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An independent nonprofit research institute, such as Ai2, EleutherAI or METR.

25 labs

LabFounded
AI Now InstituteNonprofit · New York, United StatesIndependent research institute founded in 2017 producing policy research on the social impact of AI and industry power.2017
Ai2 (Allen Institute for AI)Nonprofit · Seattle, United StatesFully open models with their data and training code: OLMo, Tulu, Molmo, and the Dolma corpus.2014
Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii)Nonprofit · Edmonton, CanadaIndependent non-profit AI institute in Edmonton, begun in 2002 as AICML and one of three Pan-Canadian AI Strategy institutes.2002
Alignment Research Center (ARC)Nonprofit · Berkeley, United StatesBerkeley non-profit founded by Paul Christiano in 2021, working on theory for mechanistic explanations of neural networks.2021
Apollo ResearchNonprofitAI safety organization focused on evaluating and monitoring scheming and deception in frontier AI systems.2023
BAAI (Beijing Academy of AI)Nonprofit · Beijing, ChinaThe BGE embedding models used across open retrieval stacks, the Emu multimodal models and FlagOpen.2018
Center for AI Safety (CAIS)Nonprofit · San Francisco, United StatesSan Francisco nonprofit doing technical AI safety research and field-building; organized the 2023 Statement on AI Risk.2022
Centre for the Governance of AI (GovAI)Nonprofit · London, United KingdomAI governance think tank founded at Yale in 2016, now an independent non-profit with offices in London and Washington, DC.2016
Common Crawl FoundationNonprofit · San Francisco, United States501(c)(3) nonprofit that crawls the web monthly and publishes a free open archive of web data collected since 2008.2007
Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR)NonprofitIndependent, community-rooted AI research institute founded by Timnit Gebru in December 2021.2021
EleutherAINonprofit · United StatesGrassroots open research: The Pile, GPT-NeoX and Pythia, and the LM Evaluation Harness everyone uses.2020
Epoch AINonprofit · United StatesData on AI's trajectory: training compute trends, data limits, and the FrontierMath benchmark.2022
European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS)NonprofitPan-European AI network of excellence founded in 2018, with institutes and units at research institutions across Europe.2018
FAR.AINonprofitAI security research and adoption non-profit, known for adversarial attacks on superhuman Go AIs and the tuned lens.n/a
German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)Nonprofit · Kaiserslautern, GermanyGerman AI research center founded in 1988 as a non-profit public-private partnership, with sites across Germany.1988
KyutaiNonprofit · Paris, FranceOpen-science lab funded by Xavier Niel and partners: Moshi real-time voice and Hibiki live translation.n/a
LAIONNonprofit · GermanyOpen image-text datasets (LAION-400M, LAION-5B) that trained Stable Diffusion and OpenCLIP.n/a
Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI)Nonprofit · Berkeley, United StatesBerkeley nonprofit founded in 2000 as the Singularity Institute, focused on existential risk from superintelligent AI.2000
METRNonprofit · Berkeley, California, United StatesEvaluating dangerous capabilities: the time-horizon measure of how long a task AI agents can finish.2022
Redwood ResearchNonprofit · United StatesNonprofit AI safety and security research organization that pioneered the AI control agenda.n/a
Software HeritageNonprofit · Rocquencourt, FranceNon-profit archive of publicly available source code, launched by Inria in 2016 with UNESCO support.Unverified2016
The Alan Turing InstituteNonprofit · London, United KingdomUK national institute for data science and AI, an independent charity based at the British Library, founded in 2015.2015
TransluceNonprofitIndependent nonprofit research lab building open tools for public oversight and understanding of AI systems.n/a
Vector InstituteNonprofit · Toronto, CanadaToronto's independent AI institute, home to deep learning researchers and work such as neural ODEs.2017
Wadhwani Institute for Artificial Intelligence (Wadhwani AI)Nonprofit · Mumbai, INIndependent non-profit founded in 2018 building AI for underserved communities in health, agriculture and education.2018

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