US Multinational AI Labs
The data in Multinational-AI-Labs.csv supports CSET’s paper “Mapping U.S. Multinationals’ Global AI R&D Activity.” The data includes all AI R&D labs that we were able to locate using public sources for four companies: Facebook, Google, IBM, and Microsoft. The two other companies we analyzed in the paper either do not use “labs” to structure their AI R&D (Amazon) or do not publicly disclose their R&D locations (Apple).
The dataset contains the following variables:
- Lab Title and Company: Name of the company and lab conducting AI R&D.
- City and Country: The geographic location of the AI R&D lab.
- Basic Research, Applied Research, and Experimental Development: Binary indicator for whether a lab performs a particular type of R&D (1 = yes). For the definitions we used for these categories of R&D, see Appendix D of the paper.
- Sources: Hyperlinks to company websites and news reports that we used to confirm the lab’s existence and to infer what type of R&D is performed by the lab. Where possible, the coding choices were complemented and confirmed in conversations with company representatives.
Further context on the definitions, inclusion criteria, and methodology we used to map AI R&D labs can be found in Appendix A of the paper.