Labs Companies

Labs Companies, Inc., branded as Labs, is an American artificial intelligence company headquartered in Santa Monica, California. It operates as the holding company for a group of specialized technology research laboratories, including Labsintelligence, its first core laboratory and the center of its artificial-intelligence research.

Overview

Labs Companies was established in 2025 through a restructuring of LavLabs, a startup studio established in 2018. Labs became the parent holding company, while LavLabs continued as one of its seven core operating laboratories and is designated by the company as lab6. The company describes human enhancement as the wider purpose of its work and organizes research and product development across seven core laboratories. Its products include LabsAI, the LabsAI Studio interface and the planned consumer application Yuhmmy. It describes its research as focused on artificial-intelligence systems that perceive, reason, coordinate and act. Its two principal research areas are speech-to-action, which concerns translating spoken intent into actions on a live interface, and orchestration intelligence also called speech-to-orchestration which concerns assigning and coordinating work among AI systems under real-time constraints.

The laboratory's publications describe two model families: Actras, intended to convert speech and world state into actions, and Octras, intended to convert objectives and resources into orchestration policies. The same research program defines AI Orchs as executable coordination objects; the Interactive Programming Interface (IPI) for AI systems that act; the Orchestration Programming Interface (OPI) for AI systems that coordinate; and the Parallel Agent Protocol (PAP) for communication between AI agents. The lab presents these components, together with agentic file formats, runtime-governance mechanisms and the Interactive Intelligence Benchmark, as the foundation of an action-centered and orchestration-centered AI stack.