Organizations & Venues

Labs, institutes, safety organizations, conferences and the places AI research is published. 94 entries live here, and 27 from other domains touch it.

Essential

AnthropicAn American AI company that makes the Claude chatbot and models. It was founded in 2021 by former OpenAI staff and puts particular emphasis on AI safety research.
DeepSeekA Chinese artificial intelligence company whose free, cheaply trained models startled the world in January 2025 by nearly matching the best American systems.
Google DeepMindGoogle's main artificial intelligence laboratory, formed in 2023 by joining DeepMind and Google Brain. It builds the Gemini models and scientific AI systems such as AlphaFold.
Meta AIThe artificial intelligence research group of Meta, the company behind Facebook and Instagram, known for the PyTorch software and the Llama models. It is also the name of Meta's chatbot.
NvidiaAn American chip company whose graphics processors became the main hardware for training and running AI, making it one of the most valuable companies in the world.
OpenAIThe American company that makes ChatGPT and the GPT models. It began in 2015 as a nonprofit research lab and is now a for-profit company overseen by a nonprofit foundation.
xAIAn artificial intelligence company founded by Elon Musk in 2023 that makes the Grok chatbot. It is now part of Musk's rocket company, SpaceX.

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AI Futures ProjectA small nonprofit research group that writes detailed forecasts and scenarios of how advanced AI could develop, best known for the 2025 scenario AI 2027.
AI ImpactsA small research project that studies how and when human-level artificial intelligence might arrive, best known for large surveys asking AI researchers to predict their field's future.
AI Now InstituteA research and advocacy group that examines who is harmed by AI and argues that the deeper problem is the power of a few big technology companies, which it wants curbed by law.
Algorithmic Justice LeagueJoy Buolamwini's organization, known for showing that face-analysis software made far more mistakes with darker-skinned women, which campaigns to hold the makers of biased AI systems accountable.
AlibabaA Chinese e-commerce and cloud-computing giant whose Qwen family of AI models, mostly free to download, is among the most widely used in the world.
Alignment Research CenterA small Berkeley nonprofit started by Paul Christiano that searches for mathematical ways to keep future AI systems, even ones far smarter than people, honest and under human control.
Allen Institute for AIPaul Allen, a co-founder of Microsoft, created this nonprofit Seattle AI lab in 2014. It is known for releasing models together with everything used to build them, and for the Semantic Scholar paper search engine.
AMDAn American chip company that makes computer processors and graphics chips, and Nvidia's main rival in the chips used for artificial intelligence.
Apollo ResearchAn AI safety organization, founded in London in 2023, that tests advanced AI systems for signs that they might secretly pursue goals their developers did not intend.
arXivA free website where scientists post research papers before, or instead of, formal publication. Most new AI research appears there first.
ASMLA Dutch maker of the giant machines that print circuit patterns onto chips. It alone can build the extreme-ultraviolet models on which today's most advanced chips, including AI chips, depend.
Association for Computational LinguisticsThe scientific society at the center of research on language technology, from translation software to chatbots. It runs the field's leading conferences and a free online archive of their papers.
Association for the Advancement of Artificial IntelligenceA major professional society for artificial intelligence researchers, founded in the United States in 1979, which runs a large yearly AI conference, publishes a magazine and honors leading scientists.
BaiduChina's largest search-engine company and an early investor in deep learning, which makes the Ernie chatbot and models and runs driverless taxis.
Bell LabsA famous American industrial research laboratory, long owned by the telephone company AT&T, where the transistor, information theory and key early machine-learning methods were invented.
Black Forest LabsA German AI company founded in 2024 by original creators of Stable Diffusion, which makes the FLUX image-generation models.
ByteDanceThe Chinese company that owns TikTok, which also runs Doubao, China's most popular AI chatbot, and builds image and video generators.
Center for AI SafetyA San Francisco nonprofit that studies how advanced AI could lead to disaster and how to prevent it. In 2023 it gathered signatures for a one-sentence warning that AI could threaten human extinction.
Center for Human-Compatible AIStuart Russell's group at the University of California, Berkeley, which argues that AI should be built to be unsure of what people want and to learn it by watching them.
Center for Security and Emerging TechnologyA Georgetown University think tank in Washington, D.C., whose researchers advise the US government on AI and national security, paying special attention to China and to the chip supply chain.
Centre for the Governance of AIA research organization, based in Britain, that studies how governments and companies should handle the dangers of advanced AI and the large economic and political changes it could cause.
CerebrasAn American chip company that makes a single giant processor the size of a whole silicon wafer, used to train and run AI models very quickly.
