{
  "name": "The Rise of Super Intelligence",
  "description": "A dated, quote-backed timeline of every organization that adopted Super Intelligence as a name, mission, team, product or policy, in both senses of the term.",
  "url": "https://sibuilders.io/research/rise-of-super-intelligence",
  "publisher": "SI Builders",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0",
  "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "attribution": "SI Builders, sibuilders.io",
  "schemaVersion": 2,
  "updated": "2026-10-25",
  "events": [
    {
      "id": "1965-good-ultraintelligent-machine",
      "date": "1965-01-01",
      "datePrecision": "year",
      "era": "foundations",
      "organization": "I. J. Good (Trinity College, Oxford)",
      "sector": "academic",
      "category": "publication",
      "meaning": "research",
      "title": "I. J. Good defines the \"ultraintelligent machine\"",
      "summary": "In \"Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine,\" the statistician I. J. Good gives the idea its first formal definition and argues that such a machine would design still better machines: an \"intelligence explosion.\" The paper is the root of the research meaning used by every lab on this page.",
      "quote": "Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual activities of any man however clever.",
      "quoteAttribution": "I. J. Good, Advances in Computers, vol. 6, 1965",
      "company": null,
      "relatedEvents": [],
      "url": "https://sibuilders.io/research/rise-of-super-intelligence#1965-good-ultraintelligent-machine",
      "sources": [
        {
          "url": "https://doi.org/10.1016/S0065-2458(08)60418-0",
          "title": "Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine",
          "publisher": "Advances in Computers, vol. 6 (Academic Press)",
          "date": "1965-01-01"
        },
        {
          "url": "https://quoteinvestigator.com/2022/01/04/ultraintelligent/",
          "title": "Quote Origin: The First Ultraintelligent Machine Is the Last Invention That Humanity Need Ever Make",
          "publisher": "Quote Investigator",
          "date": "2022-01-04"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "1993-vinge-technological-singularity",
      "date": "1993-03-30",
      "datePrecision": "day",
      "era": "foundations",
      "organization": "Vernor Vinge (San Diego State University)",
      "sector": "academic",
      "category": "publication",
      "meaning": "research",
      "title": "Vernor Vinge predicts \"superhuman intelligence\" within thirty years",
      "summary": "In \"The Coming Technological Singularity,\" written for a NASA-sponsored symposium, the mathematician and novelist Vernor Vinge argues that superhuman intelligence will be created within decades and will end the human era. The essay fixed the word \"singularity\" to the idea.",
      "quote": "Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended.",
      "quoteAttribution": "Vernor Vinge, VISION-21 Symposium, March 1993",
      "company": null,
      "relatedEvents": [],
      "url": "https://sibuilders.io/research/rise-of-super-intelligence#1993-vinge-technological-singularity",
      "sources": [
        {
          "url": "https://edoras.sdsu.edu/~vinge/misc/singularity.html",
          "title": "The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era",
          "publisher": "VISION-21 Symposium, NASA Lewis Research Center and the Ohio Aerospace Institute",
          "date": "1993-03-30"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "2014-bostrom-superintelligence",
      "date": "2014-07-03",
      "datePrecision": "month",
      "era": "foundations",
      "organization": "Nick Bostrom (Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford)",
      "sector": "academic",
      "category": "publication",
      "meaning": "research",
      "title": "Nick Bostrom publishes \"Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies\"",
      "summary": "The Oxford philosopher's book gives the term its standard modern definition and treats the control problem at length. Its definition is the one the research-meaning events on this page use, and the book put the word into the vocabulary of the labs that later adopted it.",
      "quote": "any intellect that greatly exceeds the cognitive performance of humans in virtually all domains of interest",
      "quoteAttribution": "Nick Bostrom, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies, chapter 2 (Oxford University Press, 2014)",
      "company": null,
      "relatedEvents": [],
      "url": "https://sibuilders.io/research/rise-of-super-intelligence#2014-bostrom-superintelligence",
      "sources": [
        {
          "url": "https://global.oup.com/academic/product/superintelligence-9780199678112",
          "title": "Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies",
          "publisher": "Oxford University Press",
          "date": "2014-07-03"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "2023-05-openai-governance-of-superintelligence",
      "date": "2023-05-22",
      "datePrecision": "day",
      "era": "modern",
      "organization": "OpenAI",
      "sector": "company",
      "category": "statement",
      "meaning": "research",
      "title": "OpenAI's leaders call for \"the governance of superintelligence\"",
