AI research labs in the United States
30 research labs in the United States: 8 corporate, 8 academic, 7 frontier, 4 bio and science and 3 safety. OpenAI is the best known.
- 1OpenAIFrontier model lab behind GPT and ChatGPT.San FranciscoFrontier lab
- 2AnthropicSafety-focused lab building the Claude models.San FranciscoFrontier lab
- 3Thinking Machines LabResearch and product lab for adaptable AI systems.San FranciscoFrontier lab
- 4Safe SuperintelligenceResearch lab focused on safe superintelligence.Palo AltoFrontier lab
- 5Google ResearchGoogle's research organisation across ML and science.Mountain ViewCorporate lab
- 6Meta FAIRMeta's fundamental AI research group.Menlo ParkCorporate lab
- 7Microsoft ResearchMicrosoft's global research labs.RedmondCorporate lab
- 8NVIDIA ResearchGraphics, robotics and deep learning research.Santa ClaraCorporate lab
- 9IBM ResearchResearch across AI, hybrid cloud and quantum.Yorktown HeightsCorporate lab
- 10Ai2Allen Institute for AI, publishing fully open models.SeattleAcademic lab
- 11Apple Machine Learning ResearchApple's published ML research.CupertinoCorporate lab
- 12Reflection AIOpen frontier models and autonomous coding agents.New York CityFrontier lab
- 13Arc InstituteBiology research institute building foundation models for cells.Palo AltoBio and science lab
- 14Berkeley AI ResearchUC Berkeley's AI research lab.BerkeleyAcademic lab
- 15Chan Zuckerberg BiohubNonprofit research network building virtual cell models.San FranciscoBio and science lab
- 16CMU Machine Learning DepartmentThe first academic department dedicated to ML.PittsburghAcademic lab
- 17FAR.AIAlignment and robustness research nonprofit.BerkeleySafety lab
- 18Kempner InstituteHarvard institute for natural and artificial intelligence.CambridgeAcademic lab
- 19METREvaluates the capabilities of frontier AI systems.BerkeleySafety lab
- 20Physical IntelligenceGeneral-purpose models for robots.San FranciscoFrontier lab
- 21QuantinuumTrapped-ion quantum computers and software.BroomfieldCorporate lab
- 22UW Paul G. Allen SchoolUniversity of Washington computer science research.SeattleAcademic lab
- 23xAILab building the Grok models.Palo AltoFrontier lab
- 24Broad InstituteGenomics and biomedical research institute of MIT and Harvard.CambridgeBio and science lab
- 25Institute for Protein DesignUniversity of Washington centre for computational protein design.SeattleBio and science lab
- 26MIT CSAILMIT's computer science and AI laboratory.CambridgeAcademic lab
- 27NYU Center for Data ScienceNYU's data science and deep learning research hub.New York CityAcademic lab
- 28Redwood ResearchResearch on AI control and alignment.BerkeleySafety lab
- 29Stanford AI LabStanford's centre for AI research and teaching.Palo AltoAcademic lab
- 30Toyota Research InstituteRobotics, automated driving and materials research.Los AltosCorporate lab
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