The world's leading AI research labs
107 labs in 24 countries, from frontier model builders to university groups. OpenAI heads the list; 25 of them publish open models on Hugging Face.
- 1OpenAIFrontier model lab behind GPT and ChatGPT.San Francisco, United StatesFrontier lab
- 2AnthropicSafety-focused lab building the Claude models.San Francisco, United StatesFrontier lab
- 3Mistral AIOpen-weight and commercial language models.Paris, FranceFrontier lab
- 4Thinking Machines LabResearch and product lab for adaptable AI systems.San Francisco, United StatesFrontier lab
- 5Safe SuperintelligenceResearch lab focused on safe superintelligence.Palo Alto, United StatesFrontier lab
- 6Preferred NetworksDeep learning research and custom chips.Tokyo, JapanCorporate lab
- 7IQMSuperconducting quantum computers.Espoo, FinlandCorporate lab
- 8DeepSeekOpen-weight reasoning and coding models.Hangzhou, ChinaFrontier lab
- 9Qwen (Alibaba)Alibaba's open Qwen model family.Hangzhou, ChinaCorporate lab
- 10BAAIBeijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence.Beijing, ChinaAcademic lab
- 11Google ResearchGoogle's research organisation across ML and science.Mountain View, United StatesCorporate lab
- 12Meta FAIRMeta's fundamental AI research group.Menlo Park, United StatesCorporate lab
- 13Microsoft ResearchMicrosoft's global research labs.Redmond, United StatesCorporate lab
- 14NVIDIA ResearchGraphics, robotics and deep learning research.Santa Clara, United StatesCorporate lab
- 15IBM ResearchResearch across AI, hybrid cloud and quantum.Yorktown Heights, United StatesCorporate lab
- 16Zhipu AIGLM model family from a Tsinghua spin-out.Beijing, ChinaFrontier lab
- 17Tencent AI LabTencent's research lab for ML and games.Shenzhen, ChinaCorporate lab
- 18Baidu ResearchBaidu's research arm behind ERNIE.Beijing, ChinaCorporate lab
- 19MiniMaxText, speech and video foundation models.Shanghai, ChinaFrontier lab
- 20Ai2Allen Institute for AI, publishing fully open models.Seattle, United StatesAcademic lab
- 21Black Forest LabsImage generation models, makers of FLUX.Freiburg, GermanyFrontier lab
- 22Apple Machine Learning ResearchApple's published ML research.Cupertino, United StatesCorporate lab
- 23ByteDance SeedByteDance's foundation model team.Beijing, ChinaCorporate lab
- 24Moonshot AILong-context models behind Kimi.Beijing, ChinaFrontier lab
- 25AI4BharatOpen models for Indian languages at IIT Madras.Chennai, IndiaAcademic lab
- 26LG AI ResearchEXAONE model family.Seoul, Korea, Republic ofCorporate lab
- 27KyutaiNonprofit open-science lab for speech and multimodal AI.Paris, FranceFrontier lab
- 28Cohere LabsCohere's open research lab for multilingual models.Toronto, CanadaCorporate lab
- 29StepFunMultimodal Step model family.Shanghai, ChinaFrontier lab
- 30Google DeepMindResearch lab behind AlphaFold and Gemini.London, United KingdomCorporate lab
- 31H CompanyAgentic models that act on computers.Paris, FranceFrontier lab
- 32Reflection AIOpen frontier models and autonomous coding agents.New York City, United StatesFrontier lab
- 33BaichuanLanguage models with a focus on medicine.Beijing, ChinaFrontier lab
- 34CradleB2B payments network in IndiaAmsterdam, The NetherlandsBio and science lab
- 3501.AIYi model family.Beijing, ChinaFrontier lab
- 36AI SingaporeNational programme behind the SEA-LION models.Singapore, SingaporeAcademic lab
- 37AI21 LabsLanguage models for enterprise reading and writing.Tel Aviv, IsraelFrontier lab
- 38Aleph AlphaSovereign AI stack for European enterprise and government.Heidelberg, GermanyFrontier lab
- 39Alice & BobCat-qubit quantum computers.Paris, FranceCorporate lab
- 40AmiiAlberta Machine Intelligence Institute, known for reinforcement learning.Edmonton, CanadaAcademic lab
- 41Apollo ResearchEvaluations for deceptive behaviour in AI models.London, United KingdomSafety lab
- 42Arc InstituteBiology research institute building foundation models for cells.Palo Alto, United StatesBio and science lab
- 43Basecamp ResearchBiological data and models from global biodiversity.London, United KingdomBio and science lab
- 44Berkeley AI ResearchUC Berkeley's AI research lab.Berkeley, United StatesAcademic lab
- 45Carnegie Mellon University AfricaCMU's engineering campus in Rwanda.Kigali, RwandaAcademic lab
- 46Chan Zuckerberg BiohubNonprofit research network building virtual cell models.San Francisco, United StatesBio and science lab
- 47CMU Machine Learning DepartmentThe first academic department dedicated to ML.Pittsburgh, United StatesAcademic lab
- 48Data Science NigeriaNonprofit training and research in AI.Lagos, NigeriaAcademic lab
- 49EPFL AI CenterEPFL's network for AI research.Lausanne, SwitzerlandAcademic lab
- 50ETH AI CenterETH Zurich's interdisciplinary AI hub.Zürich, SwitzerlandAcademic lab
- 51FAR.AIAlignment and robustness research nonprofit.Berkeley, United StatesSafety lab