      "summary": "In a post on OpenAI's own site, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever write that it is time to plan for superintelligence, and propose an international authority for the most capable systems. The earliest official use of the term by a frontier lab that we could verify.",
      "quote": "Now is a good time to start thinking about the governance of superintelligence—future AI systems dramatically more capable than even AGI.",
      "quoteAttribution": "Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever, openai.com",
      "company": "https://sibuilders.io/companies/openai",
      "relatedEvents": [],
      "url": "https://sibuilders.io/research/rise-of-super-intelligence#2023-05-openai-governance-of-superintelligence",
      "sources": [
        {
          "url": "https://openai.com/index/governance-of-superintelligence/",
          "title": "Governance of superintelligence",
          "publisher": "OpenAI",
          "date": "2023-05-22"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "2023-07-openai-superalignment-team",
      "date": "2023-07-05",
      "datePrecision": "day",
      "era": "modern",
      "organization": "OpenAI",
      "sector": "company",
      "category": "division",
      "meaning": "research",
      "title": "OpenAI forms the Superalignment team",
      "summary": "OpenAI announces a team co-led by Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike to solve the alignment of superintelligent systems within four years, backed by a fifth of the compute the company had secured. The first dedicated superintelligence team at a frontier lab.",
      "quote": "Superintelligence will be the most impactful technology humanity has ever invented",
      "quoteAttribution": "\"Introducing Superalignment\", openai.com",
      "company": "https://sibuilders.io/companies/openai",
      "relatedEvents": [
        "2024-05-openai-superalignment-dissolved"
      ],
      "url": "https://sibuilders.io/research/rise-of-super-intelligence#2023-07-openai-superalignment-team",
      "sources": [
        {
          "url": "https://openai.com/index/introducing-superalignment/",
          "title": "Introducing Superalignment",
          "publisher": "OpenAI",
          "date": "2023-07-05"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "2024-05-openai-superalignment-dissolved",
      "date": "2024-05-17",
      "datePrecision": "day",
      "era": "modern",
      "organization": "OpenAI",
      "sector": "company",
      "category": "team_dissolved",
      "meaning": "research",
      "title": "OpenAI dissolves the Superalignment team",
      "summary": "Days after co-leads Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike resign, OpenAI confirms the Superalignment team no longer exists as a standalone group and that its work is being folded into other research teams. Logged as a reversal: the record tracks steps back from the term as well as toward it.",
      "quote": "Superalignment is now going to be more deeply ingrained across research, which will help us better achieve our Superalignment objectives.",
      "quoteAttribution": "OpenAI spokesperson, as reported by Gizmodo",
      "company": "https://sibuilders.io/companies/openai",
      "relatedEvents": [
        "2023-07-openai-superalignment-team"
      ],
      "url": "https://sibuilders.io/research/rise-of-super-intelligence#2024-05-openai-superalignment-dissolved",
      "sources": [
        {
          "url": "https://gizmodo.com/openai-reportedly-dissolves-its-existential-ai-risk-tea-1851484827",
          "title": "OpenAI Reportedly Dissolves Its Existential AI Risk Team",
          "publisher": "Gizmodo",
          "date": "2024-05-17"
        },
        {
          "url": "https://popsci.com/technology/openai-risk-team",
          "title": "OpenAI dissolved its team dedicated to preventing rogue AI",
          "publisher": "Popular Science",
          "date": "2024-05-17"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "2024-06-safe-superintelligence-founded",
      "date": "2024-06-19",
      "datePrecision": "day",
      "era": "modern",
      "organization": "Safe Superintelligence Inc.",
      "sector": "company",
      "category": "company_name",
      "meaning": "research",
      "title": "Safe Superintelligence Inc. is founded with \"one goal and one product\"",
      "summary": "Ilya Sutskever, Daniel Gross and Daniel Levy announce a company whose name is the goal. The announcement opens \"Superintelligence is within reach\" and describes \"one goal and one product: a safe superintelligence.\"",
      "quote": "Superintelligence is within reach. Building safe superintelligence (SSI) is the most important technical problem of our time.",
      "quoteAttribution": "Ilya Sutskever, Daniel Gross and Daniel Levy, founding announcement, ssi.inc",
      "company": "https://sibuilders.io/companies/safe-superintelligence",
      "relatedEvents": [],
      "url": "https://sibuilders.io/research/rise-of-super-intelligence#2024-06-safe-superintelligence-founded",
      "sources": [
        {
          "url": "https://ssi.inc/",
          "title": "Safe Superintelligence Inc.",
          "publisher": "Safe Superintelligence Inc.",
          "date": "2024-06-19"
        },
        {
          "url": "https://www.techmeme.com/240619/p19",
