Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

A Shanghai AI research institute known for its open-source Intern model family and the InternVLA robotics models.

Shanghai AI Lab is a new type of research institute that launched at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in July 2020; scholars including Xiaoou Tang helped establish it early on, and its current director and chief scientist is Bowen Zhou. It is known for open-sourcing its work: the Intern family of large models (the InternLM language model and the InternVL multimodal model), the OpenMMLab computer-vision toolbox, the OpenCompass evaluation platform, and the MinerU document-parsing tool. Its embodied-AI work is led by the InternRobotics team, which has open-sourced the InternVLA-M1/A1/N1 vision-language-action models, the InternUtopia simulation platform, and the InternData-A1 synthetic dataset. In July 2026, at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference, it unveiled “Intern-Duanyan” (duanyan being a renowned type of Chinese inkstone), a platform for scientific discovery.

ExampleInternVLA-A1 is pretrained on the synthetic InternData-A1 dataset and on AgiBot World, and can be downloaded and fine-tuned directly.

Also called

Shanghai AI Lab

Related

InternVLA (Shanghai AI Laboratory) · InternVL · InternUtopia · InternData-A1 · GenManip

Sources

上海人工智能实验室官网 (Chinese)
上海人工智能实验室 - 百度百科 (Chinese)

As of

2026-07