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Neolab and Emerging AI Lab Tracker

January 2026 (Updated April 2026)

A 2026 directory of neolabs, stealth labs, and emerging AI labs worldwide.
Note: Scroll below the headlines for the lab directory.

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• 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 — 10-02-2025		• 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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◦◦◦ Neolab list

• 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 Alpha — https://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 Labs — https://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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   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/antimlabs
   ➟ Twitter: @AntimLabs


• Arcee AI — https://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 AI — https://dphn.ai/ — Decentralized — Dolphin is a project dedicated to pushing the boundaries of AI model development and distributed inference.
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• Flapping Airplanes — https://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 Intuition — https://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


• Grafton Sciences — https://www.graftonsciences.com/ — San Francisco & Redwood City, CA — Building systems of general physical ability to enable superintelligence
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• 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


• Harmonic — https://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


• Inception — https://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) — — London, UK —
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   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/ineffable-intelligence/
   ➟ Twitter: @IneffableLabs


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


• Kyutai — https://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 Sciences — https://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 AI — https://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 Intelligence — https://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.
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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


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


• Periodic Labs — https://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 Intelligence — https://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


• Poetiq — https://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


• PrismML — https://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) — — —
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• Ricursive Intelligence — https://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


• Sarvam — https://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


• Standard Intelligence — https://si.inc/ — San Francisco, CA — An aligned AGI lab.
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   ➟ Twitter: @si_pbc


• Thomson Reuters and Imperial College London joint Frontier AI Research Lab — December 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 Labs — https://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


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