Government labs

Singapore's national AI programme launched in May 2017, which develops the SEA-LION Southeast Asian language models.

Beijing AGI research institute founded in 2020 by Song-Chun Zhu with Beijing municipal government support.

Canada's AI safety institute, founded in November 2024 and led by ISED with NRC and CIFAR research partners.

European Commission body that implements the EU AI Act, especially rules for general-purpose AI models.

French national research institute for computer science and applied mathematics, where scikit-learn and Software Heritage began.

France's National Institute for AI Evaluation and Security, created by the French government on 31 January 2025.

Chinese Academy of Sciences institute founded in 1956 for intelligence science, pattern recognition and robotics.

Japan's AI safety institute, launched on 14 February 2024 within IPA to develop AI safety evaluation methods and standards.

South Korea's AI safety institute, founded in November 2024 under ETRI and based in Bundang, Seongnam.

Japan's national informatics institute, established in 2000, whose LLM R&D center runs the open LLM-jp project.

RIKEN AI research center launched in 2016, covering mathematical foundations of ML, scientific AI and societal AI.

The InternLM and InternVL open models and the OpenCompass evaluation platform.

Singapore's AI safety institute: the NTU Digital Trust Centre, founded in 2022 and designated the AISI in 2024, working with IMDA.

Abu Dhabi government-funded research institute, part of ATRC, that develops the Falcon open language models.

The first state AI safety institute (renamed Security in 2025): pre-deployment testing and the Inspect eval framework.

NIST's AI testing center, founded as the US AI Safety Institute and renamed CAISI in 2025; evaluates frontier and foreign models.