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91 labs · October 2, 2026
The labs that train frontier and foundation models, and the places research engineers and scientists do that work. Each description is the lab's own.
- OpenAI 24%
- Anthropic 14%
- Mistral AI 6%
- Meta (Superintelligence Labs and FAIR) 6%
- xAI 6%
- Cohere 4%
- Cursor (Anysphere) 4%
- Google DeepMind 4%
These counts describe the October 2, 2026 snapshot; postings need a fresh check. Explore opportunities.
Frontier model labs
- OpenAI “We believe our research will eventually lead to artificial general intelligence, a system that can solve human-level problems.” 450 recorded
- Anthropic “Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.” 263 recorded
- Mistral AI “The most powerful AI platform for enterprises. Customize, fine-tune, and deploy AI assistants, autonomous agents, and multimodal AI with open models.” 117 recorded
- xAI “SpaceXAI builds Grok — frontier AI models for reasoning, voice, image generation, and more. Build with the Grok API.” 111 recorded
- Cohere “Cohere builds powerful models and AI solutions enabling enterprises to automate processes, empower employees, and turn fragmented data into actionable insights.” 73 recorded
- Google DeepMind “Artificial intelligence could be one of humanity’s most useful inventions. We research and build safe artificial intelligence systems. We're committed to solving intelligence, to advance science and …” 71 recorded
- Thinking Machines Lab 40 recorded
- Reflection AI “Make intelligence open and accessible to all” 34 recorded
- Reka “Reka AI builds natively multimodal models (Spark, Edge, Flash, Core) for video, image, audio, and text. Used by enterprises in security, media, and defense.” 6 recorded
- Inflection AI “Inflection AI is pioneering personal intelligence. We're empowering people and brands with human-centered, emotionally intelligent AI.” 4 recorded
- Safe Superintelligence (SSI) “The world's first straight-shot SSI lab, with one goal and one product: a safe superintelligence.” 0 recorded
Careers on their own sites 01.AI · AI21 Labs · DeepSeek · MiniMax · Moonshot AI · Zhipu AI (Z.ai)
Coding agents and software factories
- Cursor (Anysphere) “Built to make you extraordinarily productive, agents turn ideas into code. Accelerate development by handing off tasks to Cursor.” 73 recorded
- Cognition “Cognition operates Devin, the first autonomous software engineer. Devin plans, writes, tests, and ships production code inside your existing workflows.” 44 recorded
- Replit “Describe what you want. Replit builds it. Get a working app or website in minutes. No coding required.” 42 recorded
- Lovable “Describe what you want in plain language and Lovable builds it: full-stack apps, websites and internal tools. Start free.” 31 recorded
- Vercel (v0) “Your collaborative AI assistant to design, iterate, and scale full-stack applications for the web.” 19 recorded
- Factory “Build faster with AI coding agents. Factory Droids automate coding, testing, and deployment for startups and enterprises.” 18 recorded
- CodeRabbit “AI-first pull request reviewer with context-aware feedback, line-by-line code suggestions, and real-time chat.” 16 recorded
- JetBrains (Junie, Mellum) “JetBrains is a cutting-edge software vendor specializing in the creation of intelligent development tools, including IntelliJ IDEA – the leading Java IDE, and the Kotlin programming language.” 16 recorded
- Greptile “AI Code Reviews that understand your entire codebase. Automate PR reviews, catch bugs faster, improve code quality with AI-driven analysis. Try Greptile free!” 10 recorded
- Graphite “Graphite helps teams on GitHub deliver higher quality software, faster.” 7 recorded
- Relace “Relace delivers purpose-built AI models and scalable infrastructure for coding agents, offering ultra-fast code retrieval, merging, and autonomous workflows. Cut down errors and accelerate development with Relace.” 6 recorded
- Tessl “Tessl helps teams build AI-native software by giving coding agents structured, versioned context. Ship AI-powered systems that hold up in real codebases.” 6 recorded
- StackBlitz (Bolt) “Build and scale high-performing websites & apps using your words. Join millions and start building today.” 4 recorded
- Warp “Infrastructure to build, measure, and interact with agents across your SDLC — so you ship more and spend less.” 4 recorded
- Cline “Open-source AI coding agent with Plan/Act modes, MCP integration, and terminal-first workflows. Trusted by 11M+ developers worldwide.” 2 recorded
