# Size of Companies by Number of Employees Reference table of approximate employee headcounts across companies covered on this site, sourced in June 2026 (42 companies). Headcount is a fast proxy for a company's scale and stage — compare Clearview AI's ~45 people against Amazon's ~1.58M to see how little correlation there is between staff size and political footprint. Sector context: [[AI Sector]] and [[Defense Primes Sector]] (challenger side mapped in [[Defense Tech Ecosystem]]). ## AI Sector (22 companies) - OpenAI ~4,500 - xAI ~1,200 - Meta ~79,000 - Microsoft ~228,000 - Alphabet ~191,000 - Amazon ~1,576,000 - Apple ~166,000 - NVIDIA ~42,000 - Perplexity ~500 - Hugging Face ~680 - DeepSeek ~200 - Mistral ~350 - Anysphere ~200 - Figure AI ~650 - Scale AI ~1,200 - Clearview AI ~45 - SandboxAQ ~350 - Neuralink ~500 - IBM ~265,000 - Intel ~85,000 - Tesla ~135,000 - Databricks ~14,000 ## Defense Tech (20 companies) - Palantir ~4,400 - Anduril ~7,000 - Shield AI ~1,550 - Skydio ~1,000 - Boston Dynamics ~1,440 - SpaceX ~18,000 - Leidos ~47,000 - Saildrone ~240 - Ghost Robotics ~90 - Gecko Robotics ~340 - Saronic ~600 - Vannevar Labs ~200 - Hadrian ~400 - Hermeus ~300 - Helsing ~700 - Epirus ~210 - Rebellion Defense ~50 - Varda Space Industries ~235 - Applied Intuition ~1,400 - QinetiQ ~8,000 ## Notes Numbers are best available as of mid-2026 research; the same values live in each company page's `employees` frontmatter field. Remaining sectors (finance, media, healthcare, etc.) to fill over time.