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LinkedIn

LinkedIn is a consumer products and enterprise software company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California457. This catalog lists 1 software project from LinkedIn, under licenses including the BSD 2-Clause License.

Documented roles: Consumer products · Enterprise software

Subsidiary of Microsoft

LinkedIn is a professional networking service owned by Microsoft, which reports it within its Productivity and Business Processes segment. Its engineering team develops and maintains Liger Kernel, an open-source library of Triton GPU kernels for training large language models.13810

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Using this organization’s offerings

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Key facts

Legal name
LinkedIn Corporation26
Ownership (separate from openness)
Unit of another organization

Recorded classification; fact-level ownership verification pending.

Legal form
Unknown
Headquarters
Sunnyvale, California457
Founded
Unknown

What is and isn’t public

An evidence-based summary of what this catalog has documented. It is not a verdict on the organization as a whole.

This catalog records LinkedIn's open-source Liger Kernel library, published by LinkedIn on GitHub under the BSD 2-Clause license. LinkedIn's consumer and business products are hosted services and are not assessed here.89

Products

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Cataloged artifacts

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Frameworks (1)

Organizational relationships

  • Parent organization: Microsoft (Subsidiary)

    Fact-level relationship verification pending.

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Notable documented facts

  • Microsoft's Form 10-K for fiscal 2026 describes LinkedIn's paid offerings as Talent Solutions, Marketing Solutions, Premium Subscriptions, and Sales Solutions. This catalog has not reviewed the AI features within those products.1
  • LinkedIn Engineering's December 2024 post on Liger Kernel says LinkedIn uses the kernels in its own LLM training infrastructure alongside FlashAttention, with Flyte scheduling jobs on Kubernetes.10

What this catalog does not know

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  • Founding date: not documented in the sources reviewed.
  • Official careers page: not verified by this catalog.
  • Products: none documented in this record.

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U.S. eligibility

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Eligible · basis: Documented U.S. control

Microsoft completed its acquisition of LinkedIn on December 8, 2016, and Exhibit 21 to Microsoft's Form 10-K for fiscal 2026 lists LinkedIn Corporation (United States) as a subsidiary. Microsoft Corporation is a Washington corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington. LinkedIn's careers site describes its global headquarters campus as being in Sunnyvale, California, and LinkedIn Corporation's legal-notice mailing address is there; its privacy policy names LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company as the controller for members in the EU, EEA, and Switzerland.321456

Assessed Sep 29, 2026

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Sources

  1. 1.
    Microsoft Corporation Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2026 (external site: sec.gov)

    U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (Microsoft filing) · Filing · published Jul 29, 2026 · accessed Sep 29, 2026

  2. 2.
    Microsoft Corporation Form 10-K fiscal 2026, Exhibit 21 (Subsidiaries of Registrant) (external site: sec.gov)

    U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (Microsoft filing) · Filing · published Jul 29, 2026 · accessed Sep 29, 2026

  3. 3.
    Microsoft completes acquisition of LinkedIn (external site: news.linkedin.com)

    LinkedIn · Announcement · published Dec 8, 2016 · accessed Sep 29, 2026

  4. 4.
    Sunnyvale HQ | LinkedIn Careers (external site: careers.linkedin.com)

    LinkedIn · Official page · accessed Sep 29, 2026

  5. 5.
  6. 6.
    LinkedIn Privacy Policy (external site: linkedin.com)

    LinkedIn · Official page · published Nov 3, 2025 · accessed Sep 29, 2026

  7. 7.
    About Us | LinkedIn Pressroom (external site: news.linkedin.com)

    LinkedIn · Official page · accessed Sep 29, 2026

  8. 8.
    linkedin/Liger-Kernel (GitHub repository) (external site: github.com)

    LinkedIn · Repository · accessed Sep 29, 2026

  9. 9.
    Liger-Kernel LICENSE (external site: raw.githubusercontent.com)

    LinkedIn · License · accessed Sep 29, 2026

  10. 10.
    Liger-Kernel: Empowering an open source ecosystem of Triton Kernels for Efficient LLM Training (external site: linkedin.com)

    LinkedIn Engineering · Announcement · published Dec 5, 2024 · accessed Sep 29, 2026

  11. 11.
    Official careers site (external site: careers.linkedin.com)

    LinkedIn · Official page · accessed Oct 1, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 1, 2026

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@misc{usasi_linkedin,
  author = {{USASI}},
  title = {LinkedIn},
  year = {2026},
  month = oct,
  howpublished = {\url{https://unitedstatesofamericasuperintelligence.com/companies/linkedin/}},
  note = {United States of America Superintelligence. Last updated 2026-10-01}
}

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