Lab Index

An index of frontier and emerging AI labs.

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Scale Labs2026Safety / evalsSan FranciscoBing LiuDetailsApply
Autoscience2025AI researchSilicon ValleyEliot CowanDetails
Inherent2025AI researchLondonTantum Collins, Edward Hughes, Louis Kirsch, Kaloyan AleksievDetails
LawZero2025SafetyMontrealYoshua BengioDetailsApply
Living Models2025Bio / AI drug discoveryParis / BerkeleyCyril Veran, Leonard Strouk, Bertrand GakiereDetailsApply
Math Inc.2025MathPalo AltoChristian SzegedyDetails
Mechanize2025Coding agentsSan FranciscoTamay Besiroglu, Matthew Barnett, Ege ErdilDetailsApply
Moonlake AI2025UnknownSan FranciscoFan-Yun Sun, Sharon LeeDetails
NeoCognition2025Reasoning agentsPalo AltoYu Su, Xiang Deng, Yu GuDetails
Origin Lab2025World modelsSan FranciscoAnne-Margot RoddeDetails
Phylo2025Bio / AI drug discoverySouth San FranciscoKexin Huang, Yuanhao Qu, Jure Leskovec, Le CongDetailsApply
PrismML2025Efficient modelsPasadenaBabak Hassibi, Sahin Lale, Omead Pooladzandi, Reza SadriDetails
Reactor2025World modelsSan FranciscoAlberto Taiuti, Bryce SchmidtchenDetails
SpAItial2025World modelsMunich / LondonMatthias Niessner, Luke Rogers, Ricardo Martin-Brualla, David NovotnyDetails
Thomson Reuters + Imperial College London Frontier AI Research Lab2025Frontier labLondonAlessandra Russo, Jonathan Richard SchwarzDetails
Antim Labs2024UnknownNew YorkViswajit Vinod Nair, Ronald Netawat, Shreyans KothariDetails
Eridu2024AI infrastructureSan JoseDrew Perkins, Omar HassenDetails
Eureka Labs2024AI researchSan FranciscoAndrej KarpathyDetails
Generalist2024RoboticsSan FranciscoPete Florence, Andy Zeng, Andy Barry, Kamyar GhasemipourDetails
Helical2024Bio / AI drug discoveryLuxembourgRick Schneider, Maxime Allard, Mathieu KlopDetails
Hiverge2024Program synthesisCambridge, UKAlhussein Fawzi, Bernardino Romera-Paredes, Hamza FawziDetailsApply
KLAY2024Audio / musicLos AngelesAry AttieDetails
Persona AI2024RoboticsHoustonNicolaus Radford, Jerry Pratt, Jide AkinyodeDetails
Situational Awareness2024FinanceSan FranciscoLeopold AschenbrennerDetails
Tilde Research2024InterpretabilitySan FranciscoMason WangDetailsApply
Transluce2024InterpretabilitySan FranciscoJacob Steinhardt, Sarah SchwettmannDetailsApply
AgiBot2023RoboticsShanghaiDeng Taihua, Peng ZhihuiDetails
Airis Labs2023Defense AIWashington DC / Tel AvivNoam Friedman, Rotem Abeles, Amos LahavDetails
Apollo Research2023InterpretabilityLondonMarius HobbhahnDetailsApply
Atla AI2023Safety / evalsLondonMaurice Burger, Roman EngelerDetailsApply
Braintrust2023Safety / evalsSan FranciscoAnkur GoyalDetailsApply
ByteDance AI (Doubao / Seed)2023Frontier labBeijingLiang Rubo, Zhu WenjiaDetailsApply
Cartesia2023VoiceSan FranciscoKaran Goel, Albert Gu, Arjun Desai, Brandon YangDetailsApply
Contextual AI2023Enterprise LLMsMountain ViewDouwe Kiela, Amanpreet SinghDetailsApply
Converge Bio2023Bio / AI drug discoveryBoston / Tel AvivDov GertzDetails
DatologyAI2023Synthetic data / data curationRedwood CityAri Morcos, Matthew Leavitt, Bogdan GazaDetailsApply
EngineAI2023RoboticsShenzhenZhao TongyangDetails
