Organizations shaping AI

Queen's University

Queen's University supports research across computing, engineering, health and the sciences, including work in machine learning, robotics and AI-enabled scientific discovery.

AI Now Institute

Policy research institute studying the social, political, and economic impacts of AI, with a focus on accountability, power, labor, and public-interest governance.

Historic American research lab (now Nokia Bell Labs) behind foundational advances in information theory, computing, and machine learning.

IDSIA

The Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IDSIA USI-SUPSI) in Lugano, Switzerland is home to foundational work on recurrent neural networks, LSTM, and reinforcement learning, primarily through Jürgen Schmidhuber's lab.

Mirendil

San Francisco AI startup building tools to democratize frontier AI R&D and help scientists develop specialized AI systems. Formally announced with a 20-person founding team drawn from Anthropic, xAI, Google DeepMind, OpenAI, and other frontier institutions.

University of Padua

The University of Padua is a multidisciplinary research university with major programs in science, medicine and engineering. Its AI work includes machine learning, intelligent robotics, computer vision, data science and AI applications in biology and health.

Arena

Arena operates a community-powered platform for evaluating frontier AI systems through anonymous comparisons and real-world human feedback. Originating as UC Berkeley’s Chatbot Arena, it publishes public leaderboards across language, vision, coding, search, video, and agentic tasks and offers evaluation services to model developers.

Biohub

The Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Network is a group of nonprofit biomedical research institutes established starting in 2016 with a $600 million commitment from Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg, partnering with universities including UCSF, UC Berkeley, and Stanford to accelerate the understanding and treatment of disease.

Chinese Academy of Sciences

China's national academy for the natural sciences, running many research institutes including major AI labs.

ELLIS

ELLIS connects leading AI researchers and institutions across Europe through regional sites, cross-border research programs, fellowships, and joint doctoral training. The network supports open collaboration and develops scientific talent.

Epoch AI

Research organization producing data and analysis on AI trends, compute, benchmarks, timelines, and the trajectory of machine-learning capabilities.

Goodfire

AI interpretability company founded by Eric Ho, Daniel Balsam, and Tom McGrath. Builds Ember, a platform for inspecting and editing the internal mechanisms of neural networks; backed by investors including Anthropic and Lightspeed.

Institute for Advanced Study

The Institute for Advanced Study is an independent research institute in Princeton . It supports theoretical research across mathematics, natural sciences, social science, and historical studies, and has long been a home for foundational work in computing, physics, and mathematics.

Sakana AI

Tokyo-based AI research company founded by David Ha and Llion Jones. Focuses on nature-inspired AI, foundation model merging, and evolutionary approaches to building and improving AI systems.

Computer-science research institute and graduate school on the University of Chicago campus, focused on machine learning and theory.

AI robotics company that pursued brain-inspired intelligence and later focused on robotic automation before being acquired by Intrinsic.

Alan Turing Institute

The UK national institute for data science and artificial intelligence, convening academic, public-sector, and industry research programs.

Nonprofit biomedical research institute founded in 2021 by Silvana Konermann, Patrick Hsu, and Patrick Collison (co-founder of Stripe), in partnership with Stanford, UCSF, and UC Berkeley. Funds scientists on long-term grants to study complex human diseases.

Boston University is a private research university whose AI work spans machine learning, language, vision, robotics, health, science and trustworthy computing. Its Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences connects these methods across the university.

CNRS is the backbone of much of France’s public research system, jointly operating laboratories across computer science, mathematics and the sciences. Its AISSAI center coordinates work both on new AI methods and on using AI for scientific discovery, linking otherwise separate research communities.

Delft University of Technology is an engineering university whose AI research connects machine learning and data science with robotics, design, transport and scientific discovery. It organizes much of this work through the TU Delft AI Labs program.

DFKI

The German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, one of the world's largest AI research institutes.

Paris grande école and university whose teaching and research span the sciences and humanities.

MIT CSAIL

The Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT — the institute's largest research lab, formed from the merger of the AI Lab and the Laboratory for Computer Science.