{ "id": "r91bf9c4cc56", "found": true, "parent_id": "rb11dd942cf2", "created_at": "2026-08-31 15:13:49.987852+00:00", "rows": [ { "url": "https://cryptopolitan.com/meta-openai-veteran-superintelligence-labs", "title": "Meta pulls OpenAI veteran into Superintelligence Labs talent war", "published_at": "2026-08-24T07:53:27", "researcher": "Luke Metz", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "Meta pulls OpenAI veteran into Superintelligence Labs talent war", "Meta hired Luke Metz, an early ChatGPT researcher at OpenAI, for its Superintelligence Labs." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://bitcoinethereumnews.com/finance/meta-pulls-openai-veteran-into-superintelligence-labs-talent-war", "title": "Meta pulls OpenAI veteran into Superintelligence Labs talent war", "published_at": "2026-08-24T07:54:21", "researcher": "Ruoming Pang", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "oversaw AI infrastructure", "researcher_evidence": [ "OpenAI, meanwhile, hired Ruoming Pang, who had overseen AI infrastructure for Meta\u2019s Superintelligence Labs, The Information reported in February, per a Reuters account, seven months after Meta recruited him from Apple on a package Bloomberg valued at more than $200 million.", "# Meta pulls OpenAI veteran into Superintelligence Labs talent war", "The traffic runs in both directions. Jones found Meta researchers leaving for Microsoft AI, Nvidia and OpenAI even as the company recruited from Amazon, Scale AI and universities." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "OpenAI, meanwhile, hired Ruoming Pang, who had overseen AI infrastructure for Meta\u2019s Superintelligence Labs, The Information reported in February, per a Reuters account, seven months after Meta recruited him from Apple on a package Bloomberg valued at more than $200 million.", "# Meta pulls OpenAI veteran into Superintelligence Labs talent war", "The traffic runs in both directions. Jones found Meta researchers leaving for Microsoft AI, Nvidia and OpenAI even as the company recruited from Amazon, Scale AI and universities." ] }, { "url": "https://aichatdaily.com/ai-business/barret-zoph-exits-openai-second-time-joins-google", "title": "Barret Zoph exits OpenAI a second time, joins Google as VP of research on Gemini", "published_at": "2026-08-27T20:06:51", "researcher": "Barret Zoph", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "vice president of research", "researcher_evidence": [ "Main content", "Barret Zoph exits OpenAI a second time, joins Google as VP of research on Gemini", "Barret Zoph has joined [Google](/gemini) as vice president of research, where he will work on reinforcement learning and post-training for Gemini." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Main content", "Barret Zoph exits OpenAI a second time, joins Google as VP of research on Gemini", "Barret Zoph has joined [Google](/gemini) as vice president of research, where he will work on reinforcement learning and post-training for Gemini." ] }, { "url": "https://timesnownews.com/technology-science/ai-talent-war-meta-hires-openai-researcher-luke-metz-for-superintelligence-labs-article-155976672", "title": "AI Talent War: Meta Hires OpenAI Researcher Luke Metz For Superintelligence Labs", "published_at": "2026-08-24T07:21:07", "researcher": "Luke Metz", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# AI Talent War: Meta Hires OpenAI Researcher Luke Metz For Superintelligence Labs", "## Meta has strengthened its AI team by hiring Luke Metz, a notable researcher from OpenAI, for its Superintelligence Labs.", "Amid the ongoing AI talent war, Mark Zuckerberg's Meta has reportedly hired prominent AI researcher Luke Metz for its Superintelligence Labs." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://tradingkey.com/news/cryptocurrencies/262127294-cryptopolitan", "title": "Meta pulls OpenAI veteran into Superintelligence Labs talent war", "published_at": "2026-08-24T07:53:27", "researcher": "Luke Metz", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# Meta pulls OpenAI veteran into Superintelligence Labs talent war", "Meta has added another high-profile AI researcher to its Superintelligence Labs.", "Luke Metz, who was part of the early team behind ChatGPT at OpenAI, has joined the company." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://etnownews.com/technology/luke-metz-moves-to-meta-from-openai-says-axios-report-article-155976020", "title": "Luke Metz moves to Meta from OpenAI, says Axios report", "published_at": "2026-08-24T05:08:51", "researcher": "Luke Metz", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "Luke Metz moves to Meta from OpenAI, says Axios report", "AI researcher Luke Metz has joined Meta's Superintelligence Labs, his third major move between OpenAI, Thinking Machines and Meta since 2024." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/luke-metz-meta-superintelligence-labs-openai", "title": "Meta hired Luke Metz seven months after OpenAI hired him back", "published_at": "2026-08-25T10:32:34", "researcher": "Luke Metz", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# Meta hired Luke Metz seven months after OpenAI hired him back", "Luke Metz has joined Meta Superintelligence Labs and reports to Alexandr Wang, according to a source who confirmed the hire to Axios.", "Luke Metz has joined Meta Superintelligence Labs, seven months after rejoining OpenAI." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://ibtimes.co.uk/1797792", "title": "Who Is Andrej Karpathy? OpenAI Co-Founder Joins Rival Anthropic to Advance Claude's AI Research", "published_at": "2026-05-20T10:12:05", "researcher": "Andrej Karpathy", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "establish a new unit that will use Claude to accelerate the research behind those training runs", "researcher_evidence": [ "[Anthropic](https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/anthropic-1-5b-ai-venture-wall-street-1795011), the AI company closing in on a $1 trillion (\u00a3740 billion) private valuation, landed one of the most sought-after researchers in artificial intelligence on 19 May when OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy announced he had joined the rival lab." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Karpathy's specific brief is to establish a new unit that will use Claude to accelerate the research behind those training runs\u2014betting on AI-assisted science rather than raw computing power to keep pace with OpenAI and Google.", "[Anthropic](https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/anthropic-1-5b-ai-venture-wall-street-1795011), the AI company closing in on a $1 trillion (\u00a3740 billion) private valuation, landed one of the most sought-after researchers in artificial intelligence on 19 May when OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy announced he had joined the rival lab." ] }, { "url": "https://dev.to/gentic_news/google-deepmind-loses-its-third-senior-ai-researcher-in-months-as-nobel-laureate-john-jumper-joins-49nl", "title": "Google DeepMind loses its third senior AI researcher in months as Nobel laureate John Jumper joins Anthropic", "published_at": "2026-06-20T23:26:43", "researcher": "John Jumper", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "DeepMind Director and VP Engineering Fellow", "researcher_evidence": [ "# Google DeepMind loses its third senior AI researcher in months as Nobel laureate John Jumper joins Anthropic", "Nobel laureate John Jumper, DeepMind Director and VP Engineering Fellow who co-created AlphaFold, has left Google after nine years for Anthropic." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Nobel laureate John Jumper, DeepMind Director and VP Engineering Fellow who co-created AlphaFold, has left Google after nine years for Anthropic." ] }, { "url": "https://dev.to/gentic_news/google-deepmind-loses-its-third-senior-ai-researcher-in-months-as-nobel-laureate-john-jumper-joins-49nl", "title": "Google DeepMind loses its third senior AI researcher in months as Nobel laureate John Jumper joins Anthropic", "published_at": "2026-06-20T23:26:43", "researcher": "Noam Shazeer", "left_lab": "Google", "joined_lab": "OpenAI", "move_month": null, "role": "Lead for Architecture Research", "researcher_evidence": [ "# Google DeepMind loses its third senior AI researcher in months as Nobel laureate John Jumper joins Anthropic", "The departure lands two days after Noam Shazeer, co-inventor of the transformer architecture and co-lead of the Gemini model family, confirmed he is joining OpenAI." ], "left_lab_evidence": [ "# Google DeepMind loses its third senior AI researcher in months as Nobel laureate John Jumper joins Anthropic", "The move follows Noam Shazeer's exit to OpenAI two days earlier \u2014 less than two years after Google paid $2.7B to reacquire him \u2014 and David Silver's Januar" ], "joined_lab_evidence": [ "The departure lands two days after Noam Shazeer, co-inventor of the transformer architecture and co-lead of the Gemini model family, confirmed he is joining OpenAI." ], "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Less than two years later he announced on X that he is joining OpenAI as Lead for Architecture Research." ] }, { "url": "https://storyboard18.com/brand-makers/google-deepminds-share-of-elite-ai-talent-declines-as-rivals-gain-ground-109141.htm", "title": "Google DeepMind's share of elite AI talent declines as rivals gain ground", "published_at": "2026-08-28T09:51:01", "researcher": "Noam Shazeer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Gemini co-lead", "researcher_evidence": [ "# Google DeepMind's share of elite AI talent declines as rivals gain ground", "In June, [Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer left for OpenAI,](https://www.storyboard18.com/brand-makers/google-spent-2-7-billion-to-bring-back-noam-shazeer-from-character-ai-gemini-co-lead-now-joins-openai-101475.htm) while John Jumper, who shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Demis Hassabis for work on AlphaFold, moved to Anthropic." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# Google DeepMind's share of elite AI talent declines as rivals gain ground", "In June, [Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer left for OpenAI,](https://www.storyboard18.com/brand-makers/google-spent-2-7-billion-to-bring-back-noam-shazeer-from-character-ai-gemini-co-lead-now-joins-openai-101475.htm) while John Jumper, who shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Demis Hassabis for work on AlphaFold, moved to Anthropic." ] }, { "url": "https://storyboard18.com/brand-makers/google-deepminds-share-of-elite-ai-talent-declines-as-rivals-gain-ground-109141.htm", "title": "Google DeepMind's share of elite AI talent declines as rivals gain ground", "published_at": "2026-08-28T09:51:01", "researcher": "John Jumper", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# Google DeepMind's share of elite AI talent declines as rivals gain ground", "In June, [Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer left for OpenAI,](https://www.storyboard18.com/brand-makers/google-spent-2-7-billion-to-bring-back-noam-shazeer-from-character-ai-gemini-co-lead-now-joins-openai-101475.htm) while John Jumper, who shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Demis Hassabis for work on AlphaFold, moved to Anthropic." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://mitrade.com/au/insights/news/live-news/article-3-2024912-20260824", "title": "Meta pulls OpenAI veteran into Superintelligence Labs talent war", "published_at": "2026-08-24T07:53:27", "researcher": "Luke Metz", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# Meta pulls OpenAI veteran into Superintelligence Labs talent war", "**Meta has added another high-profile AI researcher to its Superintelligence Labs. Luke Metz, who was part of the early team behind ChatGPT at OpenAI, has joined the company. This marks a new high in the war for AI talent that is changing leading laboratories around the world.**" ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://mitrade.com/au/insights/news/live-news/article-3-2024912-20260824", "title": "Meta pulls OpenAI veteran into Superintelligence Labs talent war", "published_at": "2026-08-24T07:53:27", "researcher": "Barret Zoph", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "Fortune reported in January 2026 that Metz was returning to OpenAI alongside co-founder Barret Zoph and founding-team member Sam Schoenholz." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://mitrade.com/au/insights/news/live-news/article-3-2024912-20260824", "title": "Meta pulls OpenAI veteran into Superintelligence Labs talent war", "published_at": "2026-08-24T07:53:27", "researcher": "Sam Schoenholz", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "Fortune reported in January 2026 that Metz was returning to OpenAI alongside co-founder Barret Zoph and founding-team member Sam Schoenholz." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://mitrade.com/au/insights/news/live-news/article-3-2024912-20260824", "title": "Meta pulls OpenAI veteran into Superintelligence Labs talent war", "published_at": "2026-08-24T07:53:27", "researcher": "Ruoming Pang", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "OpenAI, meanwhile, hired Ruoming Pang, who had overseen AI infrastructure for Meta\u2019s Superintelligence Labs, The Information reported in February, per a Reuters account, seven months after Meta recruited him from Apple on a package Bloomberg valued at more than $200 million." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://mitrade.com/th/insights/news/live-news/article-3-2024913-20260824", "title": "Meta pulls OpenAI veteran into Superintelligence Labs talent war", "published_at": "2026-08-24T07:53:27", "researcher": "Luke Metz", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# Meta pulls OpenAI veteran into Superintelligence Labs talent war", "Meta has added another high-profile AI researcher to its Superintelligence Labs." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://mitrade.com/th/insights/news/live-news/article-3-2024913-20260824", "title": "Meta pulls OpenAI veteran into Superintelligence Labs talent war", "published_at": "2026-08-24T07:53:27", "researcher": "Ruoming Pang", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "overseen AI infrastructure for Meta\u2019s Superintelligence Labs", "researcher_evidence": [ "OpenAI, meanwhile, hired Ruoming Pang, who had overseen AI infrastructure for Meta\u2019s Superintelligence Labs, The Information reported in February, per a Reuters account, seven months after Meta recruited him from Apple on a package Bloomberg valued at more than $200 million." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "OpenAI, meanwhile, hired Ruoming Pang, who had overseen AI infrastructure for Meta\u2019s Superintelligence Labs, The Information reported in February, per a Reuters account, seven months after Meta recruited him from Apple on a package Bloomberg valued at more than $200 million." ] }, { "url": "https://fortune.com/2026/08/27/google-deepmind-losing-talent-to-rival-ai-labs-startups-new-data-show", "title": "Google DeepMind is losing its grip on elite AI talent, new data shows", "published_at": "2026-08-27T07:00:00", "researcher": "Noam Shazeer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Gemini co-lead", "researcher_evidence": [ "# Google DeepMind is losing its grip on elite AI talent, new data shows", "## **A string of high-profile exits**", "In June, Google lost Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer to OpenAI and John Jumper, who shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for AlphaFold with Hassabis, to Anthropic within a day of one another." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# Google DeepMind is losing its grip on elite AI talent, new data shows", "## **A string of high-profile exits**", "In June, Google lost Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer to OpenAI and John Jumper, who shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for AlphaFold with Hassabis, to Anthropic within a day of one another." ] }, { "url": "https://fortune.com/2026/08/27/google-deepmind-losing-talent-to-rival-ai-labs-startups-new-data-show", "title": "Google DeepMind is losing its grip on elite AI talent, new data shows", "published_at": "2026-08-27T07:00:00", "researcher": "John Jumper", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# Google DeepMind is losing its grip on elite AI talent, new data shows", "## **A string of high-profile exits**", "In June, Google lost Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer to OpenAI and John Jumper, who shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for AlphaFold with Hassabis, to Anthropic within a day of one another." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://startupfortune.com/google-deepmind-is-losing-the-ai-talent-war-it-used-to-win-easily", "title": "Google DeepMind Is Losing the AI Talent War It Used to Win Easily", "published_at": "2026-08-27T08:20:36", "researcher": "Noam Shazeer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Gemini co-lead", "researcher_evidence": [ "Noam Shazeer, a Gemini co-lead and one of the co-authors of \"Attention Is All You Need,\" the 2017 paper that introduced the Transformer architecture behind nearly every large language model in use today, is headed to OpenAI." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Noam Shazeer, a Gemini co-lead and one of the co-authors of \"Attention Is All You Need,\" the 2017 paper that introduced the Transformer architecture behind nearly every large language model in use today, is headed to OpenAI." ] }, { "url": "https://startupfortune.com/google-deepmind-is-losing-the-ai-talent-war-it-used-to-win-easily", "title": "Google DeepMind Is Losing the AI Talent War It Used to Win Easily", "published_at": "2026-08-27T08:20:36", "researcher": "John Jumper", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "led the AlphaFold project", "researcher_evidence": [ "John Jumper, who led the AlphaFold project and shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for it, left for Anthropic after nine years at the lab." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "John Jumper, who led the AlphaFold project and shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for it, left for Anthropic after nine years at the lab." ] }, { "url": "https://mitrade.com/insights/news/live-news/article-3-2024912-20260824", "title": "Meta pulls OpenAI veteran into Superintelligence Labs talent war", "published_at": "2026-08-24T07:53:27", "researcher": "Luke Metz", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# Meta pulls OpenAI veteran into Superintelligence Labs talent war", "**Meta has added another high-profile AI researcher to its Superintelligence Labs. Luke Metz, who was part of the early team behind ChatGPT at OpenAI, has joined the company. This marks a new high in the war for AI talent that is changing leading laboratories around the world.**", "Meta pulls OpenAI veteran into Superintelligence Labs talent war" ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://mitrade.com/insights/news/live-news/article-3-2024912-20260824", "title": "Meta pulls OpenAI veteran into Superintelligence Labs talent war", "published_at": "2026-08-24T07:53:27", "researcher": "Barret Zoph", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# Meta pulls OpenAI veteran into Superintelligence Labs talent war", "Fortune reported in January 2026 that Metz was returning to OpenAI alongside co-founder Barret Zoph and founding-team member Sam Schoenholz.", "Meta pulls OpenAI veteran into Superintelligence Labs talent war" ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://mitrade.com/insights/news/live-news/article-3-2024912-20260824", "title": "Meta pulls OpenAI veteran into Superintelligence Labs talent war", "published_at": "2026-08-24T07:53:27", "researcher": "Sam Schoenholz", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# Meta pulls OpenAI veteran into Superintelligence Labs talent war", "Fortune reported in January 2026 that Metz was returning to OpenAI alongside co-founder Barret Zoph and founding-team member Sam Schoenholz.", "Meta pulls OpenAI veteran into Superintelligence Labs talent war" ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://mitrade.com/insights/news/live-news/article-3-2024912-20260824", "title": "Meta pulls OpenAI veteran into Superintelligence Labs talent war", "published_at": "2026-08-24T07:53:27", "researcher": "Andrew Tulloch", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# Meta pulls OpenAI veteran into Superintelligence Labs talent war", "Thinking Machines co-founder Andrew Tulloch reportedly accepted a $1.5 billion package over six years to join Meta, which The Next Web said would rank as the most expensive individual hire in tech history if accurate.", "Meta pulls OpenAI veteran into Superintelligence Labs talent war" ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://mitrade.com/insights/news/live-news/article-3-2024912-20260824", "title": "Meta pulls OpenAI veteran into Superintelligence Labs talent war", "published_at": "2026-08-24T07:53:27", "researcher": "Ruoming Pang", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# Meta pulls OpenAI veteran into Superintelligence Labs talent war", "OpenAI, meanwhile, hired Ruoming Pang, who had overseen AI infrastructure for Meta\u2019s Superintelligence Labs, The Information reported in February, per a Reuters account, seven months after Meta recruited him from Apple on a package Bloomberg valued at more than $200 million.", "Meta pulls OpenAI veteran into Superintelligence Labs talent war" ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://edgen.tech/news/post/google-loses-4-top-ai-researchers-to-rivals-in-1-week", "title": "Google loses 4 top AI researchers to rivals in 1 week", "published_at": "2026-06-25T18:29:55", "researcher": "Noam Shazeer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "vice president of engineering", "researcher_evidence": [ "Google loses 4 top AI researchers to rivals in 1 week", "The departures began when Noam Shazeer, a vice president of engineering who co-led development of Google's Gemini models, announced last week he was leaving for OpenAI." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Google loses 4 top AI researchers to rivals in 1 week", "The departures began when Noam Shazeer, a vice president of engineering who co-led development of Google's Gemini models, announced last week he was leaving for OpenAI." ] }, { "url": "https://edgen.tech/news/post/google-loses-4-top-ai-researchers-to-rivals-in-1-week", "title": "Google loses 4 top AI researchers to rivals in 1 week", "published_at": "2026-06-25T18:29:55", "researcher": "John Jumper", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "2024 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry", "researcher_evidence": [ "Google loses 4 top AI researchers to rivals in 1 week", "Two days later, John Jumper, a 2024 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry for his work on AlphaFold, disclosed he was departing Google DeepMind for Anthropic after nine years at the company." