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September 2025 (Updated May 2026)
Curated AI lab news and a list of frontier AI labs.
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• Claude is getting consumers to spend real money on AI — The New Consumer — 04-05-2026
• Elon Musk's Only Expert Witness at the OpenAI Trial Fears an AGI Arms Race — TechCrunch — 04-05-2026
• Elon Musk Sent Ominous Texts to Greg Brockman, Sam Altman After Asking for a Settlement, OpenAI Claims — TechCrunch — 04-05-2026
• Import AI 455: AI systems are about to start building themselves. — Import AI (Jack Clark) — 04-05-2026
• A.I. Is a National Security Risk. We Aren't Doing Nearly Enough. — The New York Times — 04-05-2026
• OpenAI raises over $4 billion for new enterprise deployment venture — The Decoder — 04-05-2026
• Goldman, Blackstone Partner With Anthropic on AI Services Firm — Bloomberg — 04-05-2026
• The Lore of Sam Altman Is Being Tested Like Never Before — The Wall Street Journal — 03-05-2026
• That AI number is a big fat jump ball for Dems to seize (Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll) — Alex Jacquez/Twitter — 03-05-2026
• ChatGPT Wrestles With Its Most Chilling Conversation: How Do I Plan an Attack? — The Wall Street Journal — 02-05-2026
• Musk's AI told me people were coming to kill me. I grabbed a hammer and prepared for war — BBC via AOL — 02-05-2026
• Anthropic in Talks to Buy AI Inference Chips From UK Startup Fractile: Report — Economic Times — 02-05-2026
• Elon Musk Faced OpenAI in Court. So Far, the Case Is All About Him. — The Washington Post — 02-05-2026
• Big Tech is moving data out of the Gulf through Iraqi oil pipelines — Rest of World — 01-05-2026
• Huawei Expects AI Chip Revenue to Jump at Least 60% This Year, FT Reports — Reuters — 01-05-2026
• OpenAI Back in Court Over Canada School Shooter's Use of ChatGPT — KQED — 01-05-2026
• A Dark-Money Campaign Is Paying Influencers to Frame Chinese AI as a Threat — Wired — 01-05-2026
• Today, Reflection joined a coalition with AWS, Microsoft, OpenAI, SpaceX, Google, and Nvidia on a framework for how the U.S. government licenses and deploys AI – including a non-binding memorandum of understanding with the DoW. — Reflection AI/Twitter — 01-05-2026
• 'The Most Bipartisan Issue Since Beer': Opposition to Data Centers — The New York Times — 01-05-2026
• Scoop: xAI staff had been using Anthropic’s models internally through Cursor—until Anthropic cut off the startup’s access this week. — Kylie Robison/Twitter — 01-05-2026
• Moonshot AI and Other Chinese Firms Weigh Corporate Overhaul in Wake of Meta-Manus Deal Reversal — The Information — 01-05-2026
• Today, the @DeptofWar entered into agreements with SEVEN of the world's leading frontier AI model and infrastructure companies to deploy frontier capabilities on the Department's classified networks: • SpaceX • OpenAI • Google • NVIDIA • Reflection • Microsoft • Amazon Web Services This is just the latest initiative in our mandate to create an AI-FIRST WAR DEPARTMENT — Department of War CTO/Twitter — 01-05-2026
• OpenAI Finance Chief Sees 'Vertical Wall of Demand' for Products — Bloomberg — 01-05-2026
• Science Needs AI Data Stocktakes: A Proof-of-Concept for Fusion — Google DeepMind — 30-04-2026
• Sources: Anthropic potential $900B+ valuation round could happen within 2 weeks — TechCrunch — 30-04-2026
• NSA Testing Anthropic's Mythos to Find Flaws in Microsoft Tech — Bloomberg — 30-04-2026
• Anthropic, OpenAI back Warner-Budd workforce data bill — Politico — 30-04-2026
• 🤔 you be the judge. “There are vulnerabilities with Mythos that have not been released yet— the kinds of things where if you give me your locked phone I can download the pictures off of it without unlocking it.” That wasn’t even the worst of those disclosed in my interview with Anthropic’s senior Mythos red teamer today — Nicole Perlroth/Twitter — 30-04-2026
• After dissing Anthropic for limiting Mythos, OpenAI restricts access to Cyber, too — TechCrunch — 30-04-2026
• Momentum builds in Congress to ban AI chatbots for kids — NBC News — 30-04-2026
• OpenAI Challenges Elon Musk: Grok's AI Safety Record in Court — Axios — 30-04-2026
