Shield AI
A US defense company whose Hivemind software acts as an AI pilot, flying drones and aircraft autonomously without GPS or a remote operator.
Organizations
The labs and companies driving the field.
133 entries, all primary-sourced
The Alan Turing Institute
The UK's national institute for data science and AI, founded in 2015 by five universities and the EPSRC.
Be My Eyes
A Danish app, launched 2015, that connects blind and low-vision users with sighted volunteers and, since 2023, an AI describer built on GPT-4.
Lex Machina
Lex Machina is a legal-analytics company, born at Stanford, that mines litigation records to predict case outcomes and inform strategy.
Partnership on AI
The 2016 multi-stakeholder consortium founded by Amazon, Facebook, Google/DeepMind, IBM, and Microsoft to develop best practices for responsible AI.
Waymo
Waymo is Alphabet's autonomous-driving company, spun out of the Google self-driving car project that began in 2009.
AI Singapore
Singapore's national AI programme, creator of the SEA-LION open models for Southeast Asian languages.
Aurora Innovation
Aurora is a self-driving company founded in 2017 by veterans of Google, Tesla, and Uber, now focused on autonomous freight trucking.
Wayve
Wayve is a UK self-driving company betting on end-to-end learned AI that drives from cameras without HD maps or hand-coded rules.
Vector Institute
Toronto AI research institute launched in 2017 with Geoffrey Hinton as chief scientific adviser, anchoring Canada's national AI strategy.
Anduril Industries
A US defense-technology company founded in 2017 that builds autonomous military systems unified by its Lattice command-and-control software.
AI Now Institute
Founded at NYU in 2017 by Kate Crawford and Meredith Whittaker, AI Now studies the social implications and concentration of power in AI.
Stanford AI Index
First published in 2017, the AI Index is Stanford's annual data-driven report measuring AI progress, investment, and impact across the field.
G42
Abu Dhabi AI and cloud-computing holding company, founded in 2018 and backed by Mubadala, Silver Lake, and Microsoft.
Papers With Code
A free resource that linked machine-learning papers to their code and ran public leaderboards, popularizing state-of-the-art tracking across the field.
ELLIS (European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems)
Pan-European AI research network founded at NeurIPS in 2018 to keep top machine-learning talent in Europe and secure lasting AI leadership.
Aleph Alpha
German AI company founded in 2019, building large language models with a focus on European data sovereignty.
CSET (Center for Security and Emerging Technology)
Georgetown's CSET, founded in 2019 with a $55M grant and led by Jason Matheny, is a leading think tank on AI and national security policy.
Climate Change AI (CCAI)
Climate Change AI is a nonprofit, founded in 2019, that catalyzes work at the intersection of machine learning and climate change.
SDAIA - Saudi Data and AI Authority
Saudi Arabia's national authority for data and AI, established by royal order in 2019 to drive the Vision 2030 AI strategy.
MBZUAI - Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
Abu Dhabi graduate university launched in 2019, billed as the world's first research-based university dedicated entirely to AI.
Masakhane
Masakhane is a grassroots, pan-African research community building NLP for African languages, by Africans, for Africans.
EleutherAI
The volunteer collective that grew from a Discord server into a non-profit lab and replicated GPT-class models in the open - GPT-Neo, GPT-J, and Pythia.
MLCommons
An open engineering consortium that builds shared AI benchmarks, datasets, and best practices, and stewards the MLPerf performance benchmarks.
BigScience
BigScience was a one-and-a-half-year open collaboration of hundreds of researchers that built the multilingual BLOOM model and the ROOTS corpus.
Isomorphic Labs
Alphabet drug-discovery company spun out of DeepMind in 2021 to apply AlphaFold-style AI to designing medicines from first principles.
DAIR (Distributed AI Research Institute)
Founded in 2021 by Timnit Gebru after her exit from Google, DAIR conducts independent, community-rooted AI research free of Big Tech influence.
Epoch AI
A data-first research nonprofit that tracks AI compute, models, and trends, and built FrontierMath - a neutral source on AI progress.
Harvey
Harvey is a generative-AI startup for legal work, built on a custom-trained model with OpenAI and an early launch partner in a global law firm.
Frontier Model Forum
The industry body launched in 2023 by Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI to advance the safe development of frontier AI models.
Sarvam AI
Indian AI startup founded in 2023, chosen by the government in 2025 to build India's sovereign large language model.
01.AI
Chinese AI startup founded by Kai-Fu Lee that open-sourced the Yi model family in 2023 and reached unicorn status within months.
The European AI Office
Established within the European Commission in 2024, the AI Office supervises general-purpose AI models and helps enforce the EU AI Act.
Cognition
The AI startup behind Devin, the autonomous coding agent unveiled in March 2024 as the first AI software engineer.
Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI)
AI lab founded in June 2024 by Ilya Sutskever, Daniel Gross, and Daniel Levy with one stated goal and product: a safe superintelligence.
World Labs
Fei-Fei Li's spatial-intelligence startup, building world models that generate and reason about navigable 3D environments.
Thinking Machines Lab
AI startup founded in 2025 by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, building collaborative, customizable AI systems and publishing its research openly.