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AGI companies and AI labs: the full list
144 companies working toward general-purpose AI, from frontier labs to robotics, safety and chip companies. Each profile pulls in its live hiring, SEC filings, papers and models.
US 101China 14UK 10France 4Canada 3Japan 2Germany 2South Korea 2UAE 2India 2Israel 1Switzerland 1
Frontier labs
32 labs →Public benefit corporation building the Claude models, with a focus on AI safety research.
91 research roles · 38 SPV filings · 975 papers#2OpenAISan Francisco, US · 2015Maker of the GPT models and ChatGPT; its charter states the mission of ensuring AGI benefits all of humanity.
73 research roles · 12 SPV filings · 375 papers · 2 models#5xAIPalo Alto, US · 2023Builds the Grok models; states its goal as understanding the true nature of the universe.
11 research roles · 24 SPV filings · 101 papers#6CohereToronto, Canada · 2019Enterprise language models (Command, Embed, Rerank); runs the Cohere Labs research group.
29 research roles · 64 papers · 25 models#7LG AI ResearchSeoul, South Korea · 2020LG's EXAONE models.
21 research roles · 118 papers · 13 models#9NVIDIA ResearchSanta Clara, USNVIDIA's research arm; publishes the Nemotron and Cosmos model families.
1359 papers · 442 models#10Google DeepMindLondon, UK · 2010Google's AI lab, behind AlphaGo, AlphaFold and the Gemini models.
4417 papers · 82 models#11Qwen (Alibaba)Hangzhou, ChinaAlibaba's Qwen model family, one of the most-downloaded open-weight series.
2216 papers · 80 models#12Tencent HunyuanShenzhen, ChinaTencent's Hunyuan language, image and 3D models.
1747 papers · 114 models#20Amazon AGISeattle, USAmazon's AGI organisation, building the Nova foundation models.
2121 papers · 26 models#22Technology Innovation InstituteAbu Dhabi, UAE · 2020Government research institute behind the Falcon models.
400 papers · 29 models#26ByteDance SeedBeijing, China · 2023ByteDance's foundation model team (Doubao, Seed models).
828 papers · 12 models#29Zhipu AI (Z.ai)Beijing, China · 2019Tsinghua spin-out building the GLM models.
66 papers · 28 models#33Baidu ERNIEBeijing, ChinaBaidu's ERNIE model family.
540 papers · 8 models#39DeepSeekHangzhou, China · 2023Open-weight reasoning and chat models (DeepSeek-V3, R1), backed by the High-Flyer fund.
55 papers · 27 models#40Apple Machine Learning ResearchCupertino, USApple's research group behind the Apple Foundation Models.
348 papers · 11 models#44Microsoft AIRedmond, US · 2024Microsoft's consumer AI and model group led by Mustafa Suleyman, building Copilot and MAI models.
127 models#45Sakana AITokyo, Japan · 2023Nature-inspired methods such as evolutionary model merging and the AI Scientist.
56 papers · 23 models#46StepFunShanghai, China · 2023Multimodal Step models.
50 papers · 26 models#49Meta AI (FAIR & Superintelligence Labs)Menlo Park, US · 2013Meta's AI research and model teams, behind the Llama open-weight models.
760 papers#50Mistral AIParis, France · 2023European lab shipping open-weight and commercial language models.
36 papers · 25 models#56Sarvam AIBengaluru, India · 2023Models for Indian languages, selected for India's sovereign LLM programme.
7 research roles · 6 models#63UpstageSeoul, South Korea · 2020Solar language models and document AI.
1 SPV filings · 21 papers · 7 models#70MiniMaxShanghai, China · 2021Text, speech and video models (MiniMax-M, Hailuo).
12 papers · 11 models#71Reka AISunnyvale, US · 2022Multimodal models (Reka Core, Flash).
6 research roles · 2 models#79Baichuan AIBeijing, China · 2023Baichuan models, now focused on medical AI.
18 papers · 5 models#80Aleph AlphaHeidelberg, Germany · 2019Sovereign AI for European enterprises and governments.
4 research roles · 2 models#83Moonshot AIBeijing, China · 2023Maker of the Kimi assistant and the open-weight Kimi K2 models.
