A state-backed AI research lab in Shanghai advancing foundation models and open-source tooling, with major programs in AI for science and medicine.
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) / Jilin University / University of Auckland / Shanghai AI Laboratory / Hunan University / Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Released August 13, 2026
Infrared spectroscopy foundation model pretrained on 60 million simulated spectra, then adapted to real FTIR measurements of molecules and mixtures.
Shanghai AI Laboratory / Fudan University / University of Sydney / Shanghai Jiao Tong University / University of Southern California / Shanghai Innovation Institute / University of Electronic Science and Technology of China / Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences / Nanjing Normal University / Westlake University / Shenzhen Loop Area Institute / Chinese University of Hong Kong / Tsinghua University
Released July 30, 2026
Genomic foundation model on a Mamba, attention, and mixture-of-experts backbone, with 1M-token context for variant scoring and regulatory DNA design.
Shanghai Innovation Institute / Zhejiang University / Fudan University / Shanghai AI Laboratory / Xiamen University / Southeast University / Nanjing University
Released July 21, 2026
Antibody CDR design model post-trained by on-policy distillation, cutting RAbD CDR-H3 backbone RMSD from 2.37 Å to 1.95 Å.
Decoder-only foundation model that unifies sequences, 3D structures, and natural language for small molecules and proteins in one shared token space.
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.
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.
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.
Shanghai AI Laboratory / Carnegie Mellon University / Brown University / Xidian University / University of Oulu / Wuhan University / Nanjing University
Released September 26, 2025
Spectroscopy-grounded molecular foundation model that reads NMR, IR, and mass spectra as text, elucidating structures and generating 3D conformers.
Multimodal scientific foundation model unifying protein, DNA/RNA, and small-molecule structure in one token vocabulary for cross-domain reasoning.
Shanghai Jiao Tong University / Lingang Laboratory / Sun Yat-sen University / Fudan University / Shanghai AI Laboratory / Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica / MIT / Ningxia Medical University
Released August 4, 2025
Structure-based virtual screening model that jointly predicts protein-ligand complex structures and binding fitness from sequence and SMILES.
Scientific multimodal foundation model, a 241B-parameter MoE with a tokenizer that reads molecular formulas and protein sequences natively.
Shanghai AI Laboratory / Tsinghua University / Fudan University / Tianjin University / Georgia Institute of Technology / Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications / University of Chinese Academy of Sciences / City University of Hong Kong
Released July 11, 2025
Protein foundation model built on Bayesian Flow Networks, prompted with MSA profiles for structure- and function-preserving sequence design.
Shanghai AI Laboratory / Sun Yat-sen University / Chinese University of Hong Kong / Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Released June 29, 2025
EEG foundation model with cross-scale spatiotemporal tokenization and sparse structured attention, evaluated on 11 decoding tasks across 16 datasets.
Westlake University / Fudan University / Shanghai AI Laboratory / Zhejiang University / University of British Columbia / Westlake Omics
Released June 26, 2025
De novo peptide sequencing from tandem mass spectra with a non-autoregressive Transformer trained on 100 million peptide-spectrum matches.
Westlake University / Zhejiang University / Hong Kong University of Science and Technology / Chinese Academy of Sciences / Southern University of Science and Technology / Shanghai AI Laboratory / Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Released June 26, 2025
Single-cell perturbation response prediction using dual conditional diffusion bridges that link unpaired control and perturbed populations.
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.
Fudan University / University of British Columbia / Shanghai AI Laboratory / Zhejiang University
Released June 16, 2025
De novo peptide sequencing from tandem mass spectra, using curriculum learning and iterative self-refinement to stabilize non-autoregressive decoding.
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.
Shanghai AI Laboratory / Zhejiang University / University of British Columbia
Released May 5, 2025
Zero-shot tumor segmentation on CT and MRI that reads text-prompted anomaly attention maps out of a frozen medical foundation diffusion model.
Brain MRI segmentation foundation model trained on 66,000+ image-label pairs across 14 MRI sub-modalities, with a hypergraph dynamic adapter.
