Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Artificial intelligence research centers worldwide
RevenueBase identified 2,108 artificial intelligence research centers worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 38,446 professional contacts across them, including 6,950 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and London the largest hub.
This list covers artificial intelligence research centers 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 27, 2026. Country and city lists for artificial intelligence research centers 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 artificial intelligence research centers worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6,429 contacts → | ||||
Strong 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 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 1,023 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, with sites in Kaiserslautern, Saarbrücken, Bremen, Osnabrück, Oldenburg, Darmstadt and labs in Lübeck and Berlin, is the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 747 contacts → | ||||
Strong 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 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 395 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Wakeb is highly specialized in artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision, and wakeb team is highly experienced and equipped with powerful resources to make your…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 371 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “IRIT was founded in 1990.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 332 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 302 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are a Seattle-based non-profit AI research institute founded in 2014 by the late Paul Allen.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 278 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We aim to solve the most important and fundamental problems in robotics and AI.(Formerly The AI Institute)” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 252 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Zellbiologie” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 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 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 218 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 202 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 183 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “AI Sweden is the Swedish national center for applied artificial intelligence.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 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 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 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 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 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 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 144 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Progress of Human Kind depends on the discovery and deployment of optimal AI systems at the speed of light.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 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 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 134 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Staqu is working towards creating a research ecosystem to develop advanced artificial intelligence powered technologies which can be used in solving impactful real world problems.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 120 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Taiwan AI Labs () is headed by Ethan Tu, a former principal development manager at U.S-based tech giant Microsoft Corp.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 119 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “World-leading research in communication systems, scientific computing, software engineering, cyber security & artificial intelligence.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 115 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “AIR Institute es un Centro Tecnológico Nacional, dedicado a la promoción y desarrollo de la investigación científica en ciencias de la computación e inteligencia artificial.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 109 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Artificial Intelligence Society is one of the largest computer science organizations at the University of Texas at Dallas.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 103 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “KInIT is an independent institute, dedicated to research of intelligent technologies - artificial intelligence and several areas of computing and information technologies (data…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 101 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “L’ICAR, Istituto di Calcolo e Reti ad Alte Prestazioni è un Istituto del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) che afferisce al Dipartimento di Ingegneria, ICT e Tecnologie per…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 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 centers. 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 centers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of artificial intelligence research centers, 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 centers. 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 centers worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 27, 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 artificial intelligence research centers, 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 artificial intelligence research centers are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “artificial intelligence research centers”. 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 centers), 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 centers, 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, 6,950 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 27, 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.
Artificial intelligence research centers by location
10 lists · largest firstEvery Artificial intelligence research centers list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Artificial intelligence research centers based in the United States346
- Artificial intelligence research centers based in India191
- Artificial intelligence research centers based in the United Kingdom97
- Artificial intelligence research centers based in Germany85
- Artificial intelligence research centers based in Brazil66
- Artificial intelligence research centers based in Canada55
- Artificial intelligence research centers based in Italy54
- Artificial intelligence research centers based in Spain45
- Artificial intelligence research centers based in France40
- Artificial intelligence research centers based in Switzerland27
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 centers, 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 centers are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 2,108 artificial intelligence research centers 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 artificial intelligence research centers?
The United States leads with 346 companies, followed by India (191) and the United Kingdom (97). Every artificial intelligence research centers list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most artificial intelligence research centers?
London leads with 48 headquartered companies, followed by San Francisco (43) and Toronto (19).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
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How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 27, 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.