NeoLabs by research area
What the 102 labs are betting on, grouped into 15 research areas by each lab's own stated thesis. Open an area to see its labs, how much they have raised and the latest news about them.
Superintelligence & frontier generalists
Long-horizon labs aiming at AGI or superintelligence, usually with no near-term product.
Safe Superintelligence, Thinking Machines Lab
Self-improving AI & automated research
Systems that run the experiments: AI that does AI research, recursive self-improvement.
Ineffable Intelligence, Recursive Superintelligence, Mirendil, Core Automation, Engram and 9 more
World models & simulation
Models that learn physics and 3D structure from video and interaction, for games, robots and simulation.
General Intuition, World Labs, Decart, AMI Labs, Simile and 6 more
Robotics & physical AI
Robot foundation models and general-purpose physical intelligence.
Skild AI, Physical Intelligence, Generalist AI, Dyna Robotics, Project Prometheus and 7 more
AI for science & materials
Autonomous labs, AI scientists, materials and molecular discovery.
Lila Sciences, Periodic Labs, CuspAI, Edison Scientific, Orbital and 2 more
Reasoning, math & verification
Formal proofs, autoformalisation and verified reasoning.
Harmonic, Axiom Math, Logical Intelligence, Math Inc, Ndea and 1 more
Coding & software agents
Code models and agents built as research labs rather than dev-tool startups.
Poolside, Cognition, Magic
Computer use & agents
Models that act on screens and in software, trained from demonstrations.
Isara, Standard Intelligence, H Company, Prentis
Open frontier models
Labs whose route to market is open weights and open training stacks.
Reflection AI, Applied Compute, Nous Research, Essential AI, Prime Intellect and 6 more
New architectures & efficiency
Diffusion LLMs, state-space models, category theory, continual learning, data efficiency.
TypeSafe AI, Sakana AI, Liquid AI, Fundamental, Flapping Airplanes and 5 more
Compute & chips
Labs whose thesis is the substrate: chip design, neuromorphic hardware, kernels.
Unconventional AI, Ricursive Intelligence, Inferact, RadixArk, QUTWO
Human-centric & personal AI
Models designed around people, relationships and personal context.
Hark, Humans&, River AI
Voice, video & media
Generative voice, image and video labs with a research-first posture.
Luma AI, Black Forest Labs, Cartesia, Kyutai
Biology & drug discovery
Protein design, molecular structure and AI-first drug discovery.
Chai Discovery, Merge Labs, EvolutionaryScale, Isomorphic Labs, Latent Labs and 1 more
Safety & interpretability
Mechanistic interpretability, oversight and non-agentic AI, often as a public-benefit company or nonprofit.
Goodfire, Irregular, LawZero, Transluce