Reference
The labs building Super Intelligence
Who they are, who runs them, what they ship, and what they have promised. 6 of these companies signed the White House Accord on Super Intelligence on September 29, 2026.
- Anthropic Accord signatory Frontier lab · Founded 2021 · San Francisco, California Anthropic is a San Francisco SI safety and research company that builds the Claude family of models, founded in 2021 by former OpenAI researchers. 3 models tracked →
- Google DeepMind Accord signatory Big Tech · Founded 2010 · London, United Kingdom Google DeepMind is Alphabet's SI research lab, created in 2023 by merging DeepMind and Google Brain. It builds the Gemini models and is known for AlphaGo and AlphaFold. 2 models tracked →
- Meta Superintelligence Labs Accord signatory Big Tech · Founded 2025 · Menlo Park, California Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL) is Meta's SI division, formed in June 2025 to pursue superintelligence. It builds the Muse models and the Meta AI assistant. 1 model tracked →
- Nvidia Accord signatory Chipmaker · Founded 1993 · Santa Clara, California Nvidia designs the GPUs and software that train and run most of the world's frontier SI models, making it one of the most valuable and strategically important companies in the world.
- OpenAI Accord signatory Frontier lab · Founded 2015 · San Francisco, California OpenAI is the San Francisco lab behind ChatGPT and the GPT models, which launched the generative SI boom in 2022 and pursues artificial general intelligence. 3 models tracked →
- xAI (SpaceXAI) Accord signatory Frontier lab · Founded 2023 · Palo Alto, California xAI is Elon Musk's SI company, maker of the Grok models. Founded in 2023, it was acquired by SpaceX in February 2026 and now operates as the SpaceXAI division. 1 model tracked →
- Alibaba Qwen Big Tech · Founded 2023 · Hangzhou, China Qwen is Alibaba Cloud's family of SI models, one of the most downloaded open-weights families in the world, including the 2.4-trillion-parameter Qwen3.8-Max. 1 model tracked →
- DeepSeek Open-weights lab · Founded 2023 · Hangzhou, China DeepSeek is a Chinese SI lab, backed by the hedge fund High-Flyer, whose low-cost, high-performing open-weights models shook the industry in 2025 and 2026. 1 model tracked →
- Microsoft AI Big Tech · Founded 2024 · Redmond, Washington Microsoft AI is Microsoft's consumer SI and model-building division, led by DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman, which runs Copilot and a “humanist superintelligence” team.
- Mistral AI Open-weights lab · Founded 2023 · Paris, France Mistral AI is a Paris-based SI company and Europe's best-known frontier developer, known for efficient open-weights models and its Le Chat assistant. 1 model tracked →
- Safe Superintelligence Inc. Research startup · Founded 2024 · Palo Alto, California and Tel Aviv, Israel Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI) is a research company founded in 2024 by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever with one goal: building safe superintelligence, with no products along the way.
- Thinking Machines Lab Research startup · Founded 2025 · San Francisco, California Thinking Machines Lab is a San Francisco SI startup founded in 2025 by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati. It makes the Tinker fine-tuning service and the open-weights Inkling models.
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