Research organizations
A non-exhaustive directory of organizations doing significant research on AGI, AI safety, and the science of intelligence.
DeepMind
Frontier AI research; reinforcement learning; AlphaFold; scientific discovery.
OpenAI
Large language and reasoning models; alignment; broad deployment.
Anthropic
Frontier models with a research focus on AI safety, interpretability, and constitutional AI.
Meta AI (FAIR)
Open research across vision, language, embodied agents, and generative models.
Microsoft Research
Foundational AI research; reasoning; multimodal systems; deployment.
MIT CSAIL
Computer science and AI research across robotics, learning, vision, and HCI.
MIT Media Lab
Interdisciplinary research on the future of human-machine interaction.
Stanford HAI
Human-Centered AI - research and policy on AI's impact on people and society.
UC Berkeley CHAI
Center for Human-Compatible AI - foundational work on AI alignment.
Allen Institute for AI (AI2)
Open scientific research; reasoning and reading systems.
MIRI
Machine Intelligence Research Institute - long-running work on AGI safety theory.
Future of Humanity Institute (legacy)
Influential research on existential risk and the long-term future of intelligence.
ARC (Alignment Research Center)
Theoretical alignment research and dangerous-capability evaluation.
NIST AI Safety Institute
US government work on AI evaluation, standards, and risk.
UK AI Security Institute
Government research on advanced AI safety and evaluations.
NVIDIA Research
AI compute, generative models, simulation, and robotics.