Google has had the most people in the directory every year since 2013

Google has had the most people in the directory every year since 2013. Since 1969, 5 different organizations have held the lead alone.

For each year, the chart counts the people who held a position at each organization. Positions come from the biographies and from OpenAlex author affiliations. The race starts in 1969, the first year with 50 or more people placed, and ends in 2025, the last complete year. A parent organization counts the people at its labs.

An animated bar chart of the ten organizations with the most people in the directory in each year from 1969 to 2025. Without animation it shows 2025. The table below lists the 2025 values and the leader timeline lists the leader of every year.

2025 People in the directory

1. Google71
2. RIKEN34
3. Stanford University31
4. MIT30
5. UC Berkeley29
6. Carnegie Mellon23
7. Max Planck Society22
8. University of Oxford22
9. Meta20
10. Microsoft20

Source: People of Superintelligence career records from biographies and OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026. A person counts at an organization in each year that a dated position or an OpenAlex affiliation covers. Combined h-index and citations add up each person's numbers today and leave out uncertain OpenAlex records.

Data table

Organization (2025)	People	Combined h-index	Combined citations
Google	71	3,207	2,746,663
RIKEN	34	892	174,375
Stanford University	31	1,954	1,476,451
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	30	1,782	1,553,830
University of California, Berkeley	29	1,532	1,137,574
Carnegie Mellon University	23	1,254	669,002
Max Planck Society	22	1,392	782,806
University of Oxford	22	1,284	764,729
Meta	20	1,178	1,209,968
Microsoft	20	1,022	486,497

The measure buttons change what the bars count. Combined h-index and citations use each person's numbers today, so they show how much research weight an organization had among the people there in a given year. By combined h-index, Google leads in 2025.

5 organizations have led since 1969: Stanford University (12 years), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (27 years), Carnegie Mellon University (2 years), Microsoft (4 years) and Google (13 years).

Source: People of Superintelligence career records from biographies and OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.

Data table

Years	Leader	People
1969–1975	Stanford University	13
1976–1983	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	21
1984	Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University	21
1985–1988	Stanford University	33
1989–1998	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	31
1999	Carnegie Mellon University	27
2000	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	31
2001	Carnegie Mellon University	33
2002–2008	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	36
2009–2012	Microsoft	40
2013–2025	Google	71

1340 positions in the career records have no start year and are left out. Recent years can undercount people, because an OpenAlex affiliation appears only after a person publishes.