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• Nvidia CEO Urges Super Micro to Tighten Up on Compliance — Bloomberg — 24-05-2026
• Who killed Trump's AI order? Musk says it wasn't him — Canadian Affairs — 24-05-2026
• Anthropic's secretive Mythos AI appears inside Claude code, then vanishes — Techlusive — 24-05-2026
• How Vibe Slop And Fragile Economics could impact Mega IPO for OpenAI and Anthropic — American Bazaar — 24-05-2026
• Another 9 open Erdos problems solved, this time by [a] DeepMind team. — Przemek Chojecki/Twitter — 22-05-2026
• Anthropic's $300M Stainless deal lands hardest on OpenAI and Google — The New Stack — 23-05-2026
• Tencent Marvis Launches Officially: System-Level AI Assistant, Six Intelligent Agents, Always Available 24 Hours — AIbase — 23-05-2026
• OpenAI Is Going Public But Is It for the Wrong Reasons? — The Motley Fool — 22-05-2026
• "Are you a philosophical zombie driven by Claude?" — Jack Clark Cosmos Lecture transcript — Cosmos Institute — 22-05-2026
• Why Anthropic is helping unveil the pope's new encyclical on AI — Religion News Service — 22-05-2026
• White House Approves $9 Billion for Spy Agencies to Catch Up on A.I. — The New York Times — 22-05-2026
• Google's AI search is so broken it can 'disregard' what you're looking for — The Verge — 22-05-2026
• Anthropic set to close $30 billion funding at over $900 billion valuation — Investing.com — 22-05-2026
• Project Glasswing: An initial update — Anthropic — 22-05-2026
• China's AI start-up funding triples to US$16b in first quarter amid bets on LLMs, robotics — OODAloop — 22-05-2026
• NEW: Read the full AI exec. order that was supposed to go out yesterday — Sophia Cai/Twitter — 22-05-2026
• DeepSeek Founder Declares AGI Goal as $10 Billion Round Advances — Bloomberg — 22-05-2026
• Cloud Rebuilt for Machines: Alibaba Cloud is redesigning its entire stack for agents, from chips to tokens. — Hello China Tech — 22-05-2026
• AMD CEO: AI Training Yet to Generate Profits — Binance News — 22-05-2026
• Exclusive: OpenAI's Altman Talks to Staff About IPO Timing — The Information — 21-05-2026
• Trump yanked AI order after David Sacks raised industry concerns — Politico — 21-05-2026
• For every $1 OpenAI made in Q1 ($5.7B), it lost $1.22. For every $1 Anthropic makes in Q2 ($10.9B), it expects to make 5 cents in operating profits. (don't have OpenAI Q2 data nor Anthropic Q1 to compare apples to apples) — Sheel Mohnot/Twitter — 21-05-2026
• Scott Bessent has been raising the alarm on AI policy. But the delays keep coming. — Politico — 21-05-2026
• OpenAI kicked off the AI compute buildout in 2023. But today it uses ~10% of the world's compute, and the top labs together are probably under half. — Epoch AI/Twitter — 21-05-2026
• Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak got cheers, not boos, after telling students they 'all have AI — actual intelligence' — Business Insider — 21-05-2026
• California Governor Signs Order on AI Aimed at Helping Workers — The Wall Street Journal — 21-05-2026
• Pentagon Tests Rival AI Models in Race to Replace Anthropic — Bloomberg — 21-05-2026
• Texans Hate Data Centers So Much They Are Asking Jesus for Help — Insurance Journal — 21-05-2026
• Export-Import Bank set to consider framework backing US AI exports — Nextgov/FCW — 21-05-2026
• White House Postpones AI Executive Order Signing — Politico — 21-05-2026
• Anthropic in talks to use Microsoft's AI chips, The Information reports — Reuters — 21-05-2026
• Blackstone, Anthropic Joint Venture Acquires Fractional AI — Morningstar — 21-05-2026
• Two Hours That Changed AI — Axios — 21-05-2026
• Nvidia says it has 'largely conceded' China's AI chip market to Huawei — CNBC — 21-05-2026
• Cheap AI Could Derail OpenAI and Anthropic's IPOs — CNBC — 20-05-2026
• Announcing strategic MOUs with Indra Group and Multiverse Computing — Cohere — 20-05-2026
• Anthropic is paying SpaceX $15 billion per year — Axios — 20-05-2026
• Anthropic is paying $1.25B a month to SpaceX for compute — Sheel Mohnot/Twitter — 20-05-2026
• SpaceX confirms plans for an IPO that could make Elon Musk a trillionaire — NBC News — 20-05-2026
• Mind-Blowing Growth Is About to Propel Anthropic Into Its First Profitable Quarter — The Wall Street Journal — 20-05-2026
