@chrisbarber: I asked people which companies have the highest density of talented people they know: 1st. Cognition - 9 votes Equal 1s…
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A poll by Chris Barber ranks companies by the density of talented people known, with Cognition and Anthropic tied for first place, followed by Modal, OpenAI, and others.
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I asked people which companies have the highest density of talented people they know:
1st. Cognition - 9 votes Equal 1st. Anthropic - 9 votes 2nd. Modal - 5 votes 3rd. OpenAI - 4 votes 4th. Standard Intelligence - 3 votes 4th. Cursor - 3 votes
Two votes each:
- Ramp
- Flapping Airplanes
- DeepMind
- Long Lake
- Applied Compute
One vote each:
- SpaceXAI
- SpaceX (treated separately, one vote was for the AI lab subsidiary and one was for the rocket team)
- American Terawatt
- Mechanize
- Olix
- Fluidstack
- Chai Discovery
- Sail Research
- Etched
- Core Automation
- Specter
- Clay
- Applied Intuition
- Sierra
- Hivemind
- Bitrig
- Retro
- Thinking Machines
- Decagon
- Precigenetics
- Pangram
- Reflect
- Thrive Holdings
- Adaption
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