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August 22, 2026 11:13 PM PT



A 2026 directory of neolabs, stealth labs, and emerging AI labs worldwide. This is a work in progress capturing the current neolab zeitgeist, focusing on labs that are shipping or at least have some sort of public comms in addition to their funding announcement(s).

If a well-known lab is missing, it may be listed with the frontier AI labs.

Note: Scroll below the headlines for the neolab directory.



Latest neolab addition: Discovery Loop (Jeff Dean)

◦◦◦ Neolab Headlines

SOURCES: Poolside Strikes $6 Billion Licensing Deal with Nvidia & Raises $1 Billion for Remaining Company at $12 Billion Valuation — Newcomer — 20-08-2026


LFM2.5 Q4_0: Quantization-Aware Distillation for Edge Deployment — Liquid AI — 19-08-2026


Designing Loops for Production-Grade Work — Liquid AI — 18-08-2026


Fei-Fei Li has mixed feelings about being called the "godmother of AI," but strong opinions about who gets credit in tech. The World Labs CEO talks to @emilychangtv on this episode of The Circuit — Bloomberg/Twitter — 18-08-2026


Rich Sutton and Khurram Javed: Why AI Models Stop Learning, and How to Start It Again — Sequoia Capital/YouTube — 18-08-2026


Core Automation Files to Raise $500M — Axios Pro — 13-08-2026


Introducing NAC, an Open-Source Harness for Long-Running Agent Work — Arcee AI — 13-08-2026


Jeff Dean's Discovery Loop In Talks to Raise $1B at a $10B Valuation — Dealroom — 13-08-2026


LFM2.5-VL-3B: A Better and Faster Vision-Language Model for the Edge — Liquid AI — 12-08-2026


Indic DiarBench: A Multilingual Joint Diarization and ASR Benchmark for Indian Languages — Sarvam AI & AI4Bharat — 11-08-2026


Mercury 2 for Search: Fast Enough to Run a Hundred Times Per Query — Inception Labs — 11-08-2026


 

Augur: Model Routing, Training Data, and Benchmark Creation for LLMs — Poetiq — 10-08-2026


Silicon Valley's New Mafia: OpenAI and Anthropic Are Mass-Producing Founders (Core Automation, Mirendil, Math Inc) — Odaily — 10-08-2026


RESEARCH: Why former DeepMind engineers are targeting RSI (Poetiq) — The Deep View — 10-08-2026


Thinking in Silico: Goodfire CTO Dan Balsam on Concept Manifolds & a $1000/Month ML Research Agent — The Cognitive Revolution — 08-08-2026


Maharashtra Clears ₹11.26 Cr Sarvam AI Deployment for Govt Departments — CNBC TV18 — 07-08-2026


Exclusive: Mirendil Inks $100M+ Google Cloud Deal to Scale Self-Improving AI — TechCrunch — 06-08-2026


Announcing Discovery Loop! I am very excited to announce that, along with my longtime friends and collaborators @Sanjay_Ghemawat, @OriolVinyalsML and @quocleix, we are founding Discovery Loop (@DiscoLoopAI), a Public Benefit Corporation whose mission is to automate machine learning, science, and engineering to accelerate discoveries and progress. The four of us have worked together for 14 to 30 years, and have helped build some of the world's most used products, infrastructure and AI models, and we're excited to turn our attention to this ambitious endeavor. — Jeff Dean/Twitter — 05-08-2026






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Resources for AI Lab Candidates

• Vlad Feinberg, How to Land a Frontier Lab Job

• Jack Morris, So you want to do AI research? It's true that no one really teaches you how.

