209 posts — AI research labs. Each post profiles one lab covered on Nextomoro. Drives the /ai-labs/ directory.
The Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) is a Seattle-based nonprofit artificial intelligence research institute founded in 2014 by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, developer of the OLMo, Tülu, and Molmo families of fully open-weights and open-data foundation models.
Yandex is a Russian internet company founded in 1997 by Arkady Volozh, developer of the YandexGPT and YandexART foundation models for the Russian market, with operations split in 2024 between the Russian-domiciled Yandex business and the Western-domiciled Nebius Group AI infrastructure successor.
Upstage is a South Korean enterprise AI startup founded in 2020 by former Naver AI head Sung Kim, developer of the Solar family of large language models and Document Parse, the first generative AI unicorn in Korea.
SK Telecom is South Korea's largest mobile network operator, developer of the A.X family of Korean foundation models and the Adot consumer AI assistant, and lead of the Global Telco AI Alliance bringing five international telecommunications companies into a coordinated AI strategy.
LG AI Research is the artificial intelligence research subsidiary of South Korean conglomerate LG, developer of the EXAONE family of large language models including the K-EXAONE Korean sovereign foundation model.
Naver Cloud is the AI and cloud-services subsidiary of South Korean internet giant Naver, developer of the HyperCLOVA X family of Korean-language large language models, the principal Korean sovereign-AI provider.
Sarvam AI is an Indian artificial intelligence company founded in 2023 by AI4Bharat alumni Vivek Raghavan and Pratyush Kumar, selected by the Government of India to build the country's sovereign large language model and one of the leading Indic-language AI developers.
Krutrim is an Indian artificial intelligence company founded in 2023 by Ola founder Bhavish Aggarwal, India's first AI unicorn and the developer of multilingual Indic-language foundation models alongside a sovereign AI cloud and chip ambitions.
AI Singapore is a Singapore government-funded artificial intelligence research and development programme established in 2017, developer of the SEA-LION family of open-weights large language models specialized in Southeast Asian languages.
Aleph Alpha is a German artificial intelligence company founded in 2019 in Heidelberg, developer of the Luminous and PhariaAI enterprise AI platform, and as of April 2026 in process of merging with Cohere to form a transatlantic sovereign-AI company.
Kuaishou is a Chinese short-video and social-platform company founded in 2011 by Su Hua and Cheng Yixiao, developer of the Kling family of AI video-generation models that competes with Sora, Runway, and ByteDance Seedance for the global video-generation frontier.
ByteDance Seed is the foundation-model research division of ByteDance, the Chinese internet company that operates TikTok and Douyin, developer of the Doubao consumer assistant and the Seed family of multimodal models that ranks among the most-used AI products in China.
Tencent Hunyuan is the artificial intelligence division of Tencent, the Chinese internet conglomerate, with a foundation-model portfolio spanning the Hunyuan large language models, the Hunyuan-T1 reasoning model, and the open-weights HunyuanVideo line.
StepFun is a Chinese artificial intelligence company founded in 2023 by former Microsoft Research Asia chief scientist Jiang Daxin, focused on multimodal foundation models and known for the Step family of text, vision, audio, and video models.
MiniMax is a Chinese artificial intelligence company founded in 2021 by former SenseTime executives, developer of the M-series language models and the Hailuo video, Speech, and Music multimodal lines, and the second Chinese AI lab to complete a Hong Kong IPO.
01.AI is a Chinese artificial intelligence company founded in 2023 by Kai-Fu Lee, developer of the Yi family of open-weights large language models, which restructured its pre-training operations into an Alibaba Cloud joint venture in late 2024.
Baidu is a Chinese internet conglomerate founded in 2000 by Robin Li, with an AI portfolio spanning the ERNIE foundation-model family, the Apollo Go autonomous-driving platform, and the Kunlun AI chip line.
Z.ai, formerly Zhipu AI, is a Chinese artificial intelligence company spun out of Tsinghua University in 2019, developer of the GLM family of foundation models and the first pure-play foundation-model developer to complete a public listing.
Moonshot AI is a Chinese artificial intelligence company founded in 2023 by Yang Zhilin and Tsinghua-affiliated co-founders, developer of the Kimi assistant and the Kimi K2 family of long-context, agentic-coding open-weights models.
Alibaba's Qwen and DAMO Academy together produce one of the most prolific open-weights model lines in the world, distributed under permissive Apache 2.0 licensing and sold through Alibaba Cloud as the company's principal AI commercial channel.
DeepSeek is a Chinese artificial intelligence research company founded in 2023 by Liang Wenfeng as a research arm of the High-Flyer hedge fund, and the developer of the open-weights V3, R1, and V4 model families that have repeatedly forced reappraisals of the cost and capability frontier.
Liquid AI is a Boston-based AI research company spun out of MIT CSAIL in 2023, developer of Liquid Foundation Models (LFMs) built on a liquid-neural-network architecture optimized for on-device and edge deployment.
Goodfire is an American AI research company founded in 2024, developer of the Ember interpretability platform that decodes the internal computations of neural networks for direct programmable access.
Periodic Labs is an American AI research company founded in 2024 by former OpenAI and Google Brain researchers, building autonomous AI scientists and physical laboratories where robots run experiments to accelerate scientific discovery.
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