• Meta Says Its Business AI Now Facilitates 10 Million Conversations a Week — TechCrunch — 30-04-2026
• Probably the first Deepseek model that has a real military use case — Zephyr/Twitter — 30-04-2026
• Most people I know in AI think the median person is screwed, and they have no idea what to do about it. I spent the last 3 months talking to dozens of researchers, economists, and policy experts about AI's impact on work; including reps from every frontier lab and several Congressional offices. Unfortunately, I was not reassured. — Jasmine Sun/Twitter — 30-04-2026
• Claude Security is now in public beta — Anthropic — 30-04-2026
• Our evaluation of OpenAI's GPT-5.5 cyber capabilities — AISI — 30-04-2026
• It is quite significant that Musk admitted on the stand that xAI is distilling OpenAI models to train xAI, and that it is using OpenAI's technology to build xAI! — Mike Isaac/Twitter — 30-04-2026
• White House AI Memo Hits Issues Driving Anthropic-Pentagon Feud — Bloomberg — 30-04-2026
• Uninstalls of ChatGPT Are Spiking at the Worst Time Imaginable for OpenAI — Futurism — 29-04-2026
• How Elon Musk Squeezed OpenAI: They 'Are Gonna Want to Kill Me' — Wired — 29-04-2026
• .@mcuban is not impressed with OpenAI's business: "They're shitting away money at scale," he told me. Full discussion live on Big Technology Podcast. — Alex Kantrowitz/Twitter — 29-04-2026
• White House Opposes Anthropic Plan for Mythos Access, WSJ Says — Bloomberg — 30-04-2026
• White House Opposes Anthropic's Plan to Expand Access to Mythos Model — WSJ — 29-04-2026
• Introspection Adapters: Training LLMs to Report Their Learned Behaviors — Anthropic Alignment Science Blog — 28-04-2026
• OpenAI tells ChatGPT models to stop talking about goblins — BBC — 30-04-2026
• Alphabet Tops Q1 Estimates on Strong Google Cloud Growth — Yahoo Finance — 29-04-2026
• Google Told Staff It Is 'Proud' of Pentagon AI Contract After Internal Backlash — Financial Times — 29-04-2026
• Anthropic Considering Funding Offers at Over $900 Billion Value — Bloomberg — 29-04-2026
• Four Ways Google Research Scientists Have Been Using Empirical Research Assistance — Google Research — 29-04-2026
• Meta Earnings Updates: Stock Drops 6% as Capex Spending Expected to Balloon to New Heights — Business Insider — 29-04-2026
• OpenAI Has Effectively Abandoned First-Party Stargate Data Centers in Favor of More Flexible Deals — Company Now Prefers to Lease Compute and Says Stargate Is an Umbrella Term — Tom's Hardware — 29-04-2026
• House Committees Probe Cursor Parent, Airbnb Over Chinese AI — Semafor — 29-04-2026
• A.I. Bots Told Scientists How to Create Biological Weapons — The New York Times — 29-04-2026
• Big Chinese Tech Firms Scramble to Secure Huawei AI Chips After DeepSeek V4 Launch — Reuters — 29-04-2026
• At His OpenAI Trial, Musk Relitigates an Old Friendship — TechCrunch — 28-04-2026
• What Is Manus AI and Why Does China Want to Block Meta's $2 Billion Takeover? — Bloomberg — 28-04-2026
• White House Huddle: Cyber Mythos — Politico — 28-04-2026
• How Amazon Got OpenAI Back — Sources — 28-04-2026
• OpenAI Sees $8 ChatGPT Driving Consumer Subscribers to 122 Million This Year — The Information — 28-04-2026
• Private investors don't believe OpenAI is worth what it pretends to be, says CFR's Sebastian Mallaby — CNBC — 28-04-2026
• 'Stole a charity': Elon Musk accuses Sam Altman of betrayal in courtroom showdown — The Guardian — 28-04-2026
• OpenAI Expands Partnership With Amazon AWS — Barron's — 28-04-2026
• Claude for Creative Work — Anthropic — 28-04-2026
• Live Updates: Blockbuster OpenAI Trial Pits Elon Musk Against Sam Altman — New York Times — 28-04-2026
• OpenAI Hits Back at Growth Fears, Says 'Firing on All Cylinders' — Bloomberg — 28-04-2026
• We’re incredibly excited about our partnership with OpenAI and remain focused on building and delivering the capacity they need to support rapidly growing demand. — Oracle/Twitter — 28-04-2026
• Coreweave out with a statement on OAI. We sent headlines to @TheTerminal earlier "OpenAI is a terrific partner, but not our only one." — Ed Ludlow/Twitter — 28-04-2026
• Google Signs Classified AI Deal With Pentagon, The Information Reports — Reuters — 28-04-2026
