Slang & Culture
Neolab
A newer, research-first AI lab founded outside the big companies — often by people who left OpenAI, Google DeepMind or Anthropic — that raises large sums to chase frontier research rather than ship products straight away.
Origin · no single documented coiner
Venture-capital and tech-press slang from 2025–26, used for example by Radical Ventures. No single documented coiner.