• MATS Program, MATS 12.0 (Winter 2026-27) Application

• Neel Nanda, MATS 12.0 (Winter 2026-27) - Apply here - Due Fri Sept 4th 11:59pm PT

• Neel Nanda, How To Become A Mechanistic Interpretability Researcher

• LASR Labs, London AI Safety Research — Winter 2027 Cohort Applications Open

• The Safety Apprentice, AI Safety Job Guide

• alphaXiv, alphaXiv Researcher Profiles




◦◦◦ Neolab Directory



Advanced Machine Intelligence / AMI Labs (Yann LeCun)https://amilabs.xyz/ — Paris/New York/Montreal/Singapore — We are enabling the next AI revolution, by building a new breed of AI systems that (1) understand the real world, (2) have persistent memory, (3) can reason and plan, (4) are controllable and safe.
   ➟ Careers: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/ami
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/amilabs-xyz/
   ➟ Twitter: @amilabs


Aleph Alphahttps://aleph-alpha.com/research/ — Heidelberg, Germany — European lab whose mission-driven research builds scalable, interpretable, and customizable systems for diverse domains.
   ➟ Careers: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/AlephAlpha
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/aleph-alpha/
   ➟ Twitter: @Aleph__Alpha


Antim Labshttps://www.antimlabs.com/ — New York, NY — Building interactive RL environments where machines learn through play and exploration. Partner with AI labs to train cognitive skills for general intelligence.
   ➟ Careers: —
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/antimlabs
   ➟ Twitter: @AntimLabs


Arcee AIhttps://www.arcee.ai — San Francisco, CA — Arcee AI builds open-weight foundation models that run anywhere - on edge, on prem, or cloud. Our Trinity family standardizes capabilities across sizes and is released under Apache-2.0.
   ➟ Careers: https://www.arcee.ai/careers/
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/arcee-ai/
   ➟ Twitter: @arcee_ai


Core Automation (Jerry Tworek)https://www.coreauto.com/ — San Francisco, CA — We're building the world's most automated AI lab. Our objective is to build systems that optimize and automate work, starting with research itself.
   ➟ Careers: hello @ coreauto
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/core-auto/
   ➟ Twitter: @CoreAutoAI


Discovery Loop (Jeff Dean)https://www.discoveryloop.com/ — Palo Alto, CA — Automating discovery to accelerate science and engineering for the world.
   ➟ Careers: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Discovery-Loop
   ➟ LinkedIn:
   ➟ Twitter: @DiscoLoopAI


Dolphin AIhttps://dphn.ai/ — Decentralized — Dolphin is a project dedicated to pushing the boundaries of AI model development and distributed inference.
   ➟ Careers: —
   ➟ LinkedIn: —
   ➟ Twitter: @dphnAI


Elorianhttps://elorian.ai/ — Palo Alto, CA - Building the foundation of visual reasoning.
   ➟ Careers: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/elorian-ai-inc
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/elorian-ai/
   ➟ Twitter: @ElorianAI


Flapping Airplaneshttps://flappingairplanes.com/ — San Francisco, CA - Flapping Airplanes is a foundational AI research lab currently in stealth devoted to solving the data efficiency problem.
   ➟ Careers: —
   ➟ LinkedIn: —
   ➟ Twitter: @flappyairplanes


General Intuitionhttps://www.generalintuition.com/ — New York, NY & Geneva, Switzerland — We build foundation models and general agents for environments that require deep spatial and temporal reasoning.
   ➟ Careers: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/medal
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/generalintuition/
   ➟ Twitter: @gen_intuition


Goodfirehttps://www.goodfire.ai — San Francisco, CA — We help our customers across industries turn AI into something that can be understood, debugged, and shaped like software.
   ➟ Careers: https://www.goodfire.ai/careers
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/goodfire-ai/
   ➟ Twitter: @goodfireAI


Grafton Scienceshttps://www.graftonsciences.com/ — San Francisco & Redwood City, CA — Building systems of general physical ability to enable superintelligence
   ➟ Careers: —
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/grafton-sciences/
   ➟ Twitter: —


Hark (Brett Adcock)https://hark.com/ — San Jose, CA — At Hark, we are building the most advanced personal intelligence in the world.
   ➟ Careers: https://hark.com/careers
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/hark-ai/
   ➟ Twitter: @hark_labs


Harmonichttps://harmonic.fun/ — Palo Alto, CA — We are forging the world's most advanced mathematical reasoning engine.
   ➟ Careers: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Harmonic
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/harmonicmath/
   ➟ Twitter: @HarmonicMath