          "title": "Ilya Sutskever, Daniel Gross, and Daniel Levy announce Safe Superintelligence",
          "publisher": "Techmeme",
          "date": "2024-06-19"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "2025-03-reflection-ai-mission",
      "date": "2025-03-07",
      "datePrecision": "day",
      "era": "modern",
      "organization": "Reflection AI",
      "sector": "company",
      "category": "mission",
      "meaning": "research",
      "title": "Reflection AI launches to build \"superintelligent autonomous systems\"",
      "summary": "The founding statement reads \"At Reflection, we're building superintelligent autonomous systems,\" announced alongside a $130 million raise. The company's current website no longer uses the term; the event is logged because it happened.",
      "quote": "At Reflection, we're building superintelligent autonomous systems.",
      "quoteAttribution": "Founding statement, as reported by PYMNTS",
      "company": "https://sibuilders.io/companies/reflection-ai",
      "relatedEvents": [],
      "url": "https://sibuilders.io/research/rise-of-super-intelligence#2025-03-reflection-ai-mission",
      "sources": [
        {
          "url": "https://www.pymnts.com/news/investment-tracker/2025/reflection-ai-raises-130-million-to-build-autonomous-coding-systems/",
          "title": "Reflection AI Raises $130 Million to Build Autonomous Coding Systems",
          "publisher": "PYMNTS",
          "date": "2025-03-07"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "2025-03-lila-sciences-mission",
      "date": "2025-03-10",
      "datePrecision": "day",
      "era": "modern",
      "organization": "Lila Sciences",
      "sector": "company",
      "category": "mission",
      "meaning": "research",
      "title": "Lila Sciences launches with a mission of \"scientific superintelligence\"",
      "summary": "Flagship Pioneering launches Lila Sciences with $200 million in seed funding and a stated mission of scientific superintelligence. The company's website reads \"LILA is building Scientific Superintelligence.\" A domain-specific use of the research sense.",
      "quote": "LILA is building Scientific Superintelligence.",
      "quoteAttribution": "lila.ai",
      "company": "https://sibuilders.io/companies/lila-sciences",
      "relatedEvents": [],
      "url": "https://sibuilders.io/research/rise-of-super-intelligence#2025-03-lila-sciences-mission",
      "sources": [
        {
          "url": "https://www.lila.ai/",
          "title": "Lila Sciences",
          "publisher": "Lila Sciences",
          "date": "2025-03-10"
        },
        {
          "url": "https://www.fiercebiotech.com/biotech/new-flagship-backed-ai-firm-aims-build-scientific-superintelligence",
          "title": "With $200M in seed funding, Flagship-backed Lila Sciences touts ambitious AI vision",
          "publisher": "Fierce Biotech",
          "date": "2025-03-10"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "2025-06-meta-superintelligence-labs",
      "date": "2025-06-30",
      "datePrecision": "day",
      "era": "modern",
      "organization": "Meta",
      "sector": "company",
      "category": "division",
      "meaning": "research",
      "title": "Meta names its AI organization Meta Superintelligence Labs",
      "summary": "In an internal memo, Mark Zuckerberg writes \"We're going to call our overall organization Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL),\" bringing Meta's foundation-model, product and FAIR teams under one name, led by Alexandr Wang as Chief AI Officer.",
      "quote": "We're going to call our overall organization Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL).",
      "quoteAttribution": "Mark Zuckerberg, internal memo, as published by CNBC",
      "company": "https://sibuilders.io/companies/meta-superintelligence-labs",
      "relatedEvents": [],
      "url": "https://sibuilders.io/research/rise-of-super-intelligence#2025-06-meta-superintelligence-labs",
      "sources": [
        {
          "url": "https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/business/money-report/mark-zuckerberg-announces-creation-of-meta-superintelligence-labs-read-the-memo/3874906/",
          "title": "Mark Zuckerberg announces creation of Meta Superintelligence Labs. Read the memo",
          "publisher": "CNBC (via NBC DFW)",
          "date": "2025-06-30"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "2025-07-meta-personal-superintelligence",
      "date": "2025-07-30",
      "datePrecision": "day",
      "era": "modern",
      "organization": "Meta",
      "sector": "company",
      "category": "mission",
      "meaning": "research",
      "title": "Meta publishes \"Personal Superintelligence\" as its stated vision",
      "summary": "A public letter from Mark Zuckerberg states \"Meta's vision is to bring personal superintelligence to everyone,\" framing it as a tool for individual empowerment. Meta has not claimed to have built such a system.",
      "quote": "Meta's vision is to bring personal superintelligence to everyone.",
      "quoteAttribution": "Mark Zuckerberg, \"Personal Superintelligence\", meta.com",
      "company": "https://sibuilders.io/companies/meta-superintelligence-labs",
      "relatedEvents": [],