• Workflows for Work That Runs the Business — Mistral AI — 28-04-2026
• Tencent's New Model Shows Improvement, Partly Thanks to Anthropic — The Information — 28-04-2026
• China's DeepSeek Prices New V4 AI Model at 97% Below OpenAI's GPT-5.5 — South China Morning Post — 28-04-2026
• The Man Behind AlphaGo Thinks AI Is Taking the Wrong Path — Wired — 27-04-2026
• Google DeepMind and Korea Partner to Accelerate Scientific Discovery — Google DeepMind — 27-04-2026
• Meta Is Preparing to Have to Undo Its Manus Acquisition After China Ban — Wall Street Journal — 27-04-2026
• From Indiana to Idaho, a Backlash Against A.I. Gathers Momentum — New York Times — 27-04-2026
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• OpenAI Misses Key Revenue, User Targets in High-Stakes Sprint Toward IPO — Wall Street Journal — 27-04-2026
• Judge in Musk v. Altman Seats Nine-Person Jury. Opening Arguments Start Tuesday — CNBC — 27-04-2026
• Elon Musk Boosts New Yorker's Sam Altman Exposé on X as Trial Begins — Wired — 27-04-2026
• Microsoft and OpenAI Loosen Their Partnership — The New York Times — 27-04-2026
• OpenAI's AWS Push Comes As Customers Embrace Rivals — The Information — 27-04-2026
• We can't wait to make our case in court where both the truth and the law are on our side. — OpenAI/Twitter — 27-04-2026
• China vetoes Meta's $2B Manus deal after months-long probe — TechCrunch — 27-04-2026
• Watch out Apple and Samsung, OpenAI is making AI smartphone with agentic capabilities — India Today — 27-04-2026
• DeepSeek Slashes Fees for New AI Model in Chinese Price War — Bloomberg — 26-04-2026
• Our Principles — OpenAI — 26-04-2026
• A Town of 7,000 Planned So Many Data Centers, It's Like Adding 51 Walmarts — Washington Post — 26-04-2026
• 'Hyperscale' Data Center Project in Utah — Expected to Generate and Consume More Power Than Entire State — Nears Final Approval — Salt Lake Tribune — 25-04-2026
• How the AI-driven data center boom is leading to skyrocketing energy bills for many Americans — CBS News — 25-04-2026
Interesting Older Articles
• How people ask Claude for personal guidance — Anthropic — 30-04-2026
• Understanding the Most Viral Chart in Artificial Intelligence — Odd Lots Podcast — 25-04-2026
• project deal — Anthropic — 24-04-2026
• Anthropic Reaches Trillion-Dollar Valuation on Secondary Markets, Overtaking OpenAI — Business Insider — 23-04-2026
• China's AI Model Companies Can Only Afford One Bet — Hello China Tech — 22-04-2026
• AI Data Centers can use up to 500,000 gallons of water a day. They will make our droughts catastrophically worse. As Governor, I will ban the construction of any AI Data Center in Florida. — James Fishback/Twitter — 21-04-2026
• Demis Hassabis and Sebastian Mallaby were on stage in SF today and here are the 9 best things they said: 1. "There is a 50% chance that OpenAI goes bankrupt in the next 18mos" -Mallaby — Deedy Das/Twitter — 20-04-2026
• She says ChatGPT is responsible for her son’s death. CA lawmakers are listening — The Sacramento Bee — 20-04-2026
• Exclusive: Leaked Deck Reveals StackAdapt’s Playbook for ChatGPT Ads — Adweek — 20-04-2024
• Beijing Yizhuang ran its second humanoid robot half-marathon on Sunday. One year of progress in one set of numbers. — Poe Zhao/Twitter — 19-04-2026
• New preliminary results: how people actually use ChatGPT. First conversation-level look at Global South usage. — Kiran Garimella/Twitter — 18-04-2026
• DeepSeek’s $300M Structural Problem — HelloChinaTech — 17-04-2026
• The Battle for OpenAI’s Soul — WIRED — 16-04-2026
• Sam Altman’s Side Hustles Blur the Line Between OpenAI’s Interests and His Own — The Wall Street Journal — 16-04-2026
• In our corrected figures, hyperscalers hold 71% of world AI compute — Epoch AI/Twitter — 16-04-2026
• Jensen Huang – Will Nvidia’s moat persist? — Dwarkesh Podcast — 15-04-2026
• Insane datapoint from new Goldman report on AI and software — Callum Williams/Twitter — 15-04-2026
• What will be scarce? — Ghosts of Electricity — 14-04-2026
• Online response to the attack on Sam Altman’s house shows a generational divide — Fortune — 14-04-2026
• Anthropic Flooded With Offers to Invest at Up to $800 Billion Valuation — Business Insider — 14-04-2026
