AI labs directory: 321 research labs and model builders worldwide

The list was compiled in October 2026 from the websites of organizations that research or train AI models, covering frontier and open-weight model builders, safety and alignment groups, national and nonprofit institutes, and labs working on robotics, video, speech, biology and science. Each organization's own website was read for its name, location, founding year, type and focus. Organizations that do not themselves research or train AI models were removed, as were duplicates and pages that were not an organization's own site.

For the 80 best-known labs, the country and founding year shown are the values that at least two independent sources agreed on, and notable models are listed only for those labs. For the remaining labs, fields come from the lab's own website; where a site does not state a value, the table says "Not stated" rather than guessing.

Field definitions. Country is the stated headquarters. Founded is the year the organization was founded. Type is Company, Big tech lab (a research group inside a larger company, with the parent in brackets), Nonprofit or public institute, or Academic.

Corrections. Labs change names, merge and move. Send corrections or missing labs to editors@thefrontierwire.com with a link to a source, and the table will be updated.