Research Lab

Compare the 19 companies in Research Lab — independently verified, re-verified on a rolling schedule, graded on capability, pricing and compliance.

What is in Research Lab

HokAI tracks 19 active tools in Research Lab.

Research Lab — Companies

  • AI21 Labs — AI21 Labs, founded in 2017 in Tel Aviv by Yoav Shoham and Amnon Shashua, builds Jamba and Wordtune and raised $636M at $1.4B valuation (May 2025).
  • Ai2 — Seattle nonprofit AI institute behind the Olmo, Molmo and OlmoEarth models, with 50M+ Hugging Face downloads since spring 2024 (Ai2-reported).
  • Aleph Alpha — Aleph Alpha develops multimodal language models processing text and images with emphasis on interpretability and European values. Founded in Germany, the company focuses on explainable AI for enterprises.
  • Anthropic — Anthropic is a Public Benefit Corporation started by 7 ex-OpenAI researchers. It builds the Claude model family and counts Amazon and Google among its largest backers.
  • Barcelona Supercomputing Center — Spain's national supercomputing centre in Barcelona. It hosts a pre-exascale EuroHPC machine and releases free Salamandra and ALIA language models.
  • Cohere — Cohere, founded in 2019 in Toronto by ex-Google researchers, builds Command, Embed, and Rerank models and raised $1.54B at $7B valuation (Sep 2025).
  • DeepSeek — DeepSeek is a Chinese AI research company developing frontier language and reasoning models, including DeepSeek V4-Pro. Founded by High-Flyer hedge fund CEO Liang Wenfeng in 2023, the company is known for achieving GPT-level performance at dramatically lower compute and API cost.
  • Google DeepMind — Alphabet's AI research lab, created from DeepMind and Google Brain. It makes the Gemini, Gemma and AlphaFold models, and its newest frontier model is still limited to partners.
  • Hanno Labs — Hanno Labs is an applied AI lab for regulated industries, with open legal retrieval models (Dinghy Law), the Bosun judge model, and products Standd and Hey Lefty.
  • InclusionAI — Ant Group's open AGI lab behind the MIT-licensed Ling, Ring and Ming model families, and the new Ling-3.1-flash preview.
  • LG AI Research — LG AI Research is the Seoul-based AI lab behind the EXAONE model family, including the open-weight K-EXAONE flagship released in July 2026.
  • MiniMax — Listed in Hong Kong since January 2026 and controlled by founder Yan Junjie, MiniMax builds the MiniMax M3 language model and the open-weight H3 video model from its Shanghai base.
  • Mistral AI — Paris lab behind Mistral Large 4 (1T parameters, preview Oct 2026) and Vibe, Studio, Forge and Compute. Raised a €3B Series D at over €21B in Sept 2026.
  • Moonshot AI — Beijing AI lab founded in 2023 by Yang Zhilin, maker of Kimi and the open-weight Kimi K2 models, valued at $20B in 2026.
  • Ndea — San Francisco AI research lab pursuing AGI via program synthesis, led by Keras creator Francois Chollet and Zapier veteran Mike Knoop, team of about 15.
  • OpenAI — OpenAI builds ChatGPT, the GPT-6 family (Astra, Sol, Luna), Codex and the OpenAI API. It reports 1.2B weekly ChatGPT users and an $852B valuation after its March 2026 round.
  • Stability AI — Stability AI, founded 2019 in London, built Stable Diffusion, an open-source image model downloaded 350M times, with $225M raised and a $1B valuation.
  • Z.ai — Z.ai (formerly Zhipu AI) is a Beijing lab behind the GLM model family, founded 2019 and listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (2513) since January 2026.
  • xAI — Elon Musk's AI company (roughly 4,000 to 4,900 employees) builds the Grok models and merged into SpaceX, taking the combined business public on Nasdaq as the largest IPO on record.

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