• Anthropic Opposes the ‘Extreme’ AI Liability Bill That OpenAI Backed — Wired — 14-04-2026
• OpenAI investors question $852bn valuation as strategy shifts — Financial Times — 14-04-2026
• The 2026 AI Index Report — Stanford HAI — 13-04-2026
• Our evaluation of Claude Mythos Preview's cyber capabilities — AISI — 13-04-2026
• We're monitoring the air and water around Meta's data center in Louisiana. Here's why. — WWNO — 13-04-2026
• I’m locked out… (ChatGPT voice demo) — Huskirl/Twitter — 10-04-2026
• US defense official overseeing AI reaped millions selling xAI stock after Pentagon entered agreement with company — The Guardian — 09-04-2026
• China’s AI coding boom has an economics problem — Hello China Tech — 13-04-2026
• The vibes are off at OpenAI — The Verge — 08-04-2026
• OpenAI’s IPO Value Is Threatened by Sam Altman’s Lack of Focus — Bloomberg — 08-04-2026
• Data Center Bans: Tracking State and Local Moratoriums Across the U.S. — Data Center Bans — 07-04-2026
• Project Glasswing - Securing critical software for the AI era — Anthropic — 07-04-2026
• Anthropic reveals $30bn run rate, plan to use new Google TPU — The Register — 07-04-2026
• Google’s AI Overviews Face Trust Crisis as Accuracy Doubts Persist — The New York Times — 07-04-2026
• Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted? — The New Yorker — 06-04-2026
• How the Iran War Could Devastate the AI Industry: The Helium and Bromine Crisis — Transformer News — 02-04-2026
• Emotion Concepts and their Function in a Large Language Model — Anthropic — 02-04-2026
• OpenAI Buys Some Positive News — Wired — 02-04-2026
• Cheap Power, Competitive Politics: Electricity Costs, Partisan Lean, and Data Center Location in the United States — Kyle L. Saunders — 01-04-2026
• 100 Hours Inside Kimi — Rui Ma/Twitter — 01-04-2026
• The Catholic Priest Who Helped Write Anthropic’s A.I. Ethics Code — Observer — 31-03-2026
• Inside 'Project Mario': How Demis Hassabis and DeepMind Are Engineering the Future of Intelligence — Colossus — 31-03-2026
• The Decadelong Feud Shaping the Future of AI — The Wall Street Journal — 27-03-2026
• TRIBE v2: An AI Model of the Human Brain — Meta — 26-03-2026
• Can an A.I. Chatbot Be Your Romantic Partner? — The New York Times — 26-03-2026
• AI's enterprise revenue race: Anthropic vs. OpenAI — Axios — 18-03-2026
• What 81,000 people want from AI — Anthropic — 18-03-2026
• Companies’ first AI check is going to Claude via Ramp Economics Lab — Ara Kharazian/Twitter — 11-03-2026
• How Anthropic Became the Most Disruptive Company in the World — TIME — 11-03-2026
• 'It means missile defence on datacentres': drone strikes raise doubts over Gulf as AI superpower — The Guardian — 07-03-2026
• President Trump during a phone interview this morning: 'I fired Anthropic. Anthropic is in trouble because I fired [them] like dogs.’ — Politico via Andrew Curran/Twitter — 05-03-2026
• What Rights Do AI Companies Have in Government Contracts? — Jessica Tillipman — 01-03-2026
• It would take Pentagon months to replace Anthropic's AI tools: sources — Defense One — 26-02-2026
• Introducing Claude's Corner — Substack — 25-02-2026
• AIs can't stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations — New Scientist — 25-02-2026
• OpenClaw May Be a Security Nightmare for OpenAI’s Sam Altman — Bloomberg — 22-02-2026
• Inside OpenAI’s Crisis Over GPT-4o’s Emotional ‘Soul’ — The Wall Street Journal — 09-02-2026
• The many masks that LLMs wear — Understanding AI — 09-02-2026
• The Week Anthropic Tanked the Market and Pulled Ahead of Its Rivals — The Wall Street Journal — 05-02-2026
• Does AI already have human-level intelligence? The evidence is clear — Nature — 02-02-2026
• Four Hundred Meters on Mars: The First AI-Planned Drive on Another Planet — Anthropic — 30-01-2026
• The Adolescence of Technology
— Dario Amodei — 26-01-2026
• America’s coming war over AI regulation — MIT Technology Review — 23-01-2026
• Claude Is Taking the AI World by Storm, and Even Non-Nerds Are Blown Away — The Wall Street Journal — 17-01-2026
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Frontier AI Labs
A curated listing of known frontier AI labs (in progress).