Character.AIA popular app where people chat with AI characters — invented personas, fictional figures or imitations of real people — that other users have created.
CohereA Canadian AI company, founded in Toronto in 2019, that builds language models and search tools for businesses and governments rather than consumer chatbots.
COLMAn academic conference, founded in 2024, devoted entirely to research on language models, the technology behind AI chatbots.
CoreWeaveAn American company that rents out huge numbers of Nvidia graphics processors over the internet to AI developers such as Microsoft, OpenAI and Meta.
CoRLA yearly academic conference, started in 2017, for research where robotics meets machine learning.
CVPRThe leading yearly conference on computer vision — teaching computers to understand images and video — and one of the most cited publication venues in any field of science.
DARPAThe US military's research-funding agency, which paid for much of the early development of artificial intelligence and the internet and runs prize competitions such as driverless-car races.
DeepMindA London artificial intelligence company, bought by Google in 2014, famous for programs that mastered the game of Go and predicted the shapes of proteins. In 2023 it merged into Google DeepMind.
DistillAn online scientific journal (2016–2021) that published clear, interactive explanations of machine learning research, including founding work on understanding what happens inside neural networks.
Distributed AI Research InstituteTimnit Gebru set up this institute in 2021, a year after her departure from Google, to research the damage AI can do, especially to marginalized communities, without relying on big-tech money.
EleutherAIAn open-science research group, begun by online volunteers in 2020, that released some of the first large language models anyone could download, along with the text collections used to train them.
EMNLPA leading yearly conference on getting computers to handle human language, founded in the 1990s for data-driven methods and now dominated by work on large language models.
Epoch AIA research nonprofit that gathers data on how fast AI is advancing — the computing power, data and money behind it — and publishes forecasts and difficult tests for AI.
FAccTA yearly academic conference on the fairness, accountability and transparency of computer systems, where much influential research on AI bias and ethics has been published.
ForethoughtA small Oxford research nonprofit that asks what problems, besides keeping AI safe, the rapid arrival of superintelligent AI would create, from power grabs to the rights of digital minds.
Future of Humanity InstituteNick Bostrom's research center at Oxford University (2005–2024), where philosophers and scientists studied threats that could permanently derail humanity's future, advanced artificial intelligence among them.
Future of Life InstituteAn advocacy group that warns about the dangers of advanced AI and other powerful technologies, funds research and lobbies governments. It organized the 2023 open letter calling for a pause on giant AI experiments.
GoodfireA San Francisco company, founded in 2024, that builds tools to look inside AI models, understand what they have learned and adjust how they behave.
Google BrainGoogle's deep-learning research team from 2011 to 2023, where the transformer — the design behind today's chatbots — and the TensorFlow software were created.
HuaweiA Chinese technology giant, known for telecom equipment and phones, that designs China's leading homegrown AI chips despite US trade restrictions.
IBM ResearchThe research division of the computer company IBM, behind landmark AI systems such as the chess champion Deep Blue and the quiz-show winner Watson.
ICCVA major international computer vision conference, held in odd-numbered years, where much of the research on how machines interpret images and video is first presented.
ICLRA major deep-learning conference, held every spring since 2013, where the reviews of each submitted paper are posted online for anyone to read.
ICMLA leading machine learning conference, first held as a workshop in 1980, where researchers gather each summer to present new learning methods and theory.
ICRAThe largest yearly robotics conference, run by the engineering society IEEE, covering everything from robot arms and drones to self-driving cars.
IJCAIA worldwide conference spanning all branches of artificial intelligence, first held in 1969, before any of today's other leading AI meetings. It also presents some of the field's best-known awards.
Inflection AIAn AI company founded in 2022 that made Pi, a friendly personal chatbot. In 2024 its leaders and most of its staff left to join Microsoft.
JMLRA top machine learning journal, started in 2000 by researchers who wanted an alternative to commercial publishing, that costs nothing to read or to publish in.
KDDThe leading yearly conference on data mining — finding useful patterns in large datasets — where many widely used machine learning tools were first presented.
LAIONA mostly volunteer group, registered as a German nonprofit, that compiled free lists of billions of online pictures and their captions. Stable Diffusion and other image generators were trained on them.
Machine Intelligence Research InstituteA small nonprofit in Berkeley, California, among the first to warn that smarter-than-human AI could destroy humanity, which now campaigns for a worldwide halt to building it.
Meta Superintelligence LabsA division Meta created in 2025 to pursue superintelligence, gathering all of the company's AI teams under new leaders recruited in an expensive hiring campaign.
