DOE INCITE
DOE INCITE is the US Department of Energy Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment program, providing supercomputing-resource allocations to academic and industry research projects.
Decart
Decart is an Israeli AI startup founded in 2023 by Dean Leitersdorf and Moshe Shalev, focused on real-time generative video and interactive world models, with a $32 million Series A in 2024.
DARPA AI Next
DARPA AI Next is the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's AI research-funding initiative, launched in 2018, with multi-billion-dollar AI research-funding commitment across academic and industry partners.
Canada Pan-Canadian AI (CIFAR)
The Pan-Canadian Artificial Intelligence Strategy is the Canadian government's AI research-funding initiative, coordinated by CIFAR with multi-hundred-million-dollar funding commitment across Mila, Vector Institute, and Amii.
Apollo Research
Apollo Research is a UK AI safety research nonprofit founded in 2023 by Marius Hobbhahn and Jérémy Scheurer, focused on dangerous-capability evaluations and deceptive-AI research alongside frontier AI labs.
Ant Group AI
Ant Group AI is the AI division of Ant Group, the Chinese fintech affiliate of Alibaba, developer of the Bailing foundation model family and AI capability across Alipay and other commercial platforms.
Samsung Research / SAIT
Samsung Research and Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT) are the AI research divisions of Samsung Electronics, with Galaxy AI consumer-feature integration, Samsung Gauss foundation models, and a global research-lab footprint across Korea, the US, the UK, China, India, and Russia.
Poolside
Poolside is an American AI startup founded in 2023 by Jason Warner and Eiso Kant, building foundation models tuned for software engineering, with a $500 million Series B in October 2024 at a $3 billion valuation.
Kyutai
Kyutai is a French nonprofit AI research lab founded in November 2023 in Paris by Iliad, CMA CGM, and Schmidt Futures, with a €300 million funding commitment, focused on speech AI, multimodal models, and open-research output.
Honda Research Institute
Honda Research Institute is the basic research division of Honda Motor Company, with locations in Tokyo, Cambridge (Massachusetts), Mountain View (California), and Offenbach (Germany), conducting AI, robotics, autonomous-driving, and other research.
Fujitsu Research
Fujitsu Research is the AI and computing research division of Fujitsu Limited, with research labs across Japan, the US, the UK, China, and India, conducting research across AI, quantum, high-performance computing, and other areas.
Eureka Labs
Eureka Labs is the AI-and-education company founded in July 2024 by Andrej Karpathy, the former Tesla AI director and OpenAI co-founder, building AI-native educational technology with the LLM101n self-study course as the inaugural product.
Cognition AI
Cognition AI is the American AI startup founded in late 2023 by Scott Wu, Steven Hao, and Walden Yan, developer of Devin, the autonomous AI software engineering agent, and one of the principal autonomous-coding-agent labs.
Tsinghua IIIS
Tsinghua IIIS is the Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences at Tsinghua University in Beijing, founded in 2010 and led by Turing Award laureate Andrew Yao, one of the principal Chinese academic computer science institutes and a major source of Chinese AI research talent.
Tübingen AI Center
Tübingen AI Center is a German federal AI research center based in Tübingen, founded in 2018, coordinating AI research between the University of Tübingen, the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, and other Cyber Valley partners.
Stanford AI Lab (SAIL)
Stanford AI Lab (SAIL) is the artificial intelligence research center of Stanford University, founded in 1962 by John McCarthy, one of the principal academic AI research labs globally with output across machine learning, computer vision, natural language processing, and robotics.
Princeton Language and Intelligence
Princeton Language and Intelligence (PLI) is the Princeton University AI research initiative founded in 2024 by Sanjeev Arora, anchoring Princeton AI research across natural language processing, machine learning theory, and other foundational research areas.
Oak Ridge National Lab
Oak Ridge National Laboratory is a US Department of Energy national laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, host of the Frontier exascale supercomputer (the first US-based exascale machine, commissioned 2022), and home to AI-for-science research across materials, climate, and biology.
Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems is a German research institute of the Max Planck Society, with sites in Tübingen and Stuttgart, conducting research on machine learning, computer vision, robotics, and other intelligent-systems areas.
Matsuo Lab (UTokyo)
Matsuo Lab is the artificial intelligence research laboratory of Yutaka Matsuo at the University of Tokyo, founded around 2002, one of the principal Japanese academic AI research labs and the source of Japanese AI startup founding teams.
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is a US Department of Energy national laboratory in Berkeley, California, host of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, and home to AI-for-science research across materials, climate, biology, and high-energy physics.
ETH AI Center
ETH AI Center is the AI research coordination body of ETH Zurich, founded in 2020, anchoring AI research output across the federal Swiss technology institute and serving as a principal European academic AI research center.
BigCode Project
BigCode Project is an open scientific collaboration coordinated by Hugging Face and ServiceNow Research, founded in 2022, developer of the StarCoder family of open-weights code language models and the Stack training dataset.
Argonne National Lab
Argonne National Laboratory is a US Department of Energy national laboratory in Lemont, Illinois, operated by UChicago Argonne LLC, host of the Aurora exascale supercomputer and home to AI for science research across materials, drug discovery, and high-energy physics.
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The Frontier Lab Exodus
A field guide to the dozen-plus AI labs founded by alumni of OpenAI, DeepMind, Meta AI, and Anthropic between mid-2024 and early 2026. Five distinct theses, only three actual products, and roughly $50 billion in pre-product valuations.
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