What's a neolab?
An AI research, infrastructure, or product lab/company, typically founded by researchers/engineers from big labs, professors or post-economic founders.
Some are pre-product/pre-revenue, others are more established.
Why are certain labs missing?
The neolab definition excludes labs that are publicly listed or heading there, and the AI divisions of larger companies.
See excluded labs
- AgiBot (listing)
- Alibaba (listed)
- Anthropic (listing)
- ByteDance Seed (part of ByteDance)
- DeepMind (Alphabet subsidiary)
- MiniMax (listed)
- Moonshot AI (listing)
- MSL (part of Meta)
- NVIDIA (listed)
- OpenAI (listing)
- Tencent (listed)
- xAI (part of SpaceX)
- Z.ai (listed)
What am I looking at?
- Research area — neolabs clustered by their primary research focus.
- Lineage — neolabs wired to the organizations their founders came from.
- Geography — where neolabs are primarily headquartered.
- Valuation — neolabs split by valuation buckets, with nodes scaled to their valuations.
Methodology
Neolabs were pulled from:
- Neolabs list, by @deedydas
- Neolab and emerging AI lab tracker, by @joy
- The AI Neolab Wild West, by NEA
Many Parallel web searches were run by agents to enrich company, founder and product details.
Caveats
- Valuations are messy, and many are likely inaccurate or need better fact-checking.
- Headquarters, founder lists, and founder backgrounds may be inaccurate or missing information.
- Many neolabs are actively exploring multiple research areas and don't fit cleanly into a single category.