209 posts — AI research labs. Each post profiles one lab covered on Nextomoro. Drives the /ai-labs/ directory.
Sony AI is the artificial intelligence research division of Sony Group, founded April 2020 in Tokyo with research operations in Japan, the US, and Europe, with research output across game AI (Gran Turismo Sophy), gastronomy, imaging-and-sensing, and AI ethics.
MIRI is the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, the American AI safety research nonprofit founded in 2000 by Eliezer Yudkowsky in Berkeley, California, with a 25-year history of foundational AI alignment research and existential-risk advocacy.
Masakhane is the volunteer-driven Pan-African NLP research collective founded in 2019 to advance African-language AI research, with open-research output across more than 60 African languages and active cooperation with Cohere for AI and Hugging Face.
Groq is the American AI inference company founded in 2016 by former Google TPU architect Jonathan Ross, developer of the Language Processing Unit (LPU) custom AI accelerator and the GroqCloud inference platform, valued at $2.8 billion after the August 2024 Series D.
Fireworks AI is the American AI inference platform company founded in 2022 by former Meta PyTorch leadership team, developer of GPU-based inference infrastructure for open-weights foundation models, with $250 million Series C in July 2025 at $4.5 billion valuation.
The EPFL AI Center is the artificial intelligence research center of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, founded in 2021 to coordinate AI research across approximately 100 EPFL faculty, with active cooperation with ETH Zurich on the Swiss AI Initiative.
The Center for AI Safety (CAIS) is the American AI safety research nonprofit founded in 2022 by Dan Hendrycks in San Francisco, organizer of the May 2023 Statement on AI Risk and developer of the MMLU and MATH benchmarks now standard in foundation-model evaluation.
Amii is the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute, founded in 2002 in Edmonton, Canada, with research lineage anchored on Richard Sutton's reinforcement-learning research and a flagship role in the Pan-Canadian AI Strategy alongside Mila and the Vector Institute.
The Vector Institute is the Canadian artificial intelligence research institute headquartered in Toronto, founded in 2017 with the Geoffrey Hinton research lineage, the principal Toronto-based academic AI research organization, and a flagship Canadian Pan-Canadian AI Strategy partner.
NYU Center for Data Science (CDS) is New York University's flagship data science and AI research center, the academic home of Yann LeCun (Meta Chief AI Scientist Emeritus and 2018 Turing Award co-recipient), with substantial AI research output across foundational ML, NLP, and applied AI.
The MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab is the joint AI research collaboration between MIT and IBM Research, founded in 2017 with a 10-year, $240 million IBM commitment, with research output across foundational AI and applied-AI research areas.
INRIA is the French national research institute for digital sciences, founded in 1967, with substantial AI research-program output across foundational machine learning, applied AI, and the broader French academic-AI research ecosystem.
The Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence is Harvard University's flagship AI research institute, founded in December 2021 by a $500 million Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg donation, with research at the intersection of natural and artificial intelligence.
The European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) is the pan-European machine-learning research network founded in 2018, with the mission of building European AI research excellence through coordinated multi-institution research-program engagement.
The German Research Center for AI (DFKI) is the largest non-profit AI research institute in Germany, founded in 1988 with locations across Kaiserslautern, Saarbrücken, Bremen, and other cities, with research across applied AI, robotics, and intelligent systems.
Common Crawl is the non-profit web-scale crawl-data foundation founded in 2007 by Gil Elbaz, the principal open-data web-corpus underpinning substantially all foundation-model pre-training data globally, including the GPT, Claude, Gemini, and Llama training corpora.
Cohere for AI (C4AI) is the open-research division of Cohere, the Canadian AI company, with research output spanning multilingual foundation models, AI safety, and the principal Aya open-weights multilingual-model program covering 101 languages.
The Alan Turing Institute is the UK national institute for data science and artificial intelligence, founded in 2015 and headquartered at the British Library in London, with research output across foundational AI, AI safety, defence, healthcare, and public-sector applications.
XTX Markets is the privately held UK quantitative-trading firm headquartered in London, founded in 2015 by Alexander Gerko and Zar Amrolia, the principal sponsor of the ARC-AGI prize and one of the most substantial AI-research-conference sponsors in the broader quantitative-finance industry.
TSMC is the Taiwanese pure-play semiconductor foundry, principal manufacturer of leading-edge chips for NVIDIA, Apple, AMD, Qualcomm, and other fabless customers, with in-house process-development ML research and structural position in the AI-compute supply chain.
Synopsys is the publicly listed American electronic-design-automation company headquartered in Sunnyvale, the other principal commercial supplier of chip-design software alongside Cadence, with the DSO.ai reinforcement-learning chip-design product and the Synopsys.ai generative-AI platform.
SLB (formerly Schlumberger) is the energy-services technology company headquartered in Houston, principal global supplier of oilfield-services technology, with the DELFI cognitive E&P environment as the principal commercial AI-augmented platform for oil-and-gas.
Jane Street is the privately held American quantitative-trading firm headquartered in New York, with substantial in-house OCaml functional-programming engineering, AI and machine-learning hiring, and an active sponsorship-and-conference presence across major academic AI venues.
G-Research is the privately held UK quantitative-investment firm headquartered in London, founded in 2014, with a deep in-house ML research culture, multi-thousand staff, the G-Research Christmas-puzzle programming tradition, and a leading NeurIPS sponsor presence among quant funds.
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