      "url": "https://sibuilders.io/research/rise-of-super-intelligence#2025-07-meta-personal-superintelligence",
      "sources": [
        {
          "url": "https://www.meta.com/superintelligence/",
          "title": "Personal Superintelligence",
          "publisher": "Meta",
          "date": "2025-07-30"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "2025-11-microsoft-ai-superintelligence-team",
      "date": "2025-11-06",
      "datePrecision": "day",
      "era": "modern",
      "organization": "Microsoft AI",
      "sector": "company",
      "category": "division",
      "meaning": "research",
      "title": "Microsoft AI forms the MAI Superintelligence Team",
      "summary": "Mustafa Suleyman announces \"we have formed the MAI Superintelligence Team, led by me as part of Microsoft AI,\" with a stated aim of \"humanist superintelligence\": capable systems kept subordinate to human interests.",
      "quote": "we have formed the MAI Superintelligence Team, led by me as part of Microsoft AI.",
      "quoteAttribution": "Mustafa Suleyman, \"Towards Humanist Superintelligence\", microsoft.ai",
      "company": "https://sibuilders.io/companies/microsoft-ai",
      "relatedEvents": [],
      "url": "https://sibuilders.io/research/rise-of-super-intelligence#2025-11-microsoft-ai-superintelligence-team",
      "sources": [
        {
          "url": "https://microsoft.ai/news/toward-humanist-superintelligence/",
          "title": "Towards Humanist Superintelligence",
          "publisher": "Microsoft AI",
          "date": "2025-11-06"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-03-microsoft-superintelligence-mission",
      "date": "2026-03-17",
      "datePrecision": "day",
      "era": "modern",
      "organization": "Microsoft",
      "sector": "company",
      "category": "statement",
      "meaning": "research",
      "title": "Microsoft's CEO says the company is \"doubling down on our superintelligence mission\"",
      "summary": "In an internal message published on Microsoft's official blog, Satya Nadella announces a merged Copilot organization and says Mustafa Suleyman will focus on the company's superintelligence and frontier-model work. The research meaning, stated as a company mission by the CEO on an official channel.",
      "quote": "We are doubling down on our superintelligence mission with the talent and compute to build models that have real product impact",
      "quoteAttribution": "Satya Nadella, internal message published on blogs.microsoft.com",
      "company": "https://sibuilders.io/companies/microsoft-ai",
      "relatedEvents": [],
      "url": "https://sibuilders.io/research/rise-of-super-intelligence#2026-03-microsoft-superintelligence-mission",
      "sources": [
        {
          "url": "https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2026/03/17/announcing-copilot-leadership-update/",
          "title": "Announcing Copilot leadership update",
          "publisher": "Microsoft",
          "date": "2026-03-17"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-06-deepmind-from-agi-to-asi",
      "date": "2026-06-10",
      "datePrecision": "day",
      "era": "modern",
      "organization": "Google DeepMind",
      "sector": "company",
      "category": "publication",
      "meaning": "research",
      "title": "Google DeepMind researchers publish \"From AGI to ASI\"",
      "summary": "A paper by DeepMind authors including Shane Legg defines ASI (\"artificial general superintelligence\" in the paper's wording) as \"a system that is more intelligent and cognitively capable than large organisations of humans.\" A research publication, not a renaming or a mission change.",
      "quote": "a system that is more intelligent and cognitively capable than large organisations of humans",
      "quoteAttribution": "Abstract of \"From AGI to ASI\", arXiv 2606.12683",
      "company": "https://sibuilders.io/companies/google-deepmind",
      "relatedEvents": [],
      "url": "https://sibuilders.io/research/rise-of-super-intelligence#2026-06-deepmind-from-agi-to-asi",
      "sources": [
        {
          "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.12683",
          "title": "From AGI to ASI",
          "publisher": "Google DeepMind (arXiv)",
          "date": "2026-06-10"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-09-trump-un-super-intelligence-speech",
      "date": "2026-09-22",
      "datePrecision": "day",
      "era": "modern",
      "organization": "U.S. President",
      "sector": "government",
      "category": "statement",
      "meaning": "federal",
      "title": "Trump tells the UN that AI will be called \"super intelligence\" in U.S. documents",
      "summary": "In his address to the UN General Assembly, the President says the word \"artificial\" makes the technology sound fake and that, from this point forward, all United States documents will use \"super intelligence\" instead. The executive order making it policy followed a week later.",
      "quote": "The use of the word artificial makes intelligence fake. It makes it sound fake, and it is not fake.",
      "quoteAttribution": "President Trump, address to the 81st United Nations General Assembly, September 22, 2026",
      "company": null,
      "relatedEvents": [],
      "url": "https://sibuilders.io/research/rise-of-super-intelligence#2026-09-trump-un-super-intelligence-speech",