Helicalhttps://www.helical.bio/ — London, UK/Boston, MA/Luxembourg — The Virtual AI Lab for Biology.
   ➟ Careers: https://apply.workable.com/helical/
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/helical-ai
   ➟ Twitter: —


Humans&https://humansand.ai/ — San Francisco, CA — Founded by ex-OpenAI researchers; raised a $480M seed at a $4.5B valuation (January 2026) to develop a new type of AI.
   ➟ Careers: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/humans-and/3daf12ad-471f-43ba-b940-8552e9ad61aa
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/humansand/
   ➟ Twitter: @humansand


Inceptionhttps://www.inceptionlabs.ai/ — Palo Alto, CA — Inception is an AI research and product company. We're building diffusion-based language models for production applications.
   ➟ Careers: https://jobs.gem.com/inception
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/inception-labs-ai/
   ➟ Twitter: @_inception_ai


Ineffable Intelligence (David Silver)https://www.ineffable.ai — London, UK — Making first contact with superintelligence.
   ➟ Careers: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/ineffable/224b677d-a130-4497-90fa-95fb72aa58d7
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/ineffable-intelligence/
   ➟ Twitter: @IneffableLabs


Isara Labshttps://isara.io/ — Palo Alto, CA — Ensure the flourishing of humanity through automating science.
   ➟ Careers: https://airtable.com/appfd6WoGc63iYObw/pagavyWM1HFIZGlb4/form
   ➟ LinkedIn: —
   ➟ Twitter: —


Isomorphic Labshttps://www.isomorphiclabs.com/ — London, UK and Lausanne, Switzerland — We're here to find solutions to the world's most devastating diseases.
   ➟ Careers: https://www.isomorphiclabs.com/job-openings
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/isomorphic-labs/
   ➟ Twitter: @IsomorphicLabs


Kyutaihttps://kyutai.org/ — Paris, France — Kyutai is a non-profit laboratory dedicated to open research in artificial intelligence. Our team is focused on few, high-impact projects at the frontier of current knowledge in generative AI.
   ➟ Careers: https://kyutai.homerun.co/
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/kyutai-labs/
   ➟ Twitter: @kyutai_labs


Lila Scienceshttps://www.lila.ai — Cambridge, MA/San Francisco, CA — Our mission is to build scientific superintelligence to solve humankind's greatest challenges.
   ➟ Careers: https://www.lila.ai/open-roles
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/lila-sciences/
   ➟ Twitter: @LilaSciences


Liquid AIhttps://www.liquid.ai/ — Cambridge, MA/San Francisco, CA — We're building the most capable AI systems to help users access, control, and customize their own solutions, ensuring meaningful, reliable, and efficient integration across every enterprise.
   ➟ Careers: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/liquid-ai
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/liquid-ai-inc/
   ➟ Twitter: @liquidai


Logical Intelligencehttps://logicalintelligence.com/ — San Francisco, CA — Piloting The World's First Energy Based Model for Critical Systems
   ➟ Careers: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/logicalintelligence
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/logical-intelligence/
   ➟ Twitter: @logic_int


Math, Inc.https://www.math.inc/ — Palo Alto, CA — Dedicated to verified superintelligence via autoformalization. Solve math, solve everything.
   ➟ Careers: https://www.math.inc/careers
   ➟ LinkedIn: —
   ➟ Twitter: @mathematics_inc


MBZUAI (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence)https://ifm.ai/ — Abu Dhabi/Paris/Silicon Valley — We create world-class foundation models that redefine what AI can do - globally impactful, scientifically rigorous, and open for collaboration.
   ➟ Affiliation: Institute of Foundation Models (IFM)
   ➟ Affiliation: LLM360
   ➟ Careers: https://ifm.ai/collaborate/
   ➟ LinkedIn: /showcase/institute-of-foundation-models/
   ➟ Twitter: @mbzuai


Mirendil (Ex-Anthropic research team)https://mirendil.com/ — San Francisco, CA — We are a frontier lab building systems that excel at AI R&D.
   ➟ Careers: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mirendil
   ➟ LinkedIn: —
   ➟ Twitter: —