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Google loses 4 top AI researchers to rivals in 1 week", "Two days later, John Jumper, a 2024 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry for his work on AlphaFold, disclosed he was departing Google DeepMind for Anthropic after nine years at the company." ] }, { "url": "https://edgen.tech/news/post/google-loses-4-top-ai-researchers-to-rivals-in-1-week", "title": "Google loses 4 top AI researchers to rivals in 1 week", "published_at": "2026-06-25T18:29:55", "researcher": "Jonas Adler", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "researcher", "researcher_evidence": [ "Google loses 4 top AI researchers to rivals in 1 week", "Now, Bloomberg reports that two more researchers \u2014 Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel, who played key roles in developing Google's Gemini model \u2014 are also leaving for Anthropic." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Google loses 4 top AI researchers to rivals in 1 week", "Now, Bloomberg reports that two more researchers \u2014 Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel, who played key roles in developing Google's Gemini model \u2014 are also leaving for Anthropic." ] }, { "url": "https://edgen.tech/news/post/google-loses-4-top-ai-researchers-to-rivals-in-1-week", "title": "Google loses 4 top AI researchers to rivals in 1 week", "published_at": "2026-06-25T18:29:55", "researcher": "Alexander Pritzel", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "researcher", "researcher_evidence": [ "Google loses 4 top AI researchers to rivals in 1 week", "Now, Bloomberg reports that two more researchers \u2014 Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel, who played key roles in developing Google's Gemini model \u2014 are also leaving for Anthropic." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Google loses 4 top AI researchers to rivals in 1 week", "Now, Bloomberg reports that two more researchers \u2014 Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel, who played key roles in developing Google's Gemini model \u2014 are also leaving for Anthropic." ] }, { "url": "https://coinlive.com/news/1-5-billion-can-t-retain-one-person-the-ai-talent-war", "title": "$1.5 billion can't retain one person: The AI \u200b\u200btalent war \u2013 money suddenly doesn't work.", "published_at": null, "researcher": "Shengjia Zhao", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "chief scientist", "researcher_evidence": [ "Recently, DINQ Labs, an AI talent search and intelligence platform, released its \"Top AI Lab Talent Mobility Map for the First Half of 2026.\"", "Within weeks, seven core OpenAI researchers jumped ship: Shengjia Zhao, co-creator of ChatGPT, became chief scientist; Jason Wei, the creator of MindChain hints; Hyung Won Chung, former senior scientist at Google Brain; and Trapit Bansal, a key contributor to the o1 inference model, joined the company." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Recently, DINQ Labs, an AI talent search and intelligence platform, released its \"Top AI Lab Talent Mobility Map for the First Half of 2026.\"", "Within weeks, seven core OpenAI researchers jumped ship: Shengjia Zhao, co-creator of ChatGPT, became chief scientist; Jason Wei, the creator of MindChain hints; Hyung Won Chung, former senior scientist at Google Brain; and Trapit Bansal, a key contributor to the o1 inference model, joined the company." ] }, { "url": "https://coinlive.com/news/1-5-billion-can-t-retain-one-person-the-ai-talent-war", "title": "$1.5 billion can't retain one person: The AI \u200b\u200btalent war \u2013 money suddenly doesn't work.", "published_at": null, "researcher": "Barret Zoph", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "CTO", "researcher_evidence": [ "Recently, DINQ Labs, an AI talent search and intelligence platform, released its \"Top AI Lab Talent Mobility Map for the First Half of 2026.\"", "In January, CTO Barret Zoph returned to OpenAI within hours of being dismissed, accompanied by co-founder Luke Metz and senior researcher Sam Schoenholz; in March, co-founder Devendra Chaplot moved to xAI, while founding engineer Joshua Gross was recruited by Meta." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Recently, DINQ Labs, an AI talent search and intelligence platform, released its \"Top AI Lab Talent Mobility Map for the First Half of 2026.\"", "In January, CTO Barret Zoph returned to OpenAI within hours of being dismissed, accompanied by co-founder Luke Metz and senior researcher Sam Schoenholz; in March, co-founder Devendra Chaplot moved to xAI, while founding engineer Joshua Gross was recruited by Meta." ] }, { "url": "https://coinlive.com/news/1-5-billion-can-t-retain-one-person-the-ai-talent-war", "title": "$1.5 billion can't retain one person: The AI \u200b\u200btalent war \u2013 money suddenly doesn't work.", "published_at": null, "researcher": "Luke Metz", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "co-founder", "researcher_evidence": [ "Recently, DINQ Labs, an AI talent search and intelligence platform, released its \"Top AI Lab Talent Mobility Map for the First Half of 2026.\"", "In January, CTO Barret Zoph returned to OpenAI within hours of being dismissed, accompanied by co-founder Luke Metz and senior researcher Sam Schoenholz; in March, co-founder Devendra Chaplot moved to xAI, while founding engineer Joshua Gross was recruited by Meta." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Recently, DINQ Labs, an AI talent search and intelligence platform, released its \"Top AI Lab Talent Mobility Map for the First Half of 2026.\"", "In January, CTO Barret Zoph returned to OpenAI within hours of being dismissed, accompanied by co-founder Luke Metz and senior researcher Sam Schoenholz; in March, co-founder Devendra Chaplot moved to xAI, while founding engineer Joshua Gross was recruited by Meta." ] }, { "url": "https://coinlive.com/news/1-5-billion-can-t-retain-one-person-the-ai-talent-war", "title": "$1.5 billion can't retain one person: The AI \u200b\u200btalent war \u2013 money suddenly doesn't work.", "published_at": null, "researcher": "Sam Schoenholz", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "senior researcher", "researcher_evidence": [ "Recently, DINQ Labs, an AI talent search and intelligence platform, released its \"Top AI Lab Talent Mobility Map for the First Half of 2026.\"", "In January, CTO Barret Zoph returned to OpenAI within hours of being dismissed, accompanied by co-founder Luke Metz and senior researcher Sam Schoenholz; in March, co-founder Devendra Chaplot moved to xAI, while founding engineer Joshua Gross was recruited by Meta." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Recently, DINQ Labs, an AI talent search and intelligence platform, released its \"Top AI Lab Talent Mobility Map for the First Half of 2026.\"", "In January, CTO Barret Zoph returned to OpenAI within hours of being dismissed, accompanied by co-founder Luke Metz and senior researcher Sam Schoenholz; in March, co-founder Devendra Chaplot moved to xAI, while founding engineer Joshua Gross was recruited by Meta." ] }, { "url": "https://coinlive.com/news/1-5-billion-can-t-retain-one-person-the-ai-talent-war", "title": "$1.5 billion can't retain one person: The AI \u200b\u200btalent war \u2013 money suddenly doesn't work.", "published_at": null, "researcher": "Devendra Chaplot", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "co-founder", "researcher_evidence": [ "Recently, DINQ Labs, an AI talent search and intelligence platform, released its \"Top AI Lab Talent Mobility Map for the First Half of 2026.\"", "In January, CTO Barret Zoph returned to OpenAI within hours of being dismissed, accompanied by co-founder Luke Metz and senior researcher Sam Schoenholz; in March, co-founder Devendra Chaplot moved to xAI, while founding engineer Joshua Gross was recruited by Meta." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Recently, DINQ Labs, an AI talent search and intelligence platform, released its \"Top AI Lab Talent Mobility Map for the First Half of 2026.\"", "In January, CTO Barret Zoph returned to OpenAI within hours of being dismissed, accompanied by co-founder Luke Metz and senior researcher Sam Schoenholz; in March, co-founder Devendra Chaplot moved to xAI, while founding engineer Joshua Gross was recruited by Meta." ] }, { "url": "https://coinlive.com/news/1-5-billion-can-t-retain-one-person-the-ai-talent-war", "title": "$1.5 billion can't retain one person: The AI \u200b\u200btalent war \u2013 money suddenly doesn't work.", "published_at": null, "researcher": "Joshua Gross", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "founding engineer", "researcher_evidence": [ "Recently, DINQ Labs, an AI talent search and intelligence platform, released its \"Top AI Lab Talent Mobility Map for the First Half of 2026.\"", "In January, CTO Barret Zoph returned to OpenAI within hours of being dismissed, accompanied by co-founder Luke Metz and senior researcher Sam Schoenholz; in March, co-founder Devendra Chaplot moved to xAI, while founding engineer Joshua Gross was recruited by Meta." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Recently, DINQ Labs, an AI talent search and intelligence platform, released its \"Top AI Lab Talent Mobility Map for the First Half of 2026.\"", "In January, CTO Barret Zoph returned to OpenAI within hours of being dismissed, accompanied by co-founder Luke Metz and senior researcher Sam Schoenholz; in March, co-founder Devendra Chaplot moved to xAI, while founding engineer Joshua Gross was recruited by Meta." ] }, { "url": "https://coinlive.com/news/1-5-billion-can-t-retain-one-person-the-ai-talent-war", "title": "$1.5 billion can't retain one person: The AI \u200b\u200btalent war \u2013 money suddenly doesn't work.", "published_at": null, "researcher": "Andrea Vallone", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "head of security research", "researcher_evidence": [ "Recently, DINQ Labs, an AI talent search and intelligence platform, released its \"Top AI Lab Talent Mobility Map for the First Half of 2026.\"", "The timeline tracked by DINQ shows that this corridor accelerated significantly in early 2026: Andrea Vallone, head of security research, switched in January, Milad Nasr followed suit in February, and Max Schwarzer, VP of research, and senior researcher Adam Lerer joined simultaneously in March\u2014High-level, high-density, and clearly targeted." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Recently, DINQ Labs, an AI talent search and intelligence platform, released its \"Top AI Lab Talent Mobility Map for the First Half of 2026.\"", "The timeline tracked by DINQ shows that this corridor accelerated significantly in early 2026: Andrea Vallone, head of security research, switched in January, Milad Nasr followed suit in February, and Max Schwarzer, VP of research, and senior researcher Adam Lerer joined simultaneously in March\u2014High-level, high-density, and clearly targeted." ] }, { "url": "https://coinlive.com/news/1-5-billion-can-t-retain-one-person-the-ai-talent-war", "title": "$1.5 billion can't retain one person: The AI \u200b\u200btalent war \u2013 money suddenly doesn't work.", "published_at": null, "researcher": "Max Schwarzer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "VP of research", "researcher_evidence": [ "Recently, DINQ Labs, an AI talent search and intelligence platform, released its \"Top AI Lab Talent Mobility Map for the First Half of 2026.\"", "The timeline tracked by DINQ shows that this corridor accelerated significantly in early 2026: Andrea Vallone, head of security research, switched in January, Milad Nasr followed suit in February, and Max Schwarzer, VP of research, and senior researcher Adam Lerer joined simultaneously in March\u2014High-level, high-density, and clearly targeted." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Recently, DINQ Labs, an AI talent search and intelligence platform, released its \"Top AI Lab Talent Mobility Map for the First Half of 2026.\"", "The timeline tracked by DINQ shows that this corridor accelerated significantly in early 2026: Andrea Vallone, head of security research, switched in January, Milad Nasr followed suit in February, and Max Schwarzer, VP of research, and senior researcher Adam Lerer joined simultaneously in March\u2014High-level, high-density, and clearly targeted." ] }, { "url": "https://coinlive.com/news/1-5-billion-can-t-retain-one-person-the-ai-talent-war", "title": "$1.5 billion can't retain one person: The AI \u200b\u200btalent war \u2013 money suddenly doesn't work.", "published_at": null, "researcher": "Adam Lerer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "senior researcher", "researcher_evidence": [ "Recently, DINQ Labs, an AI talent search and intelligence platform, released its \"Top AI Lab Talent Mobility Map for the First Half of 2026.\"", "The timeline tracked by DINQ shows that this corridor accelerated significantly in early 2026: Andrea Vallone, head of security research, switched in January, Milad Nasr followed suit in February, and Max Schwarzer, VP of research, and senior researcher Adam Lerer joined simultaneously in March\u2014High-level, high-density, and clearly targeted." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Recently, DINQ Labs, an AI talent search and intelligence platform, released its \"Top AI Lab Talent Mobility Map for the First Half of 2026.\"", "The timeline tracked by DINQ shows that this corridor accelerated significantly in early 2026: Andrea Vallone, head of security research, switched in January, Milad Nasr followed suit in February, and Max Schwarzer, VP of research, and senior researcher Adam Lerer joined simultaneously in March\u2014High-level, high-density, and clearly targeted." ] }, { "url": "https://coinlive.com/news/1-5-billion-can-t-retain-one-person-the-ai-talent-war", "title": "$1.5 billion can't retain one person: The AI \u200b\u200btalent war \u2013 money suddenly doesn't work.", "published_at": null, "researcher": "Yonghui Wu", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "leads ByteDance's Seed research team", "researcher_evidence": [ "Recently, DINQ Labs, an AI talent search and intelligence platform, released its \"Top AI Lab Talent Mobility Map for the First Half of 2026.\"", "Former Google Fellow and DeepMind Research VP Yonghui Wu leads ByteDance's Seed research team; DeepMind senior researcher Yan Wu joins ByteDance Seed; and Alibaba brings in former DeepMind researcher Hao Zhou for its Qwen team\u2014major Chinese companies have proven their platform capabilities to accommodate top-tier global researchers." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Recently, DINQ Labs, an AI talent search and intelligence platform, released its \"Top AI Lab Talent Mobility Map for the First Half of 2026.\"", "Former Google Fellow and DeepMind Research VP Yonghui Wu leads ByteDance's Seed research team; DeepMind senior researcher Yan Wu joins ByteDance Seed; and Alibaba brings in former DeepMind researcher Hao Zhou for its Qwen team\u2014major Chinese companies have proven their platform capabilities to accommodate top-tier global researchers." ] }, { "url": "https://coinlive.com/news/1-5-billion-can-t-retain-one-person-the-ai-talent-war", "title": "$1.5 billion can't retain one person: The AI \u200b\u200btalent war \u2013 money suddenly doesn't work.", "published_at": null, "researcher": "Yan Wu", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "DeepMind senior researcher", "researcher_evidence": [ "Recently, DINQ Labs, an AI talent search and intelligence platform, released its \"Top AI Lab Talent Mobility Map for the First Half of 2026.\"", "Former Google Fellow and DeepMind Research VP Yonghui Wu leads ByteDance's Seed research team; DeepMind senior researcher Yan Wu joins ByteDance Seed; and Alibaba brings in former DeepMind researcher Hao Zhou for its Qwen team\u2014major Chinese companies have proven their platform capabilities to accommodate top-tier global researchers." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Recently, DINQ Labs, an AI talent search and intelligence platform, released its \"Top AI Lab Talent Mobility Map for the First Half of 2026.\"", "Former Google Fellow and DeepMind Research VP Yonghui Wu leads ByteDance's Seed research team; DeepMind senior researcher Yan Wu joins ByteDance Seed; and Alibaba brings in former DeepMind researcher Hao Zhou for its Qwen team\u2014major Chinese companies have proven their platform capabilities to accommodate top-tier global researchers." ] }, { "url": "https://coinlive.com/news/1-5-billion-can-t-retain-one-person-the-ai-talent-war", "title": "$1.5 billion can't retain one person: The AI \u200b\u200btalent war \u2013 money suddenly doesn't work.", "published_at": null, "researcher": "Hao Zhou", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "former DeepMind researcher", "researcher_evidence": [ "Recently, DINQ Labs, an AI talent search and intelligence platform, released its \"Top AI Lab Talent Mobility Map for the First Half of 2026.\"", "Former Google Fellow and DeepMind Research VP Yonghui Wu leads ByteDance's Seed research team; DeepMind senior researcher Yan Wu joins ByteDance Seed; and Alibaba brings in former DeepMind researcher Hao Zhou for its Qwen team\u2014major Chinese companies have proven their platform capabilities to accommodate top-tier global researchers." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Recently, DINQ Labs, an AI talent search and intelligence platform, released its \"Top AI Lab Talent Mobility Map for the First Half of 2026.\"", "Former Google Fellow and DeepMind Research VP Yonghui Wu leads ByteDance's Seed research team; DeepMind senior researcher Yan Wu joins ByteDance Seed; and Alibaba brings in former DeepMind researcher Hao Zhou for its Qwen team\u2014major Chinese companies have proven their platform capabilities to accommodate top-tier global researchers." ] }, { "url": "https://coinlive.com/news/1-5-billion-can-t-retain-one-person-the-ai-talent-war", "title": "$1.5 billion can't retain one person: The AI \u200b\u200btalent war \u2013 money suddenly doesn't work.", "published_at": null, "researcher": "Ran Xin", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "principal researcher", "researcher_evidence": [ "Recently, DINQ Labs, an AI talent search and intelligence platform, released its \"Top AI Lab Talent Mobility Map for the First Half of 2026.\"", "However, DINQ also detected a reverse flow: Ran Xin, a principal researcher at ByteDance Seed, joined Google DeepMind in March 2026, and Feng Li also completed a similar move in December 2025." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Recently, DINQ Labs, an AI talent search and intelligence platform, released its \"Top AI Lab Talent Mobility Map for the First Half of 2026.\"", "However, DINQ also detected a reverse flow: Ran Xin, a principal researcher at ByteDance Seed, joined Google DeepMind in March 2026, and Feng Li also completed a similar move in December 2025." ] }, { "url": "https://nerdstool.com/blog/barret-zoph-the-thinking-machines-co-founder-who-defected-to-openai-is-now-at-go", "title": "Barret Zoph, the Thinking Machines co-founder who defected to OpenAI, is now at Google", "published_at": "2026-08-27T20:01:20", "researcher": "Barret Zoph", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Vice President of Research", "researcher_evidence": [ "Barret Zoph, the Thinking Machines co-founder who defected to OpenAI, is now at Google | NerdsTool", "Barret Zoph, the Thinking Machines co-founder who defected to OpenAI, is now at Google", "Barret Zoph, a prominent AI researcher known for Neural Architecture Search, has rejoined Google DeepMind as Vice President of Research.", "Barret Zoph Returns to Google DeepMind as VP of Research, Signaling Strategic AI Talent Moves" ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Barret Zoph, a prominent AI researcher known for Neural Architecture Search, has rejoined Google DeepMind as Vice President of Research.", "Barret Zoph Returns to Google DeepMind as VP of Research, Signaling Strategic AI Talent Moves" ] }, { "url": "https://nerdstool.com/blog/barret-zoph-the-thinking-machines-co-founder-who-defected-to-openai-is-now-at-go", "title": "Barret Zoph, the Thinking Machines co-founder who defected to OpenAI, is now at Google", "published_at": "2026-08-27T20:01:20", "researcher": "Barret Zoph", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Vice President and General Manager of Enterprise", "researcher_evidence": [ "Barret Zoph, the Thinking Machines co-founder who defected to OpenAI, is now at Google | NerdsTool", "Barret Zoph, the Thinking Machines co-founder who defected to OpenAI, is now at Google", "Barret Zoph, a prominent AI researcher known for Neural Architecture Search, has rejoined Google DeepMind as Vice President of Research.", "Barret Zoph Returns to Google DeepMind as VP of Research, Signaling Strategic AI Talent Moves" ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "In this second stint, he was appointed Vice President and General Manager of Enterprise, tasked with leading OpenAI's strategic push into enterprise AI product sales." ] }, { "url": "https://edgen.tech/news/post/google-deepmind-hires-thinking-machines-co-founder-in-12b-talent-war", "title": "Google DeepMind hires Thinking Machines co-founder in $12B talent war", "published_at": "2026-08-27T04:50:26", "researcher": "Barret Zoph", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "VP of research", "researcher_evidence": [ "# Google DeepMind hires Thinking Machines co-founder in $12B talent war", "Barret Zoph, co-founder of $12 billion Thinking Machines Lab, joins Google DeepMind as VP of research", "Google DeepMind hired Barret Zoph, co-founder of $12 billion AI startup Thinking Machines Lab, as vice president of research, a homecoming after a string of high-profile departures from the search giant's AI unit." