Academic and non-profit AI labs
University departments and independent institutes, where much of the field's research and many of its founders start out. 41 are listed, 12 of them in Europe.
- 1BAAIBeijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence.Beijing, ChinaAcademic lab
- 2Ai2Allen Institute for AI, publishing fully open models.Seattle, United StatesAcademic lab
- 3AI4BharatOpen models for Indian languages at IIT Madras.Chennai, IndiaAcademic lab
- 4AI SingaporeNational programme behind the SEA-LION models.Singapore, SingaporeAcademic lab
- 5AmiiAlberta Machine Intelligence Institute, known for reinforcement learning.Edmonton, CanadaAcademic lab
- 6Berkeley AI ResearchUC Berkeley's AI research lab.Berkeley, United StatesAcademic lab
- 7Carnegie Mellon University AfricaCMU's engineering campus in Rwanda.Kigali, RwandaAcademic lab
- 8CMU Machine Learning DepartmentThe first academic department dedicated to ML.Pittsburgh, United StatesAcademic lab
- 9Data Science NigeriaNonprofit training and research in AI.Lagos, NigeriaAcademic lab
- 10EPFL AI CenterEPFL's network for AI research.Lausanne, SwitzerlandAcademic lab
- 11ETH AI CenterETH Zurich's interdisciplinary AI hub.Zürich, SwitzerlandAcademic lab
- 12Helmholtz Munich AIAI for health research at Helmholtz Munich.Munich, GermanyAcademic lab
- 13hessian.AIHessian centre for AI research.Darmstadt, GermanyAcademic lab
- 14KAUST Center of Excellence for Generative AIGenerative AI research at KAUST.Thuwal, Saudi ArabiaAcademic lab
- 15Kempner InstituteHarvard institute for natural and artificial intelligence.Cambridge, United StatesAcademic lab
- 16Tübingen AI CenterCompetence centre for machine learning.Tübingen, GermanyAcademic lab
- 17UW Paul G. Allen SchoolUniversity of Washington computer science research.Seattle, United StatesAcademic lab
- 18Wadhwani AINonprofit building AI for public health and agriculture.Mumbai, IndiaAcademic lab
- 19A*STAR I2RInstitute for Infocomm Research.Singapore, SingaporeAcademic lab
- 20Alan Turing InstituteUK national institute for data science and AI.London, United KingdomAcademic lab
- 21Australian Institute for Machine LearningComputer vision and ML research at Adelaide.Adelaide, AustraliaAcademic lab
- 22C4AI USPCenter for Artificial Intelligence at the University of São Paulo.São Paulo, BrazilAcademic lab
- 23CENIAChile's national AI centre, coordinating LatamGPT.Santiago, ChileAcademic lab
- 24CSIRO Data61Australia's national data science research unit.Sydney, AustraliaAcademic lab
- 25DFKIGerman Research Center for Artificial Intelligence.Kaiserslautern, GermanyAcademic lab
- 26Edinburgh School of InformaticsOne of Europe's largest computing research schools.Edinburgh, United KingdomAcademic lab
- 27IDSIASwiss AI lab with roots in early deep learning.Lugano, SwitzerlandAcademic lab
- 28InriaFrench national institute for digital science.Paris, FranceAcademic lab
- 29KAIST Kim Jaechul Graduate School of AIKorea's flagship AI graduate school.Daejeon, Korea, Republic ofAcademic lab
- 30Max Planck Institute for Intelligent SystemsResearch on perception, action and learning.Tübingen, GermanyAcademic lab
- 31MBZUAIGraduate research university dedicated to AI.Abu Dhabi, UAEAcademic lab
- 32MilaQuebec's deep learning research institute.Montréal, CanadaAcademic lab
- 33MIT CSAILMIT's computer science and AI laboratory.Cambridge, United StatesAcademic lab
- 34NYU Center for Data ScienceNYU's data science and deep learning research hub.New York City, United StatesAcademic lab
- 35RIKEN AIPRIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project.Tokyo, JapanAcademic lab
- 36Shanghai AI LaboratoryState-backed lab behind InternLM.Shanghai, ChinaAcademic lab
- 37Stanford AI LabStanford's centre for AI research and teaching.Palo Alto, United StatesAcademic lab
- 38Technology Innovation InstituteApplied research institute behind the Falcon models.Abu Dhabi, UAEAcademic lab
- 39UCL Centre for AIUniversity College London's AI research centre.London, United KingdomAcademic lab
- 40Vector InstituteIndependent research institute for machine learning.Toronto, CanadaAcademic lab
- 41Weizmann Institute AI HubAI for science at the Weizmann Institute.Reẖovot, IsraelAcademic lab
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