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Top 25 Artificial intelligence research labs based in France
RevenueBase identified 72 artificial intelligence research labs headquartered in France as of September 2026 and tracks 1,679 professional contacts across them, including 129 with verified work emails. Paris is the largest hub.
This list covers artificial intelligence research labs headquartered in France, 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 14, 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.
The 25 largest artificial intelligence research labs based in France
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 371 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “IRIT was founded in 1990.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 163 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “L'ISIR (Institut des Systèmes Intelligents et de Robotique) est une Unité Mixte de Recherche (UMR sous la tutelle de Sorbonne Université, du CNRS et de l’Inserm (ERL-U1150).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 158 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “IRISA, a joint research unit IRISA is today one of the largest French research laboratory (more than 850 people) in the field of computer science and information technologies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 142 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Le Loria, Laboratoire lorrain de Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications, est une Unité Mixte de Recherche (UMR 7503), commune à plusieurs établissements : le CNRS…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 141 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The LIP6, Sorbonne University and French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), UMR 7606 Sorbonne University - CNRS, is a computer science research laboratory dedicated…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 48 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “EXPERT EN IA & DATA SCIENCE & ML Ops Aquila Data Enabler apporte son expérience pour mettre l'IA au service de vos projets.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 45 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Le Laboratoire d'Informatique, du Traitement de l'Information et des Systèmes (LITIS) est une unité de recherche normande dans le domaine des sciences et technologies de…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 42 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “ANITI fait partie, avec Grenoble, Nice et Paris, des quatre instituts interdisciplinaires d’intelligence artificielle (3IA) mis en place dans le cadre du Programme Investissements…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Le laboratoire Imagerie et Vision Artificielle (ImViA) émane du Laboratoire Electronique, Informatique et Image (Le2i), laboratoire de recherche sous tutelle de l’Université…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “AnotherBrain is a French company founded in 2017 by Bruno Maisonnier, father of the humanoid robots Nao and Pepper, to develop new artificial intelligence engines using singular…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Twin Labs is a French AI lab backed by Clem Delangue & Thomas Wolf (HuggingFace), Irwan Bello & Romain Huet (OpenAI), Charles Gorintin (Alan, Mistral), Mehdi Ghissassi & Romuald…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “DASIA explore les dernières pistes et technologies en Intelligence Artificielle dans le domaine du traitement d’image (sécurité, comptage, smart city…).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Fondé en 2018 par Augustin Huret, l'Institut Français d'Intelligence Artificielle contribue à bâtir des champions Français en permettant de faire de l'IA un avantage compétitif…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We’ve been working since 2019 to understand, explain, adapt and leverage AI research and innovation for organisations and companies!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We’re an applied AI lab crafting intelligent software agents that transform how the world’s best products are built.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Le LCOMS est un laboratoire multidisciplinaire de l’Université de Lorraine.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Giving brains to robots.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Notre vision L'IA est un moteur de transformation majeur, mais son essor en entreprise reste décevant.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Research and Development Company based on Artificial Intelligence Projects” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “NukkAI is a private AI lab, based in Paris, that has been co-founded in March 2018 by Véronique Ventos and Jean-Baptiste Fantun.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Karlton Research, the "Augmented Human Intelligence" group, is the mother corporation of Geeglee, Hyb'RID and System Value” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Ecole supérieure d'informatique et centre de recherche et développement en informatique, intelligence articielle” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “AIZEND Ai & International Artificial Intelligence” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Tigo Labs, Human-centered AI.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Apemill is an independent R&D lab specialized in robotics, computer vision, virtual reality, high constraints developpment, and state of the art technologies and industrialisation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: artificial intelligence research labs. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names artificial intelligence research labs.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of artificial intelligence research labs, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name artificial intelligence research labs. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Artificial intelligence research labs based in France at a glance
As of Sep 14, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for France, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for France, over 72 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 artificial intelligence research labs, 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 France whose own description of what they do matches “artificial intelligence research labs”. 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 artificial intelligence research labs), 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 artificial intelligence research labs, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside France 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, 129 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 14, 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 artificial intelligence research labs, 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 artificial intelligence research labs are there based in France?
RevenueBase identified 72 artificial intelligence research labs headquartered in France 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?
Irit Institut DE Recherche EN Informatique DE Toulouse, headquartered in France, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most artificial intelligence research labs?
Paris leads with 32 headquartered companies, followed by Palaiseau (3) and Toulouse (3).
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 129 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 72 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 14, 2026.
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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.
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