Company labs

Adobe's research lab for graphics, imaging and generative AI, including 3D reconstruction and fast diffusion distillation.

Alibaba's research academy, whose language technology lab builds VideoLLaMA and the SeaLLMs Southeast Asian language models.

The Qwen family, the most downloaded open-weight models, from Alibaba Cloud's Tongyi lab.

The Amazon Nova models and Nova Act agents, plus Chronos forecasting models from Amazon Science.

On-device models for Apple Intelligence, the MLX framework for Apple silicon, and studies of reasoning limits.

The ERNIE models and PaddlePaddle, and earlier Deep Speech 2 from its Silicon Valley lab.

Bloomberg's AI group, known for BloombergGPT, a 50-billion-parameter language model trained for finance.

ByteDance's model team behind Doubao, the UI-TARS computer-use agents and Seedance video generation.

Open models (MPT, DBRX) and training at scale, from the MosaicML team Databricks bought in 2023; Spark lineage.

Develops AI voice generation and speech-to-text models for creators and enterprises.

AlphaGo and AlphaFold, deep reinforcement learning, and Google's Gemini models.

The Transformer, BERT and T5, plus MapReduce and TensorFlow: much of the base of modern AI.

Huawei's AI research center, known for PanGu language models and efficient models such as TinyBERT and GhostNet.

Deep Blue and Watson, relational databases and quantum computing, and today the open Granite models.

G42's AI product and research company, known for the Jais Arabic-centric open language models.

Ant Group's open model lab behind the Ling language models and Ring reasoning models.

Intel's research organization; its Intelligent Systems Lab created the MiDaS monocular depth models and DPT.

AI-first drug discovery spun out of DeepMind; co-developed AlphaFold 3.

JPMorgan Chase's AI research group studying AI agents, finance foundation models, synthetic data and document AI.

Kakao's AI effort behind the Kanana bilingual Korean-English models, building on Kakao Brain's earlier KoGPT.

Kuaishou's generative video unit behind the Kling video model, plus open work such as LivePortrait and Kolors.

LG Group's AI research institute and developer of the EXAONE family of Korean-English language and reasoning models.

Meituan's LongCat team, which releases the open LongCat-Flash mixture-of-experts language models.

PyTorch, the open Llama models, Segment Anything and self-supervised vision (DINO).

Meta's frontier model effort, formed in 2025 under Alexandr Wang; it builds the Muse models and now houses FAIR.

Copilot for consumers and Microsoft's own MAI models, led by Mustafa Suleyman since 2024.

ResNet, LoRA, DeepSpeed and the small Phi models, from a lab spanning systems, theory and AI.

NAVER's AI research organization behind the HyperCLOVA X Korean language models and vision work such as CutMix and Donut.

Netflix's research group publishing on machine learning, recommendation and video encoding.

StyleGAN, Megatron-LM for training giant models, Instant NeRF, and the open Nemotron models.

Qualcomm's AI research group, focused on efficient on-device AI such as quantization and model compression.

Xiaohongshu's AI lab, releasing the open dots.llm1 language model and dots.ocr document parser.

BLIP vision-language models, CodeT5, and xLAM action models for agents.

Samsung's advanced research institute; its SAIL Montreal AI lab released the Tiny Recursive Model for puzzle reasoning.

Samsung Electronics' R&D hub, running AI centers in Seoul, Mountain View, Toronto, Cambridge, Warsaw, New York and Montreal.

SoftBank subsidiary developing homegrown Japanese large language models under the Sarashina name.

Scale AI's research arm for evaluation and alignment, co-creator of Humanity's Last Exam and SWE-Bench Pro.

ServiceNow's AI research group, co-steward of the BigCode StarCoder project and maker of the Apriel models.

Kunlun Tech's AI unit releasing the open Skywork language, reasoning and reward models.

Snap's research group, known for efficient generative image models that run on mobile devices.

Arctic: open embedding models, the Arctic LLM, SwiftKV inference and text-to-SQL research.

Sony Group's AI research subsidiary, known for the GT Sophy racing agent and the FHIBE fairness benchmark dataset.

Spotify's research team working on audio intelligence, recommendation and search, known for the Podcast Dataset and Basic Pitch.

Tencent's Hunyuan models, with open releases in MoE language, video (HunyuanVideo) and 3D generation.

Toyota's research subsidiary for AI, robotics, automated driving and materials, known for diffusion-policy robot learning.

Waymo's autonomous driving research group, publisher of the Waymo Open Dataset and end-to-end driving models such as EMMA.

The Grok models and the Colossus supercomputer in Memphis; now a division of SpaceX.

Xiaomi's large model team, releasing the open MiMo reasoning and MiMo-VL vision-language models.

Yandex's research team for machine learning, known for CatBoost gradient boosting and the open YaLM-100B model.