Introducing Labs Foundations: Making Frontier Intelligences Available to All of Humanity

Labs today introduced Labs Foundations, a new philanthropic and public-benefit ecosystem designed to help ensure the progress of frontier intelligences moves humanity and the world forward — on Earth and beyond.

SANTA MONICA, Calif., August 20, 2026 /Labs Newsroom/ — Labs Companies, Inc. today presented Labs Foundations, now live at labsfoundations.org, establishing a long-term institutional structure for directing frontier technology, capital, philanthropy and human effort toward public benefit.

Its mission begins with a simple idea: making frontier intelligences available to all of humanity.

As Labs works across artificial intelligence, immersive computing, decentralized systems, cryptographic technologies, frontier science, human experiences and physical intelligence, Labs Foundations is being built to make sure those expanding capabilities can also become instruments for human opportunity, dignity, education, sustainability and connection.

Intelligence, in Service of Humanity

The coming decades will produce technologies with the ability to extend what human beings know, perceive, create and do. But access to those capabilities will not automatically be distributed equally.

New technologies can close gaps. They can also widen them.

Labs Foundations is being built around the belief that the benefits of frontier progress should reach beyond the companies, institutions and individuals capable of building or purchasing it first.

The objective is not simply charitable giving around technology. It is to explore how the technologies themselves — the intelligence systems, interfaces, infrastructure, scientific advances and physical technologies being developed across the frontier — can be directed toward humanitarian purposes.

Every frontier Labs explores is also a frontier of care.

Four Frontiers of Care

Labs Foundations begins its work across four broad areas.

Human Potential. Expanding access to knowledge, opportunity, creativity and the tools of an increasingly intelligent world. As intelligence becomes embedded into more of society, access to intelligent systems will increasingly shape what people are able to learn, build and become. Labs Foundations intends to help widen that access.

Sustainability. Supporting practical work that strengthens communities while contributing to a healthier and more sustainable planet. This work is connected to Labsgreen and Labssustains, two dedicated Labs programs focused respectively on environmental responsibility and sustainable products and partnerships.

S.T.E.A.M. Education. Helping young people explore science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics — not simply as subjects to study, but as frontiers they can participate in shaping. The people who will inherit an increasingly intelligent world should have the opportunity to become its builders.

Human Connection. Directing human-enhancement technologies toward dignity, inclusion and genuine human connection. The purpose of better technology should not be to remove humanity from human experience. It should give people new ways to understand, communicate with and support one another.

Seven Frontier Labs. Seven Frontier Foundations.

Labs is organized around 7 Frontier Labs. Labs Foundations extends that architecture with 7 Frontier Foundations — one corresponding to each frontier. Each is structured as a Public Benefit Limited Liability Company dedicated to applying its technological domain toward public benefit.

Labsintelligence Foundation. Advancing artificial intelligence — including artificial general intelligence and superintelligence — alongside contextual-cognition systems and foundational intelligence technologies for humanitarian purposes.

Labs Realities Foundation. Applying augmented, virtual, mixed and extended realities toward human connection, access and shared understanding.

Labs Blocks Foundation. Exploring decentralized frameworks and technologies such as Labschain for transparency, trust and public-benefit infrastructure.

Labs Crypto Foundation. Exploring how cryptographic technologies can expand financial access and participation.

LabsX Foundation. Directing frontier science — including work spanning quantum, neuro, biological and nanoscale technologies — toward the public good.

LavLabs Foundation. Applying human-experience technologies toward community wellbeing and everyday quality of life.

Labsintuition Foundation. Bringing robotics, embodied intelligence and other physical-world intelligence systems toward humane and practical benefit.

This structure allows philanthropic work to develop alongside the technological expertise of each Lab rather than existing as a single generalized foundation disconnected from the areas in which Labs actually operates.

Two Impact Arms

Alongside the seven Frontier Foundations are two dedicated Impact Arms designed for direct action.

Labs Philanthropies is intended to make strategic philanthropic investments supporting long-term systemic change, technological breakthroughs and human development. Its focus is on opportunities where capital can help create durable impact.

