AER LABS

AER Labs is an AI research residency and incubator

We run research batches, publish open-source work, and support researchers in building real projects and startups.

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WHAT WE DO

How We Work

Structured programs combining research, mentorship, and real-world impact

Research Residencies

  • Remote/on-site cohort-based batches
  • 10–12 weeks per batch
  • Focus: systems, inference, LLMs, applied ML
  • Output: Research papers, code repos, demos

Incubation & Grants

  • Compute credits and infrastructure
  • Publication guidance
  • Support spinning research into startups
  • Intros to infra and compute companies, early users

Talks & Events

  • Research paper deep dives
  • Infrastructure / open source project talks
  • Founder & researcher speaker series
  • Community-first, not marketing
RESIDENCY

Research Residency Program

Our residency is designed for people who wants to contribute to open-source AI research

What You Get

  • Weekly research syncs (remote friendly)
  • Compute / API credits
  • Publication & open-source guidance
  • Demo day / research showcase

Who It's For

  • Researchers
  • Engineers / Developers
  • Students with strong fundamentals
  • Early startup teams doing technical work
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OPEN SOURCE

Projects We Contribute To

Active contributions to leading open-source AI infrastructure and research projects

DeepSeek AI Open-source foundation models and research artifacts PyTorch Deep learning framework for production-ready AI research vLLM High-throughput LLM serving with PagedAttention SGLang Fast structured generation language for LLMs Slime Sequential reasoning with language models LiteLLM Unified API gateway for 100+ LLM providers UCCL User-space collective communication library for GPUs veRL Volcano Engine reinforcement learning for LLMs SkyPilot Run ML workloads on any cloud with cost optimization dstack Open-source GPU orchestration for AI Unsloth AI 2-5x faster LLM fine-tuning with 80% less memory
SPONSORS

Sponsors & Supporters

Sponsors provide compute, grants, and infrastructure support for open source research

Network School Network School Residency partner & community support Thinking Machine Labs Thinking Machine Labs Fine tuning Compute & infrastructure TensorMesh TensorMesh GPU cloud & training infrastructure Vessl AI Vessl AI MLOps platform & experiment tracking Lium Lium Distributed GPU network & compute
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GET INVOLVED

Join us

Join our community as a researcher, founder, or speaker

Our researchers come from leading companies and universities worldwide.

Google Samsung Naver SK LG KAIST Seoul National University MIT IIT Kanpur POSTECH Yonsei University Google Samsung Naver SK LG KAIST Seoul National University MIT IIT Kanpur POSTECH Yonsei University

Researcher

Join residency or collaborate on research

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Startup / Founder

Incubation and research support for startups

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Speaker

Give a technical talk at our events or as a guest speaker

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Connect With Us

For research collaborations, partnerships, or general inquiries, reach out to us at daniel@aerlabs.tech or shubham@aerlabs.tech

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