Isomorphic Labs
Isomorphic Labs is a London-based AI drug-discovery company founded in 2021 as an Alphabet subsidiary spun out of Google DeepMind, applying AlphaFold-derived AI to drug design with pharmaceutical industry partnerships.
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209 posts — AI research labs. Each post profiles one lab covered on Nextomoro. Drives the /ai-labs/ directory.
Inflection AI
Inflection AI is an American AI company founded in 2022 by Mustafa Suleyman, Reid Hoffman, and Karen Simonyan that underwent corporate restructuring in March 2024 with the founders and senior researchers moving to Microsoft AI through a $650 million talent-and-licensing transaction.
Inceptive
Inceptive is a Berlin-based AI biology company founded in 2021 by former Google senior researcher Jakob Uszkoreit, applying transformer-based AI to RNA-therapeutic design and other biological-software applications.
Hippocratic AI
Hippocratic AI is the American healthcare-AI company founded in 2023 by serial entrepreneur Munjal Shah, building safety-tested generative AI agents for non-diagnostic patient-facing healthcare tasks, with over $400 million raised and a unicorn-tier valuation by 2025.
Conjecture
Conjecture is the London-based AI alignment research company founded in 2022 by EleutherAI co-founder Connor Leahy with Sid Black and Gabriel Alfour, developing the Cognitive Emulations alignment research program with explicit existential-risk framing.
Bloomberg AI
Bloomberg AI is the AI research and product organization at Bloomberg L.P., the privately held financial-information company, developer of BloombergGPT and the AI Agents now embedded across the Bloomberg Terminal's 325,000-subscriber finance-professional product surface.
AI21 Labs
AI21 Labs is an Israeli enterprise AI company founded in 2017 by Yoav Shoham, Ori Goshen, and Amnon Shashua, developer of the Jurassic and Jamba foundation-model lines and one of the longest-running enterprise-AI Insurgents.
Wayve
Wayve is a London-based AI autonomous-driving company founded in 2017 by Cambridge AI researchers Alex Kendall and Amar Shah, developer of end-to-end embodied AI for self-driving with NVIDIA, SoftBank, and Microsoft backing at over $4 billion valuation.
Skild AI
Skild AI is the American robotics-AI foundation-model company founded in 2023 by Carnegie Mellon professors Deepak Pathak and Abhinav Gupta, developer of the Skild Brain general-purpose robot intelligence model, with a $300 million Series A in July 2024 at $1.5 billion valuation.
Physical Intelligence
Physical Intelligence (Pi) is an American robotics-AI foundation-model company founded in 2024 by senior researchers from Google DeepMind, UC Berkeley, and Stanford, including Karol Hausman and Sergey Levine, developer of the Pi-Zero (π₀) robotics foundation model.
Imbue
Imbue is the American AI agent research startup founded in 2021 as Generally Intelligent by Kanjun Qiu and Josh Albrecht, focused on training large reasoning models and building developer agents, with $200 million Series B in October 2023 at $1 billion-plus valuation.
Figure AI
Figure AI is the American humanoid-robotics company founded in 2022 by serial entrepreneur Brett Adcock (Vettery, Archer Aviation), developer of the Figure 02 industrial humanoid robot and the Helix vision-language-action foundation model, with a reported $39.5 billion valuation as of February 2025.
Codeium / Windsurf
Codeium is an American AI coding assistant company founded in 2021 that operates the Windsurf AI-native IDE; the company underwent corporate transition in 2025 with engineering talent moving to Google DeepMind and the residual entity acquired by Cognition AI.
Character.AI
Character.AI is an American AI character-companion application founded in 2021 by former Google researchers Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, that underwent corporate restructuring in 2024 with the founders moving to Google DeepMind.
1X
1X is the Norwegian-American humanoid-robotics company founded in 2014 as Halodi Robotics by Bernt Børnich, developer of the EVE service-robot platform and the NEO consumer humanoid robot, with backing from the OpenAI Startup Fund and EQT.
Udio
Udio is an American AI music-generation company founded in 2023 by former Google DeepMind researchers, the principal direct competitor to Suno on the AI music-generation tier and named in the June 2024 RIAA copyright lawsuit.
Synthesia
Synthesia is a London-based AI avatar-video company founded in 2017, the principal AI avatar-video platform for enterprise customers globally with corporate-training, communications, and learning-and-development customer base.
Pika
Pika is an American AI video-generation company founded in April 2023 by Stanford AI PhD students Demi Guo and Chenlin Meng, developer of the Pika family of consumer video-generation products with 16 million users.
Luma AI
Luma AI is an American AI video and 3D generation company founded in 2021, developer of the Dream Machine video product and Ray model line, and as of November 2025 valued at over $4 billion following a $900 million Series C led by Saudi Arabia's HUMAIN.
HeyGen
HeyGen is an American AI video and avatar generation company founded in 2020 by former Snap engineer Joshua Xu, the principal AI avatar-and-translation video platform with enterprise customer base and over $100M annualized revenue.
Stability AI
Stability AI is the British-American AI image-generation company founded in 2019 that produced the original Stable Diffusion model line, currently led by former WETA Digital CEO Prem Akkaraju and Napster co-founder Sean Parker following the 2024 leadership reset.
Recraft
Recraft is an AI image-generation company founded in 2022 by former Yandex senior researcher Anna Veronika Dorogush, focused on professional-design image generation with vector-output capability and customer base in design teams.
Ideogram
Ideogram is a Toronto-based AI image-generation company founded in 2022 by former Google Brain researchers including Mohammad Norouzi, with focus on text rendering quality and a $96.5 million cumulative funding base.
Adobe Firefly
Adobe Firefly is the AI generative-media platform of Adobe, the publicly listed creative-software company, integrated across the Adobe Creative Cloud product line and providing image, video, audio, and design-asset generation for Adobe's enterprise and creative-professional customers.
