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.
Models (22)
Decoder-only foundation model that unifies sequences, 3D structures, and natural language for small molecules and proteins in one shared token space.
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
NMR foundation model trained on 158 million simulated 1H and 13C spectra, transferring simulation-learned representations to real experimental data.
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.
Codon-level mRNA language model adapted from ESM-2 650M by swapping amino-acid tokens for codon tokens, transferring protein knowledge to mRNA tasks.
Virtual cell foundation model predicting single-cell responses to genetic, chemical, and cytokine perturbations with conditional flow matching.
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.
Conversational single-cell and spatial multi-omics brain foundation model, with zero-shot cell annotation and disease prediction across species.
Multimodal scientific foundation model unifying protein, DNA/RNA, and small-molecule structure in one token vocabulary for cross-domain reasoning.
Chiron-o1
Shanghai AI Laboratory / Fudan University / Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Released June 20, 2025
Medical multimodal LLM (2B and 8B) trained for generalizable, step-by-step clinical reasoning via Mentor-Intern Collaborative Search.
BrainOmni
Tsinghua University / Shanghai AI Laboratory / University of Cambridge / University College London
Released May 18, 2025
Brain foundation model unifying EEG and MEG in a single encoder via a shared discrete tokenizer that transfers across sensor layouts and montages.
Brain MRI segmentation foundation model trained on 66,000+ image-label pairs across 14 MRI sub-modalities, with a hypergraph dynamic adapter.
GMAI-VL-R1
Shanghai AI Laboratory / Fuzhou University / Shanghai Innovation Institute / Fudan University / Monash University / University of Washington / Stanford University
Released April 2, 2025
General medical vision-language model trained with reinforcement learning to reason step by step over medical images for diagnosis and visual QA.
Chest X-ray foundation model that pairs masked image modeling with image-report contrastive alignment for zero-shot diagnosis and phrase grounding.
Fully 3D promptable segmentation foundation model for volumetric CT and MR, encoding whole volumes so anatomy can be segmented from one prompt point.
UniBrain
Shanghai Jiao Tong University / University of Science and Technology of China / Shanghai AI Laboratory / Shanghai Sixth People's Hospital
Released September 13, 2023
Vision-language pre-training framework for universal brain MRI diagnosis, learning from imaging-report pairs to cover more than ten brain diseases.
Medical imaging adaptation of the Segment Anything Model, fine-tuned on 4.6M images and 19.7M masks for promptable segmentation across 10 modalities.
Radiology foundation model that reads interleaved 2D and 3D scans with text for diagnosis, visual question answering, and report generation.
MIS-FM
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China / Shanghai AI Laboratory / SenseTime / Sichuan University
Released June 29, 2023
Self-supervised foundation model for 3D medical image segmentation, pretrained on roughly 110,000 unannotated CT volumes via Volume Fusion.
MedLSAM
Shanghai AI Laboratory / Shanghai Jiao Tong University / University of Science and Technology of China / Sichuan University
Released June 26, 2023
3D CT localization foundation model that pairs MedLAM with SAM to segment any anatomical structure at a fixed, dataset-independent annotation cost.
Generative medical visual question answering model that pairs a vision encoder with a language model, trained on the 227k-pair PMC-VQA dataset.
Scalable and transferable U-Net family (14M–1.4B parameters) for 3D medical image segmentation, supervised-pretrained on TotalSegmentator.
RNA-FM
ml4bio / Chinese University of Hong Kong / Fudan University / Shanghai AI Laboratory
Released August 6, 2022
RNA foundation model pretrained on 23.7 million non-coding RNA sequences, producing embeddings for structure prediction, annotation, and RNA design.