FutureHouse2023AI researchSan FranciscoSam Rodriques, Andrew WhiteDetailsApply
Haize Labs2023Safety / evalsNew YorkLeonard Tang, Richard Liu, Steve LiDetailsApply
Manifest AI2023Efficient modelsBarcelonaJacob Buckman, Carles GeladaDetails
Odyssey2023World modelsPalo Alto / LondonOliver Cameron, Jeff HawkeDetailsApply
Reliant AI2023Bio / AI drug discoveryBerlin / MontrealKarl Moritz Hermann, Marc Bellemare, Richard SchlegelDetails
Center for AI Safety2022SafetySan FranciscoDan Hendrycks, Oliver ZhangDetails
Conjecture2022InterpretabilityLondonConnor LeahyDetailsApply
EnCharge AI2022AI compute hardwareSanta ClaraNaveen Verma, Kailash Gopalakrishnan, Echere IroagaDetailsApply
Epoch AI2022AI researchBerkeleyJaime SevillaDetailsApply
Extropic2022AI compute hardwareAustin, TXGuillaume Verdon, Trevor McCourtDetailsApply
FAR.AI2022SafetyBerkeleyAdam GleaveDetailsApply
Fractile2022AI compute hardwareLondonWalter GoodwinDetailsApply
Leap Labs2022InterpretabilityLondonJessica RumbelowDetailsApply
Lelapa AI2022Open-source LLMsJohannesburgPelonomi Moiloa, Jade Abbott, Vukosi MarivateDetailsApply
Leonardo.Ai2022ImageSydneyJJ Fiasson, Christopher Gillis, Jachin Bhasme, Peter Runham, Sami Ede, Ethan SmithDetailsApply
METR2022Safety / evalsBerkeleyBeth BarnesDetailsApply
Nomic AI2022Open-source LLMsNew YorkBrandon Duderstadt, Andriy MulyarDetailsApply
Terray Therapeutics2022Bio / AI drug discoveryMonrovia, CAJacob Berlin, Eli BerlinDetailsApply
The Biological Computing Company2022AI compute hardwareLondonAlex Ksendsovsky, Jon PomeraniecDetails
Axelera AI2021AI compute hardwareEindhovenFabrizio Del MaffeoDetailsApply
Galileo2021Safety / evalsSan FranciscoVikram Chatterji, Atindriyo Sanyal, Yash ShethDetailsApply
Midjourney2021ImageSan FranciscoDavid HolzDetailsApply
Redwood Research2021SafetyBerkeleyBuck Shlegeris, Nate ThomasDetailsApply
TwelveLabs2021VideoSan Francisco / SeoulJae Lee, Soyoung Lee, Aiden Lee, Dave Chung, SJ KimDetailsApply
Waabi2021RoboticsTorontoRaquel UrtasunDetailsApply
Atmo2020Climate / weather AISan FranciscoAlex Levy, Johan MatheDetailsApply
Enveda2019Bio / AI drug discoveryBoulderViswa ColluruDetailsApply
MBZUAI / Institute of Foundation Models2019Foundation models & agentsAbu DhabiDetailsApply
Machina Labs2019Industrial AILos AngelesEdward Mehr, Babak RaeisiniaDetailsApply
Multiverse Computing2019Quantum + AISan SebastiánEnrique Lizaso, Román Orús, Alfonso Rubio, Sam MugelDetailsApply
Relation Therapeutics2019Bio / AI drug discoveryLondonCharles Roberts, Benjamin Swerner, Jake Taylor-KingDetails
Aurora Innovation2017Autonomous vehiclesPittsburghChris Urmson, Sterling Anderson, Drew BagnellDetailsApply
Jupiter Intelligence2017Climate / weather AISan MateoRich Sorkin, Eric Wun, Josh Hacker, Alan BlumbergDetailsApply
MOSTLY AI2017Synthetic data / data curationViennaTobias Hann, Klaudius Kalcher, Roland Boubela, Michael PlatzerDetailsApply
May Mobility2017Autonomous vehiclesAnn ArborEdwin Olson, Alisyn Malek, Steve VozarDetailsApply
Tencent AI (Hunyuan)2016Frontier labShenzhenPony Ma, Zhang TongDetailsApply
Fourier2015RoboticsShanghaiAlex GuDetails
Ai22014AI researchSeattlePaul AllenDetailsApply