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.
Multimodal sequence model spanning proteins, coding DNA, and regulatory DNA for zero-shot fitness scoring and conditional sequence generation.
Shanghai AI Laboratory / Fourth Military Medical University / Tsinghua University / University of Science and Technology of China / Hong Kong University of Science and Technology / Peking University / Shanghai Jiao Tong University / SenseTime
Released March 2, 2025
Histopathology foundation model pretrained on 300K whole-slide images across 20 tissue types and validated on 112 clinical-grade downstream tasks.
Shanghai Jiao Tong University / Shanghai AI Laboratory / China Medical University / Harvard Medical School
Released February 10, 2025
Pan-tumour CT foundation model pretrained on 30,000 synthetic 3D scans carrying lesion masks and structured reports across ten organ systems.
Shanghai Jiao Tong University / East China University of Science and Technology / Shanghai AI Laboratory
Released January 7, 2025
Protein expression prediction that pinpoints expression-governing residues by matching a language model landscape against measured fitness data.
Shanghai AI Laboratory / University of Science and Technology of China / University of Sydney / University of Toronto / Chinese University of Hong Kong / Shanghai Jiao Tong University / Fudan University / Shanghai Innovation Institute
Released December 26, 2024
Multi-omics instruction-tuned LLM that reads DNA, RNA, protein, and multi-molecule sequences and answers natural-language questions about them.
Protein and RNA sequence annotation that also names the residues driving each label, learned from sequence-level supervision alone.
Histopathology vision-language foundation model that folds a disease knowledge graph into pretraining for zero-shot cancer detection and subtyping.
Fudan University / Shanghai AI Laboratory / Shanghai Innovation Institute
Released November 3, 2024
Protein subcellular localization from sequence, returning both a text label and a synthetic fluorescence image of the protein inside a given nucleus.
Shanghai AI Laboratory / Xiamen University / East China Normal University / Stanford University / Monash University
Released October 15, 2024
Vision-language assistant that reads a whole gigapixel pathology slide, answering diagnostic questions and writing slide-level descriptions.
Chinese University of Hong Kong / Shanghai AI Laboratory / SenseTime
Released October 11, 2024
Masked-autoencoder foundation model for chest radiographs, self-supervised on 1.04 million unlabelled images for disease screening and localization.
Cryo-EM and cryo-ET heterogeneity analysis that separates subunit rigid-body motion from compositional change into distinct latent spaces.
RNA language model adapted from ESM-2 by cross-modality transfer learning, matching RNA-native baselines with 1/8 the trainable parameters.
Chest X-ray foundation model that pairs masked image modeling with image-report contrastive alignment for zero-shot diagnosis and phrase grounding.
Shanghai Jiao Tong University / Shanghai AI Laboratory / East China University of Science and Technology / Chinese University of Hong Kong / Chongqing Artificial Intelligence Research Institute of Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Released April 17, 2024
Protein language model pairing sequence with quantized local-structure tokens via disentangled attention, for zero-shot variant effect prediction.
Shanghai Jiao Tong University / East China University of Science and Technology / Shanghai AI Laboratory / Chongqing Artificial Intelligence Research Institute of Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Released December 2, 2023
Zero-shot variant effect prediction that fuses a frozen protein language model with an equivariant graph network over residue contact graphs.
Fully 3D promptable segmentation foundation model for volumetric CT and MR, encoding whole volumes so anatomy can be segmented from one prompt point.
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.
Shanghai Jiao Tong University / Shanghai AI Laboratory / East China University of Science and Technology / ShanghaiTech University / Guangzhou National Laboratory / University of Science and Technology of China / Hangzhou Institute of Medicine, CAS / SenseTime / Shanghai Academy of Experimental Medicine / Hzymes Biotechnology
Released July 24, 2023
Protein language model ranking stabilizing mutations with no assay data, trained jointly to predict the growth temperature of each sequence's host.
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.
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.
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.