Organizations shaping AI

MERL, the North American research arm of Mitsubishi Electric, working on signal processing, vision, and machine learning.

ML Collective

Non-profit research collective providing open mentorship and collaboration in machine learning.

NASA

United States space agency whose research programs use AI across robotics, autonomy, Earth observation, scientific discovery, and mission operations.

Public scientific and technological university known for engineering, architecture, industrial design, applied research, and technology transfer.

Renmin University of China

Its Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence connects technical research with the university's humanities and social-science strengths, including work on reasoning, data analysis, and socially beneficial AI.

Shanghai AI Laboratory

Major Chinese research institute producing open models and tools, including the OpenMMLab and InternLM projects.

SRI International is an independent nonprofit research institute founded in 1946 as the Stanford Research Institute; among its many spinouts, the Siri virtual assistant originated there.

The University of Lorraine is a multi-campus public research university whose AI work is anchored by Loria and the ENACT regional AI cluster. Research spans language and multimodal models, robotics, cybersecurity, scientific discovery and digital health.

The University of Rennes is a public research university formed from Rennes 1 and five associated grandes écoles. Its computer-science ecosystem includes close work with IRISA and Inria on machine learning, language technology, robotics and cybersecurity.

University of Utah

The University of Utah is a public research university with major programs in computing, engineering and medicine. Its computing lineage includes influential work in computer graphics, while current research spans machine learning, robotics and data science.

Beijing public research institution established in 2024 by the Beijing Municipal Education Commission and led by Tie-Yan Liu. Trains AI doctoral students with partner universities and incubates frontier research across science, robotics, and medicine.

Academia Sinica is Taiwan's preeminent national research institution in Taipei, covering natural sciences, humanities, and social sciences across 31 research institutes.

Alphabet

Alphabet is the parent company of Google and a group of independently run technology businesses. Google accounts for most of the group, while its other businesses pursue longer-term work in areas including life sciences, autonomous transport, and advanced research.

Artificial Analysis

Independent AI benchmarking and analysis company tracking model quality, speed, price, and deployment tradeoffs across frontier and open models.

Bangalore University supports teaching and research across the sciences, engineering, humanities and professional disciplines, with postgraduate and doctoral programs based at its Jnana Bharathi campus.

Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence

Beijing-based AI research institute, also known as BAAI, known for large-scale open research programs and models such as the WuDao series.

The Berkman Klein Center is a Harvard-wide research center studying how digital technologies affect public life, human agency and institutions. Its AI work covers governance, accountability, safety, youth, public-interest technology and the social effects of automated systems.

California Institute for Machine Consciousness

Founded by Joscha Bach to build a scientific foundation for machine consciousness, drawing on AI, neuroscience, and cognitive science to study whether and how machines could be conscious.

A postgraduate college of the University of Cambridge built around an interdisciplinary community of researchers, visiting scholars and graduate students.

National multidisciplinary research and development organisation of South Africa (CSIR), founded in 1945.

Australia's national science agency, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, founded in 1916.

Independent research institute founded by Timnit Gebru studying the harms and ethics of AI, free from Big Tech influence.

Researches machine-learning systems, robotics, computer vision, and AI for education, connecting technical work with digital learning and intelligent-industry applications.

Flatiron Institute

The internal research division of the Simons Foundation, advancing scientific research through computational methods across centers for computational astrophysics, biology, mathematics, neuroscience, and quantum physics.