Considerations for inclusion:
- Teams training the largest models by compute
- Teams publishing frontier research
- Teams operating with independent safety/governance controls
• Ai2: The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence — https://allenai.org — Seattle, USA — Develops foundational AI research through large-scale open models, data, robotics, conservation, and beyond.
➟ https://allenai.org/careers
➟ LinkedIn: /company/allen-ai/
➟ Twitter: @allen_ai
• AI21 Labs — https://www.ai21.com — Tel Aviv, Israel — Developer of large language models and long-context NLP tooling for writing and knowledge work.
➟ https://www.ai21.com/careers/
➟ LinkedIn: /company/ai21/
➟ Twitter: @AI21Labs
• Alibaba DAMO Academy — https://damo.alibaba.com/ — Hangzhou / Beijing, China — Alibaba’s advanced R&D institute focused on large models, cloud AI, and applied industrial research.
➟ https://joindamo.alibaba.com/
➟ LinkedIn: /company/达摩院/
• Alibaba Tongyi Lab — https://qwenlm.github.io/ — Hangzhou, China — Tongyi Lab was created within Alibaba Cloud to focus on foundational research and industrial applications of large models such as the Qwen (通义千问) series (including Qwen open source models), Tongyi Wanxiang (image generation), Tongyi Tingwu (speech-to-text), and more.
➟ https://careers-tongyi.alibaba.com/
➟ LinkedIn: /company/qwen/
➟ Twitter: @Ali_TongyiLab
• Anthropic — https://www.anthropic.com/ — San Francisco, USA — Anthropic is an AI safety and research company dedicated to building reliable, steerable, and beneficial AI systems like its assistant, Claude and the Opus and Sonnet model families.
➟ https://www.anthropic.com/careers
➟ LinkedIn: /company/anthropicresearch/
➟ Twitter: @AnthropicAI
• Baidu Research — https://research.baidu.com/ — Beijing, China — Baidu’s research arm developing ERNIE and other large-scale multimodal models and search AI.
➟ https://research.baidu.com/career
➟ Twitter: @BaiduResearch
• Black Forest Labs — https://bfl.ai/ — Germany & San Francisco, USA — A leading frontier AI research lab, building the visual infrastructure for tomorrow.
➟ https://bfl.ai/careers
➟ LinkedIn: /company/bflai/
➟ Twitter: @bfl_ml
• Cohere — https://cohere.com/ — Toronto, Canada & San Francisco, USA — Provides enterprise large-language models, embeddings, and retrieval APIs for production use.
➟ https://cohere.com/careers
➟ LinkedIn: /company/cohere-ai/
➟ Twitter: @Cohere_Labs
• Databricks Mosaic — https://www.databricks.com/research/mosaic — San Francisco, USA — Focuses on efficient training tooling, open-model research, and infrastructure for training large models.
➟ https://www.databricks.com/company/careers
➟ LinkedIn: /company/mosaicml/
➟ Twitter: @MosaicML
• Deep Cogito — https://www.deepcogito.com/ — San Francisco, USA — An AI lab that describes itself as building open source general superintelligence.
