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Top 25 AI research institutions worldwide
RevenueBase identified 1,249 AI research institutions worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 50,471 professional contacts across them, including 7,613 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and London the largest hub.
This list covers AI research institutions worldwide, 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. Country and city lists for AI research institutions follow the table.
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 AI research institutions worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6,429 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We’re a team of scientists, engineers, machine learning experts and more, working together to advance the state of the art in artificial intelligence.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 4,738 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Research fuels innovation and we strive for it.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 4,631 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI)(,) Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) is one of the world's leading technology R&D institutions aiming to innovate a…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 1,282 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) was founded in 1966 as the premier multi-disciplinary research institute in Korea.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 1,256 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The AIST (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology) is one of Japan's largest public research organizations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 983 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “As the largest Fraunhofer Institute, Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS, headquartered in Erlangen, is a global leader in applied research, driving innovation for…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 747 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded by Professor Yoshua Bengio of the University of Montreal, Mila is a research institute in artificial intelligence that now brings together over 1,200 specialized…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 704 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “As the only public research institution in Japan that specializes in the field of information and communications technology, the NICT promotes ICT R&D, from the foundational to…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 516 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute (CEERI), Pilani, is a pioneer Research Institute in the Country and a constituent laboratory of Council of Scientific and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 503 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Vector Institute is an independent, not-for-profit corporation dedicated to research in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), excelling in machine and deep learning.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 451 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 376 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI), established in 1962, is a government-funded research institute advancing national R&D through artificial…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 371 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “IRIT was founded in 1990.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 334 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Central Manufacturing Technology Institute (CMTI), is an autonomous Research & Development Institute focusing on providing 'Technology Solutions' to the manufacturing sector and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 332 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The potential of AI goes beyond everyday life where it affects the industry, moves the economy, and even saves the planet.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 252 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Zellbiologie” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 232 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Jesteśmy nowoczesnym centrum technologii informatycznych i sztucznej inteligencji.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 220 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Idiap Research Institute is a research institute of national importance established in 1991 by the City of Martigny, the State of Valais, the Swiss Federal Institute of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 218 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Located in the heart of Silicon Valley, Baidu USA is one of the R&D centers of Baidu, China’s largest search engine provider.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 205 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Amii is one of Canada’s three national AI institutes, advancing the country’s leadership in artificial intelligence as part of the Pan-Canadian AI Strategy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 202 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Sony AI is Sony's flagship AI organization whose mission is to "Unleash Human Imagination and Creativity with AI".” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 189 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “OFFIS is a 1991-founded, internationally active Research and Development Institute for information technology based in Oldenburg, Lower-Saxony.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 171 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Nuestra misión es ser un pilar para el desarrollo de la IA en Chile y el mundo, con una vocación por promover la investigación y transferencia tecnológica de vanguardia, la…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 163 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 152 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics is a modern scientific institution of the Czech Technical University (CIIRC CTU) bringing together excellent research…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 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: AI research institutions. 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 AI research institutions.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of AI research institutions, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name AI research institutions. 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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AI research institutions worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
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 research institutions, 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.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for AI research institutions are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “AI research institutions”. 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 research institutions), 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 research institutions, and records with no verified work email.
- 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, 7,613 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
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
AI research institutions by location
7 lists · largest firstEvery AI research institutions list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- AI research institutions based in the United States174
- AI research institutions based in India112
- AI research institutions based in Germany59
- AI research institutions based in Brazil50
- AI research institutions based in Canada34
- AI research institutions based in Italy29
- AI research institutions based in France26
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 research institutions, 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 research institutions are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 1,249 AI research institutions worldwide 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?
Google Deepmind, headquartered in London, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most AI research institutions?
The United States leads with 174 companies, followed by India (112) and Germany (59). Every AI research institutions list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most AI research institutions?
London leads with 28 headquartered companies, followed by San Francisco (19) and Singapore (12).
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 7,613 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,249 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.