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Top 25 AI safety research companies based in the United States

RevenueBase identified 143 AI safety research companies headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 11,858 professional contacts across them, including 4,909 with verified work emails. San Francisco is the largest hub.

This list covers AI safety research companies headquartered in the United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 19, 2026.

Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.

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The 25 largest AI safety research companies based in the United States

Ranked by team size
Top 25 of 143 AI safety research companies based in the United States, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 19, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to AI safety research companies: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#CompanyRevenueBase Smart SearchHeadquartersEmployeesContacts
1Strong evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 20261,001-5,0007,563 contacts →

Strong evidence

“OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
2Strong evidenceRedmond, NY, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 20265,001-10,0002,261 contacts →

Strong evidence

“At MAI we’re building a new class of safer, more capable AI systems we call Humanist Superintelligence: AI that is always aligned, controllable, and in service of humanity.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
3Strong evidenceSeattle, WA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 2026201-500302 contacts →

Strong evidence

“We are a Seattle-based non-profit AI research institute founded in 2014 by the late Paul Allen.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
4Strong evidenceMarina Del Rey, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-200178 contacts →

Strong evidence

“AE Studio does frontier AI alignment research, AI strategy, and production AI system development.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
5Indirect evidenceMountain View, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-50120 contacts →

Indirect evidence

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
6Partial evidenceSeattle, WA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 2026201-50056 contacts →

Partial evidence

“ThotAI is a global organization operating in multiple countries, with a strong research laboratory and HQ based in Seattle.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
7Indirect evidenceMadison, WI, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 2026n/a52 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Our modern world is the product of technological advancement.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
8Strong evidenceBerkeley, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5045 contacts →

Strong evidence

“METR is a research non-profit that develops evaluations to empirically test AI systems for capabilities that could threaten catastrophic harm to society.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
9Partial evidenceBerkeley, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5044 contacts →

Partial evidence

“For over two decades, the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI) has worked to understand and prepare for the critical challenges that humanity will face as it transitions…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
10Strong evidenceBerkeley, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5038 contacts →

Strong evidence

“FAR.AI is a technical AI research and education non-profit, dedicated to ensuring the safe development and deployment of frontier AI systems.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
11Strong evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 2026n/a35 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Apart is a decentralized AI safety organization working towards a future where humans and AGI co-exist benevolently.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
12Partial evidenceArmonk, NY, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5035 contacts →

Partial evidence

“To examine and analyze the downside risks associated with the ubiquitous advance of AI & Automation.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
13Strong evidenceBerkeley, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5026 contacts →

Strong evidence

“The Center for Human-Compatible AI (CHAI) is a research institute based at UC Berkeley led by Prof Stuart Russell.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
14Indirect evidenceBerkeley, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5019 contacts →

Indirect evidence

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
15Strong evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 20261-1019 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Transluce is an independent research lab that builds open, scalable technology for understanding AI systems and steering them in the public interest.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
16Partial evidenceSan Francisco, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 20261-1017 contacts →

Partial evidence

“From San Francisco to London to Taipei, we've hosted workshops for 500+ students, helped write our university's AI policy, and run hackathons that actually ship long-lasting…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
17Indirect evidenceBerkeley, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 20261-1016 contacts →

Indirect evidence

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
18Strong evidenceNew York, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 20261-1016 contacts →

Strong evidence

“The AI Now Institute produces diagnosis and actionable policy research on artificial intelligence.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
19Strong evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 20261-1015 contacts →

Strong evidence

“The Safe AI Forum (SAIF) is a 501(c)3 non-profit focused on advancing global action and collaboration to minimize extreme AI risks.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
20Indirect evidenceSyracuse, NY, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5013 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“ResilienX is unlocking the low altitude economy.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
21Strong evidenceCalabasas, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 20261-1013 contacts →

Strong evidence

“OUR MISSION: TO LOWER THE RISKS TO HUMANITY AND THE BIOSPHERE FROM TRANSFORMATIVE AI Interdisciplinary research supporting global AI risk management: By researching methods for…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
22Partial evidenceBerkeley, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5011 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Convergence exists to develop and promote insights on how to create a thriving future by minimizing the existential risk from AI.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
23Partial evidenceManhattan, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5010 contacts →

Partial evidence

“We're building a Reinforcement Learning-driven framework empowering AI agents to continuously learn, adapt, and self-improve in real-time.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
24Strong evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-508 contacts →

Strong evidence

“d_model is a fundamental AI research lab partnering with frontier labs to turn their models into capable interpretability and alignment researchers.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
25Partial evidenceWoodland Hills, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-507 contacts →

Partial evidence

“The Laboratory of Risk & Safety Analyses "The Lab"(est.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026

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AI safety research companies based in the United States at a glance

As of Sep 19, 2026
41.4%Verified-email coverage
82.9Average contacts per company
1-10Median size (employees)
14.0%Largest-city concentration · San Francisco
Sep 19, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
91
11-50
39
51-200
7
201-500
2
1,001-5,000
3
5,001-10,000
1

Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United States, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United States, over 143 companies.

How this list was built

Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among AI safety research companies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.

Source
The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
What qualifies
Companies headquartered in the United States whose own description of what they do matches “AI safety research companies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names AI safety research companies), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
What we exclude
Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among AI safety research companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United States are excluded even when they keep an office there.
Match quality
In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
Ranking
Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
Verification
Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 4,909 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
Refresh
This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
Corrections
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Frequently asked

What is RevenueBase Smart Search?

RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names AI safety research companies, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.

How many AI safety research companies are there based in the United States?

RevenueBase identified 143 AI safety research companies headquartered in the United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.

What is the largest company on this list?

Openai, headquartered in San Francisco, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most AI safety research companies?

San Francisco leads with 20 headquartered companies, followed by Berkeley (9) and New York (9).

How do I get contact information for these companies?

A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 4,909 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 143 companies.

How current is this list?

The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 19, 2026.

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About this data

RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.