11 papers · 5 models#104AI21 LabsTel Aviv, Israel · 2017Builds the Jamba models, a hybrid Transformer–Mamba architecture.
3 models#105KrutrimBengaluru, India · 2023Ola group's AI company building Indian-language models.
3 models#10801.AIBeijing, China · 2023Yi model series; founded by Kai-Fu Lee.
4 papers#119G42 / InceptionAbu Dhabi, UAEArabic-first Jais models from G42's Inception unit.
ProfileAGI-focused startups
27 labs →Ex-DeepMind founders building open frontier models and autonomous coding agents.
32 research roles · 4 SPV filings#13Liquid AICambridge, MA, US · 2023MIT spin-out building efficient non-Transformer Liquid Foundation Models.
12 research roles · 210 models#15Lila SciencesCambridge, MA, US · 2023Flagship Pioneering company building scientific superintelligence and autonomous labs.
36 research roles · 1 SPV filings#25Thinking Machines LabSan Francisco, US · 2025Founded by OpenAI's former CTO; released the Tinker fine-tuning API.
22 research roles#30H CompanyParis, France · 2024Action models and computer-use agents.
6 research roles · 34 models#34Isomorphic LabsLondon, UK · 2021Alphabet's AI drug-discovery company, co-developer of AlphaFold 3.
16 research roles#35ZyphraPalo Alto, US · 2021Open hybrid SSM models (Zamba) and multimodal agents.
8 research roles · 9 papers · 17 models#36Periodic LabsMenlo Park, US · 2025AI scientists that run real experiments, starting with materials science.
14 research roles · 1 SPV filings#52KyutaiParis, France · 2023Non-profit open research lab (Moshi speech model).
40 models#72Character.AIMenlo Park, US · 2021Conversational character platform; founders returned to Google in 2024.
7 research roles#73CartesiaSan Francisco, US · 2023State-space-model research lab; ships real-time voice models.
7 research roles#85ExtropicAustin, US · 2022Thermodynamic computing hardware for probabilistic AI.
4 research roles#92Inflection AIPalo Alto, US · 2022Built Pi; now focused on enterprise AI after its founders moved to Microsoft in 2024.
2 research roles · 1 SPV filings#93VERSES AILos Angeles, USActive-inference agents (Genius platform); listed on Cboe Canada.
21 papers#101Essential AISan Francisco, US · 2023Founded by two Transformer paper authors; builds open models.
4 models#109PoolsideParis, France · 2023Foundation models for software development, aiming at AGI through code.
1 research roles#120Safe Superintelligence (SSI)Palo Alto, US · 2024Says it has one goal and one product: a safe superintelligence.
Profile#121NdeaUS · 2025AGI lab built around program synthesis, from the creators of the ARC Prize.
Profile#122Keen TechnologiesDallas, US · 2022John Carmack's AGI research company; Richard Sutton is a research partner.
Profile#123ImbueSan Francisco, US · 2021Formerly Generally Intelligent; builds reasoning agents and tools for coding.
Profile#124AdeptSan Francisco, US · 2022Agents that take actions in software; most of the founding team joined Amazon in 2024.
Profile#125MagicSan Francisco, US · 2022Long-context models aimed at automating software engineering.
Profile#126Integral AITokyo, JapanAGI research company working on world models and embodied learning.
Profile#127NumentaRedwood City, US · 2005Neuroscience-based machine intelligence (Thousand Brains Project).
Profile#128SymbolicaSan Francisco, US · 2022Category-theory approach to structured, interpretable reasoning models.
Profile#129BasisNew York, USNon-profit research on general-purpose reasoning and world models.
Profile#130Inception LabsPalo Alto, US · 2024Diffusion-based language models (Mercury).
ProfileCode, maths & science models
19 labs →AI answer engine; post-trains its own Sonar models.
58 research roles · 16 SPV filings · 29 models#28Xaira TherapeuticsSan Francisco, US · 2024AI-first drug discovery.
20 research roles#32HarveySan Francisco, US · 2022AI for law firms and legal teams.
15 research roles · 1 SPV filings#51Cursor (Anysphere)San Francisco, US · 2022AI code editor; trains its own coding models.
9 research roles · 2 SPV filings#60AbridgePittsburgh, US · 2018Clinical documentation AI.