      "sources": [
        {
          "url": "https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/presidential-speeches/september-22-2026-address-81st-united-nations-general-assembly",
          "title": "September 22, 2026: Address before the 81st United Nations General Assembly",
          "publisher": "Miller Center, University of Virginia",
          "date": "2026-09-22"
        },
        {
          "url": "https://www.axios.com/2026/09/22/trump-ai-super-intelligence-rebrand",
          "title": "Trump: AI to be referred to as \"super intelligence\" in official documents",
          "publisher": "Axios",
          "date": "2026-09-22"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-09-executive-order-14434",
      "date": "2026-09-29",
      "datePrecision": "day",
      "era": "modern",
      "organization": "U.S. Executive Office of the President",
      "sector": "government",
      "category": "policy",
      "meaning": "federal",
      "title": "Executive Order 14434 directs federal agencies to say \"Super Intelligence\" instead of \"AI\"",
      "summary": "\"Inaugurating the Era of Super Intelligence\" directs executive agencies to use \"Super Intelligence\" and \"SI\" in place of \"Artificial Intelligence\" and \"AI\" in non-statutory documents. SI is defined by reference to the existing statutory definition of AI (15 U.S.C. § 9401(3)); a proposed statutory definition is due within 60 days.",
      "quote": "shall use \"Super Intelligence\" and \"SI\" in place of \"Artificial Intelligence\" and \"AI\" in official correspondence",
      "quoteAttribution": "Executive Order 14434, Sec. 2(a)",
      "company": null,
      "relatedEvents": [],
      "url": "https://sibuilders.io/research/rise-of-super-intelligence#2026-09-executive-order-14434",
      "sources": [
        {
          "url": "https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/09/inaugurating-the-era-of-super-intelligence/",
          "title": "Inaugurating the Era of Super Intelligence (Executive Order 14434)",
          "publisher": "The White House",
          "date": "2026-09-29"
        },
        {
          "url": "https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-20321.pdf",
          "title": "Executive Order 14434, Federal Register public inspection document 2026-20321",
          "publisher": "Federal Register",
          "date": "2026-10-02"
        },
        {
          "url": "https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2026/09/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-inaugurates-the-era-of-super-intelligence/",
          "title": "Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Inaugurates The Era of Super Intelligence",
          "publisher": "The White House",
          "date": "2026-09-29"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-09-white-house-accord",
      "date": "2026-09-29",
      "datePrecision": "day",
      "era": "modern",
      "organization": "The White House, with Google, Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, xAI and NVIDIA",
      "sector": "government",
      "category": "policy",
      "meaning": "federal",
      "title": "Six AI companies sign the White House Accord on Super Intelligence",
      "summary": "A voluntary agreement on controls and audits for frontier models, signed the same day as the executive order. \"The agreement creates no new regulatory requirements.\" The federal label appears in the title; the accord addresses frontier-model risk and makes no research-sense claim.",
      "quote": "The agreement creates no new regulatory requirements.",
      "quoteAttribution": "White House Accord on Super Intelligence, as reported by Infosecurity Magazine",
      "company": null,
      "relatedEvents": [],
      "url": "https://sibuilders.io/research/rise-of-super-intelligence#2026-09-white-house-accord",
      "sources": [
        {
          "url": "https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/trump-ai-giants-super-intelligence/",
          "title": "Trump, Six AI Giants Sign 'Super Intelligence' Safety Accord",
          "publisher": "Infosecurity Magazine",
          "date": "2026-09-30"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-09-nist-itl-si-program",
      "date": "2026-09-30",
      "datePrecision": "day",
      "era": "modern",
      "organization": "NIST",
      "sector": "government",
      "category": "policy",
      "meaning": "federal",
      "title": "NIST presents its AI program as the \"ITL SI Program\"",
      "summary": "The Information Technology Laboratory's AI program page is retitled, and states that NIST \"is working to update its communications to incorporate the term 'super intelligence' as directed.\" The first agency-level implementation of the order we could verify.",
      "quote": "NIST is working to update its communications to incorporate the term \"super intelligence\" as directed.",
      "quoteAttribution": "ITL SI Program page, nist.gov",
      "company": null,
      "relatedEvents": [],
      "url": "https://sibuilders.io/research/rise-of-super-intelligence#2026-09-nist-itl-si-program",
      "sources": [
        {
          "url": "https://www.nist.gov/super-intelligence/nist-information-technology-laboratory-itl-si-program",
