Market landscapes / Model Development
AI Research Labs (Reasoning, Interpretability, Safety) companies
Research-led organisations working on reasoning, interpretability and safety, rather than shipping a product first. 17 of the 22 are hiring, and mostly for research roles rather than engineering ones, which is a much smaller pool to recruit from.
Updated 12 October 2026
22 companies
17 hiring now
The rest of the Model Development landscape
The full map, including the sub-sectors too small to list separately.
The whole Model Development mapFoundation Model Labs 32Model Training & Fine-Tuning 16Reinforcement Learning & Post-Training 14
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