209 posts — AI research labs. Each post profiles one lab covered on Nextomoro. Drives the /ai-labs/ directory.
Suno is an American AI music-generation company founded in 2022 by Mikey Shulman and former Kensho Technologies engineers, the principal AI music-generation product globally with $300 million annualized revenue and an active RIAA copyright lawsuit.
Runway is an American AI video-generation company founded in 2018, developer of the Gen-4 and Gen-4.5 video-generation models and one of the most consequential AI-native video creation tools globally, valued at $5.3 billion as of February 2026.
ElevenLabs is a London-based AI voice and audio company founded in 2022 by Polish entrepreneurs Mati Staniszewski and Piotr Dąbkowski, the principal AI voice synthesis platform globally with $11 billion valuation as of February 2026.
Black Forest Labs is a German-American AI image-generation lab founded in 2024 by Stable Diffusion creators Robin Rombach, Andreas Blattmann, Patrick Esser, and Dominik Lorenz, developer of the FLUX family of leading open-weights image-generation models.
Midjourney is an American AI image-generation research lab founded in 2021 by Leap Motion co-founder David Holz, the principal AI image-generation product among prosumer creators and one of the few profitable AI startups operating without external venture capital.
Perplexity is an American AI-powered search and answer-engine company founded in 2022 by former OpenAI researcher Aravind Srinivas, developer of the Perplexity search product and the Comet AI-native browser, valued at approximately $20 billion as of 2026.
Cursor is the AI coding application built by Anysphere, an American AI startup founded in 2022 by four MIT graduates, the fastest-scaling B2B software company on record at $2 billion ARR three years from launch.
Together AI is an American AI cloud and infrastructure company founded in 2022, providing GPU compute, foundation-model fine-tuning, and inference services to AI developers, with a open-source research portfolio including RedPajama and Striped Hyena.
Snowflake AI is the artificial intelligence research and product division of Snowflake, the publicly listed enterprise data-cloud company, developer of the Arctic open-weights mixture-of-experts model and the Cortex AI platform powering enterprise generative AI workloads.
Salesforce AI Research is the AI research division of Salesforce, the publicly listed enterprise CRM company, developer of the xLAM Large Action Models, xGen, BLIP, CodeT5, SFR-Embedding, and the Agentforce agentic AI platform.
NVIDIA Research is the research division of NVIDIA, the dominant global AI compute infrastructure provider, with a foundation-model portfolio spanning the Nemotron, Cosmos, GR00T, and BioNeMo families and the cross-organization Nemotron Coalition launched in March 2026.
Databricks is an American enterprise data and AI platform founded in 2013 by the creators of Apache Spark, developer of the Mosaic AI platform and the DBRX open-weights model, and at $134 billion valuation one of the largest private enterprise-software companies globally.
Tsinghua KEG is the Knowledge Engineering Group at Tsinghua University in Beijing, the academic research group that produced the foundational GLM, ChatGLM, and CogView research and incubated the Z.ai (Zhipu AI) commercial spinout.
KAIST is the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, a national research university in Daejeon, South Korea, with a leading AI research program and a new College of AI launching in 2026.
MIT CSAIL is the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT, the largest interdepartmental research lab on campus and one of the principal academic AI research organizations globally, with over 125 faculty and 1,700 members.
Carnegie Mellon's School of Computer Science is one of the principal academic AI research organizations globally, founded in 1988 and home to influential research in robotics, machine learning, language technologies, and the historical foundations of contemporary AI.
Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) is the artificial intelligence research lab at UC Berkeley, one of the principal academic AI research organizations globally and home to foundational research on reinforcement learning, robotics, and the open-source Vicuna and Koala LLM fine-tunes.
Stanford HAI is the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, an interdisciplinary research center founded in 2019, with the Center for Research on Foundation Models (CRFM) leading academic foundation-model and AI evaluation research.
BigScience was an international AI research collaboration coordinated by Hugging Face from 2021 to 2022, producing the BLOOM 176-billion-parameter multilingual language model and demonstrating the viability of open, distributed AI research at frontier scale.
Nous Research is an open-source AI research startup founded in 2023, developer of the Hermes family of fine-tuned open-weights language models, the Forge agentic platform, and the Solana-based DisTrO decentralized training network.
LAION is a German nonprofit research organization founded in 2021, creator of the LAION-5B image-text dataset that underpinned Stable Diffusion and the OpenCLIP open-source vision-language model line.
Mila is the Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute, a Montreal-based academic AI research collaboration founded in 1993 by deep-learning pioneer Yoshua Bengio, hosting over 140 professors and one of the largest concentrations of academic AI research talent in North America.
EleutherAI is a nonprofit open-source AI research organization founded in 2020 as a Discord-based research collective, developer of GPT-Neo, GPT-J, GPT-NeoX, and the Pythia interpretability suite, and creator of The Pile training dataset.
Hugging Face is the principal global open-source AI platform and developer community, founded in 2016 by Clément Delangue, Julien Chaumond, and Thomas Wolf, hosting the world's largest repository of open-weights models, datasets, and AI applications.
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