- Imbue “We build AI to help people think, create, and build. Tools that are loyal to you, not the company that built them.” 2 recorded
- Sourcegraph “Give humans and agents complete context to understand, oversee, and evolve the world's largest, most complex codebases.” 2 recorded
- Zencoder “Discover Zencoder's AI Coding Agent Platform for seamless code execution and collaboration. Boost productivity with advanced analytics, flexible deployment, and custom agents for your team.” 2 recorded
- Cosine 1 recorded
- OpenHands (formerly All Hands AI) “Meet OpenHands, the open-source, model-agnostic platform for cloud coding agents. Automate real engineering work securely and transparently. Build faster with full control.” 1 recorded
- Augment Code “Your engineers have agents. Your organization doesn't. Cosmos is the platform that closes the gap.” 0 recorded
- Zed Industries “Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.” 0 recorded
Careers on their own sites Amp · Emergent · Kilo Code · Morph · Qodo
Foundation models in one domain
- Periodic Labs “From bits to atoms.” 20 recorded
- Physical Intelligence “Physical Intelligence is bringing general-purpose AI into the physical world.” 20 recorded
- Cartesia “Integrate real-time text-to-speech with Sonic-3.6, Cartesia's streaming TTS API. Generate natural, expressive voices with laughter in 44 languages — built for AI agents and interactive apps.” 18 recorded
- Runway “Runway is building foundational Real-World Intelligence that can understand, simulate and act in the world. We offer products and services built on-top of this intelligence to empower individuals and organizations to do more in the world.” 18 recorded
- Isomorphic Labs “Isomorphic Labs is building a future where frontier AI can help to unlock deeper scientific insights, faster breakthroughs, and life-changing medicines.” 16 recorded
- Luma AI “Luma AI is the creative AI platform for video generation and image creation. Powered by the world's leading video generation models, Ray and Uni, and creative agents handling end-to-end workflows. Trusted by leading agencies and brands. Try it free.” 15 recorded
- Liquid AI “Liquid AI builds efficient Liquid Foundation Models (LFMs) for on-device, edge, and cloud AI with low latency, privacy, and hardware-aware deployment.” 14 recorded
- H Company “H is a frontier AI research lab and agentic platform that works across any system or interface without rebuilding your stack.” 11 recorded
- Character.AI 10 recorded
- World Labs “World Labs is a spatial intelligence company, building frontier models that can perceive, generate, and interact with the 3D world.” 9 recorded
- Harmonic “Mathematical Superintelligence” 8 recorded
- Magic “Magic is an AI company that is working toward building safe AGI to accelerate humanity’s progress on the world’s most important problems.” 6 recorded
- Stability AI “Stability AI is the enterprise-ready creative partner for teams and creators, delivering professional-grade generative AI tools and solutions for content production at scale.” 6 recorded
- Poolside “Poolside is a foundation model company bringing intelligence to everywhere work gets done. Our mission is to drive abundance for humanity by creating artificial general intelligence.” 4 recorded
- Aleph Alpha 1 recorded
- Essential AI “Essential AI builds open-source models and tools to make frontier AI more accessible.” 0 recorded
Careers on their own sites Black Forest Labs · ElevenLabs · Figure AI · Inception Labs · Midjourney · Preferred Networks · Skild AI · Upstage
AI groups at large companies
Careers on their own sites Alibaba Qwen · Amazon (AGI and Amazon Science) · Amazon (Kiro) · Apple Machine Learning Research · GitHub (Copilot coding agent) · Microsoft AI · NVIDIA Research
Research institutes and open labs
- Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) “Ai2, founded by Paul Allen, conducts high-impact research and engineering to tackle key problems in artificial intelligence.” 12 recorded
- METR “METR is a research nonprofit that evaluates frontier AI models to inform the public about their risks and capabilities.” 5 recorded
Careers on their own sites Agentica (UC Berkeley Sky Computing Lab) · BigCode (Hugging Face & ServiceNow) · EleutherAI · Kyutai · Nous Research · Prime Intellect · Sakana AI · SWE-bench / SWE-agent team (Princeton & Stanford) · Terminal-Bench (Laude Institute & Stanford)
Inference, platforms and tools
Careers on their own sites Contextual AI · Hugging Face · Perplexity
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