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US-based companies in AI Neolabs
75%
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🇮🇳India
7 founders
5 companies
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8 founders
7 companies
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Roze

Tokyo, Japan

Founders
  • Masayoshi Son
    Japan
Details
Known for
Planned SoftBank robotics-AI company
Space
Robotics
Valuation
$100B*
Year founded
2026
Thinking Machines Lab

San Francisco, CA

Founders
  • Mira Murati
    Albania
  • John Schulman
    United States
  • Barrett Zoph
    United States
  • Lilian Weng
    China Mainland
  • Andrew Tulloch
    Australia
  • Luke Metz
    United States
Details
Known for
Huge seed; ex-OpenAI CTO; PyTorch founder
Space
Frontier lab
Valuation
$50B*
Year founded
2025
Project Prometheus

Seattle, WA

Founders
  • Jeff Bezos
    United States
  • Vik Bajaj
    Canada
Details
Known for
Jeff Bezos' AI operating role; physical economy
Space
Robotics
Valuation
$38B
Year founded
2025
SSI (Safe Superintelligence)

Palo Alto, CA

Founders
  • Ilya Sutskever
    Russia
  • Daniel Gross
    Israel
  • Daniel Levy
    United States
Details
Known for
OpenAI founder; huge valuation; secrecy
Space
Frontier lab
Valuation
$32B
Year founded
2024
Reflection AI

New York, NY

Founders
  • Misha Laskin
    Russia
  • Ioannis Antonoglou
    Greece
Details
Known for
American open-source models by ex-DeepMind
Space
Frontier lab — Open source
Valuation
$25B*
Year founded
2025
Skild AI

Pittsburgh, PA

Founders
  • Deepak Pathak
    India
  • Abhinav Gupta
    India
Details
Known for
Robotic foundation models by CMU professors
Space
Robotics
Valuation
$14B
Year founded
2023
Poolside

Paris, France

Founders
  • Jason Warner
    United States
  • Eiso Kant
    Netherlands
Details
Known for
GitHub Copilot lineage
Space
Frontier lab — Coding
Valuation
$12B*
Year founded
2023
Physical Intelligence

San Francisco, CA

Founders
  • Sergey Levine
    United States
  • Karol Hausman
    Poland
  • Lachy Groom
    Australia
Details
Known for
Stanford / Google robotics researchers
Space
Robotics
Valuation
$11B*
Year founded
2024
Periodic Labs

San Francisco, CA

Founders
  • Liam Fedus
    United States
  • Ekin Dogus Cubuk
    Turkey
Details
Known for
ex-OpenAI VP; ex-DeepMind materials lead
Space
Bio — Materials
Valuation
$7B*
Year founded
2025
Ineffable Intelligence

London, UK

Founders
  • David Silver
    UK
Details
Known for
AlphaGo/AlphaZero RL lead; Europe's largest seed
Space
Frontier lab
Valuation
$5.1B
Year founded
2026
World Labs

San Francisco, CA

Founders
  • Christoph Lassner
    Germany
  • Fei-Fei Li
    China Mainland
  • Ben Mildenhall
    United States
  • Justin Johnson
    United States
Details
Known for
Stanford AI professor building world models
Space
World models
Valuation
$5B
Year founded
2024
Recursive Superintelligence

San Francisco, CA

Founders
  • Richard Socher
    Germany
  • Tim Rocktäschel
    Germany
  • Josh Tobin
    United States
  • Jeff Clune
    Canada · United States
Details
Known for
Self-improving AI; four-month-old $500M+ raise
Space
Frontier lab — Continual
Valuation
$4.5B
Year founded
2025
AMI Labs

New York, NY

Founders
  • Yann LeCun
    France
  • Alexandre LeBrun
    France
Details
Known for
Yann LeCun's post-Meta lab; Europe's largest seed
Space
World models
Valuation
$4.5B
Year founded
2025
Unconventional AI

San Francisco, CA

Founders
  • Naveen Rao
    United States
Details
Known for
MosaicML founder
Space
Compute
Valuation
$4.5B
Year founded
2025
Humans&

San Francisco, CA

Founders
  • Eric Zelikman
    United States
  • Georges Harik
    Lebanon
Details
Known for
ex-xAI researcher; early Google leader
Space
Frontier lab
Valuation
$4.5B
Year founded
2025
Core Automation

