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Super Intelligence Terminology Tracker: Who Has Adopted the Term
A dated, sourced log of companies and government bodies that have officially adopted the term Super Intelligence in a name, mission, product or policy.
This is a factual log of organizations that have officially adopted “superintelligence” or “Super Intelligence” in a company name, division name, mission statement, product name, or policy instrument. It records what happened and when, with a source for each row. It does not rank, score, or evaluate the organizations, and it does not assess whether any system has reached Super Intelligence. None is.
The log deliberately mixes two kinds of adoption that are easy to conflate: use of the word in its research sense (a goal of building systems that exceed human cognitive performance) and use of the federal “SI” label established by Executive Order 14434, which currently means ordinary AI as defined in statute. The What column makes the distinction clear for each entry. For the difference in meaning, see What Is Super Intelligence (SI)?.
The log
Entries are in chronological order by first verified public use.
| Organization | What | Type | First seen | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Safe Superintelligence Inc. | Company founded by Ilya Sutskever, Daniel Gross and Daniel Levy; announcement opened “Superintelligence is within reach” and described “one goal and one product: a safe superintelligence.” Research sense. | Company name | 2024-06-19 | Techmeme; ssi.inc |
| Reflection AI | Founding statement on LinkedIn: “At Reflection, we’re building superintelligent autonomous systems.” Research sense. The company’s current website does not use the term. | Mission | 2025-03-07 | PYMNTS |
| Lila Sciences | Launched by Flagship Pioneering with a stated mission of “scientific superintelligence”; website reads “LILA is building Scientific Superintelligence.” Research sense, domain-specific. | Mission | 2025-03-10 | Fierce Biotech; lila.ai |
| Meta | Internal memo from Mark Zuckerberg: “We’re going to call our overall organization Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL).” Research sense. | Division | 2025-06-30 | CNBC via NBC DFW |
| Meta | Public letter “Personal Superintelligence”: “Meta’s vision is to bring personal superintelligence to everyone.” Research sense. | Mission | 2025-07-30 | meta.com |
| Microsoft AI | Mustafa Suleyman: “we have formed the MAI Superintelligence Team, led by me as part of Microsoft AI,” pursuing “humanist superintelligence.” Research sense. | Division | 2025-11-06 | microsoft.ai |
| Google DeepMind | Research paper “From AGI to ASI” by DeepMind authors including Shane Legg, defining ASI (“artificial general superintelligence” in the paper’s wording) as “a system that is more intelligent and cognitively capable than large organizations of humans.” Research sense; a publication, not a renaming. | Research publication | 2026-06-10 | arXiv |
| U.S. Executive Office of the President | Executive Order 14434, “Inaugurating the Era of Super Intelligence,” directs federal executive agencies to use “Super Intelligence” and “SI” in place of “Artificial Intelligence” and “AI” in non-statutory documents. Defines SI by reference to the AI definition in 15 U.S.C. § 9401(3). Federal label. | Policy | 2026-09-29 | whitehouse.gov; Federal Register |
| White House with Google, Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, xAI, NVIDIA | “White House Accord on Super Intelligence,” a voluntary agreement on controls and audits for frontier models; “The agreement creates no new regulatory requirements.” Federal label in title. | Policy (voluntary accord) | 2026-09-29 | Infosecurity Magazine |
| NIST | Information Technology Laboratory AI program presented as the “ITL SI Program”; page states NIST “is working to update its communications to incorporate the term ‘super intelligence’ as directed.” Federal label. | Division / policy implementation | 2026-09-30 | nist.gov ITL SI Program |
| NIST | Agency topic page retitled “Super Intelligence,” citing Executive Order 14434; references the Center for Advancing Innovation and Standards for Super Intelligence (CAISSI). Federal label. | Policy implementation | 2026-10-05 | nist.gov |
| SpaceX (SpaceXAI, formerly xAI) | Elon Musk on X: SpaceXAI to be renamed SpaceXSI; “No more AI. SI, it’s better.” The unit’s about page now carries the SpaceXSI name. Federal label applied to a company division. | Division name | 2026-10-04 | Reuters via The Star; Fast Company; x.ai/about |
| Salesforce | Marc Benioff on X: “The era of Super Intelligence is here. AIForce is officially SIForce.” Product rename only. Federal label. | Product | 2026-10-09 | The Next Web |
| Microsoft (CEO) | Satya Nadella published “Models as Insider Risks in the Super Intelligence Era,” using “Super Intelligence systems” to refer to frontier-model-based systems. Federal label in an executive’s writing; not a corporate rename. | Executive statement | 2026-10-10 | sn scratchpad |
| U.S. Office of Science and Technology Policy | White House AI policy site relaunched at si.gov as “America’s home for Super Intelligence policy”; the site originated under the previous administration and was moved to the new address. Federal label. | Policy (website) | 2026-10-13 | si.gov; NewsBytes |
Noted but not logged
OpenAI. OpenAI has not renamed any division or product. Sam Altman has used “superintelligence” in the research sense in personal essays since January 2025, and said in October 2026 that OpenAI has “no plans” to rebrand but “we have been talking about super intelligence a lot, and we will continue to talk about it.” Executive essays do not meet the bar for this log; a formal mission or division change would.
Anthropic, Thinking Machines Lab. Neither has adopted the term in a name, mission, or product as of publication. Anthropic’s stated target is “powerful AI.”
Methodology
What counts. An entry requires an official act by the organization itself: incorporating under the name, naming a division or team, publishing a mission statement, renaming a product, or issuing a policy instrument. For government bodies, an executive order, an agency page change, or an official website qualifies. A peer-reviewed or preprint research publication from an organization’s own researchers is logged, but labeled as a publication rather than a renaming.
What does not count. Interviews, podcast remarks, personal blog posts and social-media commentary by executives do not create an entry on their own, with one exception: a chief executive announcing an organizational rename on an official channel (as Musk and Benioff did on X) is logged, because the announcement is itself the act. Marketing copy that uses the word without a name, mission, or product change is excluded. Third-party descriptions (“a superintelligence startup”) are never sufficient.
Research sense vs. federal label. Each entry says which meaning applies. Use of the word to describe a goal of exceeding human cognitive performance is marked “research sense.” Use of “Super Intelligence” or “SI” as a substitute for “AI” following Executive Order 14434 is marked “federal label.” Some entries, such as the White House accord, use the federal label in a title while addressing frontier-model risks; we record the label and do not infer a research claim.
Verification. Every row links to a primary source where one exists (the organization’s own page, the executive order, the Federal Register) and otherwise to a named news organization reporting the primary statement verbatim. “First seen” is the date of the earliest verifiable public use we could find, not necessarily the first use that occurred; we revise dates backward when earlier evidence appears. Where a company’s current materials no longer use the term (Reflection AI), the row says so rather than being removed, because the log records adoption events.
No scoring. Rows are ordered by date only. Placement implies nothing about an organization’s capabilities, seriousness, or standing.
Change log
- 2026-10-19: Initial publication.
Corrections and additions, with a source, to corrections@sibuilders.io.