          "title": "NIST Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) SI Program",
          "publisher": "NIST",
          "date": "2026-09-30"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-10-spacexai-renamed-spacexsi",
      "date": "2026-10-04",
      "datePrecision": "day",
      "era": "modern",
      "organization": "SpaceX (SpaceXAI, formerly xAI)",
      "sector": "company",
      "category": "division",
      "meaning": "federal",
      "title": "Elon Musk renames SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI: \"No more AI. SI, it's better.\"",
      "summary": "Musk announces on X that SpaceX's AI division, SpaceXAI, will be renamed SpaceXSI. The unit's about page now carries the SpaceXSI name. The first company to apply the federal label to a division name.",
      "quote": "No more AI. SI, it's better.",
      "quoteAttribution": "Elon Musk on X",
      "company": "https://sibuilders.io/companies/xai",
      "relatedEvents": [],
      "url": "https://sibuilders.io/research/rise-of-super-intelligence#2026-10-spacexai-renamed-spacexsi",
      "sources": [
        {
          "url": "https://x.ai/about",
          "title": "About",
          "publisher": "SpaceXSI (x.ai)",
          "date": "2026-10-19"
        },
        {
          "url": "https://www.thestar.com.my/tech/tech-news/2026/10/05/musk-says-he-will-rename-spacexai-to-spacexsi",
          "title": "Musk says he will rename SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI",
          "publisher": "Reuters (via The Star)",
          "date": "2026-10-05"
        },
        {
          "url": "https://www.fastcompany.com/91618420/elon-musk-spacexai-rebrand",
          "title": "Elon Musk says SpaceXAI will be renamed SpaceXSI",
          "publisher": "Fast Company",
          "date": "2026-10-05"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-10-super-intelligence-force",
      "date": "2026-10-04",
      "datePrecision": "day",
      "era": "modern",
      "organization": "The White House",
      "sector": "government",
      "category": "policy",
      "meaning": "federal",
      "title": "The White House forms the Super Intelligence Force, chaired by DNI Jay Clayton",
      "summary": "President Trump announces a federal task force on AI named the \"Super Intelligence Force (SIF),\" chaired by Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton, with the FTC chair, the OPM director and the Pentagon's under secretary for research and engineering as vice chairs. It adopted its charter on October 15.",
      "quote": "I am announcing the formation of the Super Intelligence Force (SIF).",
      "quoteAttribution": "Donald J. Trump, Truth Social post, as reported by CBS News",
      "company": null,
      "relatedEvents": [],
      "url": "https://sibuilders.io/research/rise-of-super-intelligence#2026-10-super-intelligence-force",
      "sources": [
        {
          "url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ai-super-intelligence-force-trump-jay-clayton/",
          "title": "Trump announces formation of AI \"Super Intelligence Force\"",
          "publisher": "CBS News",
          "date": "2026-10-04"
        },
        {
          "url": "https://www.semafor.com/article/10/15/2026/white-houses-ai-task-force-gets-to-work",
          "title": "White House's AI task force gets to work",
          "publisher": "Semafor",
          "date": "2026-10-15"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-10-nist-super-intelligence-page",
      "date": "2026-10-05",
      "datePrecision": "day",
      "era": "modern",
      "organization": "NIST",
      "sector": "government",
      "category": "policy",
      "meaning": "federal",
      "title": "NIST retitles its agency topic page \"Super Intelligence\"",
      "summary": "The agency's AI topic page is retitled \"Super Intelligence,\" cites Executive Order 14434, and references the Center for Advancing Innovation and Standards for Super Intelligence (CAISSI).",
      "quote": "Center for Advancing Innovation and Standards for Super Intelligence (CAISSI)",
      "quoteAttribution": "NIST topic page \"Super intelligence\", nist.gov",
      "company": null,
      "relatedEvents": [],
      "url": "https://sibuilders.io/research/rise-of-super-intelligence#2026-10-nist-super-intelligence-page",
      "sources": [
        {
          "url": "https://www.nist.gov/super-intelligence",
          "title": "Super Intelligence",
          "publisher": "NIST",
          "date": "2026-10-05"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-10-doj-super-intelligence-memo",
      "date": "2026-10-06",
      "datePrecision": "day",
      "era": "modern",
      "organization": "U.S. Department of Justice",
      "sector": "government",
      "category": "policy",
      "meaning": "federal",
      "title": "Justice Department tells all staff to use \"super intelligence\", including in court filings",
      "summary": "A memo from Acting Deputy Attorney General Trent McCotter directs all Justice Department employees to use \"super intelligence\" and \"SI\" instead of \"artificial intelligence\" and \"AI\" in public communications, policy documents and official records, and extends the instruction to court filings \"when appropriate.\"",
      "quote": "shall extend to court filings when appropriate",