San Francisco, CA

Founders
  • Jerry Tworek
    Poland
Details
Known for
ex-OpenAI VP; 'world's most automated AI lab'
Space
Frontier lab — Continual
Valuation
$4B*
Year founded
2026
Inflection AI

Palo Alto, CA

Founders
  • Mustafa Suleyman
    UK
  • Karen Simonyan
    Armenia · Russia
  • Reid Hoffman
    United States
Details
Known for
Microsoft pseudo-acquihire; Pi assistant
Space
Enterprise AI
Valuation
$4B
Year founded
2022
Hark

New York, NY

Founders
  • Brett Adcock
    United States
Details
Known for
Figure / Archer founder; $100M personal funds
Space
Enterprise AI
Valuation
$4B*
Year founded
2025
Ricursive

San Francisco, CA

Founders
  • Anna Goldie
    United States
  • Azalia Mirhoseini
    Iran
Details
Known for
AI chip-design experts / professors
Space
Hardware — Chip design
Valuation
$4B
Year founded
2025
Xaira Therapeutics

Brisbane, CA

Founders
  • Marc Tessier-Lavigne
    Canada
  • David Baker
    United States
Details
Known for
$1B committed launch; ARCH/Foresite-incubated
Space
Bio — Drug discovery
Valuation
$2.7-4B
Year founded
2023
Isomorphic Labs

London, UK

Founders
  • Demis Hassabis
    UK
Details
Known for
DeepMind/Alphabet drug discovery spinoff
Space
Bio — Drug discovery
Valuation
$3.5B
Year founded
2021
Decart

Tel Aviv, Israel

Founders
  • Dean Leitersdorf
    Israel
Details
Known for
Mirage + Oasis world models
Space
World models
Valuation
$3.1B
Year founded
2023
Sakana AI

Tokyo, Japan

Founders
  • David Ha
    Canada
  • Llion Jones
    UK
  • Ren Ito
    Japan
Details
Known for
Japan-focused unicorn; AI for science
Space
Frontier lab — Efficient
Valuation
$2.65B
Year founded
2023
General Intuition

Los Angeles, CA

Founders
  • Pim de Witte
    Netherlands
  • Adam Jelley
    UK
  • Eloi Alonso
    France
Details
Known for
Massive gameplay-video dataset
Space
World models
Valuation
$2B
Year founded
2025
Liquid AI

Cambridge, MA

Founders
  • Daniela Rus
    Romania
  • Ramin Hasani
    Iran · Austria
Details
Known for
MIT spinoff; efficient / on-device models
Space
Frontier lab — Efficient
Valuation
$2B
Year founded
2023
H (The H Company)

Paris, France

Founders
  • Charles Kantor
    France
  • Karl Tuyls
    Belgium
  • Laurent Sifre
    France
  • Daan Wierstra
    Netherlands
  • Julien Perollat
    France
Details
Known for
ex-DeepMind French AI model company
Space
Enterprise AI
Valuation
$2B
Year founded
2024
Rhoda AI

Unknown

Founders
  • Not publicly disclosed
    Unknown
Details
Known for
$450M Series A; FutureVision robot platform
Space
Robotics
Valuation
$1.7B
Year founded
2024
Axiom Math

San Francisco, CA

Founders
  • Carina Hong
    China Mainland
Details
Known for
Formal math; 12/12 Putnam-style solving
Space
Math
Valuation
$1.6B
Year founded
2025
Flapping Airplanes

San Francisco, CA

Founders
  • Ben Spector
    United States
  • Asher Spector
    United States
  • Aidan Smith
    United States
Details
Known for
Young research-first team; contrarian thesis
Space
Frontier lab
Valuation
$1.5B
Year founded
2025
Magic

San Francisco, CA

Founders
  • Eric Steinberger
    Austria
  • Sebastian De Ro
    Austria
Details
Known for
Long-context frontier coding from Europe
Space
Frontier lab — Coding
Valuation
$1.5B
Year founded
2022
Harmonic

Mountain View, CA

Founders
  • Vlad Tenev
    Bulgaria
Details
Known for
Formal math / math superintelligence
Space
Math
Valuation
$1.45B
Year founded
2023
AI21 Labs

