NeoLabsAn index of research-first AI labs
The ledger · 102 labs · updated Oct 9, 2026

Track every NeoLab: who founded it, who funds it, what it ships

A NeoLab is an AI research company started by people who left DeepMind, Meta, OpenAI and xAI or a top university lab, usually valued at a billion dollars or more before it sells anything. We track 102 of them: what each is building, where it is, how much it has raised and from whom, and whether anyone outside can use what it makes. Everything refreshes every three days, and every number links to its source. See which labs came from where.

102labs tracked
$37Bdisclosed capital raised
$200Breported valuations, summed
95investors on the map
480news items

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Oct 9, 2026Series A

TypeSafe AI

$870Mat $7.5B

Machine-native, composable AI: Jev, a 'System One' model priced per billion tokens, 100x cheaper than LLMs.

San Francisco, USex-OpenAI
Oct 7, 2026Series B

Nous Research

$90Mat $1.5B

Open-source Hermes models and decentralised training (Psyche).

New York, US·
Sep 30, 2026Series B

General Intuition

$220Mat $6.2B

Action and world models trained on Medal's two billion gameplay videos, for agents that need spatial and temporal reasoning.

New York, USex-Medal, ex-Geneva, ex-Edinburgh
Sep 16, 2026Seed

Noetive

$41M

An industrial AI model for physical industries: a self-improving operational-intelligence platform; incubated by Eclipse.

Palo Alto, USex-Meta, ex-Netlify
Sep 1, 2026Series C

Applied Compute

$350Mat $3.25B

Reinforcement learning as a service: a cheaper, more open alternative for enterprises; ~$50M ARR.

San Francisco, USex-OpenAI
Aug 26, 2026Series A

Deep Cogito

$43M

Open-weight hybrid reasoning models built by iterated distillation and amplification; post-training for self-improvement.

San Francisco, USex-Google DeepMind

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Superintelligence & frontier generalists

2labs

Long-horizon labs aiming at AGI or superintelligence, usually with no near-term product.

Safe Superintelligence, Thinking Machines Lab

Self-improving AI & automated research

14labs

Systems that run the experiments: AI that does AI research, recursive self-improvement.

Ineffable Intelligence, Recursive Superintelligence, Mirendil, Core Automation…

World models & simulation

11labs

Models that learn physics and 3D structure from video and interaction, for games, robots and simulation.

General Intuition, World Labs, Decart, AMI Labs…

Robotics & physical AI

12labs

Robot foundation models and general-purpose physical intelligence.

Skild AI, Physical Intelligence, Generalist AI, Dyna Robotics…

AI for science & materials

7labs

Autonomous labs, AI scientists, materials and molecular discovery.

Lila Sciences, Periodic Labs, CuspAI, Edison Scientific…

Reasoning, math & verification

6labs

Formal proofs, autoformalisation and verified reasoning.

Harmonic, Axiom Math, Logical Intelligence, Math Inc…

Coding & software agents

3labs

Code models and agents built as research labs rather than dev-tool startups.

Poolside, Cognition, Magic

Computer use & agents

4labs

Models that act on screens and in software, trained from demonstrations.

Isara, Standard Intelligence, H Company, Prentis

Open frontier models

11labs

Labs whose route to market is open weights and open training stacks.

Reflection AI, Applied Compute, Nous Research, Essential AI…

New architectures & efficiency

10labs

Diffusion LLMs, state-space models, category theory, continual learning, data efficiency.

TypeSafe AI, Sakana AI, Liquid AI, Fundamental…

Compute & chips

5labs

Labs whose thesis is the substrate: chip design, neuromorphic hardware, kernels.

Unconventional AI, Ricursive Intelligence, Inferact, RadixArk…

Human-centric & personal AI

3labs

Models designed around people, relationships and personal context.

Hark, Humans&, River AI

Voice, video & media

4labs

Generative voice, image and video labs with a research-first posture.

Luma AI, Black Forest Labs, Cartesia, Kyutai

Biology & drug discovery

6labs

Protein design, molecular structure and AI-first drug discovery.

Chai Discovery, Merge Labs, EvolutionaryScale, Isomorphic Labs…

Safety & interpretability

4labs

Mechanistic interpretability, oversight and non-agentic AI, often as a public-benefit company or nonprofit.

Goodfire, Irregular, LawZero, Transluce

Three exits from stealth. The essay this site grew out of argues that a lab exits obscurity for three different buyers, talent, capital and customers, and each needs different proof. The tables here track the third: what each lab has released, who can use it, and whether anyone stays. Read it on gtmascode.dev. Robotics labs also appear on the sister site, Robotics Papers.