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AI Labs Masterlist – Every Top AI Lab in the World

As AI becomes more and more ubiquitous, I thought it would be handy to keeep track of the activity at the various centers around the world studying what’s about to “come down the pipe”.  Here’s my first attempt to gather a comprehensive list of them throughout the world: undefined

AI Labs in the United States 🇺🇸

As you could see, I stopped diving in deep into each educational institution starting with Berkeley & didn’t even find the different labs within Cornell & beyond.  Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to learn how to program or guide agents yet to do all the work for me or code something that will help me research, scrape & format it all into a blog post.  Despite NotebookLM being a tool that is supposed to do this (to a considerable extent), you need the “inputs” for it to produce all of this.

Anyway, I intend to spend another few hours some day looking into every lab in the US and the many countries that are also competing. So, come back and check on this post once in a while or email me at books @seattleorganicseo.com

Frankly, another issue to think about is “compute” — which country will have the largest ability to control this?  More on that topic in future posts…

More from the United States 🇺🇸

  • OpenAI – Leading AI research organization behind GPT, DALL-E, and broader AGI safety research.

  • MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) – One of the largest AI research labs worldwide (machine learning, robotics, vision). Link above

  • Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Lab – UC Berkeley – Interdisciplinary AI research including robotics and deep learning.

  • Allen Institute for AI (AI2) – Nonprofit research institute focused on high-impact AI research.

  • Google Brain – Google’s internal research division pushing core ML breakthroughs.

  • Microsoft Research (MSR) – Corporate research lab with extensive work on ML, NLP, ethics, and foundational models.

  • Anthropic – AI safety and alignment-focused research organization (Claude models).

  • SRI International – Independent nonprofit research organization with AI groups.

  • Institute for Human & Machine Cognition (IHMC) – Research in AI, robotics, and human factors.

  • NASA Intelligent Systems Division & Jet Propulsion Laboratory AI Group – AI research for aerospace and intelligent systems.

AI Labs in China 🇨🇳

  • Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI) – Large nonprofit AI research lab and model developer.

  • Tencent AI Lab – Corporate AI research on ML, speech, vision, and language.

  • Multiple AI Institutes under Tsinghua University (founded by Andrew Yao) — significant foundational research influence.

AI Labs in Canada 🇨🇦

  • Vector Institute – Major AI research institute affiliated with the University of Toronto.

  • Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii) – Deep learning, reinforcement learning, and AI innovation hub.

  • Mila (Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms) – Founded by Yoshua Bengio, leader in deep learning research. (See academic mentions and broader AI ecosystem)

AI Labs in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧

  • DeepMind – Alphabet’s flagship AI lab known for breakthroughs in reinforcement learning, AlphaGo, and AlphaFold.

  • Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (University of Cambridge) – Interdisciplinary AI research on long-term impacts and societal issues.

  • Oxford Machine Learning Research Group – University of Oxford AI research group (statistical ML, theory, ethics).

  • University College London (UCL) ML & AI research – Key European academic AI lab.

  • Imperial College London AI research groups – Deep learning and AI systems.

AI Labs in Germany 🇩🇪

  • German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) – One of the largest AI research institutes in Europe.

  • Innovation Park

AI Labs in Spain 🇪🇸

  • Institut d’Investigació en Intelligència Artificial (IIIA) – AI research institute of the Spanish Scientific Research Council.

AI Labs in Austria 🇦🇹

  • Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI) – National AI research institute.

AI Labs in India 🇮🇳

Emerging labs like ElkanIO Research Labs and growing university research groups.

AI Labs in Korea (South Korea)🇰🇷

AI Labs in Hong Kong 🇭🇰

AI Labs in Singapore 🇸🇬

AI Labs in Japan 🇯🇵

AI Labs in France 🇫🇷

AI Labs in Russia 🇷🇺

AI Labs in Mexico 🇲🇽

AI Labs in Brazil 🇧🇷

🧩 Emerging & Regional Hubs

There are also up-and-coming labs and ecosystems in:

  • Middle East – New collaborations like the NVIDIA-TII AI and robotics lab in Abu Dhabi.