON: models](https://labs.fru.dev/api/models)

## API

- [For AI agents](https://labs.fru.dev/agents): how to use this data in an agent (system prompt line, tool definition, code)
- [OpenAPI 3.1 spec](https://labs.fru.dev/openapi.json): the public read endpoints below, ready to load as tools
- [GET /api/labs](https://labs.fru.dev/api/labs?type=startup&limit=2): Research labs, A to Z, with type, founding year, place, known-for line, flagship model and papers count; returns labs with slug, name, type, focus, founded, place, parent, knownFor, flagship model, papers count on papers.fru.dev, website, GitHub, Hugging Face and X handles, and the companies.fru.dev slug
- [GET /api/labs/{slug}](https://labs.fru.dev/api/labs/anthropic): One lab with every fact and its sources; returns the lab with leaders (and their sources), landmarks, models, papers, funding, compute deals, renames, sibling-site links and source URLs
- [GET /api/leaders](https://labs.fru.dev/api/leaders?lab=mistral-ai): Who leads each lab; returns people with name, role, lab, the source URL for the role, and a leaders.fru.dev profile when there is one
- [GET /api/models](https://labs.fru.dev/api/models?lab=openai&limit=3): Models by lab: best ranked on models.fru.dev, plus notable models from the labs' own pages; returns models with name, lab, link (models.fru.dev or the lab page), rank on models.fru.dev when ranked, and year when known
- [GET /api/changes](https://labs.fru.dev/api/changes?since=2026-09-01&limit=3): The append-only history: labs added, leaders, flagship models, papers counts and facts that changed, newest first; returns changes with time, lab slug, field, old and new value (trimmed), source URL and who made it (seed, sync, admin)
- [GET /api/companies](https://labs.fru.dev/api/companies?since=2026-06-01&limit=2): Every organization behind a lab, with its labs here and dated items (for the companies.fru.dev registry); returns companies with slug (companies.fru.dev slug), name, domain, in_registry, the page link here, its labs, and items (funding, compute deals, renames and synced changes) each with type, date, title, URL and source
- [GET /api/search](https://labs.fru.dev/api/search?q=transformer&limit=3): Search labs, leaders, landmark papers and pages; returns up to 20 ranked results with title, link and one line

Free to read. Cite "Labs (labs.fru.dev)" with a link. Responses are cached at the edge; keep to about 60 requests a minute. Labs marked unverified were added and not yet checked by hand. Leaders come from leaders.fru.dev with its source per role; flagship models are the lab's best-ranked models on models.fru.dev this week.