209 posts — AI research labs. Each post profiles one lab covered on Nextomoro. Drives the /ai-labs/ directory.
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 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 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 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.
Zoox is an American autonomous-vehicle company founded in 2014 by Jesse Levinson and Tim Kentley-Klay, builder of a purpose-built bidirectional robotaxi vehicle, headquartered in Foster City, California, and a wholly owned subsidiary of Amazon since June 2020.
Waymo is the autonomous-driving subsidiary of Alphabet, originally established in 2009 as the Google Self-Driving Car Project, operator of the largest commercial robotaxi service in the United States with deployments in Phoenix, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Austin.
Mobileye is an Israeli computer-vision and autonomous-driving company founded in 1999 by Amnon Shashua and Ziv Aviram, supplier of the EyeQ chip family for advanced driver assistance, and majority-owned by Intel.
EvolutionaryScale is an American biology AI company founded in 2024 by former Meta AI / FAIR ESM team members including Alex Rives and Salvatore Candido, developer of the ESM3 protein language model and one of the principal protein-language-model labs.
Cerebras Systems is an American AI hardware company founded in 2016 by Andrew Feldman, headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, designer of the Wafer-Scale Engine, the largest single chip ever built, and operator of the fastest commercial AI inference service.
Boston Dynamics is an American robotics company founded in 1992 by Marc Raibert, headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts, owner of Atlas, Spot, and Stretch, and a wholly owned subsidiary of Hyundai Motor Group since 2021.
Shanghai AI Laboratory is a Chinese government-backed AI research institute founded in 2020 in Shanghai, developer of the InternLM, InternVL, and AlphaFold-equivalent biological AI lines, with open-source releases through OpenCompass, OpenMMLab, and other ecosystem projects.
Huawei Noah's Ark Lab is the AI research division of Huawei Technologies, established in 2012 in Hong Kong, and the source of the Pangu foundation model series and the AI capability behind Huawei's Ascend compute platform and HarmonyOS ecosystem.
BAAI is the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence, a Chinese government-backed nonprofit AI research institute founded in 2018, developer of the Wu Dao foundation model series and the FlagOpen open-source ecosystem, and one of the principal Chinese AI research bodies.
TII is the Technology Innovation Institute, the Abu Dhabi government research body that developed the Falcon family of open-weights foundation models, with UAE state backing and a continued open-research positioning that anchored the early sovereign-AI movement.
Preferred Networks is a Tokyo-based AI company founded in 2014 by Toru Nishikawa and Daisuke Okanohara, developer of the PLaMo Japanese-language foundation model family, the MN-Core custom AI silicon, and industrial AI deployments with Toyota, Hitachi, and Fanuc.
G42 is an Abu Dhabi-based AI and cloud company chaired by UAE National Security Adviser Sheikh Tahnoun bin Zayed Al Nahyan, developer of the Jais Arabic language model family, the Inception subsidiary, and a Microsoft and OpenAI strategic partnership.
Toyota Research Institute is the AI and robotics research subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation, founded in 2016 with a $1 billion commitment, and the source of open research on diffusion-policy robotics, large behavior models, materials discovery, and autonomous mobility.
Tesla AI is the artificial intelligence and autonomy division of Tesla Inc., responsible for the Full Self-Driving software stack, the Optimus humanoid robot, the Dojo training supercomputer, and the in-vehicle inference hardware powering Tesla's vision-only autonomy approach.
Adobe Research is the research division of Adobe Inc., founded in 2006 in San Jose, with global labs in Seattle, San Francisco, Cambridge, London, Tel Aviv, and Bangalore, and the source of the Firefly generative AI line and most of the AI features in Adobe's Creative Cloud.
The US AI Safety Institute is the United States government's AI safety research body within NIST under the Department of Commerce, established February 2024 following the October 2023 Biden Executive Order, with bilateral cooperation with the UK AISI and shifting US-policy context post-January 2025.
The UK AI Safety Institute, renamed in February 2025 to the AI Security Institute, is the British government's frontier-AI safety research body, established November 2023 at the Bletchley Park AI Safety Summit and led by chief scientist Geoffrey Irving.
Writer is the American enterprise generative AI company founded in 2020 by May Habib and Waseem Alshikh as a pivot from Qordoba, developer of the Palmyra enterprise foundation models, with $200 million Series C in November 2024 at $1.9 billion valuation and 250+ Fortune 500 customers.
Sakana AI is a Tokyo-based AI research startup founded in 2023 by former Google Brain researchers David Ha and Llion Jones, focused on nature-inspired AI architectures including evolutionary methods and model merging.
Reka AI is the Singapore-based multimodal AI company founded in 2022 by former DeepMind, Google Brain, and Meta researchers Dani Yogatama, Yi Tay, and Qi Liu, developer of the Reka Core, Flash, and Edge multimodal models for enterprise customers.
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