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Neolab and Emerging AI Lab Tracker

January 2026 (Updated February 2026)



A 2026 directory of neolabs, stealth labs, and emerging AI labs worldwide.



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: hiring @ amilabs.zyz
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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://aleph-alpha.com/career/
   ➟ 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.
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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) — —
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Dolphin AIhttps://dphn.ai/ — Decentralized — Dolphin is a project dedicated to pushing the boundaries of AI model development and distributed inference.
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Flapping Airplaneshttps://flappingairplanes.com/ — Flapping Airplanes is a foundational AI research lab currently in stealth devoted to solving the data efficiency problem.
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General Intuitionhttps://www.generalintuition.com/ — New York, NY/Geneva, Switzerland — The frontier research lab dedicated to games—and the real world.
   ➟ Careers: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/medal
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/generalintuition/
   ➟ Twitter: @gen_intuition


Grafton Scienceshttps://www.graftonsciences.com/ — San Francisco & Redwood City, CA — Building systems of general physical ability to enable superintelligence
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Hark (Brett Adcock) — —
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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


Humans&https://humansand.ai/ — San Francisco, CA — We are forging the world's most advanced mathematical reasoning engine.
   ➟ Careers: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/humans-and/3daf12ad-471f-43ba-b940-8552e9ad61aa
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/humansand/
   ➟ Twitter: @humansand


Ineffable Intelligence (David Silver) — London, UK —
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Isara Labshttps://isara.io/ — Palo Alto, CA — Ensure the flourishing of humanity through automating science.
   ➟ Careers: https://airtable.com/appfd6WoGc63iYObw/pagavyWM1HFIZGlb4/form
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Kytaihttps://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
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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
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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


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


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


Recursive (Richard Socher) — —
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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
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Standard Intelligencehttps://si.inc/ — San Francisco, CA — An aligned AGI lab.
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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.
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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/
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