AI Companies & Research Labs

AI Labs

32 providers building the models you use every day. Explore their full catalog, compare pricing, and start chatting.

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OpenAI

51 models

Creator of GPT-4o, o1, and DALL-E. Pioneered large-scale language models and RLHF alignment.

Founded 2015
Headquarters San Francisco, CA
Models 51
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Qwen (Alibaba)

39 models

Alibaba Cloud's model team. Builds the Qwen series covering text, vision, code, and audio.

Founded 2023
Headquarters Hangzhou, China
Models 39
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Mistral AI

27 models

European AI lab building efficient open-weight models. Known for Mixtral MoE architecture and multilingual strength.

Founded 2023
Headquarters Paris, France
Models 27
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Google DeepMind

19 models

Builds Gemini and PaLM models at Google DeepMind. Leads in multimodal AI and long-context research.

Founded 2023
Headquarters London / Mountain View
Models 19
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Meta

15 models

Releases the open-weight Llama model family. Largest contributor to open-source foundation models.

Founded 2004
Headquarters Menlo Park, CA
Models 15
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Anthropic

12 models

Safety-focused lab behind the Claude model family. Known for Constitutional AI and long-context capabilities.

Founded 2021
Headquarters San Francisco, CA
Models 12
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DeepSeek

10 models

Chinese AI lab producing high-performance open-weight models. Strong in coding and mathematical reasoning.

Founded 2023
Headquarters Hangzhou, China
Models 10
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xAI

8 models

Elon Musk's AI company building Grok. Trained on real-time data with a focus on truthfulness and wit.

Founded 2023
Headquarters Austin, TX
Models 8
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Zhipu AI

8 models

Chinese AI company behind the GLM model family. Strong in bilingual Chinese-English tasks and tool use.

Founded 2019
Headquarters Beijing, China
Models 8
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Allen Institute for AI

7 models

Non-profit research institute building truly open AI. Known for OLMo and Tulu models with fully released training data, code, and weights.

Founded 2014
Headquarters Seattle, WA
Models 7
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MiniMax

6 models

Chinese AI startup building multimodal models for content creation, voice, and video generation.

Founded 2021
Headquarters Shanghai, China
Models 6
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Amazon

5 models

Develops the Nova model family for AWS Bedrock. Optimized for enterprise workloads and AWS integration.

Founded 1994
Headquarters Seattle, WA
Models 5
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Perplexity

5 models

AI search company with models tuned for real-time information retrieval and citation-grounded answers.

Founded 2022
Headquarters San Francisco, CA
Models 5
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Nous Research

5 models

Open-source AI research lab known for the Hermes model family. Specializes in reasoning, function calling, and hybrid thinking modes.

Founded 2023
Headquarters New York, NY
Models 5
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Baidu

5 models

Chinese tech giant behind the ERNIE model family. Operates Wenxin Yiyan (ERNIE Bot), one of China's most widely used AI assistants.

Founded 2000
Headquarters Beijing, China
Models 5
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Cohere

4 models

Enterprise-focused lab specializing in RAG, embeddings, and multilingual models for business use cases.

Founded 2019
Headquarters Toronto, Canada
Models 4
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Moonshot AI

4 models

Chinese AI company behind Kimi. Specializes in ultra-long context windows and document understanding.

Founded 2023
Headquarters Beijing, China
Models 4
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Arcee AI

4 models

Open-intelligence lab building efficient foundation models for edge, on-prem, and cloud. Pioneers model merging techniques.

Founded 2023
Headquarters Miami, FL
Models 4
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Aion Labs

4 models

AI lab building powerful reasoning models via API. Known for Aion-1.0, a multi-model reasoning system using Tree of Thoughts and MoE.

Founded 2024
Headquarters Unknown
Models 4
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NVIDIA

3 models

Builds Nemotron models optimized for NVIDIA hardware. Leading GPU maker powering most AI training.

Founded 1993
Headquarters Santa Clara, CA
Models 3
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ByteDance Seed

3 models

ByteDance's AI research division behind Seedream and Doubao models. Builds multimodal and generative AI for TikTok's parent company.

Founded 2023
Headquarters Beijing, China
Models 3
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Microsoft

2 models

Develops the Phi series of small efficient models and MAI for enterprise. Major investor in OpenAI.

Founded 1975
Headquarters Redmond, WA
Models 2
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Inflection AI

2 models

Built Pi, a personal AI assistant. Focus on emotionally intelligent and conversational AI systems.

Founded 2022
Headquarters Palo Alto, CA
Models 2
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Liquid AI

2 models

MIT CSAIL spin-off building Liquid Foundation Models, a novel architecture with reduced memory requirements designed to work at every scale.

Founded 2023
Headquarters Boston, MA
Models 2
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Inception

2 models

AI lab pioneering diffusion-based large language models. Known for Mercury, the first commercial-scale diffusion LLM with 5-10x faster generation.

Founded 2024
Headquarters Palo Alto, CA
Models 2
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AI21 Labs

1 model

Builds the Jamba architecture combining Mamba SSM with Transformers. Focus on enterprise NLP applications.

Founded 2017
Headquarters Tel Aviv, Israel
Models 1
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Writer

1 model

Enterprise AI platform with proprietary Palmyra models built for business writing and content workflows.

Founded 2020
Headquarters San Francisco, CA
Models 1
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Deep Cogito

1 model

European AI lab building the Cogito model family. Combines hybrid training with reasoning and multilingual capabilities.

Founded 2024
Headquarters Europe
Models 1
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EleutherAI

1 model

Non-profit open-source AI research institute. Created GPT-J, GPT-NeoX, the Pythia model suite, and The Pile dataset.

Founded 2020
Headquarters Washington, DC
Models 1
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Xiaomi

1 model

Chinese tech giant whose AI team builds the MiMo family of open-source language models with strong math and code reasoning.

Founded 2010
Headquarters Beijing, China
Models 1
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IBM Granite

1 model

IBM Research's open-source Granite model family built for enterprise. Strong in code generation, summarization, and RAG applications.

Founded 1945
Headquarters Armonk, NY
Models 1
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Tencent

1 model

Chinese tech giant behind the Hunyuan model series covering text, image, video, and multimodal generation across Tencent's ecosystem.

Founded 1998
Headquarters Shenzhen, China
Models 1

The AI Labs Building Today's Models

Understanding who builds the models helps you pick the right one.

Frontier labs

OpenAI (GPT-4o, o1), Anthropic (Claude), and Google DeepMind (Gemini) lead on general-purpose benchmarks and multimodal capabilities. They invest billions in training runs and offer managed APIs with built-in safety layers.

Open-source leaders

Meta (Llama), Mistral AI, DeepSeek, and Alibaba (Qwen) release open-weight models you can self-host, fine-tune, and inspect. These labs have narrowed the gap with proprietary models while enabling full control over deployment and data privacy.

Specialists & newcomers

Focused labs like Cohere (enterprise RAG), AI21 (Jamba architecture), and xAI (Grok) target specific niches. Newer entrants regularly push the state of the art in coding, math, or multilingual tasks at lower cost.

Why provider choice matters

Each lab has different strengths, pricing structures, data policies, and rate limits. Comparing models within and across providers helps you find the best balance of quality, cost, and compliance for your use case.

Provider data is sourced from OpenRouter. Model counts reflect actively available models. Click any lab to explore their full model catalog with pricing, benchmarks, and instant chat.