➟ https://www.deepcogito.com/careers
➟ LinkedIn: /company/deep-cogito/
➟ Twitter: @DeepCogito
• DeepSeek — https://www.deepseek.com/ — Hangzhou, China — A Chinese lab working on frontier large language models.
➟ https://www.deepseek.com/ (check LinkedIn for open roles)
➟ LinkedIn: /company/deepseek-ai/
➟ Twitter: @deepseek_ai
• EleutherAI — https://www.eleuther.ai/ — Distributed / community-led — Open research collective that produces open-source LLMs, benchmarks, and tooling.
➟ No official careers page; roles announced via Discord/X
➟ LinkedIn: /company/eleutherai/
• Essential AI — https://www.essential.ai/ — San Francisco, USA — Essential AI is building an open platform to democratize frontier AI capabilities and accelerate breakthroughs globally through collaborative science.
➟ https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/essentialai
➟ LinkedIn: /company/essentialai/
➟ Twitter: @essential_ai
• Google DeepMind — https://deepmind.google/ — London, UK & Mountain View, USA / global — Google-owned research lab focused on deep learning, RL, and ambitious science-level AI research.
➟ https://deepmind.google/about/careers/
➟ LinkedIn: /company/googledeepmind/
➟ Twitter: @GoogleDeepMind
• Hugging Face — https://huggingface.co/ — New York, USA & Paris, France / global — Open ML community and model/dataset hub that hosts and distributes many open frontier models and tooling.
➟ https://apply.workable.com/huggingface/
➟ LinkedIn: /company/huggingface/
➟ Twitter: @huggingface
• IBM Research — https://research.ibm.com/artificial-intelligence — USA / global — IBM Research develops open-source data tools, multimodal models, and technologies that redefine how we interact with AI.
➟ https://www.ibm.com/careers/research
➟ LinkedIn: /showcase/ibm-research/
➟ Twitter: @IBMResearch
• Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab — http://dev3.noahlab.com.hk/ — China (multiple locations) — Huawei’s foundational AI research group working on NLP, vision, and multimodal algorithms.
➟ http://dev3.noahlab.com.hk/Recruitment-JD.html
➟ LinkedIn: /company/noah-s-ark-lab/
• Meta FAIR — https://www.meta.ai/ — Menlo Park, USA — Meta’s research division that develops Llama-series models, multimodal systems, and social-scale AI research.
➟ https://ai.meta.com/join-us/
➟ LinkedIn: /showcase/aiatmeta/
➟ Twitter: @AIatMeta
• Meta Reality Labs (Reality Labs Research) — https://www.meta.ai/ — Menlo Park, USA — Meta’s XR / AR / VR research and hardware arm that also contains significant AI work for spatial computing, sensors, and on-device models.
➟ https://ai.meta.com/join-us/
➟ Twitter: @RealityLabs
• Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL) — https://www.meta.ai/ — Menlo Park, USA — Meta's Superintelligence labs is a newly formed unit as of Summer 2025 focused on superintelligence and large-scale foundational efforts.
➟ https://ai.meta.com/join-us/
• Meta TBD Lab — https://www.meta.ai/ — Menlo Park, USA — As of Summer 2025, the TBD team is spearheading work on upcoming model releases including the newest version of Llama, the extension of models’ reasoning capabilities, and development of AI agents alongside other Meta teams per the Wall Street Journal.
➟ https://ai.meta.com/join-us/
• Microsoft Research AI Frontiers / Microsoft AI — https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/lab/ai-frontiers/ — Redmond, USA / global — Corporate research organization powering Microsoft’s model efforts (Copilot, Azure AI, and foundational research).
➟ https://www.microsoft.com/research/careers/
➟ LinkedIn: /showcase/microsoftresearch/
➟ Twitter: @ms_aifrontiers
• Mistral AI — https://mistral.ai/ — Paris, France / global — European startup producing high-performance LLMs and commercial offerings for enterprises.
➟ https://mistral.ai/careers
➟ LinkedIn: /company/mistralai/
➟ Twitter: @MistralAI
• Moonshot AI — https://moonshot.ai/ — Beijing, China — Focused on achieving the most efficient conversion of energy into intelligence to create artificial general intelligence that can benefit all of humanity.
➟ https://www.moonshot-ai.com/careers/
➟ LinkedIn: /company/moonshot-ai-linkedin/
➟ Twitter: @Kimi_Moonshot
• Nous Research — https://nousresearch.com/ — New York, USA — Nous Research focuses on the development of human-centric language models and simulators.
