AI labs in US
101 AGI and frontier AI companies based in US, ranked on the AGIX Leaderboard.
Public benefit corporation building the Claude models, with a focus on AI safety research.
91 research roles · 38 SPV filings · 975 papers#2OpenAISan Francisco, US · 2015Maker of the GPT models and ChatGPT; its charter states the mission of ensuring AGI benefits all of humanity.
73 research roles · 12 SPV filings · 375 papers · 2 models#3PerplexitySan Francisco, US · 2022AI answer engine; post-trains its own Sonar models.
58 research roles · 16 SPV filings · 29 models#4CerebrasSunnyvale, US · 2016Wafer-scale AI chips and fast inference.
31 research roles · 9 SPV filings · 17 models#5xAIPalo Alto, US · 2023Builds the Grok models; states its goal as understanding the true nature of the universe.
11 research roles · 24 SPV filings · 101 papers#8Reflection AIBrooklyn, US · 2024Ex-DeepMind founders building open frontier models and autonomous coding agents.
32 research roles · 4 SPV filings#9NVIDIA ResearchSanta Clara, USNVIDIA's research arm; publishes the Nemotron and Cosmos model families.
1359 papers · 442 models#13Liquid AICambridge, MA, US · 2023MIT spin-out building efficient non-Transformer Liquid Foundation Models.
12 research roles · 210 models#14Prime IntellectSan Francisco, US · 2024Decentralised training of open models (INTELLECT).
23 research roles · 2 papers · 20 models#15Lila SciencesCambridge, MA, US · 2023Flagship Pioneering company building scientific superintelligence and autonomous labs.
36 research roles · 1 SPV filings#16Together AISan Francisco, US · 2022AI cloud and open-model research (RedPajama, FlashAttention authors).
29 research roles · 7 models#18Ai2 (Allen Institute for AI)Seattle, US · 2014Non-profit releasing fully open models, data and code (OLMo, Tülu, Molmo).
247 papers · 172 models#19IBM Research (Granite)Yorktown Heights, USIBM's open Granite model family.
467 papers · 79 models#20Amazon AGISeattle, USAmazon's AGI organisation, building the Nova foundation models.
2121 papers · 26 models#21Fireworks AIRedwood City, US · 2022Fast inference for open models.
24 research roles#23Databricks Mosaic ResearchSan Francisco, USDatabricks' model research group (DBRX).
23 research roles#24Field AIIrvine, US · 2023Field foundation models for robots in unstructured outdoor places.
15 research roles · 3 SPV filings#25Thinking Machines LabSan Francisco, US · 2025Founded by OpenAI's former CTO; released the Tinker fine-tuning API.
22 research roles#27ApptronikAustin, US · 2016Apollo humanoid robots.
4 research roles · 10 SPV filings#28Xaira TherapeuticsSan Francisco, US · 2024AI-first drug discovery.
20 research roles#32HarveySan Francisco, US · 2022AI for law firms and legal teams.
15 research roles · 1 SPV filings#35ZyphraPalo Alto, US · 2021Open hybrid SSM models (Zamba) and multimodal agents.
8 research roles · 9 papers · 17 models#36Periodic LabsMenlo Park, US · 2025AI scientists that run real experiments, starting with materials science.
14 research roles · 1 SPV filings#37Salesforce AI ResearchPalo Alto, USSalesforce's research group (xLAM agent models).
286 papers · 13 models#38Luma AIPalo Alto, US · 2021Video models (Ray) and multimodal world models.
15 research roles#40Apple Machine Learning ResearchCupertino, USApple's research group behind the Apple Foundation Models.
348 papers · 11 models#41Snowflake AI ResearchSan Mateo, USSnowflake's research team (Arctic models).
12 research roles · 5 models#42EleutherAIUS · 2020Non-profit open research collective (GPT-NeoX, Pythia, the Pile).