METRA nonprofit research group that checks new AI systems for dangerous skills, best known for tracking how long the tasks are that AI agents can now finish on their own.
Microsoft ResearchMicrosoft's research division, with laboratories on several continents, whose scientists have produced influential work on speech, vision and language AI.
MilaMontreal's deep-learning hub, where professors and students from several Quebec universities work side by side. It grew from the lab Yoshua Bengio started in 1993 and is among the world's largest academic AI centers.
MiniMax (company)A Shanghai artificial intelligence company, founded in 2021, that makes AI companion apps, the Hailuo video generator and large language models, several released openly.
Mistral AIEurope's best-known builder of large AI language models, a Paris start-up dating from 2023 whose chatbot is called Le Chat. Many of its models are free for anyone to download and run.
MIT AI LabThe artificial intelligence laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, founded in 1959 and one of the birthplaces of AI and hacker culture; it is now part of MIT's computer science lab, CSAIL.
MLCommonsAn industry and university consortium that runs MLPerf, the standard tests of how fast computers train and run AI models, as well as benchmarks of AI safety.
Moonshot AIA Beijing artificial intelligence company, founded in 2023, that makes the Kimi chatbot and very large models that anyone can download.
NeurIPSThe largest yearly scientific conference on artificial intelligence and machine learning, held each December, where many of the field's landmark papers were first presented.
Open PhilanthropyA large American charitable foundation, renamed Coefficient Giving in 2025, that has been the biggest private funder of research on the risks of advanced AI.
Open Source InitiativeA nonprofit group that decides what counts as 'open source' software and, in 2024, published a definition of what makes an AI system genuinely open source.
OpenReviewA website where conference papers are submitted and peer reviewed; for some conferences, anyone can read the reviews and the authors' replies.
Papers with CodeA free website, run by Meta from 2019 until it closed in 2025, that linked AI research papers to their computer code and kept leaderboards of the best results.
Partnership on AIA forum, set up by big technology companies in 2016 and later joined by universities, charities and news organizations, that drafts voluntary guidelines for building and using AI responsibly.
PauseAIA volunteer protest movement, begun in 2023, that pickets AI companies and lobbies governments for a worldwide treaty halting work on AI more advanced than today's best until it is proven safe.
Perplexity AIAn American company whose AI search engine answers questions in full sentences with links to its sources; news publishers have sued it for using their articles.
Physical IntelligenceA San Francisco company, founded in 2024, that builds general-purpose AI 'brains' meant to control many different kinds of robots doing many different tasks.
PyTorch FoundationA nonprofit group, part of the Linux Foundation, that owns and steers the free PyTorch software for building AI so that no single company controls it. It now also looks after related projects.
RAND CorporationAn American research organization, long funded mainly by the US government, where early AI programs were written and which now advises governments on AI and security.
Redwood ResearchA small Berkeley nonprofit known for the idea of 'AI control': safeguards meant to keep powerful AI from doing damage even if the AI were secretly working against the people using it.
RunwayA New York company that makes AI tools for generating and editing video, used by filmmakers and artists; it helped create the image generator Stable Diffusion.
Safe Superintelligence Inc.A company started in 2024 by Ilya Sutskever, a co-founder of OpenAI, with the single goal of building a superintelligent AI that is safe. It sells no products.
Scale AIA company that pays large numbers of people to label examples, write model answers and grade chatbot replies, producing the data AI developers train and test on. Meta bought nearly half of it in 2025.
SRI InternationalA nonprofit research institute in California, once part of Stanford University, where the Shakey robot was built and the technology behind Apple's Siri assistant began.
Stability AIA London company that paid for and released Stable Diffusion, a free image-generating AI anyone could download, and later models for video, audio and 3D.
Stanford HAIAn artificial intelligence institute at Stanford University that funds research, advises policymakers and publishes the AI Index, a widely cited yearly report on the state of AI.
TeslaThe American electric-car company led by Elon Musk, whose driver-assistance software, robotaxis and humanoid robot make it a major, and controversial, developer of AI.
Thinking Machines LabMira Murati's AI company, which she started in San Francisco in 2025 after serving as OpenAI's technology chief. It makes tools for customizing AI models and releases some models openly.
Transformer Circuits ThreadAnthropic's online publication for research on how language models work inside, presented as long interactive web articles rather than conventional papers.
TSMCThe Taiwanese company that manufactures most of the world's advanced computer chips, including nearly all of the specialized chips used to train and run AI.
Vector InstituteToronto's publicly and privately funded AI institute, set up in 2017 with Geoffrey Hinton as an adviser, which supports university researchers and helps companies, hospitals and government put their work to use.
