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Department · Cartography16 companies

The labs
behind the models.

Every flagship AI company, indexed by origin, type and traction. Filter by region, narrow to research labs or hardware, or browse the curated lineup country by country.

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Meta AI

USA

Meta's open-weights research arm — makers of Llama.

LabEst. 2013Menlo ParkFlagship

xAI

USA

Elon Musk's frontier lab — makers of Grok.

LabEst. 2023Palo AltoFlagship

Google DeepMind

USA

Google's unified AI research org — makers of Gemini and Veo.

LabEst. 2010London / Mountain ViewFlagship

Cohere

Canada

Enterprise RAG-first foundation models — Canada/UK base.

LabEst. 2019TorontoFlagship

AI21 Labs

Israel

Mamba-based LLMs out of Tel Aviv — Jamba family.

LabEst. 2017Tel AvivFlagship

Stability AI

UK

The lab behind Stable Diffusion — open-weights generative media.

LabEst. 2020LondonFlagship

Moonshot AI

China

Beijing-based lab — makers of the Kimi (K2) family.

LabEst. 2023BeijingFlagship

DeepSeek

China

Frontier reasoning models at a fraction of the cost.

LabEst. 2023HangzhouFlagship

01.AI

China

Kai-Fu Lee's frontier lab — makers of the Yi family.

LabEst. 2023BeijingFlagship

MiniMax

China

Multimodal frontier lab — Talkie, Hailuo, abab models.

LabEst. 2021ShanghaiFlagship

Zhipu AI

China

Tsinghua-incubated lab — open-weights GLM family.

LabEst. 2019BeijingFlagship

Aleph Alpha

Europe

Germany's sovereign-AI lab — Luminous family.

LabEst. 2019HeidelbergFlagship

Mistral AI

Europe

France's frontier lab — open-weights and commercial models.

LabEst. 2023ParisFlagship

Black Forest Labs

Europe

Frontier image models — Flux family by the Stable Diffusion alumni.

LabEst. 2024FreiburgFlagship

Anthropic

USA

Safety-focused frontier lab — makers of Claude.

LabEst. 2021San FranciscoFlagship

OpenAI

USA

The lab behind ChatGPT, GPT-5.5 and Sora.

LabEst. 2015San FranciscoFlagship