166 models#44Microsoft AIRedmond, US · 2024Microsoft's consumer AI and model group led by Mustafa Suleyman, building Copilot and MAI models.
127 models#47BasetenSan Francisco, US · 2019Inference platform for AI models.
13 research roles#48CoreWeaveLivingston, NJ, US · 2017GPU cloud for AI labs (NASDAQ: CRWV).
11 research roles · 1 SPV filings#49Meta AI (FAIR & Superintelligence Labs)Menlo Park, US · 2013Meta's AI research and model teams, behind the Llama open-weight models.
760 papers#51Cursor (Anysphere)San Francisco, US · 2022AI code editor; trains its own coding models.
9 research roles · 2 SPV filings#53CrusoeSan Francisco, US · 2018AI data centres powered by stranded and clean energy.
11 research roles#54GroqMountain View, US · 2016LPU inference chips and cloud.
8 SPV filings#55Arcee AIMiami, US · 2023Small language models and model merging.
32 models#57EtchedSan Jose, US · 2022Sohu, a chip built only for Transformers.
10 research roles#58LightmatterMountain View, US · 2017Photonic interconnects for AI data centres.
2 research roles · 5 SPV filings#60AbridgePittsburgh, US · 2018Clinical documentation AI.
8 research roles · 1 SPV filings#61Physical IntelligenceSan Francisco, US · 2024General-purpose robot foundation models (π0).
8 research roles · 1 SPV filings#621X TechnologiesPalo Alto, US · 2014Humanoid robots for the home (NEO); started in Norway.
9 research roles#65DecagonSan Francisco, US · 2023Customer-support AI agents.
8 research roles#66Figure AISan Jose, US · 2022General-purpose humanoid robots with its own Helix model.
5 SPV filings#67LambdaSan Francisco, US · 2012GPU cloud and servers.
5 SPV filings#69Hugging FaceNew York, US · 2016The main hub for open models and datasets; trains SmolLM.
51 papers · 4 models#71Reka AISunnyvale, US · 2022Multimodal models (Reka Core, Flash).
6 research roles · 2 models#72Character.AIMenlo Park, US · 2021Conversational character platform; founders returned to Google in 2024.
7 research roles#73CartesiaSan Francisco, US · 2023State-space-model research lab; ships real-time voice models.
7 research roles#74GoodfireSan Francisco, US · 2024Interpretability research and tools (Ember).
7 research roles#75Axiom MathPalo Alto, US · 2024AI mathematician combining language models and formal proof.
2 research roles · 3 SPV filings#77Chai DiscoverySan Francisco, US · 2024Foundation models for molecular structure and drug design (Chai-1).
6 research roles#78Dyna RoboticsRedwood City, US · 2024Robot foundation models for commercial tasks.
6 research roles#81World LabsSan Francisco, US · 2024Spatial intelligence: models that generate and understand 3D worlds.
5 research roles#84RecursionSalt Lake City, US · 2013Listed AI drug-discovery company (NASDAQ: RXRX).
22 papers · 1 models#85ExtropicAustin, US · 2022Thermodynamic computing hardware for probabilistic AI.
4 research roles#86CognitionSan Francisco, US · 2023Devin, the autonomous software engineer; bought Windsurf in 2025.
4 research roles#87HarmonicPalo Alto, US · 2023Mathematical superintelligence; its Aristotle model writes formally verified proofs.
4 research roles#88The Bot CompanySan Francisco, US · 2024Household robots from Cruise's co-founder.
4 research roles#89PikaPalo Alto, US · 2023Video generation.
4 research roles#90SunoCambridge, MA, US · 2022Music generation models.
4 research roles#91Nous ResearchNew York, US · 2023Open models (Hermes) and decentralised training.
7 models#92Inflection AIPalo Alto, US · 2022Built Pi; now focused on enterprise AI after its founders moved to Microsoft in 2024.
2 research roles · 1 SPV filings#93VERSES AILos Angeles, USActive-inference agents (Genius platform); listed on Cboe Canada.