Tel Aviv, Israel

Founders
  • Ori Goshen
    Israel
  • Yoav Shoham
    Israel
  • Amnon Shashua
    Israel
Details
Known for
Israeli LLM company; Stanford professor founder
Space
Enterprise AI
Valuation
$1.4B
Year founded
2017
Lila Sciences

Cambridge, MA

Founders
  • Geoffrey von Maltzahn
    United States
Details
Known for
Huge Series A
Space
Bio — Lab automation
Valuation
$1.3B
Year founded
2023
Chai Discovery

San Francisco, CA

Founders
  • Joshua Meier
    United States
  • Jack Dent
    UK
  • Richard W. Shuai
    United States
Details
Known for
OpenAI-backed biotech unicorn
Space
Bio — Drug discovery
Valuation
$1.3B
Year founded
2024
Goodfire

San Francisco, CA

Founders
  • Eric Ho
    United States
  • Tom McGrath
    UK
Details
Known for
Interpretability researchers from top labs
Space
Interpretability
Valuation
$1.25B
Year founded
2024
EvolutionaryScale

New York, NY

Founders
  • Alexander Rives
    United States
Details
Known for
ESM3 protein language model
Space
Bio — Drug discovery
Valuation
$1B
Year founded
2024
Moonvalley

Toronto, Canada

Founders
  • Naeem Talukdar
    Canada
  • Mateusz Malinowski
    Poland
  • Mik BiÅ„kowski
    Poland
Details
Known for
Licensed-data video model Marey
Space
Video
Valuation
$1B
Year founded
2024
Aaru

New York, NY

Founders
  • Cameron Fink
    United States
  • Ned Koh
    United States
  • John Kessler
    United States
Details
Known for
Headline $1B Series A
Space
Simulation
Valuation
$1B
Year founded
2024
Simile

Palo Alto, CA

Founders
  • Joon Sung Park
    South Korea
  • Michael Bernstein
    United States
  • Percy Liang
    United States
Details
Known for
Stanford agent-simulation lineage
Space
Simulation
Valuation
$1B
Year founded
2025
Ndea

San Francisco, CA

Founders
  • François Chollet
    France
  • Mike Knoop
    United States
Details
Known for
Keras founder; Zapier founder
Space
Frontier lab — Program synthesis
Valuation
$1B
Year founded
2025
Imbue

San Francisco, CA

Founders
  • Kanjun Qiu
    United States
  • Josh Albrecht
    United States
Details
Known for
Early AI lab unicorn
Space
Enterprise AI
Valuation
$1B
Year founded
2020
AAI

Jerusalem, Israel

Founders
  • Amnon Shashua
    Israel
  • Shai Shalev-Shwartz
    Israel
Details
Known for
Stealth lab; Lightspeed-led round
Space
Frontier lab
Valuation
$1B
Year founded
2023
Reka

San Francisco, CA / Singapore

Founders
  • Yi Tay
    Singapore
  • Cyprien de Masson d'Autume
    France
  • Dani Yogatama
    Indonesia
Details
Known for
ex-Google team
Space
Frontier lab — Multimodal
Valuation
$1B
Year founded
2022
Kyutai

Paris, France

Founders
  • Xavier Niel
    France
  • Rodolphe Saadé
    France
Details
Known for
EU open-source AI lab; Eric Schmidt-backed
Space
Voice
Valuation
$1B
Year founded
2023
Prime Intellect

San Francisco, CA

Founders
  • Vincent Weisser
    Germany
  • Johannes Hagemann
    Germany
Details
Known for
Distributed training, inference, and RL
Space
Decentralized AI training
Valuation
$1B
Year founded
2024
Arcee AI

Miami, FL

Founders
  • Mark McQuade
    Canada
  • Jacob Solawetz
    United States
  • Brian Benedict
    United States
Details
Known for
Enterprise SLMs; mergekit; Arcee Cloud
Space
Frontier lab — Open source
Valuation
$1B*
Year founded
2023
Essential AI

San Francisco, CA

Founders
  • Ashish Vaswani
    India
  • Niki Parmar
    India
Details
Known for
Transformer-author founders; Ramanujan
Space
Frontier lab — Open source
Valuation
$1B
Year founded
2023
Zyphra