Moonlake AIhttps://moonlakeai.com/ — San Francisco, CA — We build AI that generates world simulations and games.
   ➟ Careers: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Moonlake
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/moonlake-ai/
   ➟ Twitter: @moonlake


Oak Lab (Richard Sutton)https://oaklab.ai/ — Toronto, Canada — Our goal is to discover and implement algorithms that allow agents to achieve goals in big worlds.
   ➟ Careers: hi @ oaklab.ai
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/oaklab-ai
   ➟ Twitter: @oaklab_ai


Periodic Labshttps://periodic.com/ — Menlo Park, CA — Our goal is to create an AI scientist.
   ➟ Careers: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/periodic-labs
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/periodic-labs/
   ➟ Twitter: @periodiclabs


Physical Intelligencehttps://www.physicalintelligence.company/ — San Francisco, CA — Bringing general-purpose AI into the physical world by developing foundation models and learning algorithms to power robots.
   ➟ Careers: https://www.physicalintelligence.company/join-us
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/physical-intelligence
   ➟ Twitter: @physical_int


Poetiqhttps://poetiq.ai/ — Mountain View, CA — At Poetiq, we are taking the fastest path to superintelligence. We believe Recursive Self-Improvement is the holy grail, and we've found a way to make it practical today.
   ➟ Careers: https://poetiq.ai/careers/
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/poetiq/
   ➟ Twitter: @poetiq_ai


Poolsidehttps://poolside.ai/ — San Francisco, CA — We build foundation models to transform how work gets done.
   ➟ Careers: https://poolside.ai/careers
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/poolsideai/
   ➟ Twitter: @poolsideai


PrismMLhttps://prismml.com/ — Pasadena & San Francisco, CA — Solving fundamental research problems around the decades-old quandary: can we massively multiply intelligence in models without increasing their size or complexity?
   ➟ Careers: https://prismml.com/#careers
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/prismml/
   ➟ Twitter: @PrismML


Recursive (Richard Socher)https://www.recursive.com — San Francisco, CA and London, UK — Recursive self-improving superintelligence to automate knowledge discovery.
   ➟ Careers: talent @ recursive
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/recursive-si/
   ➟ Twitter: @Recursive_SI


Ricursive Intelligencehttps://www.ricursive.com/ — Palo Alto, CA - Ricursive Intelligence is a frontier AI Lab focused on building self-improving systems, starting with chip design. We are reinventing chip development and closing the loop between AI and the hardware that fuels it, recursively accelerating the path to artificial superintelligence.
   ➟ Careers: https://www.ricursive.com/careers
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/ricursive-intelligence/
   ➟ Twitter: @RicursiveAI


Sarvamhttps://www.sarvam.ai/ — Bengaluru, Karnataka, India — We're building toward a future where AI is widely accessible to everyone in India.
   ➟ Careers: https://careers.kula.ai/sarvam-ai
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/sarvam-ai/
   ➟ Twitter: @sarvamai


Sooth Labshttps://soothlabs.com — Pittsburgh, PA — World Model for Global Foresight.
   ➟ Careers: —
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/soothlabs/
   ➟ Twitter: @soothlabs


Standard Intelligencehttps://si.inc/ — San Francisco, CA — An aligned AGI lab.
   ➟ Careers: contact @ si.inc
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/standardintelligence/
   ➟ Twitter: @si_pbc


Thomson Reuters and Imperial College London joint Frontier AI Research LabDecember 2025 Press Release — London, UK — The lab will pursue world-leading academic research in artificial intelligence, focusing on foundational challenges in safety and reliability, advancing frontier AI capabilities, and researching the technology's broader societal and economic impact.
   ➟ Careers: —
   ➟ LinkedIn: —
   ➟ Twitter: —


World Labshttps://www.worldlabs.ai/ — San Francisco, CA — World Labs is a frontier AI research and product company. We build foundational world models that can perceive, generate, reason, and interact with the 3D world — unlocking AI's full potential through spatial intelligence by transforming seeing into doing, perceiving into reasoning, and imagining into creating.
   ➟ Careers: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/worldlabs
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/world-labs/
   ➟ Twitter: @theworldlabs





