The AI lab mafias: who founded which NeoLab
Pick any company or university below to see the NeoLabs its former researchers founded, on one graph, and compare it with others side by side. DeepMind alumni have founded 37 of the 102 labs we track; OpenAI alumni 11, Meta alumni 13 and Anthropic alumni 3. A lab founded by people from two of the companies you pick sits between them. Node size is valuation.
Compare origins
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one selected origin two or more selected origins also has founders from an unselected origin. Hover a node for the full lineage; click to open the lab.
Labs spawned per origin
Count of labs with at least one founder from the organisation, and the disclosed capital those labs raised.
Origin is the prior employer named in the founding announcement, normalised so that Google Brain and DeepMind read as one. Universities count when the founder came straight from a lab there. A founder with no stated origin is not drawn.