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C --> C1[CAIS]
    C --> C2[METR]
    C --> C3[ARC]
    C --> C4[CHAI]
    C --> C5[Stanford Center for AI Safety]

    D --> D1[GovAI]
    D --> D2[Ada Lovelace Institute]
    D --> D3[IAPS]
    D --> D4[Partnership on AI]

    E --> E1[MLCommons]
    E --> E2[ISO/IEC JTC 1 SC 42]
    E --> E3[GPAI]
    E --> E4[AAAI]
    E --> E5[ACM SIGAI]

    F --> F1[Stanford HAI]
    F --> F2[Mila]
    F --> F3[Vector Institute]
    F --> F4[Amii]
    F --> F5[ELLIS]

    G --> G1[Hugging Face]
    G --> G2[LAION]
    G --> G3[LF AI and Data]

    H --> H1[UK AISI]
    H --> H2[NIST CAISI]
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The site architecture should mirror that taxonomy. A definitive directory should have stable profile pages under a path such as `https://2ia.org/org/{slug}/`, plus browse pages such as `https://2ia.org/focus/ai-safety/`, `https://2ia.org/country/united-kingdom/`, `https://2ia.org/type/research-institute/`, and `https://2ia.org/updated/`. Current 2IA archive structures are chronological and editorial; they are not a good primary navigational model for an entity directory. citeturn7view1turn25search2turn26search0

## Priority organizations to add

The table below combines the two most important missing-org deliverables: a **prioritized seed list** and **paste-ready link text plus short descriptions**. The URLs are exact official URLs to use as starting points; where a second official page is especially helpful, it is included too.

### First-wave seed set

| Priority | Canonical link text | Exact official link | Paste-ready description | Why it belongs first |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Essential | **OpenAI** | `https://openai.com/` | OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company focused on building safe and beneficial AGI. It is one of the field’s central frontier-model organizations and a core reference point for research, deployment, and safety discussions. citeturn11search0 | No “who’s who” directory in AI is credible without OpenAI. |
| Essential | **Anthropic** | `https://www.anthropic.com/` | Anthropic is a public benefit corporation that develops AI research and products with safety at the frontier. Its work on reliable, interpretable, and steerable systems makes it central to both capability and governance conversations. citeturn27view1 | Covers frontier models, safety framing, and public-benefit structure. |
| Essential | **Google DeepMind** | `https://deepmind.google/about/` | Google DeepMind brings together Google Brain and DeepMind in a single AI research organization led by Demis Hassabis. It is responsible for landmark systems such as DQN, AlphaGo, AlphaZero, MuZero, AlphaStar, and WaveNet. citeturn27view2 | Foundational research lab with historic and current field-defining work. |
| Essential | **Ai2** | `https://allenai.org/about` | Ai2 is a Seattle-based nonprofit AI research institute founded in 2014 by Paul Allen. It develops open models, data, robotics, and science-oriented AI projects intended for real-world impact. citeturn27view3 | Gives the directory an open, nonprofit, science-oriented flagship entry. |
| Essential | **Hugging Face** | `https://huggingface.co/` | Hugging Face is a central collaboration platform for machine learning, hosting public models, datasets, and applications at large scale while maintaining widely used open-source tooling such as Transformers, Diffusers, Datasets, and Safetensors. citeturn16search0turn33view0 | Critical infrastructure and one of the clearest hubs for the open AI ecosystem. |
| Essential | **MLCommons** | `https://mlcommons.org/` | MLCommons is a collaborative engineering and benchmark organization focused on measuring AI systems for accuracy, safety, speed, efficiency, and risk. Its benchmark and data-standard work makes it a core neutral institution in the ecosystem. citeturn28view2 | Anchors the benchmarks-and-accountability layer of the field. |
| Essential | **Partnership on AI** | `https://partnershiponai.org/` | Partnership on AI is an independent nonprofit that brings together industry, academia, and civil society to produce resources and guidance on responsible AI. It is a rare multi-stakeholder institution with durable cross-sector legitimacy. citeturn28view1 | Important because it bridges labs, civil society, and governance. |
| Essential | **Center for AI Safety** | `https://safe.ai/` | The Center for AI Safety is a San Francisco-based nonprofit focused on reducing societal-scale risks from AI through research, field-building, and advocacy. It is one of the most visible specialist institutions in the safety ecosystem. citeturn28view0 | Core specialist organization for AI safety and field-building. |
| Essential | **METR** | `https://metr.org/` | METR is a research nonprofit that measures whether and when AI systems might pose catastrophic risks to society. Its emphasis on evaluation and external review makes it a key institution in frontier-model assessment. citeturn12search3turn29view0 | Gives the directory a serious evaluations node, not just advocacy or labs. |
| Essential | **The AI Security Institute** | `https://www.aisi.gov.uk/about` | The AI Security Institute is a research organization inside the UK government focused on evaluating advanced AI systems, studying misuse and alignment risks, and advising government on emerging capabilities and mitigations. citeturn31view0 | Essential public-sector entry; also illustrates that this institution is now “Security,” not “Safety.” |
| Essential | **Center for AI Standards and Innovation** | `https://www.nist.gov/caisi` | NIST’s Center for AI Standards and Innovation serves as the U.S. government’s point of contact for testing, collaborative research, standards work, and evaluations of national-security-relevant AI risks. citeturn31view1 | Essential U.S. public-sector standards/evaluation node; also a recent rename from the earlier AI Safety Institute framing. |
| Essential | **Centre for the Governance of AI** | `https://www.governance.ai/about-us` | GovAI produces research and fellowship programs for decision-makers responding to advanced AI, with work spanning risk analysis, best practices, and public policy. It began at Yale, moved to Oxford, and later spun out as a nonprofit. citeturn30view2 | One of the field’s most recognizable AI governance institutions. |

### Second-wave coverage set