Labs Charities is intended for direct charitable giving and community support — including efforts capable of providing immediate assistance while supporting longer-term solutions to humanitarian needs.

The distinction gives Labs Foundations two modes of action: one oriented toward strategic, long-duration philanthropy, the other toward direct charitable support.

A Foundation Designed to Grow With Labs

One of the central questions in building Labs Foundations was how to create a structure capable of remaining connected to Labs' long-term success without relying solely on periodic corporate donations. The result is an equity-based structure.

Labs Foundations, Inc. is a 501(‌c)(3) nonprofit organization. Through Labs Equity Holder Fund I, L.L.C., Labs Foundations is designed to hold the economic benefit associated with a non-dilutive 1% position in Class B Common Stock of Labs Companies, Inc. That equity is mission-locked for the benefit of Labs Foundations.

At Labs’ $12.5 billion post-money valuation, that 1% position carries a value of approximately $125 million — capital committed to public benefit at the company’s founding rather than assembled after it. Because the position is non-dilutive, its value is designed to track the company itself: as Labs grows, the institution created to give back grows with it, without a new decision having to be made each time.

The structure is intended to create something durable: if Labs becomes more valuable, the institution created to give back alongside it has the potential to grow with it. Rather than treating philanthropy exclusively as something that happens after success, the structure places public benefit inside the long-term economic architecture of the company.

The Labs 1-1-1-1 Pledge

Labs Foundations is also introducing the Labs 1-1-1-1 Pledge. The model expands the familiar idea of corporate pledging across four forms of contribution:

• 1% Time — employee hours devoted to volunteer work.
• 1% Product — software, services, technologies or licenses provided for public benefit.
• 1% Profit — a portion of annual corporate revenue or profit directed toward giving.
• 1% Equity — company ownership reserved to create long-term philanthropic value.

Participating organizations can choose the combination that makes sense for them. Labs Companies has already participated through its own structure.

The broader ambition is to encourage more organizations — especially companies being built around emerging and frontier technologies — to establish a culture of giving while they are being built, rather than treating impact as something to be considered only after scale has been achieved.

Technology as a Public-Benefit Instrument

Labs Foundations is not meant to become a separate universe from Labs' technological work. Its greatest potential comes from the opposite. As new capabilities emerge across Labs, the Foundations can ask how those capabilities might be applied somewhere the commercial market alone may not immediately reach.

Could new intelligence systems widen access to education? Could immersive technologies connect people otherwise separated by geography, disability or circumstance? Could decentralized systems improve transparency? Could robotics support communities in environments where human labor is dangerous? Could frontier scientific work contribute to health, sustainability or human capability? Could the products a technology company builds become part of how that company gives?

Those questions will evolve as the technologies evolve. Labs Foundations gives Labs an institutional place to keep asking them.

Two Structures, One Responsibility

Labs Foundations launches alongside the new Labs Impact Hub within Labs Companies. The two are intentionally complementary.

Labs Impact is the corporate Hub for how Labs approaches social responsibility, employee wellbeing, inclusion, sustainability, community, governance, ethics and responsible AI. Labs Foundations is the dedicated nonprofit and public-benefit ecosystem through which Labs can pursue philanthropic, charitable and humanitarian work.

One asks how Labs should behave as a company. The other asks how the capabilities and resources surrounding Labs can be put directly to work for humanity. Together, they establish a broader architecture for responsibility around the frontier.

Moving Humankind Forward

Labs has used the words Moving humankind forward as more than a description of technological progress. Forward has to mean more than faster, more capable, more intelligent or more powerful. It has to include who moves forward with us.

Labs Foundations is the beginning of a long-term effort to make that principle institutional: to connect technological progress to human potential, to connect company growth to giving, to connect intelligence to service — and to help ensure the most important technologies of the future are capable of reaching the people whose futures they will shape.

Explore Labs Foundations at labsfoundations.org.

Labs Companies, Inc. is 1 Supercompany, 7 Frontier Labs, headquartered in Santa Monica, California.

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