The labs
behind the models.

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

Elon Musk's frontier lab — makers of Grok.

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

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

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

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

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

Frontier reasoning models at a fraction of the cost.

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

Multimodal frontier lab — Talkie, Hailuo, abab models.

Tsinghua-incubated lab — open-weights GLM family.

Frontier multimodal lab — Step-1V and Step-2.

Computer-vision lab pivoting to LLMs with SenseNova.

Face Recognition pioneer — now broader CV + LLM research.

Germany's sovereign-AI lab — Luminous family.

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

London-based core team of Stability AI.

Agent-action research — team mostly absorbed by Amazon.

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

Safety-focused frontier lab — makers of Claude.

The lab behind ChatGPT, GPT-5.5 and Sora.