◦◦◦ Older Neolab Headlines

MacPaw Partners with Liquid AI to Bring On-Device AI to Millions of Mac Users — Liquid AI — 05-08-2026


AI Startup Hark Unveils First Product: An Affordable, Fast Computer Use Agent, Hark Handoff — VentureBeat — 05-08-2026


A Poetiq Perspective on Recursive Self-Improvement — Poetiq — 04-08-2026


LFM2.5-2.6B: Deploy Agents Everywhere — Liquid AI — 04-08-2026


(Some of) The Models, They Just Don't Want to Learn [One Layer Deeper Competition w/ Core Automation] — Tilde Research — 03-08-2026


Boston's Liquid AI Is Betting Its Model Can Beat OpenAI, Anthropic — NBC Boston — 03-08-2026


Apple's Hardware Is Ready for On-Device AI and PrismML Just Delivered a Real Breakthrough — The Motley Fool — 03-08-2026


NVIDIA to Lead $74M Series B Extension Round in India's Sarvam AI — DealStreetAsia — 03-08-2026


The Race to Build an American Alternative to Cheap AI From China (Arcee, Poolside) — The Wall Street Journal — 01-08-2026


AI Startup Flapping Airplanes Is In Talks To Raise Funding At A $5 Billion Valuation — Forbes — 31-07-2026


Teaching an Open Model to Do Science — Arcee AI — 30-07-2026


Sarvam To Build Trillion-Parameter AI Model, Launches India-Hosted Inference Service — Inc42 — 30-07-2026


Sarvam Ropes In Mistral Founding Team Member Devendra Chaplot As Adviser — Business Standard — 30-07-2026


More Builders. More Throughput. Better Mercury 2. — Inception Labs — 29-07-2026


DeepMind Dismantles Its AlphaFold Team as Key Authors Leave for Anthropic (Isomorphic Labs) — THE DECODER — 29-07-2026


Introducing Poolside Desktop Assistant, for macOS — Poolside — 28-07-2026


Can AI Automate AI Research? Jerry Tworek on What's Still Missing — AGI House/YouTube — 28-07-2026


Next Billion-Dollar Startups 2026 (Elorian) — Forbes — 28-07-2026


Building Worlds That Train Robots — World Labs — 28-07-2026


Recursive Superintelligence signs $410M compute deal with Amazon — TechCrunch — 28-07-2026


LFM2.5-Encoders: Fast at Long Context, Even on CPU — Liquid AI — 28-07-2026


Our Compute Cost Was Lesser Than DeepSeek, Built 3 Models For $20 Million: India's Sarvam AI — OfficeChai — 27-07-2026


Inside the Model Factory — Eiso Kant, Poolside AI — Latent Space — 23-07-2026


From OpenAI to Core Automation: Jerry Tworek on Reasoning Models and Automated AI Labs — AGI House/YouTube — 22-07-2026


Lionel Messi Invests in AI Startup Backed by Stanford Professor Fei-Fei Li — 36Kr — 22-07-2026


Powering American Science: LILA to Join DOE's Genesis Mission — Lila Sciences — 22-07-2026


Announcing Genesis-Science-1, an Open-Weight Model for Scientific Research - Arcee AI is among one of the first industry partners supporting the new Genesis Mission program. A DOE-hosted contribution portal opens today, with first-round applications due August 6, 2026. — Arcee AI — 22-07-2026


The Anthropic-Physical Intelligence Rumor Roiling AI Twitter — TechCrunch — 21-07-2026


Introducing Laguna S 2.1 — Poolside — 21-07-2026


World Labs Acquires SceniX — Advancing Spatial Intelligence for Robotics — World Labs — 21-07-2026


Rumor from @dimensionalos's open house. It makes an American OS for Chinese robots. Was told that @AnthropicAI is buying @physical_int but deal hasn't closed yet. That was from an investor. — Robert Scoble/Twitter — 17-07-2026


