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Shanghai AI Laboratory

A state-backed AI research lab in Shanghai advancing foundation models and open-source tooling, with major programs in AI for science and medicine.

Location: Shanghai, China
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22 models(11 Imaging, 6 Language model, 4 Protein, 3 Small molecule, 2 RNA, 2 Single-cell, 2 Pathology, 1 Metabolomics, 1 DNA & Gene, 1 Biosignals)

Models (22)

BioMatrix

Shanghai AI Laboratory / Renmin University of China

Released June 20, 2026

16241

Decoder-only foundation model that unifies sequences, 3D structures, and natural language for small molecules and proteins in one shared token space.

ProteinSmall moleculeLanguage model

UltraNMR

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology / Hunan University / Institute of Materia Medica, CAMS & PUMC / Xiamen University / Shanghai AI Laboratory

Released June 18, 2026

1

NMR foundation model trained on 158 million simulated 1H and 13C spectra, transferring simulation-learned representations to real experimental data.

Small moleculeMetabolomics

AMix-2

Shanghai AI Laboratory / Tsinghua University / Fudan University / City University of Hong Kong / Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

Released May 30, 2026

Protein-text foundation model placing amino acid sequences and natural language in one token space for protein understanding and de novo design.

ProteinLanguage model

ProtmRNA

Fudan University / Shanghai AI Laboratory / Hunan Normal University

Released May 20, 2026

2

Codon-level mRNA language model adapted from ESM-2 650M by swapping amino-acid tokens for codon tokens, transferring protein knowledge to mRNA tasks.

RNA

SCALE

Shanghai AI Laboratory

Released March 17, 2026

Virtual cell foundation model predicting single-cell responses to genetic, chemical, and cytokine perturbations with conditional flow matching.

Single-cell

OmniNovo

Fudan University / Shanghai AI Laboratory / Tsinghua University / Westlake University / Tongji University / Shanghai Innovation Institute / University of British Columbia / Zhejiang University / Stony Brook University

Released December 13, 2025

De novo peptide sequencing transformer that reads modified and unmodified peptides directly from tandem mass spectra without a reference database.

Protein

scMOBA

Chinese Academy of Sciences / Shanghai AI Laboratory

Released December 2, 2025

11

Conversational single-cell and spatial multi-omics brain foundation model, with zero-shot cell annotation and disease prediction across species.

Single-cellLanguage model

SciReasoner

Shanghai AI Laboratory

Released September 25, 2025

34690

Multimodal scientific foundation model unifying protein, DNA/RNA, and small-molecule structure in one token vocabulary for cross-domain reasoning.

ProteinDNA & GeneSmall molecule

Chiron-o1

Shanghai AI Laboratory / Fudan University / Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Released June 20, 2025

141160

Medical multimodal LLM (2B and 8B) trained for generalizable, step-by-step clinical reasoning via Mentor-Intern Collaborative Search.

PathologyImaging

BrainOmni

Tsinghua University / Shanghai AI Laboratory / University of Cambridge / University College London

Released May 18, 2025

2769

Brain foundation model unifying EEG and MEG in a single encoder via a shared discrete tokenizer that transfers across sensor layouts and montages.

Biosignals

SAM-Brain3D

University of Cambridge / Shanghai AI Laboratory

Released May 1, 2025

2575

Brain MRI segmentation foundation model trained on 66,000+ image-label pairs across 14 MRI sub-modalities, with a hypergraph dynamic adapter.

Imaging

GMAI-VL-R1

Shanghai AI Laboratory / Fuzhou University / Shanghai Innovation Institute / Fudan University / Monash University / University of Washington / Stanford University

Released April 2, 2025

19

General medical vision-language model trained with reinforcement learning to reason step by step over medical images for diagnosis and visual QA.

ImagingLanguage model

MaCo

Shanghai AI Laboratory

Released September 2, 2024

12

Chest X-ray foundation model that pairs masked image modeling with image-report contrastive alignment for zero-shot diagnosis and phrase grounding.

Imaging

SAM-Med3D

Shanghai AI Laboratory

Released October 23, 2023

339941

Fully 3D promptable segmentation foundation model for volumetric CT and MR, encoding whole volumes so anatomy can be segmented from one prompt point.

Imaging

UniBrain

Shanghai Jiao Tong University / University of Science and Technology of China / Shanghai AI Laboratory / Shanghai Sixth People's Hospital

Released September 13, 2023

39

Vision-language pre-training framework for universal brain MRI diagnosis, learning from imaging-report pairs to cover more than ten brain diseases.

Imaging

SAM-Med2D

Shanghai AI Laboratory

Released August 30, 2023

61.1K

Medical imaging adaptation of the Segment Anything Model, fine-tuned on 4.6M images and 19.7M masks for promptable segmentation across 10 modalities.

Imaging

RadFM

Shanghai Jiao Tong University / Shanghai AI Laboratory

Released August 4, 2023

927559

Radiology foundation model that reads interleaved 2D and 3D scans with text for diagnosis, visual question answering, and report generation.

ImagingLanguage model

MIS-FM

University of Electronic Science and Technology of China / Shanghai AI Laboratory / SenseTime / Sichuan University

Released June 29, 2023

1250

Self-supervised foundation model for 3D medical image segmentation, pretrained on roughly 110,000 unannotated CT volumes via Volume Fusion.

Imaging

MedLSAM

Shanghai AI Laboratory / Shanghai Jiao Tong University / University of Science and Technology of China / Sichuan University

Released June 26, 2023

37522

3D CT localization foundation model that pairs MedLAM with SAM to segment any anatomical structure at a fixed, dataset-independent annotation cost.

Imaging

MedVInT

Shanghai Jiao Tong University / Shanghai AI Laboratory

Released May 17, 2023

188236

Generative medical visual question answering model that pairs a vision encoder with a language model, trained on the 227k-pair PMC-VQA dataset.

PathologyLanguage model

STU-Net

Shanghai AI Laboratory

Released April 13, 2023

158371

Scalable and transferable U-Net family (14M–1.4B parameters) for 3D medical image segmentation, supervised-pretrained on TotalSegmentator.

Imaging

RNA-FM

ml4bio / Chinese University of Hong Kong / Fudan University / Shanghai AI Laboratory

Released August 6, 2022

1386

RNA foundation model pretrained on 23.7 million non-coding RNA sequences, producing embeddings for structure prediction, annotation, and RNA design.

RNA