Worldwide · updated 10 November 2026

Frontier AI labs

The 22 labs training general-purpose models at the largest scale. 7 are American; the other 15 are spread across 6 countries.

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    Anthropic logo
    AnthropicSafety-focused lab building the Claude models.San Francisco, United StatesFrontier lab
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    Mistral AI logo
    Mistral AIOpen-weight and commercial language models.Paris, FranceFrontier lab
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    Thinking Machines Lab logo
    Thinking Machines LabResearch and product lab for adaptable AI systems.San Francisco, United StatesFrontier lab
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    DeepSeek logo
    DeepSeekOpen-weight reasoning and coding models.Hangzhou, ChinaFrontier lab
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    Kyutai logo
    KyutaiNonprofit open-science lab for speech and multimodal AI.Paris, FranceFrontier lab
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    StepFun logo
    StepFunMultimodal Step model family.Shanghai, ChinaFrontier lab
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    H Company logo
    H CompanyAgentic models that act on computers.Paris, FranceFrontier lab
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    Reflection AI logo
    Reflection AIOpen frontier models and autonomous coding agents.New York City, United StatesFrontier lab
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    01.AI logo
    01.AIYi model family.Beijing, ChinaFrontier lab
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    AI21 Labs logo
    AI21 LabsLanguage models for enterprise reading and writing.Tel Aviv, IsraelFrontier lab
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    Aleph Alpha logo
    Aleph AlphaSovereign AI stack for European enterprise and government.Heidelberg, GermanyFrontier lab
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    Lelapa AI logo
    Lelapa AILanguage AI for African languages.Johannesburg, South AfricaFrontier lab
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    Physical Intelligence logo
    Physical IntelligenceGeneral-purpose models for robots.San Francisco, United StatesFrontier lab
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    Sakana AI logo
    Sakana AINature-inspired research into model building.Tokyo, JapanFrontier lab
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    xAI logo
    xAILab building the Grok models.Palo Alto, United StatesFrontier lab

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