Exclusive: Google bets that AI can stop bioweapons (Isomorphic Labs) — Axios — 16-07-2026


Announcing Bonsai 27B: The First 27B-Class Model to Run on a Phone — PrismML — 14-07-2026


Mercury 2: The First Reasoning Model Fast Enough to Pick Up the Phone — Inception Labs — 14-07-2026


Government Works With Sarvam AI, BharatGen To Develop Mythos-Like Cyber AI Models — Inc42 — 14-07-2026


Simulating everything, sort of: The promise and limits of world models (AMI, World Labs) — Ars Technica — 13-07-2026


Learning from Experience Instead of Curated Datasets — Oak Lab — 13-07-2026


I can't say enough good things about John Carmack @ID_AA_Carmack and his Keen Technologies. But now Khurram Javed @kjaved_ and I have broken away to start our own startup and pursue a slightly different path toward understanding intelligence. (Oak Lab) — Richard Sutton/Twitter — 13-07-2026


The 4-bitter Lesson: Balancing Stability and Performance in NVFP4 RL — humans& — 10-07-2026


MuScriptor — Kyutai — 10-07-2026


Startup PrismML Shrinks a Large AI Model for Use in Apple's iPhone — Seeking Alpha — 09-07-2026


Pascale Fung, Chief Research and Innovation Officer at AMI Labs Presents Keynote at the ICML Conference held in Korea — Maeil Business Newspaper — 08-07-2026


Liquid AI: US AI Unicorn Enters the German Market via Partner Vago Solutions — Trending Topics — 08-07-2026


Reducing Doom Loops with Final Token Preference Optimization — Liquid AI — 07-07-2026


MIRA: Multiplayer Interactive World Models with Representation Autoencoders — Kyutai & General Intuition — 06-07-2026


Bihar Partners with Google, Microsoft, CoRover, and Sarvam AI to Accelerate AI-Driven Governance — CXO DigitalPulse — 04-07-2026


Introducing Laguna XS 2.1 — Poolside — 02-07-2026


People can command Sarvam AI in their own language: Co-Founder Vivek Raghavan — News On AIR — 01-07-2026


Surflo: consistent 3D surfaces from a global state — Kyutai — 01-07-2026


IFStruct: Measuring structured-output compliance — Liquid AI — 30-06-2026


LFM2.5-230M: Built to Run Anywhere — Liquid AI — 25-06-2026


From Fortnite to robots: General Intuition raises $2.3B on bet that video games can train AI agents for the real world — TechCrunch — 25-06-2026


Anthropic Veterans' Startup Seeks to Help Scientists Develop Their Own AI (Mirendil) — Wall Street Journal — 24-06-2026


Building the Agent-Driven Era of Science with NVIDIA BioNeMo Agent Toolkit — Lila Sciences — 22-06-2026


Introducing Mercury Edit 2 — Inception Labs — 22-06-2026


ARC Prize Foundation + General Intuition We're grateful to announce that @gen_intuition has donated $1,001,337 to support the development of ARC-AGI-4 Thank you @PimDeWitte, @EloiAlonso1, @AdamJelley2, and @micheli_vincent for helping push open AGI benchmarking forward — ARC Prize/Twitter — 22-06-2026


poolside/Laguna-M.1 — HuggingFace — 18-06-2026


General Intuition in Talks to Raise $300M at Around $2B Valuation — TechCrunch — 18-06-2026


LFM2.5 Retrievers: Bi-directional LFMs for Fast Multilingual Search — Liquid AI — 18-06-2026


The AI Blind Spot No One at the Big Labs Has Solved (Elorian) — The Neuron/YouTube — 17-06-2026


Ineffable Intelligence Selects Google Cloud To Power Its Superintelligence Mission — Google Cloud Press Corner — 16-06-2026


Sarvam Becomes AI Unicorn After Massive $234M Funding Round — SQ Magazine — 15-06-2026