8 research roles · 1 SPV filings#65DecagonSan Francisco, US · 2023Customer-support AI agents.
8 research roles#75Axiom MathPalo Alto, US · 2024AI mathematician combining language models and formal proof.
2 research roles · 3 SPV filings#77Chai DiscoverySan Francisco, US · 2024Foundation models for molecular structure and drug design (Chai-1).
6 research roles#84RecursionSalt Lake City, US · 2013Listed AI drug-discovery company (NASDAQ: RXRX).
22 papers · 1 models#86CognitionSan Francisco, US · 2023Devin, the autonomous software engineer; bought Windsurf in 2025.
4 research roles#87HarmonicPalo Alto, US · 2023Mathematical superintelligence; its Aristotle model writes formally verified proofs.
4 research roles#97SierraSan Francisco, US · 2023Customer-service AI agents.
3 research roles#106Contextual AIMountain View, US · 2023Retrieval-augmented language models for enterprises.
3 models#110WriterSan Francisco, US · 2020Enterprise platform with its own Palmyra models.
1 research roles#111FactorySan Francisco, US · 2023Autonomous software development agents (Droids).
1 research roles#112You.comPalo Alto, US · 2020AI search and agents for enterprises.
1 research roles#131Augment CodePalo Alto, US · 2022Coding agents with large-codebase context.
Profile#132Hippocratic AIPalo Alto, US · 2023Safety-focused healthcare language models and agents.
Profile#133EvolutionaryScaleNew York, US · 2023Protein language models (ESM3).
ProfileOpen models & research
14 labs →Decentralised training of open models (INTELLECT).
23 research roles · 2 papers · 20 models#16Together AISan Francisco, US · 2022AI cloud and open-model research (RedPajama, FlashAttention authors).
29 research roles · 7 models#18Ai2 (Allen Institute for AI)Seattle, US · 2014Non-profit releasing fully open models, data and code (OLMo, Tülu, Molmo).
247 papers · 172 models#19IBM Research (Granite)Yorktown Heights, USIBM's open Granite model family.
467 papers · 79 models#23Databricks Mosaic ResearchSan Francisco, USDatabricks' model research group (DBRX).
23 research roles#37Salesforce AI ResearchPalo Alto, USSalesforce's research group (xLAM agent models).
286 papers · 13 models#41Snowflake AI ResearchSan Mateo, USSnowflake's research team (Arctic models).
12 research roles · 5 models#42EleutherAIUS · 2020Non-profit open research collective (GPT-NeoX, Pythia, the Pile).
166 models#55Arcee AIMiami, US · 2023Small language models and model merging.
32 models#64Swiss AI InitiativeZurich, Switzerland · 2023ETH Zurich and EPFL effort behind the open Apertus model.
26 models#69Hugging FaceNew York, US · 2016The main hub for open models and datasets; trains SmolLM.
51 papers · 4 models#76Stability AILondon, UK · 2019Open image, video and audio models (Stable Diffusion).
17 models#91Nous ResearchNew York, US · 2023Open models (Hermes) and decentralised training.
7 models#95ServiceNow AI ResearchSanta Clara, USServiceNow's research team (Apriel models).
6 modelsRobotics & world models
15 labs →End-to-end learned driving (embodied AI for cars).
32 research roles · 1 SPV filings#24Field AIIrvine, US · 2023Field foundation models for robots in unstructured outdoor places.
15 research roles · 3 SPV filings#27ApptronikAustin, US · 2016Apollo humanoid robots.
4 research roles · 10 SPV filings#61Physical IntelligenceSan Francisco, US · 2024General-purpose robot foundation models (π0).
8 research roles · 1 SPV filings#621X TechnologiesPalo Alto, US · 2014Humanoid robots for the home (NEO); started in Norway.
9 research roles#66Figure AISan Jose, US · 2022General-purpose humanoid robots with its own Helix model.
5 SPV filings#78Dyna RoboticsRedwood City, US · 2024Robot foundation models for commercial tasks.
6 research roles#81World LabsSan Francisco, US · 2024Spatial intelligence: models that generate and understand 3D worlds.
5 research roles#88The Bot CompanySan Francisco, US · 2024Household robots from Cruise's co-founder.
4 research roles#94Agility RoboticsSalem, OR, US · 2015Digit humanoid robots for logistics.
