Organizations

The labs, companies and universities the people on this site lead, work at, or came from.

  • AMI Labs

    Paris, France

    Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI) Labs is a frontier AI research company founded in late 2025 by Yann LeCun, its executive chairman, with Alexandre LeBrun as CEO. It builds world models trained on video and sensor d...

    1 current
  • Anthropic

    San Francisco, USA

    San Francisco public benefit corporation founded in 2021 by Dario and Daniela Amodei and five OpenAI colleagues; maker of the Claude models, publisher of the first Responsible Scaling Policy, valued at 965 billion dol...

    1 current
  • DAIR Institute

    Oakland, USA

    The Distributed AI Research Institute, founded by Timnit Gebru on 2 December 2021 with $3.7 million from the Ford, MacArthur, Kapor Center and Open Society foundations, is an independent, community-rooted research ins...

    1 current
  • DeepLearning.AI

    Stanford, USA

    Education company founded by Andrew Ng in 2017 that publishes AI courses, from the Deep Learning Specialization to short courses on agentic workflows and prompting, and the weekly newsletter The Batch, which carries N...

    1 current
  • DeepMind

    London, UK

    Google's AI lab, formed in April 2023 by merging DeepMind (founded in London in 2010 and acquired by Google in 2014) with Google Brain. It builds the Gemini models and scientific systems such as AlphaFold, and has bee...

    1 current, 2 former
  • An AI research company founded by David Silver, incorporated in November 2025, whose stated mission is to make first contact with superintelligence by building a reinforcement learning "superlearner" that discovers kn...

    1 current
  • LawZero

    Montreal, Canada

    A nonprofit AI safety research organization founded by Yoshua Bengio in June 2025 and incubated at Mila, building non-agentic "Scientist AI" systems designed to be safe by design and to act as guardrails for other AI.

    1 current
  • Meta

    Menlo Park, USA

    Owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, and of the Fundamental AI Research lab (FAIR) that Yann LeCun founded in December 2013 and directed until 2018. Meta released its Llama models with open weights, folded FAIR...

    0 current, 1 former
  • Microsoft

    Redmond, USA

    Software and cloud company whose AI division, Microsoft AI, was formed in March 2024 under Mustafa Suleyman. Microsoft invested in OpenAI from 2019 and holds about 27 percent of OpenAI Group PBC after the October 2025...

    1 current
  • NVIDIA

    Santa Clara, USA

    Chipmaker founded in April 1993 by Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem; it named the GPU in 1999, released the CUDA programming platform in 2006, and is the leading supplier of the chips used to train and...

    1 current
  • OpenAI

    San Francisco, USA

    AI research and deployment company founded as a nonprofit in 2015 and maker of ChatGPT, GPT-5 and GPT-6 Astra. Since October 2025 its for-profit arm, OpenAI Group PBC, is a public benefit corporation controlled by the...

    2 current, 1 former
  • Safe Superintelligence Inc.

    Palo Alto, USA, and Tel Aviv, Israel

    AI research company founded in June 2024 by Ilya Sutskever, Daniel Gross and Daniel Levy, with one stated goal and one planned product, a safe superintelligence. Sutskever has been CEO since July 2025, when Gross left...

    1 current
  • Stanford University

    Stanford, USA

    Home of the Stanford AI Lab, which Andrew Ng and Fei-Fei Li each directed, and of the Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI), co-founded by Li in 2019 and merged with Stanford Data Science in May 2026, when Li became S...

    2 current, 2 former
  • University of Montreal

    Montreal, Canada

    The Université de Montréal, where Yoshua Bengio has been a professor since 1993 and where he founded Mila, the Quebec AI institute run jointly with McGill, which he directed until 2025 and which incubated his nonprofi...

    1 current
  • University of Toronto

    Toronto, Canada

    Geoffrey Hinton's academic home since 1987, now as University Professor Emeritus, where his students built AlexNet in 2012 and where he co-founded the Vector Institute in 2017.

    2 current
  • Public research university in Seattle and Emily M. Bender's academic home since 2003, where she directs the Computational Linguistics Laboratory and the professional master's program in computational linguistics she l...

    1 current
  • World Labs

    San Francisco Bay Area, USA

    A spatial-intelligence company co-founded in 2024 by Fei-Fei Li, Justin Johnson, Ben Mildenhall and Christoph Lassner. It builds world models that generate and reason about 3D environments; its first product, Marble,...

    1 current