Research labs
The places doing the research: independent frontier labs, the research arms of large companies, university and public institutes, and the groups testing AI for safety.
Frontier lab
AnthropicLab$965bnMafia
Safety-focused lab building the Claude models.
OpenAILab$852bn
Frontier model lab behind GPT and ChatGPT.
Safe SuperintelligenceLab$32bnMafia
Research lab focused on safe superintelligence.
Mistral AILab$14bnMafia
Open-weight and commercial language models.
Thinking Machines LabLab$12bnMafia
Research and product lab for adaptable AI systems.
01.AILab
Yi model family.
AI21 LabsLab
Language models for enterprise reading and writing.
Aleph AlphaLab
Sovereign AI stack for European enterprise and government.
BaichuanLab
Language models with a focus on medicine.
Black Forest LabsLab
Image generation models, makers of FLUX.
DeepSeekLab
Open-weight reasoning and coding models.
H CompanyLabMafia
Agentic models that act on computers.
KyutaiLab
Nonprofit open-science lab for speech and multimodal AI.
Lelapa AILab
Language AI for African languages.
MiniMaxLab
Text, speech and video foundation models.
Moonshot AILab
Long-context models behind Kimi.
Physical IntelligenceLabMafia
General-purpose models for robots.
Reflection AILabMafia
Open frontier models and autonomous coding agents.
Sakana AILabMafia
Nature-inspired research into model building.
StepFunLab
Multimodal Step model family.
xAILab
Lab building the Grok models.
Zhipu AILab
GLM model family from a Tsinghua spin-out.
Corporate lab
Preferred NetworksLab$3.33bn
Deep learning research and custom chips.
IQMLab$1bn
Superconducting quantum computers.
Alice & BobLab
Cat-qubit quantum computers.
Apple Machine Learning ResearchLab
Apple's published ML research.
Baidu ResearchLab
Baidu's research arm behind ERNIE.
ByteDance SeedLab
ByteDance's foundation model team.
Cohere LabsLab
Cohere's open research lab for multilingual models.
Google DeepMindLab
Research lab behind AlphaFold and Gemini.
Google ResearchLab
Google's research organisation across ML and science.
Google Research AfricaLab
Google's AI research centre in Ghana.
IBM ResearchLab
Research across AI, hybrid cloud and quantum.
iFlytek ResearchLab
Speech and language AI.
InstaDeep TunisLab
Decision-making AI, part of BioNTech.
LG AI ResearchLab
EXAONE model family.
Meta FAIRLab
Meta's fundamental AI research group.
Microsoft ResearchLab
Microsoft's global research labs.
Microsoft Research IndiaLab
Research on AI for emerging markets.
NAVER Cloud HyperCLOVALab
Korean-language foundation models.
NVIDIA ResearchLab
Graphics, robotics and deep learning research.
Oxford IonicsLab
Trapped-ion quantum computing on standard chips.
QuantinuumLab
Trapped-ion quantum computers and software.
Qwen (Alibaba)Lab
Alibaba's open Qwen model family.
RiverlaneLab
Quantum error correction stack.
Sea AI LabLab
Sea Group's research lab.
Silo AILab
Large European AI lab, now part of AMD.
Sony AILab
Research in gaming AI, imaging and gastronomy.
Tencent AI LabLab
Tencent's research lab for ML and games.
Toyota Research InstituteLab
Robotics, automated driving and materials research.
Academic institute
A*STAR I2RLab
Institute for Infocomm Research.
AI SingaporeLab
National programme behind the SEA-LION models.
Ai2Lab
Allen Institute for AI, publishing fully open models.
AI4BharatLab
Open models for Indian languages at IIT Madras.
Alan Turing InstituteLab
UK national institute for data science and AI.
AmiiLab
Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute, known for reinforcement learning.
Australian Institute for Machine LearningLab
Computer vision and ML research at Adelaide.
BAAILab
Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence.
Berkeley AI ResearchLab
UC Berkeley's AI research lab.
C4AI USPLab
Center for Artificial Intelligence at the University of São Paulo.
Carnegie Mellon University AfricaLab
CMU's engineering campus in Rwanda.
CENIALab
Chile's national AI centre, coordinating LatamGPT.
CMU Machine Learning DepartmentLab
The first academic department dedicated to ML.
CSIRO Data61Lab
Australia's national data science research unit.
Data Science NigeriaLab
Nonprofit training and research in AI.
DFKILab
German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence.
Edinburgh School of InformaticsLab
One of Europe's largest computing research schools.
EPFL AI CenterLab
EPFL's network for AI research.
ETH AI CenterLab
ETH Zurich's interdisciplinary AI hub.
Helmholtz Munich AILab
AI for health research at Helmholtz Munich.
hessian.AILab
Hessian centre for AI research.
IDSIALab
Swiss AI lab with roots in early deep learning.
InriaLab
French national institute for digital science.
KAIST Kim Jaechul Graduate School of AILab
Korea's flagship AI graduate school.
KAUST Center of Excellence for Generative AILab
Generative AI research at KAUST.
Kempner InstituteLab
Harvard institute for natural and artificial intelligence.
Max Planck Institute for Intelligent SystemsLab
Research on perception, action and learning.
MBZUAILab
Graduate research university dedicated to AI.
MilaLab
Quebec's deep learning research institute.
MIT CSAILLab
MIT's computer science and AI laboratory.
NYU Center for Data ScienceLab
NYU's data science and deep learning research hub.
RIKEN AIPLab
RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project.
Shanghai AI LaboratoryLab
State-backed lab behind InternLM.
Stanford AI LabLab
Stanford's centre for AI research and teaching.
Technology Innovation InstituteLab
Applied research institute behind the Falcon models.
Tübingen AI CenterLab
Competence centre for machine learning.
UCL Centre for AILab
University College London's AI research centre.
UW Paul G. Allen SchoolLab
University of Washington computer science research.
Vector InstituteLab
Independent research institute for machine learning.
Wadhwani AILab
Nonprofit building AI for public health and agriculture.
Weizmann Institute AI HubLab
AI for science at the Weizmann Institute.
Safety & evaluation
Apollo ResearchLab
Evaluations for deceptive behaviour in AI models.
FAR.AILab
Alignment and robustness research nonprofit.
METRLab
Evaluates the capabilities of frontier AI systems.
Redwood ResearchLab
Research on AI control and alignment.
UK AI Security InstituteLab
Government body testing advanced AI systems.
Bio & drug discovery
CradleLab
B2B payments network in India
Arc InstituteLab
Biology research institute building foundation models for cells.
Basecamp ResearchLab
Biological data and models from global biodiversity.
Broad InstituteLab
Genomics and biomedical research institute of MIT and Harvard.
Chan Zuckerberg BiohubLab
Nonprofit research network building virtual cell models.
EMBLLab
Europe's flagship life sciences laboratory.
Francis Crick InstituteLab
Biomedical discovery institute in central London.
Institute for Protein DesignLab
University of Washington centre for computational protein design.
Isomorphic LabsLabMafia
AI-first drug design spun out of DeepMind.
Latent LabsLabMafia
Generative models for protein design.
Wellcome Sanger InstituteLab
Genomics research institute near Cambridge.