      "quoteAttribution": "Justice Department memo signed by Acting Deputy Attorney General Trent McCotter, as reported by Reuters",
      "company": null,
      "relatedEvents": [],
      "url": "https://sibuilders.io/research/rise-of-super-intelligence#2026-10-doj-super-intelligence-memo",
      "sources": [
        {
          "url": "https://www.thestar.com.my/tech/tech-news/2026/10/07/us-justice-dept-tells-staff-to-call-ai-039super-intelligence039-under-trump-order",
          "title": "US Justice Dept tells staff to call AI 'super intelligence' under Trump order",
          "publisher": "Reuters (via The Star)",
          "date": "2026-10-06"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-10-salesforce-siforce",
      "date": "2026-10-09",
      "datePrecision": "day",
      "era": "modern",
      "organization": "Salesforce",
      "sector": "company",
      "category": "product",
      "meaning": "federal",
      "title": "Salesforce renames AIForce to SIForce",
      "summary": "Marc Benioff on X: \"The era of Super Intelligence is here. AIForce is officially SIForce.\" A product rename only; no mission or organizational change.",
      "quote": "The era of Super Intelligence is here. AIForce is officially SIForce.",
      "quoteAttribution": "Marc Benioff on X",
      "company": null,
      "relatedEvents": [],
      "url": "https://sibuilders.io/research/rise-of-super-intelligence#2026-10-salesforce-siforce",
      "sources": [
        {
          "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/salesforce-aiforce-siforce-trump-super-intelligence",
          "title": "Salesforce renames AIForce to SIForce as Trump's AI rebrand spreads",
          "publisher": "The Next Web",
          "date": "2026-10-10"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-10-nadella-super-intelligence-era",
      "date": "2026-10-10",
      "datePrecision": "day",
      "era": "modern",
      "organization": "Microsoft (CEO)",
      "sector": "company",
      "category": "statement",
      "meaning": "federal",
      "title": "Satya Nadella writes of \"the Super Intelligence Era\"",
      "summary": "Microsoft's CEO publishes \"Models as Insider Risks in the Super Intelligence Era,\" using \"Super Intelligence systems\" to mean frontier-model-based systems. An executive statement on an official channel; not a corporate rename, and distinct from Microsoft AI's research-sense team formed in 2025.",
      "quote": "Models as Insider Risks in the Super Intelligence Era",
      "quoteAttribution": "Title of Satya Nadella's post, sn scratchpad",
      "company": null,
      "relatedEvents": [],
      "url": "https://sibuilders.io/research/rise-of-super-intelligence#2026-10-nadella-super-intelligence-era",
      "sources": [
        {
          "url": "https://snscratchpad.com/posts/models-as-insider-risks/",
          "title": "Models as Insider Risks in the Super Intelligence Era",
          "publisher": "Satya Nadella (sn scratchpad)",
          "date": "2026-10-10"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-10-si-gov-launched",
      "date": "2026-10-13",
      "datePrecision": "day",
      "era": "modern",
      "organization": "U.S. Office of Science and Technology Policy",
      "sector": "government",
      "category": "policy",
      "meaning": "federal",
      "title": "The White House relaunches its AI policy site at SI.gov",
      "summary": "The federal AI policy website moves to si.gov as \"America's home for Super Intelligence policy.\" The site originated under the previous administration and was moved to the new address.",
      "quote": "America's home for Super Intelligence policy.",
      "quoteAttribution": "si.gov",
      "company": null,
      "relatedEvents": [],
      "url": "https://sibuilders.io/research/rise-of-super-intelligence#2026-10-si-gov-launched",
      "sources": [
        {
          "url": "https://si.gov/",
          "title": "SI.gov | America's Super Intelligence Initiatives",
          "publisher": "The White House",
          "date": "2026-10-13"
        },
        {
          "url": "https://www.newsbytesapp.com/news/science/us-launches-si-gov-as-trump-pushes-to-rename-ai/story",
          "title": "US launches SI.gov as Trump pushes to rename AI",
          "publisher": "NewsBytes",
          "date": "2026-10-14"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-10-state-department-si-cable",
      "date": "2026-10-19",
      "datePrecision": "day",
      "era": "modern",
      "organization": "U.S. Department of State",
      "sector": "government",
      "category": "policy",
      "meaning": "federal",
      "title": "State Department cable requires \"SI\" in titles, programs and communications",
      "summary": "A department-wide cable requires \"Super Intelligence\" or \"SI\" in letters, emails, public messages, websites, reports and policy documents, and in the names of official titles, governance bodies, systems and programs. Laws, treaties, contracts, archived records and foreign organizations' names are excepted.",
      "quote": "All official titles and the names of Department governance bodies, systems, platforms, inventories, and programs must use SI",
      "quoteAttribution": "State Department cable, as reported by Defense One and Nextgov/FCW",
      "company": null,
      "relatedEvents": [],