- 52Helmholtz Munich AIAI for health research at Helmholtz Munich.Munich, GermanyAcademic lab
- 53hessian.AIHessian centre for AI research.Darmstadt, GermanyAcademic lab
- 54Isomorphic LabsAI-first drug design spun out of DeepMind.London, United KingdomBio and science lab
- 55KAUST Center of Excellence for Generative AIGenerative AI research at KAUST.Thuwal, Saudi ArabiaAcademic lab
- 56Kempner InstituteHarvard institute for natural and artificial intelligence.Cambridge, United StatesAcademic lab
- 57Latent LabsGenerative models for protein design.London, United KingdomBio and science lab
- 58Lelapa AILanguage AI for African languages.Johannesburg, South AfricaFrontier lab
- 59METREvaluates the capabilities of frontier AI systems.Berkeley, United StatesSafety lab
- 60Oxford IonicsTrapped-ion quantum computing on standard chips.Oxford, United KingdomCorporate lab
- 61Physical IntelligenceGeneral-purpose models for robots.San Francisco, United StatesFrontier lab
- 62QuantinuumTrapped-ion quantum computers and software.Broomfield, United StatesCorporate lab
- 63RiverlaneQuantum error correction stack.Cambridge, United KingdomCorporate lab
- 64Sakana AINature-inspired research into model building.Tokyo, JapanFrontier lab
- 65Sea AI LabSea Group's research lab.Singapore, SingaporeCorporate lab
- 66Tübingen AI CenterCompetence centre for machine learning.Tübingen, GermanyAcademic lab
- 67UK AI Security InstituteGovernment body testing advanced AI systems.London, United KingdomSafety lab
- 68UW Paul G. Allen SchoolUniversity of Washington computer science research.Seattle, United StatesAcademic lab
- 69Wadhwani AINonprofit building AI for public health and agriculture.Mumbai, IndiaAcademic lab
- 70Wellcome Sanger InstituteGenomics research institute near Cambridge.Cambridge, United KingdomBio and science lab
- 71xAILab building the Grok models.Palo Alto, United StatesFrontier lab
- 72A*STAR I2RInstitute for Infocomm Research.Singapore, SingaporeAcademic lab
- 73Alan Turing InstituteUK national institute for data science and AI.London, United KingdomAcademic lab
- 74Australian Institute for Machine LearningComputer vision and ML research at Adelaide.Adelaide, AustraliaAcademic lab
- 75Broad InstituteGenomics and biomedical research institute of MIT and Harvard.Cambridge, United StatesBio and science lab
- 76C4AI USPCenter for Artificial Intelligence at the University of São Paulo.São Paulo, BrazilAcademic lab
- 77CENIAChile's national AI centre, coordinating LatamGPT.Santiago, ChileAcademic lab
- 78CSIRO Data61Australia's national data science research unit.Sydney, AustraliaAcademic lab
- 79DFKIGerman Research Center for Artificial Intelligence.Kaiserslautern, GermanyAcademic lab
- 80Edinburgh School of InformaticsOne of Europe's largest computing research schools.Edinburgh, United KingdomAcademic lab
- 81EMBLEurope's flagship life sciences laboratory.Heidelberg, GermanyBio and science lab
- 82Francis Crick InstituteBiomedical discovery institute in central London.London, United KingdomBio and science lab
- 83Google Research AfricaGoogle's AI research centre in Ghana.Accra, GhanaCorporate lab
- 84IDSIASwiss AI lab with roots in early deep learning.Lugano, SwitzerlandAcademic lab
- 85iFlytek ResearchSpeech and language AI.Hefei, ChinaCorporate lab
- 86InriaFrench national institute for digital science.Paris, FranceAcademic lab
- 87InstaDeep TunisDecision-making AI, part of BioNTech.Tunis, TunisiaCorporate lab
- 88Institute for Protein DesignUniversity of Washington centre for computational protein design.Seattle, United StatesBio and science lab
- 89KAIST Kim Jaechul Graduate School of AIKorea's flagship AI graduate school.Daejeon, Korea, Republic ofAcademic lab
- 90Max Planck Institute for Intelligent SystemsResearch on perception, action and learning.Tübingen, GermanyAcademic lab
- 91MBZUAIGraduate research university dedicated to AI.Abu Dhabi, UAEAcademic lab
- 92Microsoft Research IndiaResearch on AI for emerging markets.Bengaluru, IndiaCorporate lab
- 93MilaQuebec's deep learning research institute.Montréal, CanadaAcademic lab
- 94MIT CSAILMIT's computer science and AI laboratory.Cambridge, United StatesAcademic lab
- 95NAVER Cloud HyperCLOVAKorean-language foundation models.Seongnam-si, Korea, Republic ofCorporate lab
- 96NYU Center for Data ScienceNYU's data science and deep learning research hub.New York City, United StatesAcademic lab
- 97Redwood ResearchResearch on AI control and alignment.Berkeley, United StatesSafety lab
- 98RIKEN AIPRIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project.Tokyo, JapanAcademic lab
- 99Shanghai AI LaboratoryState-backed lab behind InternLM.Shanghai, ChinaAcademic lab
- 100Silo AILarge European AI lab, now part of AMD.Helsinki, FinlandCorporate lab
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