First Steps Toward Automated AI Research — Recursive — 11-06-2026


Yann LeCun: World Models: Enabling the Next AI Revolution — YouTube — 09-06-2026


Arcee Becomes the First Major American AI Lab to Replace AWS S3 with Hugging Face Private Storage, in a Multi-Million Dollar Commercial Partnership — Hugging Face — 09-06-2026


Sarvam AI Launches New Multilingual Foundation Models to Advance India's Indigenous AI Ecosystem — CXO DigitalPulse — 09-06-2026


 

Sarvam AI Slashes Vision API Pricing By 67%, Bringing Document Digitisation Within Reach For Indian Enterprises — Free Press Journal — 05-06-2026


Exclusive: Sarvam AI To Open Voice AI Agents Platform For Public Use — Inc42 — 05-06-2026


Automatic Formal Verification for Code Generation — Logical Intelligence — 03-06-2026


Lila Sciences Said in Talks for Funds at $8.5 Billion Valuation — Bloomberg — 03-06-2026


'Close to the Terminator narrative': the dawn of self-improving AI (Recursive) — Financial Times — 03-06-2026


A Functional Taxonomy of World Models — Dr. Fei-Fei Li (World Labs) — 03-06-2026


Trinity is Moving to OpenMDW-1.1 — Arcee AI — 29-05-2026


When AI Starts Writing Systems Code — Core Automation — 28-05-2026


PrismML Releases Bonsai Image 4B — PRNewswire — 26-05-2026


HMD Vibe 2 5G to Launch in India on May 21 with Sarvam AI — MSN/Gadgets360 — 21-05-2026


Hark raises $700M Series A for its secretive "universal" AI interface — TechCrunch — 21-05-2026


KE:SAI is moving in: Kyutai and ELLIS Institute Tübingen launch open-science AI lab — Kyutai — 20-05-2026


HCLTech Likely to Lead Sarvam AI's $300 Million Funding Round at $1.5 Billion Valuation — Ascendants — 19-05-2026


Lila Sciences — #25 on CNBC Disruptor 50 2026 — CNBC — 19-05-2026


Aleph Reaches State-of-the-Art Across the Leading Formal Reasoning Benchmarks as Verified Code Generation Nears Reality — Logical Intelligence — 14-05-2026


Microsoft is quietly shopping for an OpenAI replacement (Inception) — The Next Web — 14-05-2026


We are emerging from stealth with a bold bet on self-improving AI — Recursive Superintelligence — 13-05-2026


NVIDIA, Ineffable Intelligence Team Up to Build the Future of Reinforcement Learning Infrastructure — Ineffable Intelligence — 13-05-2026


Isomorphic Labs announces Series B investment round — Isomorphic Labs — 12-05-2026


Recursive Self-Improvement Edges Closer In AI Labs (Ricursive Intelligence & Others) — IEEE Spectrum — 11-05-2026


Pixxel, Sarvam Launch India's First Orbital AI Satellite — Telecom Review Asia — 08-05-2026


Google's Isomorphic Labs to Raise Over $2 Billion in New Funding — Bloomberg — 08-05-2026


Ex-OpenAI Researcher's Six-Week-Old Startup Targets Funding at $4 Billion Valuation (Core Automation) — The Information — 07-05-2026


Former OpenAI Researcher To Raise $500 Million For AI Science Startup (Periodic Labs) — Forbes — 07-05-2026


Data is the Real AI Bottleneck, Say Flapping Airplanes Founders — StartupHub.ai — 06-05-2026


Ex-OpenAI researchers' Humans& raises $480M: Can it beat Thinking Machines Lab? — Tech Funding News — 05-05-2026


Standard Intelligence Rides Neolab Fervor with Computer Use Model — The Information — 30-04-2026


American AI Startup Poolside Launches Free, High-Performing Open Model Laguna XS.2 for Local Agentic Coding — VentureBeat — 28-04-2026


DeepMind's David Silver Just Raised $1.1B to Build an AI That Learns Without Human Data (Ineffable Intelligence) — TechCrunch — 27-04-2026


The Man Behind AlphaGo Thinks AI Is Taking the Wrong Path (Ineffable Intelligence) — Wired — 27-04-2026


