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Company labs

A research lab inside a larger company, such as Google DeepMind or Microsoft Research.

19 labs

LabFounded
Alibaba QwenCompany lab · Hangzhou, ChinaThe Qwen family, the most downloaded open-weight models, from Alibaba Cloud's Tongyi lab.2023
Amazon AGI and Amazon ScienceCompany lab · Seattle, United StatesThe Amazon Nova models and Nova Act agents, plus Chronos forecasting models from Amazon Science.n/a
Apple Machine Learning ResearchCompany lab · Cupertino, United StatesOn-device models for Apple Intelligence, the MLX framework for Apple silicon, and studies of reasoning limits.n/a
Baidu (ERNIE)Company lab · Beijing, ChinaThe ERNIE models and PaddlePaddle, and earlier Deep Speech 2 from its Silicon Valley lab.n/a
ByteDance SeedCompany lab · ChinaByteDance's model team behind Doubao, the UI-TARS computer-use agents and Seedance video generation.n/a
Databricks Mosaic ResearchCompany lab · San Francisco, United StatesOpen models (MPT, DBRX) and training at scale, from the MosaicML team Databricks bought in 2023; Spark lineage.2023
Google DeepMindCompany lab · London, United KingdomAlphaGo and AlphaFold, deep reinforcement learning, and Google's Gemini models.2010
Google ResearchCompany lab · Mountain View, United StatesThe Transformer, BERT and T5, plus MapReduce and TensorFlow: much of the base of modern AI.2000
IBM ResearchCompany lab · Yorktown Heights, United StatesDeep Blue and Watson, relational databases and quantum computing, and today the open Granite models.1945
Isomorphic LabsCompany lab · London, United KingdomAI-first drug discovery spun out of DeepMind; co-developed AlphaFold 3.2021
Meta FAIRCompany lab · New York, United StatesPyTorch, the open Llama models, Segment Anything and self-supervised vision (DINO).2013
Meta Superintelligence LabsCompany lab · Menlo Park, United StatesMeta's frontier model effort, formed in 2025 under Alexandr Wang; it builds the Muse models and now houses FAIR.2025
Microsoft AICompany lab · Redmond, United StatesCopilot for consumers and Microsoft's own MAI models, led by Mustafa Suleyman since 2024.2024
Microsoft ResearchCompany lab · Redmond, United StatesResNet, LoRA, DeepSpeed and the small Phi models, from a lab spanning systems, theory and AI.1991
NVIDIA ResearchCompany lab · Santa Clara, United StatesStyleGAN, Megatron-LM for training giant models, Instant NeRF, and the open Nemotron models.2006
Salesforce AI ResearchCompany lab · United StatesBLIP vision-language models, CodeT5, and xLAM action models for agents.2016
Snowflake AI ResearchCompany lab · Menlo Park, United StatesArctic: open embedding models, the Arctic LLM, SwiftKV inference and text-to-SQL research.n/a
Tencent Hy (Hunyuan)Company lab · Shenzhen, ChinaTencent's Hunyuan models, with open releases in MoE language, video (HunyuanVideo) and 3D generation.2023
xAI (SpaceXAI)Company lab · San Francisco Bay Area, United StatesThe Grok models and the Colossus supercomputer in Memphis; now a division of SpaceX.2023

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