No more AI. SI. It's better.
Super Intelligence offers an extraordinary opportunity…
A far more elegant and accurate description… would be Superior Intelligence (SI)
Developing superintelligence is now in sight.
…to superintelligence in the true sense of the word.
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Reads as Super Intelligence, the term the US government adopted in September 2026.
One syllable. Easy to say, easy to spell.
For start-ups and scale-ups building agents, models, developer tools or services around SI.
How AI is becoming SI
From a philosophy book to an executive order in twelve years. Every entry links to its source.
“Superintelligence” enters the mainstream
Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom publishes Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies, putting the word into tech and policy debate.
Source: Wikipedia ↗Safe Superintelligence Inc. is founded
OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever starts SSI with the line
Source: ssi.inc ↗Superintelligence is within reach.
OpenAI sets its sights on superintelligence
Sam Altman writes that OpenAI is turning its aim to
Source: blog.samaltman.com ↗superintelligence in the true sense of the word.
Meta launches Meta Superintelligence Labs
Mark Zuckerberg reorganizes Meta's AI efforts under a new name. A month later he publishes his “Personal Superintelligence” vision.
Source: Wikipedia ↗Microsoft forms a superintelligence team
Microsoft AI announces its MAI Superintelligence Team under Mustafa Suleyman.
Source: Microsoft AI ↗Trump: “artificial” is the wrong word
On Truth Social, President Trump calls “Artificial Intelligence”
Source: IBTimes ↗inaccurate, and very ineloquent
and asks followers to pick a replacement. “Super Intelligence” wins.Executive Order 14434: the era of Super Intelligence
Federal agencies must use “Super Intelligence (SI)” instead of “Artificial Intelligence” in official communications. A federal SI definition is due within 60 days.
Source: White House fact sheet ↗Six tech giants sign the Accord on Super Intelligence
Google, Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, xAI and Nvidia sign the White House Accord on Super Intelligence on the same day.
Source: Al Jazeera ↗Jensen Huang switches to SI
The Nvidia CEO uses “SI” at the White House, corrects himself after one slip with
Source: Axios ↗I am going to get good at this
, and calls data centers “super intelligence factories”.Mark Zuckerberg adopts the term
Meta's CEO promotes the SI terminology in a social media post.
Source: Yahoo Finance ↗Musk: “No more AI. SI.”
Elon Musk confirms SpaceXAI will be renamed SpaceXSI:
Source: The Next Web ↗Yes, we will make that change.