Cohere and Aleph Alpha agree $20bn transatlantic AI tie-up — Financial Times — 24-04-2026


AI Pioneers Back Startup Building Models to Predict Events (Sooth Labs) — Bloomberg — 22-04-2026


New AI Lab Core Automation 'Nerdsniped' Researchers From Anthropic, Google DeepMind — Business Insider — 21-04-2026


Months-old start-up Recursive Superintelligence raises $500mn for self-teaching AI — Financial Times — 18-04-2026


A New AI Tool Could Transform How We Diagnose Genetic Diseases (Goodfire AI) — Time — 14-04-2026


Helical Closes $10M Seed to Turn Bio Foundation Models Into Systems — TNW — 14-04-2026


Ex-Google DeepMind Researchers Debut Startup Called Elorian Focused on Visual AI — Bloomberg — 09-04-2026


I can't help rooting for tiny, open-source AI model-maker Arcee — TechCrunch — 07-04-2026


India AI Startup Sarvam Raises Funds at $1.5 Billion Valuation — Bloomberg — 02-04-2026


Trinity-Large-Thinking: Scaling an Open Source Frontier Agent — Arcee AI — 01-04-2026


Caltech Researchers Claim Radical Compression of High-Fidelity AI Models (PrismML) — The Wall Street Journal — 31-03-2026


Brett Adcock: Hark to open new office with fabrication and hardware labs in three months — Traders Union — 28-03-2026


Physical Intelligence is reportedly in talks to raise $1 billion — again — TechCrunch — 27-03-2026


AI Science Startup Periodic Labs Is in Deal Talks at About $7 Billion Valuation — Bloomberg — 25-03-2026


Yann LeCun Raises $1 Billion to Build AI That Understands the Physical World — Wired — 18-03-2026


Standard Intelligence Launches FDM-1, AI System Capable Of Learning Complex Computer Tasks From Video — MEXC News — 25-02-2026


World Labs lands $200M from Autodesk to bring 'world models' into 3D workflows — TechCrunch — 18-02-2026


New AI startup Ineffable Intelligence reportedly raising $1B funding round — SiliconANGLE — 18-02-2026


How Ricursive Intelligence raised $335M at a $4B valuation in 4 months — TechCrunch — 16-02-2026


Google's AI drug discovery spinoff Isomorphic Labs claims major leap beyond AlphaFold 3 — THE DECODER — 10-02-2026


Startup Goodfire Notches $1.25 Billion Valuation to Decode AI Models — Bloomberg — 05-02-2026


Poetiq nabs $45.8M seed funding for its LLM-enhancing 'meta-system' — SiliconANGLE — 30-01-2026


Flapping Airplanes Raises $180M to Challenge AI Scaling Dogma — TechBuzz — 29-01-2026


Ex-OpenAI Researchers' Startup Targets $1 Billion Funding to Develop New Type of AI — The Information — 28-01-2026


Silicon Valley Wants to Build A.I. That Can Improve A.I. on Its Own (Ricursive Intelligence) — The New York Times — 26-01-2026


AI Startup Recursive in Funding Talks at $4 Billion Valuation — Bloomberg — 23-01-2026


Logical Intelligence brings LeCun on board as it touts AI breakthrough — Financial Times — 21-01-2026


He Left OpenAI to Think Bigger: Jerry Tworek — Core Memory — 21-01-2026


Kyutai unveils Invincible Voice: artificial intelligence in the service of human connection — iliad Group — 21-01-2026


AI startup Humans raises $480 million at $4.5 billion valuation in seed round — Reuters — 20-01-2026


MIT offshoot Liquid AI releases blueprint for enterprise-grade small-model training — VentureBeat — 01-12-2025


Robinhood CEO's math-focused AI startup Harmonic valued at $1.45 billion in latest fundraise — Reuters — 25-11-2025


General Intuition lands $134M seed to teach agents spatial reasoning using video game clips — TechCrunch — 16-10-2025


AI lab Lila Sciences tops $13 billion valuation with new Nvidia backing — Reuters — 14-10-2025




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