Insilico Medicine2014Bio / AI drug discoveryBoston / Hong KongAlex ZhavoronkovDetailsApply
Zoox2014Autonomous vehiclesFoster CityTim Kentley-Klay, Jesse LevinsonDetailsApply
Baidu AI (ERNIE)2013Frontier labBeijingRobin Li, Wang HaifengDetailsApply
Arena PhysicaUnknownNYCDetails
Grafton SciencesBio / AI lab automationRedwood City, CADetailsApply
Logical IntelligenceReasoning agentsSan FranciscoEve BodniaDetails
Virtue AIUnknownDetails

confirmed valuation * rumored or estimated ~ approximate > lower bound < upper bound (mkt cap) public market cap (acq.) acquisition price

Safety / evals2026San Francisco
Founders: Bing Liu
AI research2025Silicon Valley
Founders: Eliot Cowan
AI research2025London
Founders: Tantum Collins, Edward Hughes, Louis Kirsch, Kaloyan Aleksiev
Safety2025Montreal
Founders: Yoshua Bengio
Bio / AI drug discovery2025Paris / Berkeley
Founders: Cyril Veran, Leonard Strouk, Bertrand Gakiere
Math2025Palo Alto
Founders: Christian Szegedy
Coding agents2025San Francisco
Founders: Tamay Besiroglu, Matthew Barnett, Ege Erdil
Unknown2025San Francisco
Founders: Fan-Yun Sun, Sharon Lee
Reasoning agents2025Palo Alto
Founders: Yu Su, Xiang Deng, Yu Gu
World models2025San Francisco
Founders: Anne-Margot Rodde
Bio / AI drug discovery2025South San Francisco
Founders: Kexin Huang, Yuanhao Qu, Jure Leskovec, Le Cong
Efficient models2025Pasadena
Founders: Babak Hassibi, Sahin Lale, Omead Pooladzandi, Reza Sadri
World models2025San Francisco
Founders: Alberto Taiuti, Bryce Schmidtchen
World models2025Munich / London
Founders: Matthias Niessner, Luke Rogers, Ricardo Martin-Brualla, David Novotny
Frontier lab2025London
Founders: Alessandra Russo, Jonathan Richard Schwarz
Unknown2024New York
Founders: Viswajit Vinod Nair, Ronald Netawat, Shreyans Kothari
AI infrastructure2024San Jose
Founders: Drew Perkins, Omar Hassen
AI research2024San Francisco
Founders: Andrej Karpathy
Robotics2024San Francisco
Founders: Pete Florence, Andy Zeng, Andy Barry, Kamyar Ghasemipour
Bio / AI drug discovery2024Luxembourg
Founders: Rick Schneider, Maxime Allard, Mathieu Klop
Program synthesis2024Cambridge, UK
Founders: Alhussein Fawzi, Bernardino Romera-Paredes, Hamza Fawzi
Audio / music2024Los Angeles
Founders: Ary Attie
Robotics2024Houston
Founders: Nicolaus Radford, Jerry Pratt, Jide Akinyode
Finance2024San Francisco
Founders: Leopold Aschenbrenner
Interpretability2024San Francisco
Founders: Mason Wang
Interpretability2024San Francisco
Founders: Jacob Steinhardt, Sarah Schwettmann
Robotics2023Shanghai
Founders: Deng Taihua, Peng Zhihui
Defense AI2023Washington DC / Tel Aviv
Founders: Noam Friedman, Rotem Abeles, Amos Lahav
Interpretability2023London
Founders: Marius Hobbhahn
Safety / evals2023London
Founders: Maurice Burger, Roman Engeler
Safety / evals2023San Francisco
Founders: Ankur Goyal
Frontier lab2023Beijing
Founders: Liang Rubo, Zhu Wenjia
Voice2023San Francisco
Founders: Karan Goel, Albert Gu, Arjun Desai, Brandon Yang
Enterprise LLMs2023Mountain View
Founders: Douwe Kiela, Amanpreet Singh
Bio / AI drug discovery2023Boston / Tel Aviv
Founders: Dov Gertz
Synthetic data / data curation2023Redwood City