Palo Alto, CA

Founders
  • Krithik Puthalath
    United States
  • Danny Martinelli
    United States
  • Beren Millidge
    UK
  • Tomás Figliolia
    Argentina
Details
Known for
Strong small-model results; Maia stack
Space
Frontier lab — Open source
Valuation
$1B
Year founded
2021
Mirendil

San Francisco, CA

Founders
  • Behnam Neyshabur
    Iran
  • Harsh Mehta
    India
Details
Known for
ex-Anthropic scientific reasoning team
Space
Frontier lab — AI research
Valuation
$1B
Year founded
2026
Nous Research

New York, NY

Founders
  • Jeffrey Quesnelle
    United States
  • Karan Malhotra
    United States
Details
Known for
Decentralized training; open source models
Space
Agents
Valuation
$1B
Year founded
2023
Merge Labs

San Francisco, CA

Founders
  • Sam Altman
    United States
  • Sumner Norman
    United States
Details
Known for
Altman-backed non-invasive BCI spinout
Space
Brain-computer interface
Valuation
$850M
Year founded
2025
Inferact

Berkeley, CA

Founders
  • Simon Mo
    United States
  • Woosuk Kwon
    South Korea
  • Kaichao You
    China Mainland
Details
Known for
Commercializing vLLM; open-source inference
Space
Inference
Valuation
$800M
Year founded
2026
Isara

London, UK

Founders
  • Eddie Zhang
    China Mainland
  • Henry Gasztowtt
    UK
Details
Known for
OpenAI-backed; 2,000-agent demos
Space
Frontier lab — Future prediction
Valuation
$650M
Year founded
2025
Inception Labs

Palo Alto, CA

Founders
  • Stefano Ermon
    Italy
  • Aditya Grover
    India
  • Volodymyr Kuleshov
    Ukraine
Details
Known for
Stanford professors; diffusion LLMs
Space
Frontier lab — Diffusion coding
Valuation
$500M
Year founded
2024
Elorian

San Francisco, CA

Founders
  • Andrew Dai
    UK · New Zealand
  • Yinfei Yang
    China Mainland
Details
Known for
ex-DeepMind execs; vision reasoning
Space
Frontier lab — Multimodal
Valuation
$500M
Year founded
2025
Standard Intelligence

San Francisco, CA

Founders
  • Galen Mead
    United States
  • Devansh Pandey
    United States
Details
Known for
FDM-1; video-first computer-use model
Space
Frontier lab — Computer Use
Valuation
$500M
Year founded
2025
Adaption Labs

San Francisco, CA

Founders
  • Sara Hooker
    Ireland
  • Sudip Roy
    India
Details
Known for
ex-Cohere executives
Space
Frontier lab — Continual
Valuation
$500M
Year founded
2025
Poetiq

San Francisco, CA

Founders
  • Shumeet Baluja
    United States
  • Ian Fischer
    United States
Details
Known for
ex-DeepMind; SOTA ARC-AGI results
Space
Agents
Valuation
$500M
Year founded
2025
Genesis AI

Paris, France / San Francisco, CA

Founders
  • Zhou Xian
    China Mainland
  • Théophile Gervet
    France
Details
Known for
French ex-Mistral / Skild robotics team
Space
Robotics
Valuation
$500M
Year founded
2024
CuspAI

Cambridge, UK / Amsterdam, Netherlands

Founders
  • Chad Edwards
    UK
  • Max Welling
    Netherlands
Details
Known for
AI for chemistry
Space
Bio — Materials
Valuation
$500M
Year founded
2024
RadixArk

Berkeley, CA

Founders
  • Ying Sheng
    China Mainland
  • Banghua Zhu
    China Mainland
Details
Known for
Commercializing SGLang; LMSYS / xAI lineage
Space
Inference
Valuation
$400M
Year founded
2026
QuTwo

Helsinki, Finland

Founders
  • Peter Sarlin
    Finland
Details
Known for
Former AMD Silo AI CEO; Finland/EU sovereign AI
Space
Quantum
Valuation
$380M
Year founded
2026
Sooth Labs

Pittsburgh, PA

Founders
  • Chuck Hoover
    United States
  • Yaser Sheikh
    Pakistan
  • Ruslan Salakhutdinov
    Russia
Details
Known for
Ex-Meta; probabilistic forecasting models
Space
Frontier lab — Future prediction
Valuation
$335M
Year founded
2026

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