WaymoA company owned by Google's parent, Alphabet, that runs fully driverless robotaxi services in several American cities.
Zhipu AIA Chinese artificial intelligence company that grew out of Tsinghua University and makes the GLM family of language models. Outside China it uses the name Z.ai.

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AI OfficeThe European Commission's team that oversees the EU AI Act, especially the rules for the largest AI models, and coordinates how the law is applied across Europe.
Sam AltmanAn American entrepreneur who co-founded OpenAI and runs it; the company's 2022 release of ChatGPT turned him into one of the public faces of the AI era.
Dario AmodeiAn American AI researcher who co-founded Anthropic and is its chief executive, known for early work on scaling and AI safety and for forecasting very rapid AI progress.
Greg BrockmanAn American engineer who helped start OpenAI in 2015 and became its president, after serving as the first technology chief of the payments company Stripe.
Center for AI Standards and InnovationThe US government's AI testing and standards center, part of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. It evaluates advanced AI models, American and foreign, for national-security risks and works with companies on voluntary testing.
Cyberspace Administration of ChinaChina's top internet authority, in charge of online censorship as well as regulation, which also writes and enforces most of the country's AI rules, such as the registration of chatbots and recommendation algorithms.
European Artificial Intelligence BoardA committee of representatives from every EU country that helps apply the EU AI Act consistently across Europe and advises the European Commission.
Frontier Model ForumAn industry group set up in 2023 by leading AI companies to share safety research and best practices for the most advanced AI models.
Global Partnership on Artificial IntelligenceAn international group of countries, launched in 2020 and now run together with the OECD, that brings governments and experts together to put trustworthy AI into practice.
High-level Advisory Body on Artificial IntelligenceA group of experts set up by the UN Secretary-General in 2023 to advise on governing AI worldwide; its 2024 report led to the UN's AI science panel and global dialogue.
Jensen HuangThe Taiwanese-American co-founder and chief executive of Nvidia, whose graphics chips became the main engine for training and running modern AI.
Hugging FaceA company whose website is the main public library for sharing AI models and datasets — often called the GitHub of machine learning — and which makes widely used free AI software.
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42The international committee that writes the main worldwide technical standards on artificial intelligence, run jointly by the standards bodies ISO and IEC.
Koray KavukcuogluA Turkish-born computer scientist who co-authored many of DeepMind's landmark papers and in 2026 took charge of Google DeepMind as its senior vice president.
LessWrongAn online forum, founded in 2009, about thinking clearly and avoiding mental biases; it became a main gathering place for people worried about the dangers of advanced AI.
Liang WenfengA Chinese entrepreneur who founded DeepSeek, whose low-cost, openly released AI models shocked global markets in January 2025.
market surveillance authorityThe government body in each EU country that checks AI systems on the market, investigates complaints, and can order unsafe or unlawful AI to be fixed or withdrawn.
Mira MuratiAn Albanian-born American engineer who, as OpenAI's chief technology officer, oversaw the launch of ChatGPT, and who founded the AI company Thinking Machines Lab in 2025.
Elon MuskA South African-born American entrepreneur who runs Tesla and SpaceX, co-founded OpenAI, founded the AI company xAI, and has long warned that AI could endanger humanity.
OpenAI leadership crisis (2023)The five days in November 2023 when OpenAI's board fired chief executive Sam Altman, nearly all staff threatened to quit, and he returned with a new board.
StargateA giant venture announced in 2025 by OpenAI, SoftBank and Oracle to build data centers in the United States for training and running AI, with a pledged $500 billion.
Mustafa SuleymanA British entrepreneur who co-founded DeepMind and Inflection AI, leads Microsoft's effort to build its own advanced AI models, and has written about the difficulty of containing powerful AI.
superalignmentThe problem of keeping AI systems far smarter than humans aligned with human intentions — and the name of OpenAI's short-lived 2023–2024 research team devoted to it.
Alexandr WangAn American entrepreneur who founded Scale AI, a major supplier of human-labeled data for training AI, and became Meta's chief AI officer in 2025.
Weights & BiasesA company and online service that machine-learning teams use to log, chart and compare their training experiments, models and AI-app test results in shared dashboards.
World AI Cooperation OrganizationAn international organization for cooperation on AI, based in Shanghai, set up in 2026 by an agreement among 29 countries on China's initiative.
Mark ZuckerbergThe American co-founder and chief executive of Facebook's parent company Meta, who made it a major AI developer that released its Llama models for anyone to download.