      "url": "https://sibuilders.io/research/rise-of-super-intelligence#2026-10-state-department-si-cable",
      "sources": [
        {
          "url": "https://www.defenseone.com/policy/2026/10/state-department-super-intelligence/416705/",
          "title": "State Department orders staff to call AI 'super intelligence'",
          "publisher": "Defense One",
          "date": "2026-10-20"
        },
        {
          "url": "https://www.nextgov.com/artificial-intelligence/2026/10/state-department-orders-super-intelligence-wording-across-all-official-communications/416703/",
          "title": "State Department orders 'super intelligence' wording across all official communications",
          "publisher": "Nextgov/FCW",
          "date": "2026-10-20"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-10-american-si-exports-program",
      "date": "2026-10-20",
      "datePrecision": "day",
      "era": "modern",
      "organization": "U.S. Department of Commerce",
      "sector": "government",
      "category": "policy",
      "meaning": "federal",
      "title": "The American AI Exports Program becomes the American SI Exports Program",
      "summary": "Commerce's program for exporting full-stack American AI technology packages now operates under the SI name at siexports.gov, and the old aiexports.gov address redirects there. A State Department cable reported on October 20 says an earlier cable made the change.",
      "quote": "national accelerator for Super Intelligence (SI) business opportunities",
      "quoteAttribution": "American SI Exports Program website, siexports.gov",
      "company": null,
      "relatedEvents": [],
      "url": "https://sibuilders.io/research/rise-of-super-intelligence#2026-10-american-si-exports-program",
      "sources": [
        {
          "url": "https://siexports.gov/",
          "title": "American SI Exports Program",
          "publisher": "U.S. Department of Commerce",
          "date": "2026-10-24"
        },
        {
          "url": "https://www.nextgov.com/artificial-intelligence/2026/10/state-department-orders-super-intelligence-wording-across-all-official-communications/416703/",
          "title": "State Department orders 'super intelligence' wording across all official communications",
          "publisher": "Nextgov/FCW",
          "date": "2026-10-20"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-10-navy-navadmin-super-intelligence",
      "date": "2026-10-22",
      "datePrecision": "day",
      "era": "modern",
      "organization": "U.S. Navy",
      "sector": "government",
      "category": "policy",
      "meaning": "federal",
      "title": "Navy orders \"Super Intelligence\" across all commands, effective immediately",
      "summary": "A NAVADMIN message makes \"Super Intelligence\" and \"SI\" mandatory in Navy correspondence, operation orders, training material, fleet advisories, websites and congressional reports, and requires senior commanders to review public material for compliance within 30 days.",
      "quote": "use 'Super Intelligence' and 'SI' in place of 'Artificial Intelligence' and 'AI.'",
      "quoteAttribution": "Navy NAVADMIN message, as reported by Navy Times",
      "company": null,
      "relatedEvents": [],
      "url": "https://sibuilders.io/research/rise-of-super-intelligence#2026-10-navy-navadmin-super-intelligence",
      "sources": [
        {
          "url": "https://www.navytimes.com/off-duty/military-culture/2026/10/23/a-super-rebrand-navy-mandates-dropping-artificial-intelligence/",
          "title": "A 'super' rebrand: Navy mandates dropping 'artificial intelligence'",
          "publisher": "Navy Times",
          "date": "2026-10-23"
        },
        {
          "url": "https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2026-10-23/super-intelligence-trump-navy-hegseth-23238288.html",
          "title": "Navy memo directs use of 'super intelligence' instead of AI",
          "publisher": "Stars and Stripes",
          "date": "2026-10-23"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-10-marine-corps-super-intelligence",
      "date": "2026-10-23",
      "datePrecision": "day",
      "era": "modern",
      "organization": "U.S. Marine Corps",
      "sector": "government",
      "category": "policy",
      "meaning": "federal",
      "title": "Marine Corps directs commands to use \"Super Intelligence\"",
      "summary": "A Marine Corps message tells commands to use \"Super Intelligence\" and \"SI\" in official correspondence and other non-statutory documents, \"to the maximum extent permitted by law.\"",
      "quote": "will use 'Super Intelligence' and 'SI' in place of 'Artificial Intelligence' and 'AI' in official correspondence",
      "quoteAttribution": "Marine Corps message, as reported by Stars and Stripes",
      "company": null,
      "relatedEvents": [],
      "url": "https://sibuilders.io/research/rise-of-super-intelligence#2026-10-marine-corps-super-intelligence",
      "sources": [
        {
          "url": "https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2026-10-23/super-intelligence-trump-navy-hegseth-23238288.html",
          "title": "Navy memo directs use of 'super intelligence' instead of AI",
          "publisher": "Stars and Stripes",
          "date": "2026-10-23"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}