• Anticipated executive order could give NSA a role in voluntary AI model testing — Nextgov/FCW — 20-05-2026
• OpenAI Claims It Solved an 80-Year-Old Math Problem — For Real This Time — TechCrunch — 20-05-2026
• Advancing Content Provenance for a Safer, More Transparent AI Ecosystem — OpenAI — 20-05-2026
• The 13 Biggest Announcements at Google I/O 2026 — The Verge — 20-05-2026
• Introducing Command A+: Making sovereign agentic capabilities available to all — Cohere — 20-05-2026
• OpenAI Prepares to File to Go Public in Coming Weeks — The New York Times — 20-05-2026
• Inside the next phase of OpenAI's political strategy — Politico — 20-05-2026
• Google DeepMind and Google.org Announce AI for Math Initiative — Google DeepMind Blog — 20-05-2026
• A mic drop moment @ycombinator tonight @sama just offered $2M in OpenAI tokens to EVERY YC startup in the current batch in exchange for equity — Tyler Bosmeny/Twitter — 19-05-2026
• OpenAI Commits $234 Million for New AI Lab in Singapore — Bloomberg — 19-05-2026
• Can't Wait for the Final Version? Qwen3.7 Preview Model is Now Available for Experience! Mathematics/Programming/Multimodal Capabilities Have Been Significantly Enhanced, Get a First Look at the Thinking Mode — AIBase — 19-05-2026
• Widening the conversation on frontier AI — Anthropic — 19-05-2026
• Cohere acquires Reliant AI to expand sovereign enterprise AI for the global biopharma and healthcare sectors — Cohere — 19-05-2026
• SpaceX Is Said to Plan to Buy Startup Cursor 30 Days After IPO — Bloomberg — 19-05-2026
• SoftBank Founder's Starstruck Bet on OpenAI Raises Concern — Bloomberg — 19-05-2026
• GOOGLE JUST SHOWED HOW INSANE AI DEMAND HAS GOTTEN Monthly tokens processed across Google surfaces: May 2024: 9.7T May 2025: ~480T May 2026: 3.2Q+ That is 7x Y/Y growth. — Wall St Engine/Twitter — 19-05-2026
• OpenAI launches Guaranteed Capacity for long-term compute access — Investing.com — 19-05-2026
• Gemini for Science: AI experiments and tools for a new era of discovery — Google — 19-05-2026
• Appeals Court Questions Anthropic's Challenge to Pentagon Supply-Risk Label — Bloomberg — 19-05-2026
• Google Hires Staff From Bezos-Backed Contextual AI in Licensing Deal — Bloomberg — 19-05-2026
• Frontier Risk Report (February to March 2026) — METR — 19-05-2026
• Google Says Gemini 3.5 Flash Can Slash Enterprise AI Costs by More Than $1 Billion a Year — VentureBeat — 19-05-2026
• Google's Gemini Omni Turns Images, Audio, and Text Into Video — and That's Just the Start — TechCrunch — 19-05-2026
• Google overhauls its AI subscription tiers, makes them cheaper — Mashable — 19-05-2026
• Google Changes Its Search Box for the First Time in 25 Years — The New York Times — 19-05-2026
• xAI: The Unpriced Risk in SpaceX's IPO — Guidelight AI Standards / LASST / Encode AI / The Midas Project — 19-05-2026
• OpenAI and Dell Technologies Partner to Bring Codex to Hybrid and On-Premises Enterprise Environments — OpenAI — 19-05-2026
• Former OpenAI Staffers Warn That xAI's Poor Safety Record Could Complicate SpaceX's IPO — Wired — 19-05-2026
• OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic — Axios — 19-05-2026
• OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic's pre-training team — TechCrunch — 19-05-2026
• Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis emerges as early Anthropic investor — Financial Times — 19-05-2026
• Mistral AI Buys Vienna's Emmi AI In +€300M Bid To Own Europe's Factory Floor — The French Tech Journal — 19-05-2026
• Moonshot AI to Overhaul Structure to Win Nod for Hong Kong IPO — Bloomberg Law — 19-05-2026
• The American Rebellion Against AI Is Gaining Steam — WSJ — 18-05-2026
• AI21 cuts more than 60% of its workforce in major strategic overhaul — CTech — 18-05-2026
• Google and Blackstone to Create New AI Cloud Company — WSJ — 18-05-2026
• Jury tosses Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman — NBC News — 18-05-2026
• Dell Technologies Closes the Gap Between AI Ambition and AI Outcomes (Multiple Frontier AI Labs) — Dell Technologies — 18-05-2026
• Pope and co-founder of Anthropic to launch pontiff's AI encyclical on May 25 — AP News — 18-05-2026