➟ https://nousresearch.com/careers/
➟ LinkedIn: /company/nous-research/
➟ Twitter: @NousResearch
• NVIDIA Research — https://research.nvidia.com/ — Santa Clara, USA — Research group advancing GPU-driven systems, model architectures, and scale innovations used across frontier labs.
➟ https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/research/research-scientists/
➟ LinkedIn: /showcase/nvidia-ai/
➟ Twitter: @NVIDIAAI
• OpenAI — https://openai.com/ — San Francisco, USA — OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company building safe and broadly beneficial artificial general intelligence to help solve humanity's greatest challenges.
➟ https://openai.com/careers/
➟ LinkedIn: /company/openai/
➟ Twitter: @OpenAI
• PleIAs — https://pleias.fr/ — Paris, France — PleIAs builds energy-efficient, open-data foundation LLMs and explainable, locally deployable AI assistants for information-intensive, highly regulated industries.
➟ LinkedIn: /company/pleias/
➟ Twitter: @pleiasfr
• Prime Intellect — https://www.primeintellect.ai/ — San Francisco, CA — The Open Superintelligence Stack. A compute and infrastructure platform for you to train, evaluate, and deploy your own agentic models.
➟ https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/PrimeIntellect
➟ LinkedIn: /company/primeintellect-ai/
➟ Twitter: @PrimeIntellect
• Reflection AI — https://reflection.ai/ — NYC & San Francisco, USA — Reflection is building frontier open intelligence with open weight models that are accessible to all.
➟ https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/reflectionai
➟ LinkedIn: /company/reflectionai/
➟ Twitter: @reflection_ai
• Safe Superintelligence Inc. — https://ssi.inc/ — Palo Alto, USA & Tel Aviv, Israel — The world’s first straight-shot SSI lab, with one goal and one product: a safe superintelligence.
➟ https://ssi.inc/contact
➟ LinkedIn: /company/ssi-ai/
➟ Twitter: @ssi
• Sakana AI — https://sakana.ai/ — Japan — Building a world-class AI lab in Japan to develop AI solutions for Japan’s needs, and democratize AI in Japan.
➟ https://consider.com/boards/co/sakana-ai
➟ LinkedIn: /company/sakana-ai
➟ Twitter: @SakanaAILabs
• Samsung Research (AI Centers) — https://research.samsung.com/ — Seoul, Korea / global — Samsung’s research hubs focused on generative AI, on-device models, and multimodal systems.
➟ https://research.samsung.com/careers
➟ LinkedIn: /showcase/samsungresearch/
➟ Twitter: @samsungresearch
• Stability AI — https://stability.ai/ — London, UK — Open-source focused generative AI company that releases image, video, audio, and 3D multimodal models and tooling.
➟ https://stability.ai/careers
➟ LinkedIn: /company/stability-ai/
➟ Twitter: @StabilityAI
• Tencent AI Lab / Tencent HY — https://ailab.tencent.com/ailab/en/index/ — Shenzhen, China — Tencent’s AI research organization developing large models, multimodal AI, and application-focused research.
➟ https://ailab.tencent.com/ailab/en/recruit/
• Thinking Machines Lab — https://thinkingmachines.ai/ — San Francisco, USA — A research and product company building more understandable and customizable AI systems.
➟ https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/thinkingmachines
➟ LinkedIn: /company/thinkingmachinesai/
➟ Twitter: @thinkymachines
• xAI — https://x.ai/ — Palo Alto, USA — Elon Musk–backed AI lab building the Grok family of large-scale language models and consumer-facing assistants.
➟ https://x.ai/careers
➟ LinkedIn: /company/xai/
➟ Twitter: @xai
• Yandex Research / Yandex AI — https://research.yandex.com/ — Moscow, Russia — Yandex’s research teams working on large models, search AI, and multimodal systems.
➟ https://research.yandex.com/join
➟ LinkedIn: /company/yandex/
➟ Twitter: @YandexResearch
• Z.ai — https://z.ai/ — Beijing, China — Z.ai (Zhipu AI) is the AI lab behind the GLM family of models, dedicated to inspiring the development of AGI to benefit humanity.
➟ https://www.zhipuai.cn/joinus
➟ LinkedIn: /company/zdotai/
➟ Twitter: @Zai_org
