Neolabs
Companies founded by Transformer authors
Aidan Gomez
Llion Jones
Ashish Vaswani
Niki Parmar
Jakob Uszkoreit
Noam Shazeer
Illia PolosukhinOf the 8 authors of the fabled Transformer paper, Attention Is All You Need, 7 have gone on to found startups. They helped pave the way for a new class of “Researcher CEOs” building neolabs: research-focused startups tackling problems spanning reasoning, scientific discovery, and the automation of complex work.
This dashboard indexes 125 neolabs, jobs available at them, and relevant news like fundraising announcements, product launches, and talent moves.
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Where founders worked before
YOE before Founding
What are neolabs
Neolabs are built around exploring a specific research thesis, like Typesafe AI with System One models like Jev, Thinking Machines with human-AI collaboration and real-time interaction. Below, we produced a map of the current market, based around this article by Radical Ventures.
Neolab market map
Intelligence & learning
General intelligence
Alternative model designs
Learning that keeps improving
Understanding & securing AI
Emerging research directions
Work & creation
Open models & infrastructure
Enterprise & regional models
Coding & digital agents
Voice & visual media
Personal & social intelligence
Structured-data prediction
The physical world
World models & simulation
Robotics & embodied intelligence
Compute & chip design
Autonomous driving
Brain–computer interfaces
Science & discovery
Biology & medicine
AI scientists & automated labs
Materials & physics
Mathematics & formal reasoning
The Fundraising Environment
Neolabs tend to raise large rounds based on talent and thesis, without necessarily needing to have a clear path to PMF or monetization. The graphs below track their largest seed rounds, biggest general checks, and fundraising journeys.
Largest Seed Rounds
Largest Checks
Quickest Seed to Series A
Round Size by Stage
The funding calendar
The latest priced round
Several venture funds are investing heavily in neolab build out, with large generalist funds like a16z and Sequoia being invested in several of these companies alongside AI-native funds like Radical Ventures.
Strategic firms like NVIDIA, AMD, and Salesforce Ventures are also well represented.
Who invests together?
Led a Round in the Most Neolabs
Where this cohort comes from
When the labs began
Where the labs are
Companies in this dashboard (125)
Explore company profiles for founding teams, recorded funding, jobs and sources.
- Runway
- Mistral AI
- Physical Intelligence
- Thinking Machines
- Skild
- Safe Superintelligence
- Cohere
- DeepSeek
- World Labs
- Decart
- Goodfire
- Sakana AI
- Nous Research
- Luma AI
- Prime Intellect
- TypeSafe AI
- Applied Compute
- General Intuition
- Generalist
- Simile
- Axiommath
- HumansAnd
- Ineffable
- CuspAI
- Sarvam AI
- Odyssey
- Flapping Airplanes
- Deepgram
- Unconventional AI
- Hark Labs Inc.
- Discovery Loop
- Liquid AI
- Chai Discovery
- Black Forest Labs
- Moonvalley
- Ricursive Intelligence
- Nabla
- Isomorphic Labs
- Reflection
- Ai21
- Essential AI
- Cartesia
- Dyna
- Inflection
- AMI Labs
- Reka
- Periodic
- Latent Labs
- Inferact
- Math, Inc.
- Harmonic
- Waabi
- Mirendil
- Wayve
- Arcee AI
- Orbital Industries
- Poolside
- Trajectory
- Magic
- Enigma
- H Company
- Imbue
- Deep Cogito
- Transluce
- Ndea
- Aleph Alpha
- Normal Computing
- Tilde Research
- Lila Sciences
- Autoscience
- Dream Labs
- Genesis Therapeutics
- LawZero
- Helical
- Poetiq
- EvolutionaryScale
- Core Automation
- Inception
- RadixArk
- Genesis AI
- Recursive
- Moonlake AI
- Engram
- Rhoda AI
- Irregular
- Prometheus
- Oumi
- Kyutai
- Xaira
- StepFun
- Galbot
- adaption
- Physical Superintelligence
- Edison Scientific
- NeoCognition
- River AI
- PrismML
- Gradium
- Veeda AI
- Antim Labs
- Elorian AI
- Fundamental
- Prior Labs
- 01.AI
- Prentis
- Symbolica
- UniversalAGI
- Cursive
- Isara Labs
- Oak Lab
- QUTWO
- Logical Intelligence
- FutureHouse
- Dolphin AI
- Zyphra
- Merge Labs
- Bioptimus
- Noetive
- Inceptive
- Standard Intelligence
- Baichuan AI
- Doubleai
- Inherent Labs
- soothlabs
- Profluent
About the data
125 companies from Cosign's Neolabs list. Charts use published company profiles, linked founders and recorded funding. Refresh the page for updated data; public snapshots are revalidated every minute. Monetary charts show USD rounds without exchange-rate conversion; timing and count charts include all currencies. Debt, secondary sales, IPOs and acquisitions are excluded. Unknown fields are excluded rather than treated as zero. Funding and founder histories may be incomplete. Select a point to inspect its sources.
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