21 papers#94Agility RoboticsSalem, OR, US · 2015Digit humanoid robots for logistics.
2 research roles · 1 SPV filings#95ServiceNow AI ResearchSanta Clara, USServiceNow's research team (Apriel models).
6 models#97SierraSan Francisco, US · 2023Customer-service AI agents.
3 research roles#98MidjourneySan Francisco, US · 2021Independent image and video model lab.
3 research roles#99GenmoSan Francisco, US · 2022Open video model Mochi.
3 research roles#100Hume AINew York, US · 2021Emotionally intelligent voice models.
3 research roles#101Essential AISan Francisco, US · 2023Founded by two Transformer paper authors; builds open models.
4 models#102SambaNovaPalo Alto, US · 2017Reconfigurable dataflow chips for AI.
1 SPV filings · 1 models#103METRBerkeley, US · 2022Evaluates frontier models for dangerous autonomous capabilities.
2 research roles#106Contextual AIMountain View, US · 2023Retrieval-augmented language models for enterprises.
3 models#107ModularPalo Alto, US · 2022Mojo language and the MAX inference stack.
3 models#110WriterSan Francisco, US · 2020Enterprise platform with its own Palmyra models.
1 research roles#111FactorySan Francisco, US · 2023Autonomous software development agents (Droids).
1 research roles#112You.comPalo Alto, US · 2020AI search and agents for enterprises.
1 research roles#115Redwood ResearchBerkeley, US · 2021Non-profit research on AI control and alignment.
1 research roles#116Epoch AIUS · 2022Research on AI trends: compute, data and benchmarks.
1 research roles#120Safe Superintelligence (SSI)Palo Alto, US · 2024Says it has one goal and one product: a safe superintelligence.
Profile#121NdeaUS · 2025AGI lab built around program synthesis, from the creators of the ARC Prize.
Profile#122Keen TechnologiesDallas, US · 2022John Carmack's AGI research company; Richard Sutton is a research partner.
Profile#123ImbueSan Francisco, US · 2021Formerly Generally Intelligent; builds reasoning agents and tools for coding.
Profile#124AdeptSan Francisco, US · 2022Agents that take actions in software; most of the founding team joined Amazon in 2024.
Profile#125MagicSan Francisco, US · 2022Long-context models aimed at automating software engineering.
Profile#127NumentaRedwood City, US · 2005Neuroscience-based machine intelligence (Thousand Brains Project).
Profile#128SymbolicaSan Francisco, US · 2022Category-theory approach to structured, interpretable reasoning models.
Profile#129BasisNew York, USNon-profit research on general-purpose reasoning and world models.
Profile#130Inception LabsPalo Alto, US · 2024Diffusion-based language models (Mercury).
Profile#131Augment CodePalo Alto, US · 2022Coding agents with large-codebase context.
Profile#132Hippocratic AIPalo Alto, US · 2023Safety-focused healthcare language models and agents.
Profile#133EvolutionaryScaleNew York, US · 2023Protein language models (ESM3).
Profile#134Skild AIPittsburgh, US · 2023A general robot brain that works across different robot bodies.
Profile#135CovariantEmeryville, US · 2017Robot foundation models for warehouses; founders joined Amazon in 2024.
Profile#136Genesis AIPalo Alto, US · 2024Physics simulation and robot foundation models.
Profile#137RunwayNew York, US · 2018Video generation models (Gen-4) and research on general world models.
Profile#139TransluceSan Francisco, US · 2024Non-profit building open tools to understand AI systems.
Profile#140FAR.AIBerkeley, US · 2022Non-profit alignment research and events.
Profile#142Alignment Research CenterBerkeley, US · 2021Theoretical alignment research.
Profile#143Center for AI SafetySan Francisco, US · 2022Research and field-building; co-created Humanity's Last Exam.
Profile#144Gray Swan AIPittsburgh, US · 2023AI security, red-teaming and robustness.
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