• Google's Own AI Researchers Jockey for Access to Its Computing — Bloomberg — 18-05-2026
• Musk's xAI Fails to Pay Staff $420 for Giving Their Tax Returns to Grok — Bloomberg — 18-05-2026
• Anthropic Will Brief World's Most Powerful Financial Watchdog on Mythos AI Cyber Dangers — Mint — 17-05-2026
• What A.I. Did to My College Class — The New York Times — 17-05-2026
• Anthropic and OpenAI's Share of AI Startup Revenues Rises to 89% — The Information — 17-05-2026
• An AI hate wave is here — Axios — 17-05-2026
• Pope Approves Creation of Interdicasterial Commission on Artificial Intelligence — Vatican News — 16-05-2026
• The haves and have nots of the AI gold rush — TechCrunch — 16-05-2026
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• 2028: Two Scenarios for Global AI Leadership — Anthropic — 14-05-2026
• New letter from 35 (!) members of Congress to the White House urging action post-Mythos. Most of the letter is about cyber risk, but also discusses importance of non-cyber threats as well. — Nathan Calvin/Twitter — 14-05-2026
• NEW: We are short Nvidia $NVDA. We believe Nvidia has a significant China problem. Please see our full report and disclosures now available on our website, link in bio. — Culper Research/Twitter — 13-05-2026
• How fast is autonomous AI cyber capability advancing? — AISI — 13-05-2026
• The AI Backlash Could Get Very Ugly — The Atlantic — 13-05-2026
• ANTHROPIC beats OpenAI in business adoption for the first time per @tryramp data. Today's update of Ramp AI Index shows 34.4% of businesses using Anthropic versus 32.3% using OpenAI. Adoption of Anthropic quadrupled over the last year, while OpenAI rose only 0.3%. — Ara Kharazian/Twitter — 13-05-2026
• Frontier AI Models Don't Just Delete Document Content — They Rewrite It, and the Errors Are Nearly Impossible to Catch — VentureBeat — 13-05-2026
• 'I Applied to Be Pope': Losing Grip on Reality While Using ChatGPT — AFP — 13-05-2026
• 'It's Like We Don't Exist': Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe Residents Face Power Loss as Utility Redirects Lines to Data Centers — Fortune — 12-05-2026
• Widow Sues ChatGPT Maker OpenAI Over Husband's Death in Mass Shooting at Florida State University — Sky News — 11-05-2026
• Claude's new constitution — Anthropic — 11-05-2026
• I Work in Hollywood. Everyone Who Used to Make TV Is Now Secretly Training AI — Wired — 11-05-2026
• This is what it sounds like living next to a data center. — Merissa Hansen/Twitter — 10-05-2026
• Teaching Claude Why — Anthropic — 08-05-2026
• Anthropic and OpenAI earn more revenue per employee than the top public tech companies, both now and at their IPOs. Anthropic: ~$9M OpenAI: ~$5.6M — Epoch AI/Twitter — 08-05-2026
• IMF warns new AI models risk 'systemic' shock to finance — Financial Times — 07-05-2026
• Is xAI a Neocloud Now? — TechCrunch — 06-05-2026
• Why AI vetting is freaking people out — Politico — 06-05-2026
• The vibes in China's AI labs — florianbrand.com — 06-05-2026
• How to Buy Cheap Claude Tokens in China — ChinaTalk — 05-05-2026
• CAISI Signs Agreements Regarding Frontier AI National Security Testing With Google DeepMind, Microsoft and xAI [removed article] — NIST — 05-05-2026
• Y Combinator's Stake in OpenAI — Daring Fireball — 04-05-2026
• Import AI 455: AI systems are about to start building themselves. — Import AI (Jack Clark) — 04-05-2026
• ChatGPT Wrestles With Its Most Chilling Conversation: How Do I Plan an Attack? — The Wall Street Journal — 02-05-2026
• 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. — Jasmine Sun/Twitter — 30-04-2026
• .@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
• Out of Tune: Fine-Tuning Foundation Models Leads to Unpredictable Safety Drift — CDT — 30-04-2026
• How people ask Claude for personal guidance — Anthropic — 30-04-2026
• House Committees Probe Cursor Parent, Airbnb Over Chinese AI — Semafor — 29-04-2026
• The Man Behind AlphaGo Thinks AI Is Taking the Wrong Path — Wired — 27-04-2026
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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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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 / SpaceXAI — 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