Founders: Ari Morcos, Matthew Leavitt, Bogdan Gaza
Robotics2023Shenzhen
Founders: Zhao Tongyang
AI research2023San Francisco
Founders: Sam Rodriques, Andrew White
Safety / evals2023New York
Founders: Leonard Tang, Richard Liu, Steve Li
Efficient models2023Barcelona
Founders: Jacob Buckman, Carles Gelada
World models2023Palo Alto / London
Founders: Oliver Cameron, Jeff Hawke
Bio / AI drug discovery2023Berlin / Montreal
Founders: Karl Moritz Hermann, Marc Bellemare, Richard Schlegel
Safety2022San Francisco
Founders: Dan Hendrycks, Oliver Zhang
Interpretability2022London
Founders: Connor Leahy
AI compute hardware2022Santa Clara
Founders: Naveen Verma, Kailash Gopalakrishnan, Echere Iroaga
AI research2022Berkeley
Founders: Jaime Sevilla
AI compute hardware2022Austin, TX
Founders: Guillaume Verdon, Trevor McCourt
Safety2022Berkeley
Founders: Adam Gleave
AI compute hardware2022London
Founders: Walter Goodwin
Interpretability2022London
Founders: Jessica Rumbelow
Open-source LLMs2022Johannesburg
Founders: Pelonomi Moiloa, Jade Abbott, Vukosi Marivate
Image2022Sydney
Founders: JJ Fiasson, Christopher Gillis, Jachin Bhasme, Peter Runham, Sami Ede, Ethan Smith
Safety / evals2022Berkeley
Founders: Beth Barnes
Open-source LLMs2022New York
Founders: Brandon Duderstadt, Andriy Mulyar
Bio / AI drug discovery2022Monrovia, CA
Founders: Jacob Berlin, Eli Berlin
AI compute hardware2022London
Founders: Alex Ksendsovsky, Jon Pomeraniec
AI compute hardware2021Eindhoven
Founders: Fabrizio Del Maffeo
Safety / evals2021San Francisco
Founders: Vikram Chatterji, Atindriyo Sanyal, Yash Sheth
Image2021San Francisco
Founders: David Holz
Safety2021Berkeley
Founders: Buck Shlegeris, Nate Thomas
Video2021San Francisco / Seoul
Founders: Jae Lee, Soyoung Lee, Aiden Lee, Dave Chung, SJ Kim
Robotics2021Toronto
Founders: Raquel Urtasun
Climate / weather AI2020San Francisco
Founders: Alex Levy, Johan Mathe
Bio / AI drug discovery2019Boulder
Founders: Viswa Colluru
Foundation models & agents2019Abu Dhabi
Founders:
Industrial AI2019Los Angeles
Founders: Edward Mehr, Babak Raeisinia
Quantum + AI2019San Sebastián
Founders: Enrique Lizaso, Román Orús, Alfonso Rubio, Sam Mugel
Bio / AI drug discovery2019London
Founders: Charles Roberts, Benjamin Swerner, Jake Taylor-King
Autonomous vehicles2017Pittsburgh
Founders: Chris Urmson, Sterling Anderson, Drew Bagnell
Climate / weather AI2017San Mateo
Founders: Rich Sorkin, Eric Wun, Josh Hacker, Alan Blumberg
Synthetic data / data curation2017Vienna
Founders: Tobias Hann, Klaudius Kalcher, Roland Boubela, Michael Platzer
Autonomous vehicles2017Ann Arbor
Founders: Edwin Olson, Alisyn Malek, Steve Vozar
Frontier lab2016Shenzhen
Founders: Pony Ma, Zhang Tong
Robotics2015Shanghai
Founders: Alex Gu
AI research2014Seattle
Founders: Paul Allen
Bio / AI drug discovery2014Boston / Hong Kong
Founders: Alex Zhavoronkov
Autonomous vehicles2014Foster City
Founders: Tim Kentley-Klay, Jesse Levinson
Frontier lab2013Beijing
Founders: Robin Li, Wang Haifeng
UnknownNYC
Founders:
Bio / AI lab automationRedwood City, CA
Founders:
Reasoning agentsSan Francisco
Founders: Eve Bodnia
Unknown
Founders: