Reference
AI Labs
The organizations building toward general intelligence — who they are and what they make.
The organizations doing frontier-scale AI research and model building. Coverage of what they ship lands in Industry; this page is the stable reference. Machine-readable: labs.json.
Anthropic
AI safety and research company that develops the Claude family of frontier models, with an emphasis on interpretability, alignment, and reliable agentic systems.
OpenAI
Research company behind the GPT models and ChatGPT, building general-purpose AI systems along with open-weight releases such as the gpt-oss models.
Google DeepMind
Google's AI research lab, formed in 2023 by merging DeepMind (founded 2010) and Google Brain. Develops the Gemini models and the open-weight Gemma family.
Meta AI
Meta's AI division, tracing to FAIR (founded 2013) and now organized under Meta Superintelligence Labs. Develops the open-weight Llama family.
xAI
Elon Musk's AI company, developer of the Grok models, integrated with the X platform and trained on its Colossus supercomputing clusters.
Mistral AI
Paris-based lab known for efficient open-weight models, including the Mistral and Ministral families and the Le Chat assistant.
DeepSeek
Hangzhou-based lab backed by the High-Flyer hedge fund, known for MIT-licensed open-weight mixture-of-experts models such as the DeepSeek V4 family.
Alibaba (Qwen)
Alibaba's large-model team behind the Qwen (Tongyi Qianwen) family, first released in 2023, spanning frontier Max-class models and open-weight releases.
Moonshot AI
Beijing-based startup that builds the Kimi chatbot and the Kimi series of large models, including large open-weight mixture-of-experts releases.
MiniMax
Shanghai-based AI company, publicly listed in Hong Kong in 2026, developing the MiniMax model series for agentic, coding, and multimodal tasks.
Cohere
Toronto-based enterprise AI company building the Command model family and retrieval tooling aimed at regulated industries and the public sector.