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New research labs

AI Market Atlas · by Pro Pluribus

Heavily funded labs, mostly pre-product, led by famous researchers. Many bet on world models, reinforcement learning or physical AI rather than bigger chatbots.

8 companies and products

Updated 16 Oct 2026. Select one for its offerings, news and links.

New research labs

Safe SuperintelligencePre-product. About $32B valuation, no model shipped yet.EmulatePre-product world-model lab closing a ~$700M seed at ~$3.7B one month after incorporating.

Core AutomationPre-product lab building models that keep learning after training; valued at $1B, raising $500M.

General IntuitionNewWorld-model lab training on gameplay video; $220M at $6.2B (2 Oct), nearly triple its June valuation.PrometheusNewPhysical-AI lab building an “artificial general engineer” for design and manufacturing; $12B at ~$41B (June 2026), $18B+ raised in total.

AMI LabsNewWorld-model lab betting beyond LLMs: a $1.03B seed at $3.5B pre-money (Mar 2026), reported as Europe's largest seed.

Ineffable IntelligenceNewReinforcement-learning lab building a “superlearner” that learns without human data; $1.1B seed at $5.1B (Apr 2026).

River AINewxAI co-founder's company for customer-owned models on open weights; $1.1B across seed and Series A (Aug 2026).

Compiled from public sources by Pro Pluribus; updated 16 Oct 2026. General information, not advice. Company names and logos belong to their owners and are used to identify them, without affiliation or endorsement. Terms