Frontier SI
The AGI Runway
Brilliant in moments, but not yet dependable over missions. Powerful general-purpose systems for reasoning, coding, creation, analysis, and tool use—still reliant on human direction, verification, and judgment.
AMERICA’S NEXT TECHNOLOGICAL ERA
America’s Super Intelligence.
Leading the frontier.
American labs, capital and infrastructure power the lead.
Independent measurement for America’s next era.
Current index leader: OPUS 5.5 26.1 / 100
Benchmark ·
01 / THE AMERICAN SUPER INTELLIGENCE INDEX
Top 5. All American.
Approved snapshot: .
5/5
Five entries. Four U.S.-headquartered developers. Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and Meta hold the five positions in this snapshot. Rankings measure capability, with no nationality bonus.
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CURRENT APPROVED SNAPSHOT
CAPABILITY SCORE · 100-POINT SCALE
| Rank | Model / American developer | Score ↓ | Speed tier | Cost tier | Recorded / status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank 01 |
 OPUS 5.5 |
Score 26.1/ 100 | Speed3 / 5 | Cost4 / 5 | UPDATED |
| Rank 02 |
 GPT-6 ASTRA |
Score 24.9/ 100 | Speed2 / 5 | Cost3 / 5 | UPDATED |
| Rank 03 |
SONNET 5.5 |
Score 24.8/ 100 | Speed3 / 5 | Cost3 / 5 | UPDATED |
| Rank 04 |
 GEMINI ARGON |
Score 24.6/ 100 | Speed3 / 5 | Cost2 / 5 | NEW |
| Rank 05 |
 MUSE WONDER (non-Full) |
Score 24.2/ 100 | Speed4 / 5 | Cost4 / 5 | NEW |
Speed: higher is faster. Cost: higher is more expensive. Tiers run 1–5.
This dated index is not a world-exhaustive ranking. Scores are benchmark estimates, not scientific certification of AGI or GSI.
THE CAPABILITY TIMELINE
America’s frontier.
The road to GSI.
Six stages of general capability. One ambitious horizon.
Current leader: OPUS 5.5 by Anthropic
Current phase: AGI-I — Human-Level General Intelligence
26.1 / 100
AMERICAN SUPER INTELLIGENCE INDEX · GENERAL CAPABILITY SCORE
AGI-I
Human-Level General Intelligence
The machine crosses from assistant to cognitive peer. It adapts to unfamiliar work, plans and executes multi-step tasks, uses tools, and delivers broadly competent results with limited oversight.
AGI-II
Expert General Intelligence
Expertise becomes general. The system matches strong human specialists across many domains, exceeds them in some, and transfers insight between fields without losing rigor.
AGI-III
Exceptional General Intelligence
It does not just navigate the frontier—it moves it. Better than nearly every individual human across most cognitive work, it repeatedly produces original discoveries, designs, and strategies.
General SI Runway
Superhuman General Intelligence
No individual human remains the benchmark. The system exceeds the best human experts across virtually all cognitive domains and sustains complex, long-horizon programs with extraordinary reliability.
GSI
Civilization-Scale General Super Intelligence
No human institution remains the benchmark. GSI outperforms even large, well-coordinated human expert collectives across virtually all cognitive work, operating at machine speed and scale.
100 marks the American Super Intelligence Index’s GSI threshold—not the ceiling.
This publication’s capability framework. Stage labels are not independent scientific certification. The timeline maps capability—not calendar dates or percentage completion. Snapshot: October 14, 2026.
Explore the six stages ↗02 / WHY AMERICA LEADS
Ideas. Capital. Capacity.
Three measured advantages that help explain America’s position. National indicators are separate from our model scores.
MODEL DEVELOPMENT
59vs 35
More notable models.
USA
59
China
35
Notable models produced in 2025: U.S. and China.
Stanford HAI · 2026 report ↗PRIVATE INVESTMENT
$285.88billion
Capital to build the frontier.
USA
$285.88B
China
$12.41B
2025 private SI investment: about 23× China’s. Private figures exclude some state-backed spending.
Stanford HAI · 2026 report ↗INFRASTRUCTURE FOOTPRINT
5,427
The scale of American capacity.
U.S. data centers in the 2026 report—more than 10× any other country. Facility count is not frontier-SI compute capacity.
Stanford HAI · 2026 report ↗2025 model and investment data · 2026 infrastructure report · Sources reviewed October 8, 2026. These dimensions establish an advantage, not dominance in every field.
Read the leadership thesis ↗03 / A NEW AMERICAN ERA
Ambition, on the record.
Two presidential statements. Distinct moments.
The next chapter is ours to build.
America stands at the forefront of a new technological revolution in intelligence.
THE AMERICAN AMBITION
America is going to win it.
SEPTEMBER 29, 2026 / TERMINOLOGY DECISION
Super Intelligence enters the federal vocabulary.
Executive Order 14434 directs executive-branch communications to use Super Intelligence / SI wherever law permits, while initially retaining the statutory SI definition. The terminology policy does not mandate private usage or certify GSI.
Policy context & official sources ↗LATEST COVERAGE / SCIENCE & THE AMERICAN FRONTIER
What’s new. Why it matters.
Fresh developments, with the facts kept in focus.
· Industrial ingenuity
NVIDIA and Siemens put SI to work on the factory floor.
At Siemens’ Erlangen factory, teams can test production changes in a digital twin and use synthetic images to prepare circuit-board inspections.
Read the story ↗· Public benefit
Anthropic links SI growth to a new public-benefit fund.
A proposed 5% equity commitment would connect company growth with a flexible fund for the public good, subject to stockholder approval.
Read the story ↗· Computing & creation
NVIDIA brings local SI to a new generation of laptops.
RTX Spark laptops have arrived, bringing local models, software agents and creative tools to portable Windows PCs.
Read the story ↗· Science & discovery
Google brings SI discovery closer to the lab bench.
Real experiments help SI-assisted molecular design learn from results, as Google develops building blocks for human-directed discovery.
Read the story ↗· Science & research
SI and mathematicians get a $15 million boost.
A $15 million partnership connects mathematicians with tools, research access and opportunities to develop SI-assisted work.
Read the story ↗· Chips & engineering
NVIDIA brings SI tools to the next generation of chipmaking.
New tools connect atomic simulation, chipmaking models and inspection, giving engineers more ways to develop the next generation of chips.
Read the story ↗04 / UNDERSTAND THE AMERICAN ADVANTAGE
A field guide to what comes next.
STRATEGY / 01
Lead the frontier.
Build the next era.
How a good idea becomes a useful product—and why America is well placed to make it happen.
Explore American leadership ↗
POWER → COMPUTE → CAPABILITY
FOUNDATIONS / 02
Build the capacity.
Unlock the possibility.
The physical systems that make powerful intelligence available.
Explore infrastructure ↗
AMERICAN IDEAS. GLOBAL REACH.
BUILDERS / 03
The next great idea
needs an open door.
American labs, research access and the ecosystem behind discovery.
Explore innovation & labs ↗KEEP INDEPENDENT MEASUREMENT MOVING
America’s next era.
A clearer view, together.
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