2 research roles · 1 SPV filings#96Unitree RoboticsHangzhou, China · 2016Quadruped and humanoid robots.
6 models#118AgiBotShanghai, China · 2023Humanoid robots and the open AgiBot World dataset.
1 models#134Skild AIPittsburgh, US · 2023A general robot brain that works across different robot bodies.
Profile#135CovariantEmeryville, US · 2017Robot foundation models for warehouses; founders joined Amazon in 2024.
Profile#136Genesis AIPalo Alto, US · 2024Physics simulation and robot foundation models.
ProfileMultimodal & generative media
12 labs →FLUX image models, by the original Stable Diffusion researchers.
8 research roles · 27 models#38Luma AIPalo Alto, US · 2021Video models (Ray) and multimodal world models.
15 research roles#59ElevenLabsLondon, UK · 2022Voice and audio models.
5 research roles · 3 SPV filings#89PikaPalo Alto, US · 2023Video generation.
4 research roles#90SunoCambridge, MA, US · 2022Music generation models.
4 research roles#98MidjourneySan Francisco, US · 2021Independent image and video model lab.
3 research roles#99GenmoSan Francisco, US · 2022Open video model Mochi.
3 research roles#100Hume AINew York, US · 2021Emotionally intelligent voice models.
3 research roles#113IdeogramToronto, Canada · 2022Image models known for text rendering.
1 research roles#114SynthesiaLondon, UK · 2017AI video avatars for business.
1 research roles#137RunwayNew York, US · 2018Video generation models (Gen-4) and research on general world models.
Profile#138Kling (Kuaishou)Beijing, ChinaKuaishou's video generation models.
ProfileSafety & alignment
12 labs →Interpretability research and tools (Ember).
7 research roles#82Apollo ResearchLondon, UK · 2023Evaluations for deceptive behaviour in AI models.
5 research roles#103METRBerkeley, US · 2022Evaluates frontier models for dangerous autonomous capabilities.
2 research roles#115Redwood ResearchBerkeley, US · 2021Non-profit research on AI control and alignment.
1 research roles#116Epoch AIUS · 2022Research on AI trends: compute, data and benchmarks.
1 research roles#117UK AI Security InstituteLondon, UK · 2023UK government body testing advanced AI models.
1 research roles#139TransluceSan Francisco, US · 2024Non-profit building open tools to understand AI systems.
Profile#140FAR.AIBerkeley, US · 2022Non-profit alignment research and events.
Profile#141ConjectureLondon, UK · 2022Alignment start-up working on bounded, controllable AI.
Profile#142Alignment Research CenterBerkeley, US · 2021Theoretical alignment research.
Profile#143Center for AI SafetySan Francisco, US · 2022Research and field-building; co-created Humanity's Last Exam.
Profile#144Gray Swan AIPittsburgh, US · 2023AI security, red-teaming and robustness.
ProfileCompute & chips
13 labs →Wafer-scale AI chips and fast inference.
31 research roles · 9 SPV filings · 17 models#21Fireworks AIRedwood City, US · 2022Fast inference for open models.
24 research roles#43TenstorrentToronto, Canada · 2016RISC-V AI chips led by Jim Keller.
5 research roles · 6 SPV filings#47BasetenSan Francisco, US · 2019Inference platform for AI models.
13 research roles#48CoreWeaveLivingston, NJ, US · 2017GPU cloud for AI labs (NASDAQ: CRWV).
11 research roles · 1 SPV filings#53CrusoeSan Francisco, US · 2018AI data centres powered by stranded and clean energy.
11 research roles#54GroqMountain View, US · 2016LPU inference chips and cloud.
8 SPV filings#57EtchedSan Jose, US · 2022Sohu, a chip built only for Transformers.
10 research roles#58LightmatterMountain View, US · 2017Photonic interconnects for AI data centres.
2 research roles · 5 SPV filings#67LambdaSan Francisco, US · 2012GPU cloud and servers.
5 SPV filings#68NscaleLondon, UK · 2024European AI cloud and data centres.
5 SPV filings#102SambaNovaPalo Alto, US · 2017Reconfigurable dataflow chips for AI.
1 SPV filings · 1 models#107ModularPalo Alto, US · 2022Mojo language and the MAX inference stack.
3 models