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# Google DeepMind hires Thinking Machines co-founder in $12B talent war", "Barret Zoph, co-founder of $12 billion Thinking Machines Lab, joins Google DeepMind as VP of research", "Google DeepMind hired Barret Zoph, co-founder of $12 billion AI startup Thinking Machines Lab, as vice president of research, a homecoming after a string of high-profile departures from the search giant's AI unit." ] }, { "url": "https://adgully.com/post/19859/google-deepmind-suffers-sharp-decline-in-elite-ai-talent-share-as-rivals-gain-ground", "title": "Google DeepMind suffers sharp decline in elite AI talent share as rivals gain ground", "published_at": "2026-08-29T04:16:00", "researcher": "Noam Shazeer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Gemini co-lead", "researcher_evidence": [ "Google DeepMind suffers sharp decline in elite AI talent share as rivals gain ground", "Other prominent departures include Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer to OpenAI, as well as 2024 Chemistry Nobel laureate John Jumper\u2014who co-led AlphaFold\u2014moving to Anthropic alongside key researchers Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Google DeepMind suffers sharp decline in elite AI talent share as rivals gain ground", "Other prominent departures include Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer to OpenAI, as well as 2024 Chemistry Nobel laureate John Jumper\u2014who co-led AlphaFold\u2014moving to Anthropic alongside key researchers Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel." ] }, { "url": "https://adgully.com/post/19859/google-deepmind-suffers-sharp-decline-in-elite-ai-talent-share-as-rivals-gain-ground", "title": "Google DeepMind suffers sharp decline in elite AI talent share as rivals gain ground", "published_at": "2026-08-29T04:16:00", "researcher": "John Jumper", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "2024 Chemistry Nobel laureate and co-lead of AlphaFold", "researcher_evidence": [ "Google DeepMind suffers sharp decline in elite AI talent share as rivals gain ground", "Other prominent departures include Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer to OpenAI, as well as 2024 Chemistry Nobel laureate John Jumper\u2014who co-led AlphaFold\u2014moving to Anthropic alongside key researchers Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Google DeepMind suffers sharp decline in elite AI talent share as rivals gain ground", "Other prominent departures include Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer to OpenAI, as well as 2024 Chemistry Nobel laureate John Jumper\u2014who co-led AlphaFold\u2014moving to Anthropic alongside key researchers Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel." ] }, { "url": "https://adgully.com/post/19859/google-deepmind-suffers-sharp-decline-in-elite-ai-talent-share-as-rivals-gain-ground", "title": "Google DeepMind suffers sharp decline in elite AI talent share as rivals gain ground", "published_at": "2026-08-29T04:16:00", "researcher": "Jonas Adler", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "key researcher", "researcher_evidence": [ "Google DeepMind suffers sharp decline in elite AI talent share as rivals gain ground", "Other prominent departures include Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer to OpenAI, as well as 2024 Chemistry Nobel laureate John Jumper\u2014who co-led AlphaFold\u2014moving to Anthropic alongside key researchers Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Google DeepMind suffers sharp decline in elite AI talent share as rivals gain ground", "Other prominent departures include Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer to OpenAI, as well as 2024 Chemistry Nobel laureate John Jumper\u2014who co-led AlphaFold\u2014moving to Anthropic alongside key researchers Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel." ] }, { "url": "https://adgully.com/post/19859/google-deepmind-suffers-sharp-decline-in-elite-ai-talent-share-as-rivals-gain-ground", "title": "Google DeepMind suffers sharp decline in elite AI talent share as rivals gain ground", "published_at": "2026-08-29T04:16:00", "researcher": "Alexander Pritzel", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "key researcher", "researcher_evidence": [ "Google DeepMind suffers sharp decline in elite AI talent share as rivals gain ground", "Other prominent departures include Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer to OpenAI, as well as 2024 Chemistry Nobel laureate John Jumper\u2014who co-led AlphaFold\u2014moving to Anthropic alongside key researchers Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Google DeepMind suffers sharp decline in elite AI talent share as rivals gain ground", "Other prominent departures include Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer to OpenAI, as well as 2024 Chemistry Nobel laureate John Jumper\u2014who co-led AlphaFold\u2014moving to Anthropic alongside key researchers Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel." ] }, { "url": "https://theoutpost.ai/news-story/meta-poaches-top-open-ai-researchers-in-aggressive-ai-talent-acquisition-strategy-17079", "title": "Meta Launches 'Superintelligence Labs' in Bold AI Restructuring Move", "published_at": "2025-07-02T16:25:00", "researcher": "Pei Sun", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Google DeepMind principal researcher", "researcher_evidence": [ "# Meta Launches 'Superintelligence Labs' in Bold AI Restructuring Move", "Zuckerberg has also been able to lure 11 new AI researchers from competitors, according to the report, including some previously unreported hires such as Google DeepMind principal researcher Pei Sun and Anthropic engineer Joel Pobar." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# Meta Launches 'Superintelligence Labs' in Bold AI Restructuring Move", "Zuckerberg has also been able to lure 11 new AI researchers from competitors, according to the report, including some previously unreported hires such as Google DeepMind principal researcher Pei Sun and Anthropic engineer Joel Pobar." ] }, { "url": "https://theoutpost.ai/news-story/meta-poaches-top-open-ai-researchers-in-aggressive-ai-talent-acquisition-strategy-17079", "title": "Meta Launches 'Superintelligence Labs' in Bold AI Restructuring Move", "published_at": "2025-07-02T16:25:00", "researcher": "Joel Pobar", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Anthropic engineer", "researcher_evidence": [ "# Meta Launches 'Superintelligence Labs' in Bold AI Restructuring Move", "Zuckerberg has also been able to lure 11 new AI researchers from competitors, according to the report, including some previously unreported hires such as Google DeepMind principal researcher Pei Sun and Anthropic engineer Joel Pobar." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# Meta Launches 'Superintelligence Labs' in Bold AI Restructuring Move", "Zuckerberg has also been able to lure 11 new AI researchers from competitors, according to the report, including some previously unreported hires such as Google DeepMind principal researcher Pei Sun and Anthropic engineer Joel Pobar." ] }, { "url": "https://onpode.com/episode/google-s-ai-brain-drain-worsens-anthropic-now-poaching-top-gemini-talent-directl-9e1da6d6", "title": "Google's AI brain drain worsens \u2014 Anthropic now poaching top Gemini talent directly", "published_at": "2026-06-29T23:11:33", "researcher": "John Jumper", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "2024 Nobel laureate in Chemistry, led AlphaFold at Google DeepMind", "researcher_evidence": [ "# Google's AI brain drain worsens \u2014 Anthropic now poaching top Gemini talent directly", "Four senior Google DeepMind researchers \u2014 including 2024 Nobel laureate John Jumper \u2014 left for Anthropic and OpenAI within six days in late June 2026, amid a DeepMind coding pivot that cut frontier research mandates." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# Google's AI brain drain worsens \u2014 Anthropic now poaching top Gemini talent directly", "Four senior Google DeepMind researchers \u2014 including 2024 Nobel laureate John Jumper \u2014 left for Anthropic and OpenAI within six days in late June 2026, amid a DeepMind coding pivot that cut frontier research mandates." ] }, { "url": "https://onpode.com/episode/google-s-ai-brain-drain-worsens-anthropic-now-poaching-top-gemini-talent-directl-9e1da6d6", "title": "Google's AI brain drain worsens \u2014 Anthropic now poaching top Gemini talent directly", "published_at": "2026-06-29T23:11:33", "researcher": "Jonas Adler", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "key contributor to Google's Gemini AI model", "researcher_evidence": [ "# Google's AI brain drain worsens \u2014 Anthropic now poaching top Gemini talent directly", "In late June 2026, Google faced a concentrated wave of senior AI researcher departures, with four high-profile exits occurring within roughly six days. Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel, both described internally as key contributors to Google's Gemini AI model, announced plans to join Anthropic." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# Google's AI brain drain worsens \u2014 Anthropic now poaching top Gemini talent directly", "In late June 2026, Google faced a concentrated wave of senior AI researcher departures, with four high-profile exits occurring within roughly six days. Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel, both described internally as key contributors to Google's Gemini AI model, announced plans to join Anthropic." ] }, { "url": "https://onpode.com/episode/google-s-ai-brain-drain-worsens-anthropic-now-poaching-top-gemini-talent-directl-9e1da6d6", "title": "Google's AI brain drain worsens \u2014 Anthropic now poaching top Gemini talent directly", "published_at": "2026-06-29T23:11:33", "researcher": "Alexander Pritzel", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "key contributor to Google's Gemini AI model", "researcher_evidence": [ "# Google's AI brain drain worsens \u2014 Anthropic now poaching top Gemini talent directly", "In late June 2026, Google faced a concentrated wave of senior AI researcher departures, with four high-profile exits occurring within roughly six days. Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel, both described internally as key contributors to Google's Gemini AI model, announced plans to join Anthropic." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# Google's AI brain drain worsens \u2014 Anthropic now poaching top Gemini talent directly", "In late June 2026, Google faced a concentrated wave of senior AI researcher departures, with four high-profile exits occurring within roughly six days. Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel, both described internally as key contributors to Google's Gemini AI model, announced plans to join Anthropic." ] }, { "url": "https://onpode.com/episode/google-s-ai-brain-drain-worsens-anthropic-now-poaching-top-gemini-talent-directl-9e1da6d6", "title": "Google's AI brain drain worsens \u2014 Anthropic now poaching top Gemini talent directly", "published_at": "2026-06-29T23:11:33", "researcher": "Noam Shazeer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "co-author of the original Transformer paper", "researcher_evidence": [ "# Google's AI brain drain worsens \u2014 Anthropic now poaching top Gemini talent directly", "About this episode", "In six days at the end of June 2026, four senior Google DeepMind researchers left for rivals. John Jumper \u2014 Nobel laureate in Chemistry, the scientist behind AlphaFold \u2014 went to Anthropic within a year of winning the prize. So did Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel, both core to Gemini. Noam Shazeer, co-author of the original Transformer paper, chose OpenAI. The episode digs into what's actually driving the pattern, and it's more specific than the obvious narrative." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# Google's AI brain drain worsens \u2014 Anthropic now poaching top Gemini talent directly", "About this episode", "In six days at the end of June 2026, four senior Google DeepMind researchers left for rivals. John Jumper \u2014 Nobel laureate in Chemistry, the scientist behind AlphaFold \u2014 went to Anthropic within a year of winning the prize. So did Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel, both core to Gemini. Noam Shazeer, co-author of the original Transformer paper, chose OpenAI. The episode digs into what's actually driving the pattern, and it's more specific than the obvious narrative." ] }, { "url": "https://edgen.tech/news/post/john-jumper-leaves-google-deepmind-for-anthropic-in-3rd-major-ai-talent-grab", "title": "John Jumper leaves Google DeepMind for Anthropic in 3rd major AI talent grab", "published_at": "2026-06-19T18:53:42", "researcher": "John Jumper", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "John Jumper leaves Google DeepMind for Anthropic in 3rd major AI talent grab", "John Jumper, AlphaFold co-creator and Nobel laureate, leaves Google DeepMind for Anthropic", "John Jumper, the chemist and computer scientist who shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing AlphaFold, announced Friday he is leaving Google DeepMind after nearly nine years to join Anthropic." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://alcreon.com/editorials/horizon/the-frontier-doesnt-stay-bought", "title": "The Frontier Doesn't Stay Bought", "published_at": "2026-06-22T16:00:00", "researcher": "Noam Shazeer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Google engineering vice president who shared one of the two leadership seats on Gemini", "researcher_evidence": [ "The Frontier Doesn't Stay Bought", "Two flagship researchers left Google for OpenAI and Anthropic in 48 hours, because velocity, not pay, now prices senior AI talent.", "Noam Shazeer, a Google engineering vice president who shared one of the two leadership seats on Gemini, announced on June 18 he was leaving for OpenAI less than two years after Google's expensive effort to bring him back." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "The Frontier Doesn't Stay Bought", "Noam Shazeer, a Google engineering vice president who shared one of the two leadership seats on Gemini, announced on June 18 he was leaving for OpenAI less than two years after Google's expensive effort to bring him back." ] }, { "url": "https://alcreon.com/editorials/horizon/the-frontier-doesnt-stay-bought", "title": "The Frontier Doesn't Stay Bought", "published_at": "2026-06-22T16:00:00", "researcher": "John Jumper", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "lead the AlphaFold team", "researcher_evidence": [ "The Frontier Doesn't Stay Bought", "Two flagship researchers left Google for OpenAI and Anthropic in 48 hours, because velocity, not pay, now prices senior AI talent.", "The next day John Jumper, who had shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Demis Hassabis for his work leading the AlphaFold team, posted on X that he was leaving for Anthropic." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "The Frontier Doesn't Stay Bought", "Jumper had spent nearly nine years at DeepMind, shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Demis Hassabis for the AlphaFold work, and held the title of Vice President at the lab.", "@demishassabis took a real chance letting me lead the AlphaFold team just six months after finishing my PhD." ] }, { "url": "https://shaam.blog/articles/google-deepmind-talent-exodus-anthropic-openai-june-2026", "title": "Google DeepMind Talent Exodus: 5 Senior Researchers Leave for Anthropic and OpenAI in One Week", "published_at": "2026-06-26T08:05:05", "researcher": "Noam Shazeer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Transformer co-author, Gemini co-lead", "researcher_evidence": [ "## TL;DR" ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "## TL;DR" ] }, { "url": "https://shaam.blog/articles/google-deepmind-talent-exodus-anthropic-openai-june-2026", "title": "Google DeepMind Talent Exodus: 5 Senior Researchers Leave for Anthropic and OpenAI in One Week", "published_at": "2026-06-26T08:05:05", "researcher": "John Jumper", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, AlphaFold co-creator", "researcher_evidence": [ "## TL;DR", "- **John Jumper** (2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, AlphaFold co-creator) announced his move to Anthropic on 19 June." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "## TL;DR", "- **John Jumper** (2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, AlphaFold co-creator) announced his move to Anthropic on 19 June." ] }, { "url": "https://shaam.blog/articles/google-deepmind-talent-exodus-anthropic-openai-june-2026", "title": "Google DeepMind Talent Exodus: 5 Senior Researchers Leave for Anthropic and OpenAI in One Week", "published_at": "2026-06-26T08:05:05", "researcher": "Jonas Adler", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Gemini contributor, former AlphaFold collaborator", "researcher_evidence": [ "## TL;DR", "- **Jonas Adler** and **Alexander Pritzel** (Gemini contributors, former AlphaFold collaborators) are leaving for Anthropic, reported 24 June." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "## TL;DR", "- **Jonas Adler** and **Alexander Pritzel** (Gemini contributors, former AlphaFold collaborators) are leaving for Anthropic, reported 24 June." ] }, { "url": "https://shaam.blog/articles/google-deepmind-talent-exodus-anthropic-openai-june-2026", "title": "Google DeepMind Talent Exodus: 5 Senior Researchers Leave for Anthropic and OpenAI in One Week", "published_at": "2026-06-26T08:05:05", "researcher": "Alexander Pritzel", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Gemini contributor, former AlphaFold collaborator", "researcher_evidence": [ "## TL;DR", "- **Jonas Adler** and **Alexander Pritzel** (Gemini contributors, former AlphaFold collaborators) are leaving for Anthropic, reported 24 June." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "## TL;DR", "- **Jonas Adler** and **Alexander Pritzel** (Gemini contributors, former AlphaFold collaborators) are leaving for Anthropic, reported 24 June." ] }, { "url": "https://shaam.blog/articles/google-deepmind-talent-exodus-anthropic-openai-june-2026", "title": "Google DeepMind Talent Exodus: 5 Senior Researchers Leave for Anthropic and OpenAI in One Week", "published_at": "2026-06-26T08:05:05", "researcher": "Arthur Conmy", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Gemini 2.5 post-training, AI safety", "researcher_evidence": [ "## TL;DR", "- **Arthur Conmy** (Gemini 2.5 post-training, AI safety) announced he is joining Anthropic on 25 June to work on alignment for upcoming Claude models." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "## TL;DR", "- **Arthur Conmy** (Gemini 2.5 post-training, AI safety) announced he is joining Anthropic on 25 June to work on alignment for upcoming Claude models." ] }, { "url": "https://pondero.ai/news/2026-06-30-google-deepmind-researcher-exodus", "title": "Six Google DeepMind researchers left for Anthropic and OpenAI in five months, Alphabet stock fell more than $245 billion", "published_at": "2026-06-30T00:00:00", "researcher": "Denny Zhou", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "led reasoning research", "researcher_evidence": [ "## Six Google DeepMind researchers left for Anthropic and OpenAI in five months, Alphabet stock fell more than $245 billion", "The sequence began quietly in February when Denny Zhou, who led reasoning research at Google DeepMind, departed for Meta's Superintelligence Lab." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "## Six Google DeepMind researchers left for Anthropic and OpenAI in five months, Alphabet stock fell more than $245 billion", "The sequence began quietly in February when Denny Zhou, who led reasoning research at Google DeepMind, departed for Meta's Superintelligence Lab." ] }, { "url": "https://pondero.ai/news/2026-06-30-google-deepmind-researcher-exodus", "title": "Six Google DeepMind researchers left for Anthropic and OpenAI in five months, Alphabet stock fell more than $245 billion", "published_at": "2026-06-30T00:00:00", "researcher": "Noam Shazeer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "work on Gemini", "researcher_evidence": [ "## Six Google DeepMind researchers left for Anthropic and OpenAI in five months, Alphabet stock fell more than $245 billion", "On June 18, Noam Shazeer posted that he was joining OpenAI." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "## Six Google DeepMind researchers left for Anthropic and OpenAI in five months, Alphabet stock fell more than $245 billion", "On June 18, Noam Shazeer posted that he was joining OpenAI.", "Shazeer had been a Google engineer since 2000, left briefly to found Character.AI (which Google effectively acquired for $2.7 billion to bring him back), and returned to work on Gemini." ] }, { "url": "https://pondero.ai/news/2026-06-30-google-deepmind-researcher-exodus", "title": "Six Google DeepMind researchers left for Anthropic and OpenAI in five months, Alphabet stock fell more than $245 billion", "published_at": "2026-06-30T00:00:00", "researcher": "John Jumper", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "AlphaFold system / structural biology", "researcher_evidence": [ "## Six Google DeepMind researchers left for Anthropic and OpenAI in five months, Alphabet stock fell more than $245 billion", "Two days later, John Jumper announced he was leaving Google DeepMind for Anthropic." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "## Six Google DeepMind researchers left for Anthropic and OpenAI in five months, Alphabet stock fell more than $245 billion", "Two days later, John Jumper announced he was leaving Google DeepMind for Anthropic.", "Jumper shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry alongside DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis for AlphaFold, the protein-structure prediction system." ] }, { "url": "https://pondero.ai/news/2026-06-30-google-deepmind-researcher-exodus", "title": "Six Google DeepMind researchers left for Anthropic and OpenAI in five months, Alphabet stock fell more than $245 billion", "published_at": "2026-06-30T00:00:00", "researcher": "Jonas Adler", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "worked on Google's AI coding products", "researcher_evidence": [ "## Six Google DeepMind researchers left for Anthropic and OpenAI in five months, Alphabet stock fell more than $245 billion", "On June 24, Bloomberg reported that two more researchers were set to leave.", "Jonas Adler, who worked on Google's AI coding products, and Alexander Pritzel, a pretraining specialist, both confirmed departures for Anthropic [per TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/24/ai-researchers-continue-to-leave-google-for-its-rivals/?utm_source=pondero.ai&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=2026-06-30-google-deepmind-researcher-exodus)." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "## Six Google DeepMind researchers left for Anthropic and OpenAI in five months, Alphabet stock fell more than $245 billion", "On June 24, Bloomberg reported that two more researchers were set to leave.", "Jonas Adler, who worked on Google's AI coding products, and Alexander Pritzel, a pretraining specialist, both confirmed departures for Anthropic [per TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/24/ai-researchers-continue-to-leave-google-for-its-rivals/?utm_source=pondero.ai&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=2026-06-30-google-deepmind-researcher-exodus)." ] }, { "url": "https://pondero.ai/news/2026-06-30-google-deepmind-researcher-exodus", "title": "Six Google DeepMind researchers left for Anthropic and OpenAI in five months, Alphabet stock fell more than $245 billion", "published_at": "2026-06-30T00:00:00", "researcher": "Alexander Pritzel", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "pretraining specialist", "researcher_evidence": [ "## Six Google DeepMind researchers left for Anthropic and OpenAI in five months, Alphabet stock fell more than $245 billion", "On June 24, Bloomberg reported that two more researchers were set to leave.", "Jonas Adler, who worked on Google's AI coding products, and Alexander Pritzel, a pretraining specialist, both confirmed departures for Anthropic [per TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/24/ai-researchers-continue-to-leave-google-for-its-rivals/?utm_source=pondero.ai&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=2026-06-30-google-deepmind-researcher-exodus)." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "## Six Google DeepMind researchers left for Anthropic and OpenAI in five months, Alphabet stock fell more than $245 billion", "On June 24, Bloomberg reported that two more researchers were set to leave.", "Jonas Adler, who worked on Google's AI coding products, and Alexander Pritzel, a pretraining specialist, both confirmed departures for Anthropic [per TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/24/ai-researchers-continue-to-leave-google-for-its-rivals/?utm_source=pondero.ai&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=2026-06-30-google-deepmind-researcher-exodus)." ] }, { "url": "https://xoomar.com/technology/google-ai-researchers-exit", "title": "Elite Researchers Bolt Google AI for OpenAI, Anthropic", "published_at": "2026-06-24T22:12:40", "researcher": "Jonas Adler", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# Elite Researchers Bolt Google AI for OpenAI, Anthropic", "**Jonas Adler** and **Alexander Pritzel** are leaving **Google** for **Anthropic**, [according to TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/24/ai-researchers-continue-to-leave-google-for-its-rivals/), which cited Bloomberg." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://xoomar.com/technology/google-ai-researchers-exit", "title": "Elite Researchers Bolt Google AI for OpenAI, Anthropic", "published_at": "2026-06-24T22:12:40", "researcher": "Alexander Pritzel", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# Elite Researchers Bolt Google AI for OpenAI, Anthropic", "**Jonas Adler** and **Alexander Pritzel** are leaving **Google** for **Anthropic**, [according to TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/24/ai-researchers-continue-to-leave-google-for-its-rivals/), which cited Bloomberg." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://xoomar.com/technology/google-ai-researchers-exit", "title": "Elite Researchers Bolt Google AI for OpenAI, Anthropic", "published_at": "2026-06-24T22:12:40", "researcher": "Noam Shazeer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# Elite Researchers Bolt Google AI for OpenAI, Anthropic", "Their exits follow **Noam Shazeer** leaving Google for **OpenAI** and **John Jumper** leaving **Google DeepMind** for Anthropic." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://xoomar.com/technology/google-ai-researchers-exit", "title": "Elite Researchers Bolt Google AI for OpenAI, Anthropic", "published_at": "2026-06-24T22:12:40", "researcher": "John Jumper", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# Elite Researchers Bolt Google AI for OpenAI, Anthropic", "Their exits follow **Noam Shazeer** leaving Google for **OpenAI** and **John Jumper** leaving **Google DeepMind** for Anthropic." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://the-decoder.com/google-deepmind-loses-another-top-ai-researcher-as-nobel-laureate-john-jumper-leaves-for-anthropic", "title": "Google Deepmind loses another top AI researcher as Nobel laureate John Jumper leaves for Anthropic", "published_at": "2026-06-19T17:54:14", "researcher": "John Jumper", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "AlphaFold team lead", "researcher_evidence": [ "Google Deepmind loses another top AI researcher as Nobel laureate John Jumper leaves for Anthropic", "Nobel Prize winner and AlphaFold team lead John Jumper jumped ship to Anthropic after nearly nine years." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Google Deepmind loses another top AI researcher as Nobel laureate John Jumper leaves for Anthropic", "Nobel Prize winner and AlphaFold team lead John Jumper jumped ship to Anthropic after nearly nine years." ] }, { "url": "https://vortx.ch/google-loses-four-ai-stars-in-a-week-to-openai-and-anthropic", "title": "Google Loses Four AI Stars in a Week to OpenAI and Anthropic", "published_at": "2026-06-26T18:16:17", "researcher": "Noam Shazeer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Lead for Architecture Research", "researcher_evidence": [ "Google Loses Four AI Stars in a Week to OpenAI and Anthropic", "Noam Shazeer \u2014 a co-inventor of the Transformer architecture and co-lead of Gemini \u2014 announced he was joining OpenAI on June 18." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Google Loses Four AI Stars in a Week to OpenAI and Anthropic", "At OpenAI, Shazeer will serve as Lead for Architecture Research, working on next-generation model design." ] }, { "url": "https://vortx.ch/google-loses-four-ai-stars-in-a-week-to-openai-and-anthropic", "title": "Google Loses Four AI Stars in a Week to OpenAI and Anthropic", "published_at": "2026-06-26T18:16:17", "researcher": "John Jumper", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "Google Loses Four AI Stars in a Week to OpenAI and Anthropic", "The next day, John Jumper, who shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for AlphaFold, said he was leaving DeepMind for Anthropic after nearly nine years." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://vortx.ch/google-loses-four-ai-stars-in-a-week-to-openai-and-anthropic", "title": "Google Loses Four AI Stars in a Week to OpenAI and Anthropic", "published_at": "2026-06-26T18:16:17", "researcher": "Jonas Adler", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "Google Loses Four AI Stars in a Week to OpenAI and Anthropic", "By June 24, Bloomberg reported that Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel, two senior researchers who contributed to both Gemini and AlphaFold, were also heading to Anthropic." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://vortx.ch/google-loses-four-ai-stars-in-a-week-to-openai-and-anthropic", "title": "Google Loses Four AI Stars in a Week to OpenAI and Anthropic", "published_at": "2026-06-26T18:16:17", "researcher": "Alexander Pritzel", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "Google Loses Four AI Stars in a Week to OpenAI and Anthropic", "By June 24, Bloomberg reported that Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel, two senior researchers who contributed to both Gemini and AlphaFold, were also heading to Anthropic." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://nowosci.ai/en/article/anthropic-openai-poach-university-professors", "title": "Anthropic and OpenAI Poach Professors From Universities, 22 Researchers Left This Year", "published_at": "2026-07-11T01:12:50", "researcher": "Noam Shazeer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "co-author of the landmark Transformer architecture paper and co-lead of the Gemini project", "researcher_evidence": [ "News", "Noam Shazeer, co-author of the landmark Transformer architecture paper and co-lead of the Gemini project, announced his move to OpenAI on June 18, 2026." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "News", "Noam Shazeer, co-author of the landmark Transformer architecture paper and co-lead of the Gemini project, announced his move to OpenAI on June 18, 2026." ] }, { "url": "https://b17news.com/12-executives-researchers-others-who-left-openai-in-2025-mostly-to-meta-superintelligence-lab", "title": "12 executives, researchers, others who left OpenAI in 2025 \u2014 mostly to Meta Superintelligence Lab - B17 News", "published_at": "2025-12-26T22:01:52", "researcher": "Jason Wei", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "research scientist", "researcher_evidence": [ "# 12 executives, researchers, others who left OpenAI in 2025 \u2014 mostly to Meta Superintelligence Lab", "## Researchers lost to Meta", "**Jason Wei**", "Wei, a research scientist who worked on OpenAI\u2019s o1 and deep research models, left in July for Meta\u2019s Superintelligence Lab." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# 12 executives, researchers, others who left OpenAI in 2025 \u2014 mostly to Meta Superintelligence Lab", "## Researchers lost to Meta", "**Jason Wei**", "Wei, a research scientist who worked on OpenAI\u2019s o1 and deep research models, left in July for Meta\u2019s Superintelligence Lab." ] }, { "url": "https://b17news.com/12-executives-researchers-others-who-left-openai-in-2025-mostly-to-meta-superintelligence-lab", "title": "12 executives, researchers, others who left OpenAI in 2025 \u2014 mostly to Meta Superintelligence Lab - B17 News", "published_at": "2025-12-26T22:01:52", "researcher": "Zhiqing Sun", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "research scientist", "researcher_evidence": [ "# 12 executives, researchers, others who left OpenAI in 2025 \u2014 mostly to Meta Superintelligence Lab", "## Researchers lost to Meta", "**Zhiqing Sun**", "Sun, who left for Meta\u2019s Superintelligence Labs in July, was a research scientist at OpenAI." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# 12 executives, researchers, others who left OpenAI in 2025 \u2014 mostly to Meta Superintelligence Lab", "## Researchers lost to Meta", "**Zhiqing Sun**", "Sun, who left for Meta\u2019s Superintelligence Labs in July, was a research scientist at OpenAI." ] }, { "url": "https://b17news.com/12-executives-researchers-others-who-left-openai-in-2025-mostly-to-meta-superintelligence-lab", "title": "12 executives, researchers, others who left OpenAI in 2025 \u2014 mostly to Meta Superintelligence Lab - B17 News", "published_at": "2025-12-26T22:01:52", "researcher": "Hyung Won Chung", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "research scientist", "researcher_evidence": [ "# 12 executives, researchers, others who left OpenAI in 2025 \u2014 mostly to Meta Superintelligence Lab", "## Researchers lost to Meta", "**Hyung Won Chung**", "Chung is part of the trio of OpenAI research scientists who departed for Meta\u2019s Superintelligence Lab in July." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# 12 executives, researchers, others who left OpenAI in 2025 \u2014 mostly to Meta Superintelligence Lab", "## Researchers lost to Meta", "**Hyung Won Chung**", "Chung is part of the trio of OpenAI research scientists who departed for Meta\u2019s Superintelligence Lab in July." ] }, { "url": "https://b17news.com/12-executives-researchers-others-who-left-openai-in-2025-mostly-to-meta-superintelligence-lab", "title": "12 executives, researchers, others who left OpenAI in 2025 \u2014 mostly to Meta Superintelligence Lab - B17 News", "published_at": "2025-12-26T22:01:52", "researcher": "Shengjia Zhao", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "chief scientist", "researcher_evidence": [ "# 12 executives, researchers, others who left OpenAI in 2025 \u2014 mostly to Meta Superintelligence Lab", "## Researchers lost to Meta", "**Shengjia Zhao**", "Zhao became the chief scientist of the Meta Superintelligence Lab in July after co-creating ChatGPT and GPT-4 at OpenAI." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# 12 executives, researchers, others who left OpenAI in 2025 \u2014 mostly to Meta Superintelligence Lab", "## Researchers lost to Meta", "**Shengjia Zhao**", "Zhao became the chief scientist of the Meta Superintelligence Lab in July after co-creating ChatGPT and GPT-4 at OpenAI." ] }, { "url": "https://b17news.com/12-executives-researchers-others-who-left-openai-in-2025-mostly-to-meta-superintelligence-lab", "title": "12 executives, researchers, others who left OpenAI in 2025 \u2014 mostly to Meta Superintelligence Lab - B17 News", "published_at": "2025-12-26T22:01:52", "researcher": "Shuchao Bi", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "researcher on multimodal and reinforcement learning", "researcher_evidence": [ "# 12 executives, researchers, others who left OpenAI in 2025 \u2014 mostly to Meta Superintelligence Lab", "## Researchers lost to Meta", "**Shuchao Bi**", "Bi was an OpenAI researcher on multimodal and reinforcement learning." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# 12 executives, researchers, others who left OpenAI in 2025 \u2014 mostly to Meta Superintelligence Lab", "## Researchers lost to Meta", "**Shuchao Bi**", "Bi was an OpenAI researcher on multimodal and reinforcement learning." ] }, { "url": "https://businessinsider.com/meta-escalates-ai-talent-war-with-openai-shengjia-zhao-zuckerberg-2025-7", "title": "Meta just escalated the AI talent war with OpenAI", "published_at": "2025-07-26T01:16:36", "researcher": "Shengjia Zhao", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "chief scientist of its Superintelligence Labs", "researcher_evidence": [ "Shengjia Zhao, a co-creator of ChatGPT and former lead scientist at OpenAI, is joining Meta as chief scientist of its Superintelligence Labs." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Shengjia Zhao, a co-creator of ChatGPT and former lead scientist at OpenAI, is joining Meta as chief scientist of its Superintelligence Labs." ] }, { "url": "https://vectrel.ai/blog/ai-talent-war-google-brain-drain-vendor-strategy", "title": "The AI Talent War Just Escalated: What Google's Brain Drain Means for Your Vendor Strategy", "published_at": "2026-06-25T00:00:00", "researcher": "Jonas Adler", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "work on Anthropic's AI coding effort", "researcher_evidence": [ "# The AI Talent War Just Escalated: What Google's Brain Drain Means for Your Vendor Strategy", "## What Actually Happened", "On June 24, 2026, Bloomberg reported that [Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel were leaving Google for Anthropic](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-24/google-poised-to-lose-two-more-high-profile-ai-staffers-to-anthropic), both described internally as key contributors to Google's Gemini model." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# The AI Talent War Just Escalated: What Google's Brain Drain Means for Your Vendor Strategy", "## What Actually Happened", "Adler is set to work on Anthropic's AI coding effort, and Pritzel on training its AI systems." ] }, { "url": "https://vectrel.ai/blog/ai-talent-war-google-brain-drain-vendor-strategy", "title": "The AI Talent War Just Escalated: What Google's Brain Drain Means for Your Vendor Strategy", "published_at": "2026-06-25T00:00:00", "researcher": "Alexander Pritzel", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "training its AI systems", "researcher_evidence": [ "# The AI Talent War Just Escalated: What Google's Brain Drain Means for Your Vendor Strategy", "## What Actually Happened", "On June 24, 2026, Bloomberg reported that [Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel were leaving Google for Anthropic](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-24/google-poised-to-lose-two-more-high-profile-ai-staffers-to-anthropic), both described internally as key contributors to Google's Gemini model." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# The AI Talent War Just Escalated: What Google's Brain Drain Means for Your Vendor Strategy", "## What Actually Happened", "Adler is set to work on Anthropic's AI coding effort, and Pritzel on training its AI systems." ] }, { "url": "https://vectrel.ai/blog/ai-talent-war-google-brain-drain-vendor-strategy", "title": "The AI Talent War Just Escalated: What Google's Brain Drain Means for Your Vendor Strategy", "published_at": "2026-06-25T00:00:00", "researcher": "John Jumper", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# The AI Talent War Just Escalated: What Google's Brain Drain Means for Your Vendor Strategy", "## What Actually Happened", "As [TechCrunch reported the same day](https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/24/ai-researchers-continue-to-leave-google-for-its-rivals/), the pair followed Nobel laureate John Jumper, who is also heading to Anthropic, and star researcher Noam Shazeer, who is going to OpenAI." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://vectrel.ai/blog/ai-talent-war-google-brain-drain-vendor-strategy", "title": "The AI Talent War Just Escalated: What Google's Brain Drain Means for Your Vendor Strategy", "published_at": "2026-06-25T00:00:00", "researcher": "Noam Shazeer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# The AI Talent War Just Escalated: What Google's Brain Drain Means for Your Vendor Strategy", "## What Actually Happened", "As [TechCrunch reported the same day](https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/24/ai-researchers-continue-to-leave-google-for-its-rivals/), the pair followed Nobel laureate John Jumper, who is also heading to Anthropic, and star researcher Noam Shazeer, who is going to OpenAI." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://fortune.com/2026/06/23/google-deepmind-ai-researcher-departures-raise-doubts-about-ability-to-win-the-ai-race-shazeer-jumper-eye-on-ai", "title": "Loss of top AI talent leaves some questioning if Google DeepMind can stay at AI's forefront", "published_at": "2026-06-23T18:42:23", "researcher": "Noam Shazeer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "Defections from Google DeepMind prompt questions about Alphabet\u2019s efforts to stay at the forefront of AI", "A chatbot pioneer and a Nobel laureate exit", "First, on Thursday, Noam Shazeer [announced](https://x.com/NoamShazeer/status/2067400851438932297?s=20) he was leaving to go to OpenAI." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://fortune.com/2026/06/23/google-deepmind-ai-researcher-departures-raise-doubts-about-ability-to-win-the-ai-race-shazeer-jumper-eye-on-ai", "title": "Loss of top AI talent leaves some questioning if Google DeepMind can stay at AI's forefront", "published_at": "2026-06-23T18:42:23", "researcher": "John Jumper", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "Defections from Google DeepMind prompt questions about Alphabet\u2019s efforts to stay at the forefront of AI", "A chatbot pioneer and a Nobel laureate exit", "Just days after the Shazeer news, Google DeepMind researcher John Jumper [announced](https://x.com/JohnJumperSci/status/2068001285173834106?s=20) he too was leaving\u2014in this case, to join Anthropic." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://inc.com/kit-eaton/the-ai-talent-wars-rocked-2025-heres-what-comes-next/91266973", "title": "The AI Talent Wars Rocked 2025. Here\u2019s What Comes Next", "published_at": "2025-11-26T12:00:00", "researcher": "Mark Lee", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "senior AI researcher", "researcher_evidence": [ "Bloomberg [reported in July](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-17/meta-hires-two-key-apple-ai-experts-after-poaching-their-boss) that two senior AI researchers, Mark Lee and Tom Gunter, had left the iPhone maker to join Meta\u2019s superintelligence team." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Bloomberg [reported in July](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-17/meta-hires-two-key-apple-ai-experts-after-poaching-their-boss) that two senior AI researchers, Mark Lee and Tom Gunter, had left the iPhone maker to join Meta\u2019s superintelligence team." ] }, { "url": "https://inc.com/kit-eaton/the-ai-talent-wars-rocked-2025-heres-what-comes-next/91266973", "title": "The AI Talent Wars Rocked 2025. Here\u2019s What Comes Next", "published_at": "2025-11-26T12:00:00", "researcher": "Tom Gunter", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "senior AI researcher", "researcher_evidence": [ "Bloomberg [reported in July](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-17/meta-hires-two-key-apple-ai-experts-after-poaching-their-boss) that two senior AI researchers, Mark Lee and Tom Gunter, had left the iPhone maker to join Meta\u2019s superintelligence team." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Bloomberg [reported in July](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-17/meta-hires-two-key-apple-ai-experts-after-poaching-their-boss) that two senior AI researchers, Mark Lee and Tom Gunter, had left the iPhone maker to join Meta\u2019s superintelligence team." ] }, { "url": "https://theoutpost.ai/news-story/meta-poaches-top-ai-talent-yang-song-joins-meta-superintelligence-labs-from-open-ai-20443", "title": "Meta Poaches Top AI Talent: Yang Song Joins Meta Superintelligence Labs from OpenAI", "published_at": "2025-09-25T18:26:53", "researcher": "Yang Song", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "research principal", "researcher_evidence": [ "# Meta Poaches Top AI Talent: Yang Song Joins Meta Superintelligence Labs from OpenAI", "Meta Poaches OpenAI Scientist to Help Lead AI Lab", "Yang Song, who previously led the strategic explorations team at OpenAI, is now reporting to Shengjia Zhao, another OpenAI alum who has overseen the buzzy AI effort since July, according to multiple sources." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# Meta Poaches Top AI Talent: Yang Song Joins Meta Superintelligence Labs from OpenAI", "Meta Poaches OpenAI Scientist to Help Lead AI Lab", "Mark Zuckerberg has poached a high-ranking OpenAI researcher to be the research principal of Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL)." ] }, { "url": "https://finance.yahoo.com/news/12-executives-researchers-others-left-114801598.html", "title": "12 executives, researchers, others who left OpenAI in 2025 \u2014 mostly to Meta Superintelligence Lab", "published_at": "2025-12-26T11:48:01", "researcher": "Jason Wei", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "research scientist", "researcher_evidence": [ "# 12 executives, researchers, others who left OpenAI in 2025 \u2014 mostly to Meta Superintelligence Lab", "## Researchers lost to Meta", "**Jason Wei**", "Wei, a research scientist who worked on OpenAI's o1 and deep research models, left in July for Meta's Superintelligence Lab." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# 12 executives, researchers, others who left OpenAI in 2025 \u2014 mostly to Meta Superintelligence Lab", "## Researchers lost to Meta", "**Jason Wei**", "Wei, a research scientist who worked on OpenAI's o1 and deep research models, left in July for Meta's Superintelligence Lab." ] }, { "url": "https://finance.yahoo.com/news/12-executives-researchers-others-left-114801598.html", "title": "12 executives, researchers, others who left OpenAI in 2025 \u2014 mostly to Meta Superintelligence Lab", "published_at": "2025-12-26T11:48:01", "researcher": "Zhiqing Sun", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "research scientist", "researcher_evidence": [ "# 12 executives, researchers, others who left OpenAI in 2025 \u2014 mostly to Meta Superintelligence Lab", "## Researchers lost to Meta", "**Zhiqing Sun**", "Sun, who left for Meta's Superintelligence Labs in July, was a research scientist at OpenAI*.*" ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# 12 executives, researchers, others who left OpenAI in 2025 \u2014 mostly to Meta Superintelligence Lab", "## Researchers lost to Meta", "**Zhiqing Sun**", "Sun, who left for Meta's Superintelligence Labs in July, was a research scientist at OpenAI*.*" ] }, { "url": "https://finance.yahoo.com/news/12-executives-researchers-others-left-114801598.html", "title": "12 executives, researchers, others who left OpenAI in 2025 \u2014 mostly to Meta Superintelligence Lab", "published_at": "2025-12-26T11:48:01", "researcher": "Hyung Won Chung", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "research scientist", "researcher_evidence": [ "# 12 executives, researchers, others who left OpenAI in 2025 \u2014 mostly to Meta Superintelligence Lab", "## Researchers lost to Meta", "**Hyung Won Chung**", "Chung is part of the trio of OpenAI research scientists who departed for Meta's Superintelligence Lab in July. He posted on LinkedIn alongside his two colleagues that they are having \"so much fun building from a clean slate with a truly talent-dense team.\"" ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# 12 executives, researchers, others who left OpenAI in 2025 \u2014 mostly to Meta Superintelligence Lab", "## Researchers lost to Meta", "**Hyung Won Chung**", "Chung is part of the trio of OpenAI research scientists who departed for Meta's Superintelligence Lab in July. He posted on LinkedIn alongside his two colleagues that they are having \"so much fun building from a clean slate with a truly talent-dense team.\"" ] }, { "url": "https://finance.yahoo.com/news/12-executives-researchers-others-left-114801598.html", "title": "12 executives, researchers, others who left OpenAI in 2025 \u2014 mostly to Meta Superintelligence Lab", "published_at": "2025-12-26T11:48:01", "researcher": "Shengjia Zhao", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "chief scientist", "researcher_evidence": [ "# 12 executives, researchers, others who left OpenAI in 2025 \u2014 mostly to Meta Superintelligence Lab", "## Researchers lost to Meta", "**Shengjia Zhao**", "Zhao became the chief scientist of the Meta Superintelligence Lab in July after co-creating ChatGPT and GPT-4 at OpenAI. The prominent researcher is working directly with Mark Zuckerberg and Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang ." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# 12 executives, researchers, others who left OpenAI in 2025 \u2014 mostly to Meta Superintelligence Lab", "## Researchers lost to Meta", "**Shengjia Zhao**", "Zhao became the chief scientist of the Meta Superintelligence Lab in July after co-creating ChatGPT and GPT-4 at OpenAI. The prominent researcher is working directly with Mark Zuckerberg and Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang ." ] }, { "url": "https://finance.yahoo.com/news/12-executives-researchers-others-left-114801598.html", "title": "12 executives, researchers, others who left OpenAI in 2025 \u2014 mostly to Meta Superintelligence Lab", "published_at": "2025-12-26T11:48:01", "researcher": "Jiahui Yu", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# 12 executives, researchers, others who left OpenAI in 2025 \u2014 mostly to Meta Superintelligence Lab", "## Researchers lost to Meta", "**Jiahui Yu**", "Yu is widely credited with leading the Perception team in OpenAI to develop the \"senses\" of a Large Language Model, including images, audio, and sensor readings. He departed for Meta's Superintelligence Lab in late June." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://finance.yahoo.com/news/12-executives-researchers-others-left-114801598.html", "title": "12 executives, researchers, others who left OpenAI in 2025 \u2014 mostly to Meta Superintelligence Lab", "published_at": "2025-12-26T11:48:01", "researcher": "Hongyu Ren", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# 12 executives, researchers, others who left OpenAI in 2025 \u2014 mostly to Meta Superintelligence Lab", "## Researchers lost to Meta", "**Hongyu Ren**", "Ren was poached by Meta's Superintelligence Lab over the summer. He was a core contributor to OpenAI's GPT-4o model." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://finance.yahoo.com/news/12-executives-researchers-others-left-114801598.html", "title": "12 executives, researchers, others who left OpenAI in 2025 \u2014 mostly to Meta Superintelligence Lab", "published_at": "2025-12-26T11:48:01", "researcher": "Shuchao Bi", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "researcher", "researcher_evidence": [ "# 12 executives, researchers, others who left OpenAI in 2025 \u2014 mostly to Meta Superintelligence Lab", "## Researchers lost to Meta", "**Shuchao Bi**", "Bi was an OpenAI researcher on multimodal and reinforcement learning. He left in June for Meta's Superintelligence Lab to work on reinforcement learning, post-training, and AI agents." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# 12 executives, researchers, others who left OpenAI in 2025 \u2014 mostly to Meta Superintelligence Lab", "## Researchers lost to Meta", "**Shuchao Bi**", "Bi was an OpenAI researcher on multimodal and reinforcement learning. He left in June for Meta's Superintelligence Lab to work on reinforcement learning, post-training, and AI agents." ] }, { "url": "https://alcreon.com/newsletters/echo/where-the-architects-went", "title": "Where the Architects Went", "published_at": "2026-06-22T13:00:00", "researcher": "Noam Shazeer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Transformer co-author and Gemini co-lead", "researcher_evidence": [ "Where the Architects Went", "Noam Shazeer left Google for OpenAI and John Jumper for Anthropic in one week, a senior-hire signal that previews lab capability before the leaderboards do.", "Noam Shazeer, the Transformer co-author and Gemini co-lead, [posted to X](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/18/google-gemini-co-lead-noam-shazeer-leaves-google-to-join-openai.html) on June 18 that he's joining OpenAI." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Where the Architects Went", "Noam Shazeer, the Transformer co-author and Gemini co-lead, [posted to X](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/18/google-gemini-co-lead-noam-shazeer-leaves-google-to-join-openai.html) on June 18 that he's joining OpenAI." ] }, { "url": "https://alcreon.com/newsletters/echo/where-the-architects-went", "title": "Where the Architects Went", "published_at": "2026-06-22T13:00:00", "researcher": "John Jumper", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "co-created AlphaFold", "researcher_evidence": [ "Where the Architects Went", "Noam Shazeer left Google for OpenAI and John Jumper for Anthropic in one week, a senior-hire signal that previews lab capability before the leaderboards do.", "Hours later, John Jumper [announced his own move](https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/20/nobel-laureate-john-jumper-is-leaving-deepmind-for-rival-anthropic/) to Anthropic after nearly nine years at Google DeepMind, where he co-created AlphaFold and shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Demis Hassabis." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Where the Architects Went", "Hours later, John Jumper [announced his own move](https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/20/nobel-laureate-john-jumper-is-leaving-deepmind-for-rival-anthropic/) to Anthropic after nearly nine years at Google DeepMind, where he co-created AlphaFold and shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Demis Hassabis." ] }, { "url": "https://wired.com/story/meta-poaches-openai-researcher-yang-song", "title": "Meta Poaches OpenAI Scientist to Help Lead AI Lab", "published_at": "2025-09-25T04:26:31", "researcher": "Yang Song", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "research principal", "researcher_evidence": [ "# Meta Poaches OpenAI Scientist to Help Lead AI Lab", "Yang Song, who previously led the strategic explorations team at OpenAI, is the new \u201cresearch principal\u201d of Meta Superintelligence Labs." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# Meta Poaches OpenAI Scientist to Help Lead AI Lab", "Yang Song, who previously led the strategic explorations team at OpenAI, is the new \u201cresearch principal\u201d of Meta Superintelligence Labs." ] }, { "url": "https://techtimes.com/articles/322117/20260729/openais-safety-architect-lilian-weng-returns-single-mission-making-ai-improve-itself.htm", "title": "OpenAI\u2019s Safety Architect Lilian Weng Returns With a Single Mission: Making AI Improve Itself", "published_at": "2026-07-29T20:20:34", "researcher": "Lilian Weng", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "lead research into recursive self-improvement", "researcher_evidence": null, "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://techtimes.com/articles/322117/20260729/openais-safety-architect-lilian-weng-returns-single-mission-making-ai-improve-itself.htm", "title": "OpenAI\u2019s Safety Architect Lilian Weng Returns With a Single Mission: Making AI Improve Itself", "published_at": "2026-07-29T20:20:34", "researcher": "Andrew Tulloch", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "Andrew Tulloch departed for Meta in October 2025." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://techtimes.com/articles/322117/20260729/openais-safety-architect-lilian-weng-returns-single-mission-making-ai-improve-itself.htm", "title": "OpenAI\u2019s Safety Architect Lilian Weng Returns With a Single Mission: Making AI Improve Itself", "published_at": "2026-07-29T20:20:34", "researcher": "Barret Zoph", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "Barret Zoph and Luke Metz left in January 2026, both returning to OpenAI, as [OfficeChai documented](https://officechai.com/ai/thinking-machines-cto-barret-zoph-two-other-senior-researchers-rejoin-openai/)." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://techtimes.com/articles/322117/20260729/openais-safety-architect-lilian-weng-returns-single-mission-making-ai-improve-itself.htm", "title": "OpenAI\u2019s Safety Architect Lilian Weng Returns With a Single Mission: Making AI Improve Itself", "published_at": "2026-07-29T20:20:34", "researcher": "Luke Metz", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "Barret Zoph and Luke Metz left in January 2026, both returning to OpenAI, as [OfficeChai documented](https://officechai.com/ai/thinking-machines-cto-barret-zoph-two-other-senior-researchers-rejoin-openai/)." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://dataworldbank.net/2026/05/19/openai-co-founder-andrej-karpathy-announces-hes-joining-anthropic", "title": "OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy announces he\u2019s joining Anthropic", "published_at": "2026-05-19T17:55:59", "researcher": "Andrej Karpathy", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "building a team focused on using Claude to accelerate pretraining research itself", "researcher_evidence": [ "# OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy announces he\u2019s joining Anthropic", "Andrej Karpathy, the influential 39-year-old Slovak-Canadian AI researcher and one of the[ original 11 co-founders of OpenAI](https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1m80e9g/the_11_cofounders_of_openai_in_2025/), and former head of Tesla\u2019s AI division, announced on Tuesday, May 19 that he\u2019s joining rival lab Anthropic." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy announces he\u2019s joining Anthropic", "Anthropic\u2019s current Head of Pretraining, Nicholas Joseph, also a former OpenAI alumnus, added more context to Karpathy\u2019s new role at Anthropic in [a post of his own on X,](https://x.com/nickevanjoseph/status/2056760504949842219) writing: \u201cExcited to welcome Andrej to the Pretraining team! He\u2019ll be building a team focused on using Claude to accelerate pretraining research itself. I can\u2019t think of anyone better suited to do it \u2014 looking forward to what we build together!\u201d" ] }, { "url": "https://washingtontimes.com/news/2026/may/19/andrej-karpathy-leaves-openai-join-anthropics-ai-research-team", "title": "Andrej Karpathy leaves OpenAI to join Anthropic's AI research team", "published_at": "2026-05-19T16:18:27", "researcher": "Andrej Karpathy", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Anthropic\u2019s pre-training team", "researcher_evidence": [ "[Andrej Karpathy](/topics/andrej-karpathy/), a founding member of [OpenAI](/topics/openai/) and one of the most prominent researchers in artificial intelligence, announced Tuesday that he is joining rival AI lab [Anthropic](/topics/anthropic/)." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Mr. Karpathy will start this week on [Anthropic\u2019s pre-training team](https://www.axios.com/2026/05/19/anthropic-openai-karpathy-andrej-claude), which is responsible for the massive training runs that give Claude its core knowledge and capabilities, according to [Anthropic](/topics/anthropic/)." ] }, { "url": "https://fortune.com/2026/08/27/google-deepmind-losing-talent-to-rival-ai-labs-startups-new-data-show/", "title": "Google DeepMind is losing its grip on elite AI talent, new data shows", "published_at": "2026-08-27T07:00:00", "researcher": "Noam Shazeer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Gemini co-lead", "researcher_evidence": [ "# Google DeepMind is losing its grip on elite AI talent, new data shows", "## **A string of high-profile exits**", "In June, Google lost Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer to OpenAI and John Jumper, who shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for AlphaFold with Hassabis, to Anthropic within a day of one another." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# Google DeepMind is losing its grip on elite AI talent, new data shows", "## **A string of high-profile exits**", "In June, Google lost Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer to OpenAI and John Jumper, who shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for AlphaFold with Hassabis, to Anthropic within a day of one another." ] }, { "url": "https://fortune.com/2026/08/27/google-deepmind-losing-talent-to-rival-ai-labs-startups-new-data-show/", "title": "Google DeepMind is losing its grip on elite AI talent, new data shows", "published_at": "2026-08-27T07:00:00", "researcher": "John Jumper", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# Google DeepMind is losing its grip on elite AI talent, new data shows", "## **A string of high-profile exits**", "In June, Google lost Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer to OpenAI and John Jumper, who shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for AlphaFold with Hassabis, to Anthropic within a day of one another." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://ft.com/content/61b2953d-ee0d-45de-af6e-a9c1cf524b33?accessToken=zwAAAZ-saIC9kc9hspU97g1F3tOvbqnBz1JLMw.MEUCIDABGXDaUtwfjiMl_j0Ohk_6Hx0HjyE1Uzp_OG2oNaMlAiEA6DTjVNTJxSj7jaq_c69FedmGnNqmN-lSINe3xyIgX4A&sharetype=gift&token=56cb59cc-cc42-4a97-9807-70b1d6540680", "title": "Google DeepMind dismantles Nobel-winning AlphaFold team in strategy shift", "published_at": "2026-07-29T04:00:05", "researcher": "John Jumper", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "Earlier this year, Jumper and fellow AlphaFold researcher Jonas Adler moved to Google\u2019s internal \u201cCode Strike\u201d team, a group assembled to improve the company\u2019s AI coding capabilities as it seeks to catch Anthropic and OpenAI.", "Last month, Jumper announced he was leaving for Anthropic, where he will be joined by Adler and AlphaFold colleague Alexander Pritzel." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://ft.com/content/61b2953d-ee0d-45de-af6e-a9c1cf524b33?accessToken=zwAAAZ-saIC9kc9hspU97g1F3tOvbqnBz1JLMw.MEUCIDABGXDaUtwfjiMl_j0Ohk_6Hx0HjyE1Uzp_OG2oNaMlAiEA6DTjVNTJxSj7jaq_c69FedmGnNqmN-lSINe3xyIgX4A&sharetype=gift&token=56cb59cc-cc42-4a97-9807-70b1d6540680", "title": "Google DeepMind dismantles Nobel-winning AlphaFold team in strategy shift", "published_at": "2026-07-29T04:00:05", "researcher": "Jonas Adler", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "Earlier this year, Jumper and fellow AlphaFold researcher Jonas Adler moved to Google\u2019s internal \u201cCode Strike\u201d team, a group assembled to improve the company\u2019s AI coding capabilities as it seeks to catch Anthropic and OpenAI.", "Last month, Jumper announced he was leaving for Anthropic, where he will be joined by Adler and AlphaFold colleague Alexander Pritzel." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://ft.com/content/61b2953d-ee0d-45de-af6e-a9c1cf524b33?accessToken=zwAAAZ-saIC9kc9hspU97g1F3tOvbqnBz1JLMw.MEUCIDABGXDaUtwfjiMl_j0Ohk_6Hx0HjyE1Uzp_OG2oNaMlAiEA6DTjVNTJxSj7jaq_c69FedmGnNqmN-lSINe3xyIgX4A&sharetype=gift&token=56cb59cc-cc42-4a97-9807-70b1d6540680", "title": "Google DeepMind dismantles Nobel-winning AlphaFold team in strategy shift", "published_at": "2026-07-29T04:00:05", "researcher": "Alexander Pritzel", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "Last month, Jumper announced he was leaving for Anthropic, where he will be joined by Adler and AlphaFold colleague Alexander Pritzel." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://theinformation.com/articles/meta-change-publishing-research-causes-stir-ai-group?eu=ef048ff56b2140223d78", "title": "A Meta Change on Publishing Research Causes a Stir in Its AI Group", "published_at": "2025-10-02T13:00:11", "researcher": "Shengjia Zhao", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Chief scientist", "researcher_evidence": [ "# A Meta Change on Publishing Research Causes a Stir in Its AI Group", "He bristled at the perception that Meta had demoted him after the organization named a researcher from OpenAI, Shengjia Zhao, as its chief scientist in July, according to a person familiar with the matter." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# A Meta Change on Publishing Research Causes a Stir in Its AI Group", "He bristled at the perception that Meta had demoted him after the organization named a researcher from OpenAI, Shengjia Zhao, as its chief scientist in July, according to a person familiar with the matter." ] }, { "url": "https://officechai.com/ai/thinking-machines-co-founder-barrett-zoph-leaves-openai-to-join-google", "title": "Thinking Machines Co-founder Barrett Zoph Leaves OpenAI To Join Google", "published_at": "2026-08-27T06:18:10", "researcher": "Barret Zoph", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Vice President of Research", "researcher_evidence": [ "# Thinking Machines Co-founder Barrett Zoph Leaves OpenAI To Join Google", "The latest to switch jerseys is Barret Zoph, who spent the better part of the last two years bouncing between OpenAI and Mira Murati\u2019s Thinking Machines Lab before landing, of all places, back at Google." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# Thinking Machines Co-founder Barrett Zoph Leaves OpenAI To Join Google", "Zoph announced on X that he is joining Google DeepMind as Vice President of Research, working on reinforcement learning and post-training, the same domain he built a reputation in during his OpenAI years." ] }, { "url": "https://officechai.com/ai/thinking-machines-co-founder-barrett-zoph-leaves-openai-to-join-google", "title": "Thinking Machines Co-founder Barrett Zoph Leaves OpenAI To Join Google", "published_at": "2026-08-27T06:18:10", "researcher": "Andrew Tulloch", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# Thinking Machines Co-founder Barrett Zoph Leaves OpenAI To Join Google", "[Andrew Tulloch was the first to go](https://officechai.com/ai/thinking-machines-cofounder-lillian-weng-quits-in-fourth-co-founder-exit/), leaving for Meta in October 2025 after reportedly turning down, and later accepting, a nine-figure pay package." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://www.axios.com/2026/08/03/ai-talent-wars-openai-google-meta-anthropic", "title": "OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Thinking Machines fight for AI talent", "published_at": "2026-08-03T09:13:05", "researcher": "Lilian Weng", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "work on recursive self improvement", "researcher_evidence": [ "**Driving the news:** The latest high-profile move is Lilian Weng, co-founder of Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "**Driving the news:** The latest high-profile move is Lilian Weng, co-founder of Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab.", "- Just days later, [The Information](https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/thinking-machines-cofounder-return-openai) reported that she was rejoining OpenAI to work on [recursive self improvement](https://www.axios.com/2026/01/27/models-improve-ai), the idea that AI systems could play a growing role in improving future generations of AI." ] }, { "url": "https://www.axios.com/2026/08/03/ai-talent-wars-openai-google-meta-anthropic", "title": "OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Thinking Machines fight for AI talent", "published_at": "2026-08-03T09:13:05", "researcher": "Noam Shazeer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "- Google [lost](https://www.axios.com/2026/06/23/ai-lab-agi-google-deepmind-departures) a pair of prominent researchers to rivals last month as Noam Shazeer left for OpenAI and Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner John Jumper went to Anthropic." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://www.axios.com/2026/08/03/ai-talent-wars-openai-google-meta-anthropic", "title": "OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Thinking Machines fight for AI talent", "published_at": "2026-08-03T09:13:05", "researcher": "John Jumper", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "- Google [lost](https://www.axios.com/2026/06/23/ai-lab-agi-google-deepmind-departures) a pair of prominent researchers to rivals last month as Noam Shazeer left for OpenAI and Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner John Jumper went to Anthropic." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://businessinsider.com/executives-board-members-and-researchers-who-left-openai-in-2025-2025-12", "title": "Executives, board members, and researchers who left OpenAI in 2025", "published_at": "2025-12-26T11:48:01", "researcher": "Jason Wei", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "research scientist", "researcher_evidence": [ "Here's a running list of researchers and executives OpenAI has lost this year and where they've ended up.", "## Researchers lost to Meta", "**Jason Wei**", "Wei, a research scientist who worked on OpenAI's o1 and deep research models, left in July for Meta's Superintelligence Lab." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Here's a running list of researchers and executives OpenAI has lost this year and where they've ended up.", "## Researchers lost to Meta", "**Jason Wei**", "Wei, a research scientist who worked on OpenAI's o1 and deep research models, left in July for Meta's Superintelligence Lab." ] }, { "url": "https://businessinsider.com/executives-board-members-and-researchers-who-left-openai-in-2025-2025-12", "title": "Executives, board members, and researchers who left OpenAI in 2025", "published_at": "2025-12-26T11:48:01", "researcher": "Zhiqing Sun", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "research scientist", "researcher_evidence": [ "Here's a running list of researchers and executives OpenAI has lost this year and where they've ended up.", "## Researchers lost to Meta", "**Zhiqing Sun**", "Sun, who left for Meta's Superintelligence Labs in July, was a research scientist at OpenAI*.*" ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Here's a running list of researchers and executives OpenAI has lost this year and where they've ended up.", "## Researchers lost to Meta", "**Zhiqing Sun**", "Sun, who left for Meta's Superintelligence Labs in July, was a research scientist at OpenAI*.*" ] }, { "url": "https://businessinsider.com/executives-board-members-and-researchers-who-left-openai-in-2025-2025-12", "title": "Executives, board members, and researchers who left OpenAI in 2025", "published_at": "2025-12-26T11:48:01", "researcher": "Hyung Won Chung", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "research scientist", "researcher_evidence": [ "Here's a running list of researchers and executives OpenAI has lost this year and where they've ended up.", "## Researchers lost to Meta", "**Hyung Won Chung**", "Chung is part of the trio of OpenAI research scientists who departed for Meta's Superintelligence Lab in July." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Here's a running list of researchers and executives OpenAI has lost this year and where they've ended up.", "## Researchers lost to Meta", "**Hyung Won Chung**", "Chung is part of the trio of OpenAI research scientists who departed for Meta's Superintelligence Lab in July." ] }, { "url": "https://businessinsider.com/executives-board-members-and-researchers-who-left-openai-in-2025-2025-12", "title": "Executives, board members, and researchers who left OpenAI in 2025", "published_at": "2025-12-26T11:48:01", "researcher": "Shengjia Zhao", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "chief scientist", "researcher_evidence": [ "Here's a running list of researchers and executives OpenAI has lost this year and where they've ended up.", "## Researchers lost to Meta", "**Shengjia Zhao**", "Zhao**** became the chief scientist of the Meta Superintelligence Lab in July after co-creating ChatGPT and GPT-4 at OpenAI." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Here's a running list of researchers and executives OpenAI has lost this year and where they've ended up.", "## Researchers lost to Meta", "**Shengjia Zhao**", "Zhao**** became the chief scientist of the Meta Superintelligence Lab in July after co-creating ChatGPT and GPT-4 at OpenAI." ] }, { "url": "https://businessinsider.com/executives-board-members-and-researchers-who-left-openai-in-2025-2025-12", "title": "Executives, board members, and researchers who left OpenAI in 2025", "published_at": "2025-12-26T11:48:01", "researcher": "Jiahui Yu", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "leading the Perception team", "researcher_evidence": [ "Here's a running list of researchers and executives OpenAI has lost this year and where they've ended up.", "## Researchers lost to Meta", "**Jiahui Yu**", "Yu is widely credited with leading the Perception team in OpenAI to develop the \"senses\" of a Large Language Model, including images, audio, and sensor readings." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Here's a running list of researchers and executives OpenAI has lost this year and where they've ended up.", "## Researchers lost to Meta", "**Jiahui Yu**", "Yu is widely credited with leading the Perception team in OpenAI to develop the \"senses\" of a Large Language Model, including images, audio, and sensor readings." ] }, { "url": "https://businessinsider.com/executives-board-members-and-researchers-who-left-openai-in-2025-2025-12", "title": "Executives, board members, and researchers who left OpenAI in 2025", "published_at": "2025-12-26T11:48:01", "researcher": "Hongyu Ren", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "core contributor to OpenAI's GPT-4o model", "researcher_evidence": [ "Here's a running list of researchers and executives OpenAI has lost this year and where they've ended up.", "## Researchers lost to Meta", "**Hongyu Ren**", "Ren was poached by Meta's Superintelligence Lab over the summer." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Here's a running list of researchers and executives OpenAI has lost this year and where they've ended up.", "## Researchers lost to Meta", "**Hongyu Ren**", "He was a core contributor to OpenAI's GPT-4o model." ] }, { "url": "https://businessinsider.com/executives-board-members-and-researchers-who-left-openai-in-2025-2025-12", "title": "Executives, board members, and researchers who left OpenAI in 2025", "published_at": "2025-12-26T11:48:01", "researcher": "Shuchao Bi", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "researcher on multimodal and reinforcement learning", "researcher_evidence": [ "Here's a running list of researchers and executives OpenAI has lost this year and where they've ended up.", "## Researchers lost to Meta", "**Shuchao Bi**", "Bi was an OpenAI researcher on multimodal and reinforcement learning." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Here's a running list of researchers and executives OpenAI has lost this year and where they've ended up.", "## Researchers lost to Meta", "**Shuchao Bi**", "Bi was an OpenAI researcher on multimodal and reinforcement learning." ] }, { "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/24/ai-researchers-continue-to-leave-google-for-its-rivals/", "title": "AI researchers continue to leave Google for its rivals", "published_at": "2026-06-24T21:42:07", "researcher": "Jonas Adler", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# AI researchers continue to leave Google for its rivals", "Top AI researchers Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel are leaving Google for Anthropic, according to [Bloomberg](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-24/google-poised-to-lose-two-more-high-profile-ai-staffers-to-anthropic)." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/24/ai-researchers-continue-to-leave-google-for-its-rivals/", "title": "AI researchers continue to leave Google for its rivals", "published_at": "2026-06-24T21:42:07", "researcher": "Alexander Pritzel", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# AI researchers continue to leave Google for its rivals", "Top AI researchers Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel are leaving Google for Anthropic, according to [Bloomberg](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-24/google-poised-to-lose-two-more-high-profile-ai-staffers-to-anthropic)." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/24/ai-researchers-continue-to-leave-google-for-its-rivals/", "title": "AI researchers continue to leave Google for its rivals", "published_at": "2026-06-24T21:42:07", "researcher": "Noam Shazeer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# AI researchers continue to leave Google for its rivals" ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/24/ai-researchers-continue-to-leave-google-for-its-rivals/", "title": "AI researchers continue to leave Google for its rivals", "published_at": "2026-06-24T21:42:07", "researcher": "John Jumper", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Google DeepMind director", "researcher_evidence": [ "# AI researchers continue to leave Google for its rivals", "Just days after Shazeer made his announcement, Google DeepMind director [John Jumper](https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/20/nobel-laureate-john-jumper-is-leaving-deepmind-for-rival-anthropic/) said he was leaving Google for Anthropic." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# AI researchers continue to leave Google for its rivals", "Just days after Shazeer made his announcement, Google DeepMind director [John Jumper](https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/20/nobel-laureate-john-jumper-is-leaving-deepmind-for-rival-anthropic/) said he was leaving Google for Anthropic." ] }, { "url": "https://www.siliconrepublic.com/business/googles-noam-shazeer-leaving-organisation-join-rival-openai", "title": "Google\u2019s Noam Shazeer leaving organisation to join rival OpenAI", "published_at": "2026-06-18T08:58:52", "researcher": "Noam Shazeer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "lead for AI architecture research", "researcher_evidence": [ "# Google\u2019s Noam Shazeer leaving organisation to join rival OpenAI", "Noam Shazeer, vice-president of engineering at Google and a Gemini AI model co-lead, will leave the company in order to join rival artificial intelligence innovator OpenAI." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# Google\u2019s Noam Shazeer leaving organisation to join rival OpenAI", "Shazeer is joining ahead of OpenAI\u2019s anticipated plans to [transition into an IPO](https://www.siliconrepublic.com/business/openai-files-for-ipo-but-unsure-when-it-wants-to-go-public) and according to reports, he will act as the organisation\u2019s lead for AI architecture research, a role in which he will essentially study how to build models." ] }, { "url": "https://evermx.com/case/google-gemini-talent-exodus-anthropic", "title": "Four Gemini Researchers Leave Google in Six Days for Anthropic and OpenAI", "published_at": "2026-06-27T00:00:00", "researcher": "Noam Shazeer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "IT NewsNEW", "# Four Gemini Researchers Leave Google in Six Days for Anthropic and OpenAI", "Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel departed Google's Gemini team for Anthropic on June 24, joining John Jumper and Noam Shazeer in the most concentrated AI talent exodus from Google to date.", "1. Four senior Google AI researchers departed within six days: Noam Shazeer (\u2192 OpenAI, June 18), John Jumper (\u2192 Anthropic, June 19), Jonas Adler (\u2192 Anthropic, June 24), Alexander Pritzel (\u2192 Anthropic, June 24)." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://evermx.com/case/google-gemini-talent-exodus-anthropic", "title": "Four Gemini Researchers Leave Google in Six Days for Anthropic and OpenAI", "published_at": "2026-06-27T00:00:00", "researcher": "John Jumper", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "IT NewsNEW", "# Four Gemini Researchers Leave Google in Six Days for Anthropic and OpenAI", "Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel departed Google's Gemini team for Anthropic on June 24, joining John Jumper and Noam Shazeer in the most concentrated AI talent exodus from Google to date.", "1. Four senior Google AI researchers departed within six days: Noam Shazeer (\u2192 OpenAI, June 18), John Jumper (\u2192 Anthropic, June 19), Jonas Adler (\u2192 Anthropic, June 24), Alexander Pritzel (\u2192 Anthropic, June 24)." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://evermx.com/case/google-gemini-talent-exodus-anthropic", "title": "Four Gemini Researchers Leave Google in Six Days for Anthropic and OpenAI", "published_at": "2026-06-27T00:00:00", "researcher": "Jonas Adler", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "AI coding", "researcher_evidence": [ "IT NewsNEW", "# Four Gemini Researchers Leave Google in Six Days for Anthropic and OpenAI", "Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel departed Google's Gemini team for Anthropic on June 24, joining John Jumper and Noam Shazeer in the most concentrated AI talent exodus from Google to date.", "1. Four senior Google AI researchers departed within six days: Noam Shazeer (\u2192 OpenAI, June 18), John Jumper (\u2192 Anthropic, June 19), Jonas Adler (\u2192 Anthropic, June 24), Alexander Pritzel (\u2192 Anthropic, June 24)." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "IT NewsNEW", "# Four Gemini Researchers Leave Google in Six Days for Anthropic and OpenAI", "**Jonas Adler** specialized in AI coding at Google, working on the coding capabilities central to Gemini's software engineering features." ] }, { "url": "https://evermx.com/case/google-gemini-talent-exodus-anthropic", "title": "Four Gemini Researchers Leave Google in Six Days for Anthropic and OpenAI", "published_at": "2026-06-27T00:00:00", "researcher": "Alexander Pritzel", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "pretraining", "researcher_evidence": [ "IT NewsNEW", "# Four Gemini Researchers Leave Google in Six Days for Anthropic and OpenAI", "Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel departed Google's Gemini team for Anthropic on June 24, joining John Jumper and Noam Shazeer in the most concentrated AI talent exodus from Google to date.", "1. Four senior Google AI researchers departed within six days: Noam Shazeer (\u2192 OpenAI, June 18), John Jumper (\u2192 Anthropic, June 19), Jonas Adler (\u2192 Anthropic, June 24), Alexander Pritzel (\u2192 Anthropic, June 24)." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "IT NewsNEW", "# Four Gemini Researchers Leave Google in Six Days for Anthropic and OpenAI", "**Alexander Pritzel** focused on pretraining \u2014 the foundational first stage of LLM development where models ingest vast quantities of data to build broad world knowledge and language understanding." ] }, { "url": "https://thesiliconreview.com/2026/08/barret-zoph-joins-google-deepmind-vp-research-thinking-machines", "title": "Thinking Machines Lab Co-Founder Barret Zoph Joins Google DeepMind as VP of Research in Homecoming Move", "published_at": "2026-08-27T00:00:00", "researcher": "Barret Zoph", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Vice President of Research", "researcher_evidence": [ "Thinking Machines Lab Co-Founder Barret Zoph Joins Google DeepMind as VP of Research in Homecoming Move", "Barret Zoph, co-founder of $12 billion AI startup Thinking Machines Lab, is returning to Google DeepMind as Vice President of Research after a brief stint back at OpenAI, marking a significant hire in the intensifying AI talent war." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Thinking Machines Lab Co-Founder Barret Zoph Joins Google DeepMind as VP of Research in Homecoming Move", "Barret Zoph, co-founder of $12 billion AI startup Thinking Machines Lab, is returning to Google DeepMind as Vice President of Research after a brief stint back at OpenAI, marking a significant hire in the intensifying AI talent war." ] }, { "url": "https://reuters.com/technology/thinking-machines-lab-co-founder-tulloch-departs-meta-wsj-reports-2025-10-11", "title": "Thinking Machines Lab co-founder Tulloch departs for Meta, WSJ reports", "published_at": "2025-10-11T19:27:52", "researcher": "Andrew Tulloch", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# Thinking Machines Lab co-founder Tulloch departs for Meta, WSJ reports", "Oct 11 (Reuters) - Andrew Tulloch, co-founder of Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab, has left the AI company to join Meta Platforms [(META.O), opens new tab](https://www.reuters.com/markets/companies/META.O), the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://techtimes.com/articles/319219/20260628/google-deepminds-coding-pivot-lost-six-researchers-meta-openai-anthropic.htm", "title": "Google DeepMind\u2019s Coding Pivot Lost Six Researchers to Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic", "published_at": "2026-06-28T14:15:55", "researcher": "Denny Zhou", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Research Scientist at Meta Superintelligence Lab", "researcher_evidence": [ "Google DeepMind's sharpest week of talent losses in years \u2014 six named researchers dispersing to Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic since February \u2014 has a structural explanation that goes beyond competitive poaching or equity upside.", "Denny Zhou, who founded Google Brain's reasoning research team and spent eight years building the technical foundations that made large language models capable of multi-step thinking, had already been at Meta for roughly four months when news of Noam Shazeer's jump to OpenAI landed on June 18, 2026." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Google DeepMind's sharpest week of talent losses in years \u2014 six named researchers dispersing to Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic since February \u2014 has a structural explanation that goes beyond competitive poaching or equity upside.", "His title: Research Scientist at Meta Superintelligence Lab." ] }, { "url": "https://techtimes.com/articles/319219/20260628/google-deepminds-coding-pivot-lost-six-researchers-meta-openai-anthropic.htm", "title": "Google DeepMind\u2019s Coding Pivot Lost Six Researchers to Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic", "published_at": "2026-06-28T14:15:55", "researcher": "Jonas Adler", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Senior researcher", "researcher_evidence": [ "Google DeepMind's sharpest week of talent losses in years \u2014 six named researchers dispersing to Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic since February \u2014 has a structural explanation that goes beyond competitive poaching or equity upside.", "The same week, Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel \u2014 two senior researchers identified with both Gemini and [AlphaFold](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaFold) \u2014 confirmed plans to join Anthropic, extending to four the number of researchers leaving for the Claude maker within days." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Google DeepMind's sharpest week of talent losses in years \u2014 six named researchers dispersing to Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic since February \u2014 has a structural explanation that goes beyond competitive poaching or equity upside.", "The same week, Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel \u2014 two senior researchers identified with both Gemini and [AlphaFold](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaFold) \u2014 confirmed plans to join Anthropic, extending to four the number of researchers leaving for the Claude maker within days." ] }, { "url": "https://techtimes.com/articles/319219/20260628/google-deepminds-coding-pivot-lost-six-researchers-meta-openai-anthropic.htm", "title": "Google DeepMind\u2019s Coding Pivot Lost Six Researchers to Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic", "published_at": "2026-06-28T14:15:55", "researcher": "Alexander Pritzel", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Senior researcher", "researcher_evidence": [ "Google DeepMind's sharpest week of talent losses in years \u2014 six named researchers dispersing to Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic since February \u2014 has a structural explanation that goes beyond competitive poaching or equity upside.", "The same week, Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel \u2014 two senior researchers identified with both Gemini and [AlphaFold](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaFold) \u2014 confirmed plans to join Anthropic, extending to four the number of researchers leaving for the Claude maker within days." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Google DeepMind's sharpest week of talent losses in years \u2014 six named researchers dispersing to Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic since February \u2014 has a structural explanation that goes beyond competitive poaching or equity upside.", "The same week, Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel \u2014 two senior researchers identified with both Gemini and [AlphaFold](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaFold) \u2014 confirmed plans to join Anthropic, extending to four the number of researchers leaving for the Claude maker within days." ] }, { "url": "https://techtimes.com/articles/319219/20260628/google-deepminds-coding-pivot-lost-six-researchers-meta-openai-anthropic.htm", "title": "Google DeepMind\u2019s Coding Pivot Lost Six Researchers to Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic", "published_at": "2026-06-28T14:15:55", "researcher": "John Jumper", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "DeepMind vice president", "researcher_evidence": [ "Google DeepMind's sharpest week of talent losses in years \u2014 six named researchers dispersing to Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic since February \u2014 has a structural explanation that goes beyond competitive poaching or equity upside.", "Nobel laureate John Jumper had announced his own move to Anthropic on June 19." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Google DeepMind's sharpest week of talent losses in years \u2014 six named researchers dispersing to Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic since February \u2014 has a structural explanation that goes beyond competitive poaching or equity upside.", "To **Anthropic**: John Jumper, a DeepMind vice president who shared the [2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaFold) with Demis Hassabis for AlphaFold, the AI system that predicted the structure of more than 200 million proteins and transformed structural biology." ] }, { "url": "https://techtimes.com/articles/319219/20260628/google-deepminds-coding-pivot-lost-six-researchers-meta-openai-anthropic.htm", "title": "Google DeepMind\u2019s Coding Pivot Lost Six Researchers to Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic", "published_at": "2026-06-28T14:15:55", "researcher": "Dawn Song", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Vice President of AI Research", "researcher_evidence": [ "Google DeepMind's sharpest week of talent losses in years \u2014 six named researchers dispersing to Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic since February \u2014 has a structural explanation that goes beyond competitive poaching or equity upside.", "Then, on June 25, Dawn Song, one of the most-cited researchers in computer security, announced she was joining Meta Superintelligence Lab as Vice President of AI Research \u2014 bringing the core founding team of her AI safety startup, Virtue AI, with her." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Google DeepMind's sharpest week of talent losses in years \u2014 six named researchers dispersing to Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic since February \u2014 has a structural explanation that goes beyond competitive poaching or equity upside.", "Then, on June 25, Dawn Song, one of the most-cited researchers in computer security, announced she was joining Meta Superintelligence Lab as Vice President of AI Research \u2014 bringing the core founding team of her AI safety startup, Virtue AI, with her." ] }, { "url": "https://techtimes.com/articles/319219/20260628/google-deepminds-coding-pivot-lost-six-researchers-meta-openai-anthropic.htm", "title": "Google DeepMind\u2019s Coding Pivot Lost Six Researchers to Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic", "published_at": "2026-06-28T14:15:55", "researcher": "Noam Shazeer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Co-lead of the Gemini project", "researcher_evidence": [ "Google DeepMind's sharpest week of talent losses in years \u2014 six named researchers dispersing to Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic since February \u2014 has a structural explanation that goes beyond competitive poaching or equity upside.", "Denny Zhou, who founded Google Brain's reasoning research team and spent eight years building the technical foundations that made large language models capable of multi-step thinking, had already been at Meta for roughly four months when news of Noam Shazeer's jump to OpenAI landed on June 18, 2026." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Google DeepMind's sharpest week of talent losses in years \u2014 six named researchers dispersing to Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic since February \u2014 has a structural explanation that goes beyond competitive poaching or equity upside.", "To **OpenAI**: Noam Shazeer, a co-author of the landmark 2017 paper [\"Attention Is All You Need\"](https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762) and one of two co-leads of the Gemini project." ] }, { "url": "https://theinformation.com/titv/tmwtq", "title": "Why Google Star AI Researcher Joined OpenAI, New OpenClaw Competitor, Amazon\u2019s AI Chip Advantage \u2014 TITV [Video]", "published_at": "2026-06-18T17:48:03", "researcher": "Noam Shazeer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "star researcher", "researcher_evidence": [ "## Episode Description", "We also talk with OpenAI and Google reporter Erin Woo about star researcher Noam Shazeer leaving Google for OpenAI, Asia Bureau Chief Jing Yang about the Chinese government forcing Meta to unwind its $2 billion acquisition of AI agent startup Manus, AI reporter Stephanie Palazzolo about Hermes\u2014a new open-source agent platform outperforming Open Claw on GitHub, and Amazon reporter Catherine Perloff about why enterprises are choosing Amazon's Trainium and Inferentia chips over Nvidia to slash costs by 80%." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "## Episode Description", "We also talk with OpenAI and Google reporter Erin Woo about star researcher Noam Shazeer leaving Google for OpenAI, Asia Bureau Chief Jing Yang about the Chinese government forcing Meta to unwind its $2 billion acquisition of AI agent startup Manus, AI reporter Stephanie Palazzolo about Hermes\u2014a new open-source agent platform outperforming Open Claw on GitHub, and Amazon reporter Catherine Perloff about why enterprises are choosing Amazon's Trainium and Inferentia chips over Nvidia to slash costs by 80%." ] }, { "url": "https://digitrendz.blog/newswire/artificial-intelligence/51002/meta-hires-openai-scientist-to-head-ai-lab", "title": "Meta Hires OpenAI Scientist to Head AI Lab | DigitrendZ", "published_at": "2025-09-25T06:01:33", "researcher": "Yang Song", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "research principal for Meta Superintelligence Labs", "researcher_evidence": [ "Artificial IntelligenceBigTech CompaniesNewswireTechnology Meta Hires OpenAI Scientist to Head AI Lab Last Updated: September 25, 2025 2 minutes read \u25bc Summary \u2013 Mark Zuckerberg has hired OpenAI researcher Yang Song to serve as research principal for Meta Superintelligence Labs, reporting to OpenAI alum Shengjia Zhao.", "Meta\u2019s AI division has a complex structure, with Yann LeCun confirming he remains chief AI scientist for the FAIR lab separate from the new Superintelligence Labs. Meta has significantly strengthened its artificial intelligence research division by recruiting Yang Song, a prominent scientist from OpenAI, to lead its Superintelligence Labs." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Artificial IntelligenceBigTech CompaniesNewswireTechnology Meta Hires OpenAI Scientist to Head AI Lab Last Updated: September 25, 2025 2 minutes read \u25bc Summary \u2013 Mark Zuckerberg has hired OpenAI researcher Yang Song to serve as research principal for Meta Superintelligence Labs, reporting to OpenAI alum Shengjia Zhao." ] }, { "url": "https://digitrendz.blog/newswire/artificial-intelligence/51002/meta-hires-openai-scientist-to-head-ai-lab", "title": "Meta Hires OpenAI Scientist to Head AI Lab | DigitrendZ", "published_at": "2025-09-25T06:01:33", "researcher": "Aurko Roy", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "AI researcher", "researcher_evidence": [ "In a separate development, Aurko Roy, another AI researcher, left Meta in July after just five months; his personal website now lists him as working with Microsoft AI.", "Artificial IntelligenceBigTech CompaniesNewswireTechnology Meta Hires OpenAI Scientist to Head AI Lab Last Updated: September 25, 2025 2 minutes read \u25bc Summary \u2013 Mark Zuckerberg has hired OpenAI researcher Yang Song to serve as research principal for Meta Superintelligence Labs, reporting to OpenAI alum Shengjia Zhao." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "In a separate development, Aurko Roy, another AI researcher, left Meta in July after just five months; his personal website now lists him as working with Microsoft AI.", "Artificial IntelligenceBigTech CompaniesNewswireTechnology Meta Hires OpenAI Scientist to Head AI Lab Last Updated: September 25, 2025 2 minutes read \u25bc Summary \u2013 Mark Zuckerberg has hired OpenAI researcher Yang Song to serve as research principal for Meta Superintelligence Labs, reporting to OpenAI alum Shengjia Zhao." ] }, { "url": "https://reuters.com/technology/openai-hires-meta-ai-researcher-who-previously-led-apples-models-team-2026-02-26", "title": "OpenAI hires ex-Apple models head from Meta, The Information reports", "published_at": "2026-02-26T02:10:16", "researcher": "Ruoming Pang", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# OpenAI hires ex-Apple models head from Meta, The Information reports", "Feb 25 (Reuters) - OpenAI has hired Ruoming Pang, a high-profile AI researcher at Meta [(META.O), opens new tab](https://www.reuters.com/markets/companies/META.O), who had joined the company from Apple [(AAPL.O), opens new tab](https://www.reuters.com/markets/companies/AAPL.O) about seven months ago, The Information reported on Wednesday, citing an OpenAI spokesperson." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://winbuzzer.com/2026/03/11/meta-superintelligence-labs-insider-reveals-what-the-job-is-really-like-xcxwbn/", "title": "Inside Meta\u2019s AI Lab: What It Takes to Get Hired and Survive", "published_at": "2026-03-11T16:06:26", "researcher": "Shengjia Zhao", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Chief Scientist", "researcher_evidence": [ "# Inside Meta\u2019s AI Lab: What It Takes to Get Hired and Survive", "### **What Is Meta Superintelligence Labs**", "On the research side, Meta appointed [Shengjia Zhao](https://winbuzzer.com/2025/07/25/meta-names-openai-veteran-shengjia-zhao-as-chief-scientist-for-superintelligence-lab-xcxwbn/) \u2013 an OpenAI veteran \u2013 as Chief Scientist, part of an aggressive push of hiring top OpenAI researchers throughout 2025." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# Inside Meta\u2019s AI Lab: What It Takes to Get Hired and Survive", "### **What Is Meta Superintelligence Labs**", "On the research side, Meta appointed [Shengjia Zhao](https://winbuzzer.com/2025/07/25/meta-names-openai-veteran-shengjia-zhao-as-chief-scientist-for-superintelligence-lab-xcxwbn/) \u2013 an OpenAI veteran \u2013 as Chief Scientist, part of an aggressive push of hiring top OpenAI researchers throughout 2025." ] }, { "url": "https://whysogeek.com/meta-superintelligence-labs-ai-talent-war-june-2026", "title": "Meta's AI Talent War: A $1.5B Offer and Defections", "published_at": "2026-06-29T00:00:00", "researcher": "Andrew Tulloch", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "co-founder of Thinking Machines Lab and former OpenAI researcher", "researcher_evidence": [ "# Meta's AI Talent War: A $1.5B Offer and Defections", "Meta's Superintelligence Labs, led by chief AI officer Alexandr Wang, launched an unprecedented recruiting blitz in 2026, reportedly offering AI researcher Andrew Tulloch a package worth up to $1.5 billion over six years and dangling $100 million signing bonuses at OpenAI staff.", "Zuckerberg reportedly offered researcher **Andrew Tulloch a package worth up to $1.5 billion** over six years." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# Meta's AI Talent War: A $1.5B Offer and Defections", "The standout case involved Andrew Tulloch, a co-founder of Thinking Machines Lab and former OpenAI researcher, whom Zuckerberg reportedly tried to sign with a package worth as much as $1.5 billion over at least six years, a figure that would rank among the most expensive individual hires in tech history." ] }, { "url": "https://swetlanaai.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/ai-talent-acquisition-analysis-by-swetlana-ai.pdf", "title": "AI Talent Acquisition Analysis\n", "published_at": null, "researcher": "Mark Lee", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Researcher, Superintelligence Labs", "researcher_evidence": [ "Introduction: The New Gold Rush - Talent as the Core \nAsset in the AGI Race", "This report provides an exhaustive analysis of four such individuals recently acquired by Meta: \nMark Lee and Tom Gunter from Apple, and Jason Wei and Hyung Won Chung from OpenAI." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Individual \nPrevious \nEmployer(s) \n\nNew Role at Meta Core Expertise \nStrategic Value \nProposition \nMark Lee \nApple \nResearcher, \nSuperintelligence \nLabs", "Individual", "Previous", "Employer(s)", "New Role at Meta Core Expertise", "Strategic Value", "Proposition", "Mark Lee", "Apple", "Researcher,", "Superintelligence", "Labs" ] }, { "url": "https://swetlanaai.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/ai-talent-acquisition-analysis-by-swetlana-ai.pdf", "title": "AI Talent Acquisition Analysis\n", "published_at": null, "researcher": "Tom Gunter", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Researcher, Superintelligence Labs", "researcher_evidence": [ "Introduction: The New Gold Rush - Talent as the Core \nAsset in the AGI Race", "This report provides an exhaustive analysis of four such individuals recently acquired by Meta: \nMark Lee and Tom Gunter from Apple, and Jason Wei and Hyung Won Chung from OpenAI." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Tom Gunter \nApple \nResearcher, \nSuperintelligence \nLabs", "Individual", "Previous", "Employer(s)", "New Role at Meta Core Expertise", "Strategic Value", "Proposition", "Tom Gunter", "Apple", "Researcher,", "Superintelligence", "Labs" ] }, { "url": "https://swetlanaai.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/ai-talent-acquisition-analysis-by-swetlana-ai.pdf", "title": "AI Talent Acquisition Analysis\n", "published_at": null, "researcher": "Jason Wei", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Researcher, Chain-of-Thought", "researcher_evidence": [ "Introduction: The New Gold Rush - Talent as the Core \nAsset in the AGI Race", "This report provides an exhaustive analysis of four such individuals recently acquired by Meta: \nMark Lee and Tom Gunter from Apple, and Jason Wei and Hyung Won Chung from OpenAI." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Jason Wei \nOpenAI, Google \nResearcher, \nChain-of-Thought The", "Individual", "Previous", "Employer(s)", "New Role at Meta Core Expertise", "Strategic Value", "Proposition", "Jason Wei", "OpenAI, Google", "Researcher,", "Chain-of-Thought", "The" ] }, { "url": "https://swetlanaai.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/ai-talent-acquisition-analysis-by-swetlana-ai.pdf", "title": "AI Talent Acquisition Analysis\n", "published_at": null, "researcher": "Hyung Won Chung", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Researcher, Superintelligence Labs", "researcher_evidence": [ "Introduction: The New Gold Rush - Talent as the Core \nAsset in the AGI Race", "This report provides an exhaustive analysis of four such individuals recently acquired by Meta: \nMark Lee and Tom Gunter from Apple, and Jason Wei and Hyung Won Chung from OpenAI." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Hyung Won \nChung \n\nOpenAI, Google \nResearcher, \nSuperintelligence \nLabs", "Individual", "Previous", "Employer(s)", "New Role at Meta Core Expertise", "Strategic Value", "Proposition", "Hyung Won", "Chung", "OpenAI, Google", "Researcher,", "Superintelligence", "Labs" ] }, { "url": "https://cyber-ivy.com/en/articles/noam-shazeer-google-openai-wechsel-2026", "title": "Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer leaves Google for OpenAI", "published_at": "2026-06-21T14:11:24", "researcher": "Noam Shazeer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer leaves Google for OpenAI", "On 18 June 2026, **Noam Shazeer** announced on the platform X that he is leaving Google to join **OpenAI**." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://reuters.com/technology/us-scientist-john-jumper-leave-google-deepmind-anthropic-2026-06-19", "title": "US scientist John Jumper to leave Google DeepMind for Anthropic", "published_at": "2026-06-19T20:40:47", "researcher": "John Jumper", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Senior research scientist", "researcher_evidence": [ "# US scientist John Jumper to leave Google DeepMind for Anthropic", "June 19 (Reuters) - Senior research scientist John Jumper said on Friday he would leave Google DeepMind to join AI startup Anthropic, the latest high-profile departure \u200bat the Big Tech giant's AI lab." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# US scientist John Jumper to leave Google DeepMind for Anthropic", "June 19 (Reuters) - Senior research scientist John Jumper said on Friday he would leave Google DeepMind to join AI startup Anthropic, the latest high-profile departure \u200bat the Big Tech giant's AI lab." ] }, { "url": "https://medium.com/@Micheal-Lanham/the-100-million-ai-talent-war-thats-breaking-silicon-valley-8d535233b9af", "title": "The $100 Million AI Talent War That\u2019s Breaking Silicon Valley", "published_at": "2025-07-09T17:07:07", "researcher": "Shengjia Zhao", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "The $100 Million AI Talent War That\u2019s Breaking Silicon Valley", "### The Magnificent Seven (Who Jumped Ship)", "- Shengjia Zhao" ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://medium.com/@Micheal-Lanham/the-100-million-ai-talent-war-thats-breaking-silicon-valley-8d535233b9af", "title": "The $100 Million AI Talent War That\u2019s Breaking Silicon Valley", "published_at": "2025-07-09T17:07:07", "researcher": "Shuchao Bi", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "The $100 Million AI Talent War That\u2019s Breaking Silicon Valley", "### The Magnificent Seven (Who Jumped Ship)", "- Shuchao Bi" ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://medium.com/@Micheal-Lanham/the-100-million-ai-talent-war-thats-breaking-silicon-valley-8d535233b9af", "title": "The $100 Million AI Talent War That\u2019s Breaking Silicon Valley", "published_at": "2025-07-09T17:07:07", "researcher": "Jiahui Yu", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "co-creator of several GPT-4 variants", "researcher_evidence": [ "The $100 Million AI Talent War That\u2019s Breaking Silicon Valley", "### The Magnificent Seven (Who Jumped Ship)", "- Jiahui Yu (co-creator of several GPT-4 variants)" ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "The $100 Million AI Talent War That\u2019s Breaking Silicon Valley", "### The Magnificent Seven (Who Jumped Ship)", "- Jiahui Yu (co-creator of several GPT-4 variants)" ] }, { "url": "https://medium.com/@Micheal-Lanham/the-100-million-ai-talent-war-thats-breaking-silicon-valley-8d535233b9af", "title": "The $100 Million AI Talent War That\u2019s Breaking Silicon Valley", "published_at": "2025-07-09T17:07:07", "researcher": "Hongyu Ren", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "The $100 Million AI Talent War That\u2019s Breaking Silicon Valley", "### The Magnificent Seven (Who Jumped Ship)", "- Hongyu Ren" ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://medium.com/@Micheal-Lanham/the-100-million-ai-talent-war-thats-breaking-silicon-valley-8d535233b9af", "title": "The $100 Million AI Talent War That\u2019s Breaking Silicon Valley", "published_at": "2025-07-09T17:07:07", "researcher": "Lucas Beyer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "The $100 Million AI Talent War That\u2019s Breaking Silicon Valley", "### The Magnificent Seven (Who Jumped Ship)", "- Lucas Beyer" ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://medium.com/@Micheal-Lanham/the-100-million-ai-talent-war-thats-breaking-silicon-valley-8d535233b9af", "title": "The $100 Million AI Talent War That\u2019s Breaking Silicon Valley", "published_at": "2025-07-09T17:07:07", "researcher": "Alexander Kolesnikov", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "The $100 Million AI Talent War That\u2019s Breaking Silicon Valley", "### The Magnificent Seven (Who Jumped Ship)", "- Alexander Kolesnikov" ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://medium.com/@Micheal-Lanham/the-100-million-ai-talent-war-thats-breaking-silicon-valley-8d535233b9af", "title": "The $100 Million AI Talent War That\u2019s Breaking Silicon Valley", "published_at": "2025-07-09T17:07:07", "researcher": "Xiaohua Zhai", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "The $100 Million AI Talent War That\u2019s Breaking Silicon Valley", "### The Magnificent Seven (Who Jumped Ship)", "- Xiaohua Zhai" ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://techraisal.com/blog/google-faces-new-ai-talent-departures-as-researchers-join-rivals", "title": "Google Faces New AI Talent Departures as Researchers Join Rivals", "published_at": "2026-06-25T11:43:25", "researcher": "Jonas Adler", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# Google Faces New AI Talent Departures as Researchers Join Rivals", "## Senior researchers connected to Gemini and AlphaFold are moving to competing AI companies", "According to Bloomberg, AI researchers Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel are leaving Google for Anthropic." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://techraisal.com/blog/google-faces-new-ai-talent-departures-as-researchers-join-rivals", "title": "Google Faces New AI Talent Departures as Researchers Join Rivals", "published_at": "2026-06-25T11:43:25", "researcher": "Alexander Pritzel", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# Google Faces New AI Talent Departures as Researchers Join Rivals", "## Senior researchers connected to Gemini and AlphaFold are moving to competing AI companies", "According to Bloomberg, AI researchers Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel are leaving Google for Anthropic." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://techraisal.com/blog/google-faces-new-ai-talent-departures-as-researchers-join-rivals", "title": "Google Faces New AI Talent Departures as Researchers Join Rivals", "published_at": "2026-06-25T11:43:25", "researcher": "John Jumper", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Google DeepMind director", "researcher_evidence": [ "# Google Faces New AI Talent Departures as Researchers Join Rivals", "## Senior researchers connected to Gemini and AlphaFold are moving to competing AI companies", "Google DeepMind director John Jumper also said he was leaving Google for Anthropic." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# Google Faces New AI Talent Departures as Researchers Join Rivals", "## Senior researchers connected to Gemini and AlphaFold are moving to competing AI companies", "Google DeepMind director John Jumper also said he was leaving Google for Anthropic." ] }, { "url": "https://nerdstool.com/blog/barret-zoph-the-thinking-machines-co-founder-ousted-before-joining-openai-is-now", "title": "Barret Zoph, the Thinking Machines co-founder ousted before joining OpenAI, is now at Google", "published_at": "2026-08-28T12:01:29", "researcher": "Barret Zoph", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Vice President of Research", "researcher_evidence": [ "Barret Zoph, the Thinking Machines co-founder ousted before joining OpenAI, is now at Google | NerdsTool", "Barret Zoph, the Thinking Machines co-founder ousted before joining OpenAI, is now at Google", "Barret Zoph, a prominent AI researcher and co-founder of Thinking Machines Lab, has rejoined Google DeepMind as Vice President of Research." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Barret Zoph, a prominent AI researcher and co-founder of Thinking Machines Lab, has rejoined Google DeepMind as Vice President of Research.", "Barret Zoph, the Thinking Machines co-founder ousted before joining OpenAI, is now at Google | NerdsTool", "Barret Zoph, the Thinking Machines co-founder ousted before joining OpenAI, is now at Google" ] }, { "url": "https://working-ref.com/en/reference/anthropic-meta-ai-talent-war-100m-counter-offer-2026", "title": "The People Who Turned Down $100M Signing Bonuses \u2014 How Anthropic Actually Won the Talent War", "published_at": "2026-05-02T09:51:27", "researcher": "Trapit Bansal", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "key contributor to OpenAI's o1 reasoning model", "researcher_evidence": [ "The most talked-about case was Trapit Bansal, a key contributor to OpenAI's o1 reasoning model.", "## Just How Much Were We Talking?" ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "The most talked-about case was Trapit Bansal, a key contributor to OpenAI's o1 reasoning model.", "## Just How Much Were We Talking?" ] }, { "url": "https://working-ref.com/en/reference/anthropic-meta-ai-talent-war-100m-counter-offer-2026", "title": "The People Who Turned Down $100M Signing Bonuses \u2014 How Anthropic Actually Won the Talent War", "published_at": "2026-05-02T09:51:27", "researcher": "Lucas Beyer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "The same week, three more OpenAI researchers \u2014 Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai \u2014 made the same move.", "## Just How Much Were We Talking?" ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://working-ref.com/en/reference/anthropic-meta-ai-talent-war-100m-counter-offer-2026", "title": "The People Who Turned Down $100M Signing Bonuses \u2014 How Anthropic Actually Won the Talent War", "published_at": "2026-05-02T09:51:27", "researcher": "Alexander Kolesnikov", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "The same week, three more OpenAI researchers \u2014 Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai \u2014 made the same move.", "## Just How Much Were We Talking?" ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://working-ref.com/en/reference/anthropic-meta-ai-talent-war-100m-counter-offer-2026", "title": "The People Who Turned Down $100M Signing Bonuses \u2014 How Anthropic Actually Won the Talent War", "published_at": "2026-05-02T09:51:27", "researcher": "Xiaohua Zhai", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "The same week, three more OpenAI researchers \u2014 Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai \u2014 made the same move.", "## Just How Much Were We Talking?" ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://perplexityaimagazine.com/ai-news/max-schwarzer-leaves-openai-joins-anthropic", "title": "Max Schwarzer Leaves OpenAI for Anthropic: What It Means for the AI Race", "published_at": "2026-03-11T14:07:45", "researcher": "Max Schwarzer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Member of Technical Staff", "researcher_evidence": [ "When **OpenAI Vice President of Research Max Schwarzer left the company for Anthropic in March 2026**, it immediately signaled a meaningful shift in the competition between leading AI labs.", "## Who Is Max Schwarzer?" ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Schwarzer joined Anthropic as a **Member of Technical Staff**, focusing specifically on reinforcement learning.", "## What Schwarzer Will Work On At Anthropic" ] }, { "url": "https://reuters.com/business/meta-names-chatgpt-co-creator-chief-scientist-superintelligence-lab-2025-07-25", "title": "Meta names ChatGPT co-creator as chief scientist of Superintelligence Lab", "published_at": "2025-07-25T21:36:43", "researcher": "Shengjia Zhao", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "chief scientist of Superintelligence Lab", "researcher_evidence": [ "# Meta names ChatGPT co-creator as chief scientist of Superintelligence Lab", "NEW YORK, July 25 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms [(META.O), opens new tab](https://www.reuters.com/markets/companies/META.O) has appointed Shengjia Zhao, co-creator of ChatGPT, as chief scientist of its Superintelligence Lab, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Friday, as the company accelerates its push into advanced AI." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# Meta names ChatGPT co-creator as chief scientist of Superintelligence Lab", "NEW YORK, July 25 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms [(META.O), opens new tab](https://www.reuters.com/markets/companies/META.O) has appointed Shengjia Zhao, co-creator of ChatGPT, as chief scientist of its Superintelligence Lab, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Friday, as the company accelerates its push into advanced AI." ] }, { "url": "https://theoutpost.ai/news-story/barret-zoph-joins-google-deep-mind-as-vp-of-research-after-brief-open-ai-return-30222", "title": "Barret Zoph Joins Google DeepMind as VP of Research After Brief OpenAI Return", "published_at": "2026-08-28T00:03:00", "researcher": "Barret Zoph", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "vice president of research", "researcher_evidence": [ "Barret Zoph Joins Google DeepMind as VP of Research After Brief OpenAI Return", "Barret Zoph, co-founder of Thinking Machines who briefly returned to OpenAI, has joined Google DeepMind as vice president of research." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Barret Zoph Joins Google DeepMind as VP of Research After Brief OpenAI Return", "Barret Zoph, co-founder of Thinking Machines who briefly returned to OpenAI, has joined Google DeepMind as vice president of research." ] }, { "url": "https://theoutpost.ai/news-story/meta-restructures-ai-division-600-roles-cut-in-superintelligence-labs-21116", "title": "Meta Cuts 600 AI Jobs in Superintelligence Labs Amid Restructuring", "published_at": "2025-12-04T12:20:27", "researcher": "Ananya Kumar", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "research scientist", "researcher_evidence": [ "Exclusive: Meta overhauls its legacy AI operations", "Most recently, the company hired OpenAI research scientist Ananya Kumar, according to a source." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Exclusive: Meta overhauls its legacy AI operations", "Most recently, the company hired OpenAI research scientist Ananya Kumar, according to a source." ] }, { "url": "https://newsbreak.com/proactive-investors-362164639/4846875249856-former-openai-researcher-luke-metz-joins-meta-s-superintelligence-labs-under-alexandr-wang", "title": "Former OpenAI researcher Luke Metz joins Meta's Superintelligence Labs under Alexandr Wang - NewsBreak", "published_at": "2026-08-24T18:47:00", "researcher": "Luke Metz", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Superintelligence Labs", "researcher_evidence": [ "Former OpenAI researcher Luke Metz joins Meta's Superintelligence Labs under Alexandr Wang", "Prominent artificial intelligence (AI) researcher Luke Metz has joined Superintelligence Labs at [Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:META, XETRA:FB2A, SIX:FB)](/NASDAQ:META/Meta-Platforms-Inc/), the social media and technology company." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Former OpenAI researcher Luke Metz joins Meta's Superintelligence Labs under Alexandr Wang", "Prominent artificial intelligence (AI) researcher Luke Metz has joined Superintelligence Labs at [Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:META, XETRA:FB2A, SIX:FB)](/NASDAQ:META/Meta-Platforms-Inc/), the social media and technology company." ] }, { "url": "https://yhoo.it/4xWsgXy", "title": "14 executives who left OpenAI in 2026", "published_at": "2026-08-27T04:15:42", "researcher": "Barret Zoph", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "vice president of research", "researcher_evidence": [ "# 14 executives who left OpenAI in 2026", "Barret Zoph", "In an X post on Wednesday, Zoph said he joined Google DeepMind as vice president of research." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# 14 executives who left OpenAI in 2026", "In an X post on Wednesday, Zoph said he joined Google DeepMind as vice president of research." ] }, { "url": "https://diaryofatoken.com/en/article/andrej-karpathy-leaves-openai-joins-anthropic-pretraining", "title": "Andrej Karpathy leaves OpenAI and joins Anthropic's pre-training team", "published_at": "2026-05-20T08:30:00", "researcher": "Andrej Karpathy", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "lead a team using Claude to accelerate pre-training research", "researcher_evidence": [ "# Andrej Karpathy leaves OpenAI and joins Anthropic's pre-training team", "Andrej Karpathy, one of the best-known names in artificial intelligence, joined Anthropic's pre-training team this week \u2014 the company behind Claude [1]." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# Andrej Karpathy leaves OpenAI and joins Anthropic's pre-training team", "The OpenAI co-founder and former head of Tesla's Autopilot joined Anthropic this week, where he will lead a team using Claude to accelerate pre-training research." ] }, { "url": "https://reuters.com/business/meta-hires-three-openai-researchers-wsj-reports-2025-06-26", "title": "Meta poaches three OpenAI researchers, WSJ reports", "published_at": "2025-06-26T02:41:03", "researcher": "Lucas Beyer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# Meta poaches three OpenAI researchers, WSJ reports", "Meta hired Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov and Xiaohua Zhai, who were all working at the ChatGPT-owner's Zurich office, the WSJ reported, citing sources." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://reuters.com/business/meta-hires-three-openai-researchers-wsj-reports-2025-06-26", "title": "Meta poaches three OpenAI researchers, WSJ reports", "published_at": "2025-06-26T02:41:03", "researcher": "Alexander Kolesnikov", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# Meta poaches three OpenAI researchers, WSJ reports", "Meta hired Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov and Xiaohua Zhai, who were all working at the ChatGPT-owner's Zurich office, the WSJ reported, citing sources." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://reuters.com/business/meta-hires-three-openai-researchers-wsj-reports-2025-06-26", "title": "Meta poaches three OpenAI researchers, WSJ reports", "published_at": "2025-06-26T02:41:03", "researcher": "Xiaohua Zhai", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# Meta poaches three OpenAI researchers, WSJ reports", "Meta hired Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov and Xiaohua Zhai, who were all working at the ChatGPT-owner's Zurich office, the WSJ reported, citing sources." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://frontiernews.ai/news/article/why-top-ai-researchers-are-leaving-deepmind-the-ta-e5e2c516", "title": "Why Top AI Researchers Are Leaving DeepMind: The Talent Crisis Behind Demis Hassabis's Empire", "published_at": "2026-07-08T14:56:42", "researcher": "John Jumper", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate", "researcher_evidence": [ "# Why Top AI Researchers Are Leaving DeepMind: The Talent Crisis Behind Demis Hassabis's Empire", "In late June 2026, John Jumper, who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on AlphaFold protein structure prediction, announced his departure for Anthropic." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# Why Top AI Researchers Are Leaving DeepMind: The Talent Crisis Behind Demis Hassabis's Empire", "In late June 2026, John Jumper, who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on AlphaFold protein structure prediction, announced his departure for Anthropic." ] }, { "url": "https://frontiernews.ai/news/article/why-top-ai-researchers-are-leaving-deepmind-the-ta-e5e2c516", "title": "Why Top AI Researchers Are Leaving DeepMind: The Talent Crisis Behind Demis Hassabis's Empire", "published_at": "2026-07-08T14:56:42", "researcher": "Noam Shazeer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "co-author of the foundational \"Attention Is All You Need\" paper", "researcher_evidence": [ "# Why Top AI Researchers Are Leaving DeepMind: The Talent Crisis Behind Demis Hassabis's Empire", "Days earlier, Noam Shazeer, a co-author of the foundational \"Attention Is All You Need\" paper, left for OpenAI after Google paid over $2 billion to bring him back from CharacterAI just two years prior." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# Why Top AI Researchers Are Leaving DeepMind: The Talent Crisis Behind Demis Hassabis's Empire", "Days earlier, Noam Shazeer, a co-author of the foundational \"Attention Is All You Need\" paper, left for OpenAI after Google paid over $2 billion to bring him back from CharacterAI just two years prior." ] }, { "url": "https://reuters.com/business/meta-hires-four-more-openai-researchers-information-reports-2025-06-28", "title": "Meta hires four more OpenAI researchers, The Information reports", "published_at": "2025-06-28T17:07:03", "researcher": "Shengjia Zhao", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# Meta hires four more OpenAI researchers, The Information reports", "The researchers, Shengjia Zhao, Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi and Hongyu Ren have each agreed to join, the report said, citing a person familiar with their hiring." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://reuters.com/business/meta-hires-four-more-openai-researchers-information-reports-2025-06-28", "title": "Meta hires four more OpenAI researchers, The Information reports", "published_at": "2025-06-28T17:07:03", "researcher": "Jiahui Yu", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# Meta hires four more OpenAI researchers, The Information reports", "The researchers, Shengjia Zhao, Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi and Hongyu Ren have each agreed to join, the report said, citing a person familiar with their hiring." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://reuters.com/business/meta-hires-four-more-openai-researchers-information-reports-2025-06-28", "title": "Meta hires four more OpenAI researchers, The Information reports", "published_at": "2025-06-28T17:07:03", "researcher": "Shuchao Bi", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# Meta hires four more OpenAI researchers, The Information reports", "The researchers, Shengjia Zhao, Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi and Hongyu Ren have each agreed to join, the report said, citing a person familiar with their hiring." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://reuters.com/business/meta-hires-four-more-openai-researchers-information-reports-2025-06-28", "title": "Meta hires four more OpenAI researchers, The Information reports", "published_at": "2025-06-28T17:07:03", "researcher": "Hongyu Ren", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# Meta hires four more OpenAI researchers, The Information reports", "The researchers, Shengjia Zhao, Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi and Hongyu Ren have each agreed to join, the report said, citing a person familiar with their hiring." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://reuters.com/business/meta-hires-four-more-openai-researchers-information-reports-2025-06-28", "title": "Meta hires four more OpenAI researchers, The Information reports", "published_at": "2025-06-28T17:07:03", "researcher": "Lucas Beyer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# Meta hires four more OpenAI researchers, The Information reports", "Earlier this week, the Instagram parent hired Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov and Xiaohua Zhai, who were all working in OpenAI's Zurich office, the Wall Street Journal reported." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://reuters.com/business/meta-hires-four-more-openai-researchers-information-reports-2025-06-28", "title": "Meta hires four more OpenAI researchers, The Information reports", "published_at": "2025-06-28T17:07:03", "researcher": "Alexander Kolesnikov", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# Meta hires four more OpenAI researchers, The Information reports", "Earlier this week, the Instagram parent hired Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov and Xiaohua Zhai, who were all working in OpenAI's Zurich office, the Wall Street Journal reported." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://reuters.com/business/meta-hires-four-more-openai-researchers-information-reports-2025-06-28", "title": "Meta hires four more OpenAI researchers, The Information reports", "published_at": "2025-06-28T17:07:03", "researcher": "Xiaohua Zhai", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# Meta hires four more OpenAI researchers, The Information reports", "Earlier this week, the Instagram parent hired Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov and Xiaohua Zhai, who were all working in OpenAI's Zurich office, the Wall Street Journal reported." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/meta-thinking-machines-lab-talent-raid", "title": "Meta has hired five founding members of Mira Murati\u2019s Thinking Machines Lab in a systematic talent raid", "published_at": "2026-04-21T08:57:27", "researcher": "Andrew Tulloch", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "AI researcher", "researcher_evidence": [ "# Meta has hired five founding members of Mira Murati\u2019s Thinking Machines Lab in a systematic talent raid", "The most expensive individual hire, co-founder Andrew Tulloch, reportedly received a $1.5 billion package over six years.", "Tulloch, an AI researcher who had previously worked at OpenAI, joined Meta Superintelligence Labs and is now working under Alexandr Wang, the 28-year-old former Scale AI chief executive whom Meta installed as its first chief AI officer in June 2025." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# Meta has hired five founding members of Mira Murati\u2019s Thinking Machines Lab in a systematic talent raid", "Tulloch, an AI researcher who had previously worked at OpenAI, joined Meta Superintelligence Labs and is now working under Alexandr Wang, the 28-year-old former Scale AI chief executive whom Meta installed as its first chief AI officer in June 2025." ] }, { "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/meta-thinking-machines-lab-talent-raid", "title": "Meta has hired five founding members of Mira Murati\u2019s Thinking Machines Lab in a systematic talent raid", "published_at": "2026-04-21T08:57:27", "researcher": "Andrew Tulloch", "left_lab": "Thinking Machines Lab", "joined_lab": "Meta", "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# Meta has hired five founding members of Mira Murati\u2019s Thinking Machines Lab in a systematic talent raid", "His exit follows that of co-founder Andrew Tulloch, who left for Meta in October with a compensation package reportedly worth $1.5 billion over six years, a figure that, if accurate, would make it the most expensive individual talent acquisition in the history of the technology industry." ], "left_lab_evidence": [ "# Meta has hired five founding members of Mira Murati\u2019s Thinking Machines Lab in a systematic talent raid", "His exit follows that of co-founder Andrew Tulloch, who left for Meta in October with a compensation package reportedly worth $1.5 billion over six years, a figure that, if accurate, would make it the most expensive individual talent acquisition in the history of the technology industry." ], "joined_lab_evidence": [ "# Meta has hired five founding members of Mira Murati\u2019s Thinking Machines Lab in a systematic talent raid", "His exit follows that of co-founder Andrew Tulloch, who left for Meta in October with a compensation package reportedly worth $1.5 billion over six years, a figure that, if accurate, would make it the most expensive individual talent acquisition in the history of the technology industry." ], "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/meta-thinking-machines-lab-talent-raid", "title": "Meta has hired five founding members of Mira Murati\u2019s Thinking Machines Lab in a systematic talent raid", "published_at": "2026-04-21T08:57:27", "researcher": "Joshua Gross", "left_lab": "Thinking Machines Lab", "joined_lab": "Meta Superintelligence Labs", "move_month": "2026-03", "role": "founding engineer", "researcher_evidence": [ "# Meta has hired five founding members of Mira Murati\u2019s Thinking Machines Lab in a systematic talent raid", "The most recent departure, founding engineer Joshua Gross, joined Meta Superintelligence Labs in March after building Tinker, the startup\u2019s core API product." ], "left_lab_evidence": [ "# Meta has hired five founding members of Mira Murati\u2019s Thinking Machines Lab in a systematic talent raid", "The most recent departure, founding engineer Joshua Gross, joined Meta Superintelligence Labs in March after building Tinker, the startup\u2019s core API product." ], "joined_lab_evidence": [ "# Meta has hired five founding members of Mira Murati\u2019s Thinking Machines Lab in a systematic talent raid", "The most recent departure, founding engineer Joshua Gross, joined Meta Superintelligence Labs in March after building Tinker, the startup\u2019s core API product." ], "move_month_evidence": [ "# Meta has hired five founding members of Mira Murati\u2019s Thinking Machines Lab in a systematic talent raid", "The most recent departure, founding engineer Joshua Gross, joined Meta Superintelligence Labs in March after building Tinker, the startup\u2019s core API product." ], "role_evidence": [ "# Meta has hired five founding members of Mira Murati\u2019s Thinking Machines Lab in a systematic talent raid", "The most recent departure, founding engineer Joshua Gross, joined Meta Superintelligence Labs in March after building Tinker, the startup\u2019s core API product." ] }, { "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/meta-thinking-machines-lab-talent-raid", "title": "Meta has hired five founding members of Mira Murati\u2019s Thinking Machines Lab in a systematic talent raid", "published_at": "2026-04-21T08:57:27", "researcher": "Barret Zoph", "left_lab": "Thinking Machines Lab", "joined_lab": "OpenAI", "move_month": "2026-01", "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# Meta has hired five founding members of Mira Murati\u2019s Thinking Machines Lab in a systematic talent raid", "Barret Zoph and Luke Metz returned to OpenAI in January 2026, along with Sam Schoenholz." ], "left_lab_evidence": [ "# Meta has hired five founding members of Mira Murati\u2019s Thinking Machines Lab in a systematic talent raid", "Barret Zoph and Luke Metz returned to OpenAI in January 2026, along with Sam Schoenholz." ], "joined_lab_evidence": [ "# Meta has hired five founding members of Mira Murati\u2019s Thinking Machines Lab in a systematic talent raid", "Barret Zoph and Luke Metz returned to OpenAI in January 2026, along with Sam Schoenholz." ], "move_month_evidence": [ "# Meta has hired five founding members of Mira Murati\u2019s Thinking Machines Lab in a systematic talent raid", "Barret Zoph and Luke Metz returned to OpenAI in January 2026, along with Sam Schoenholz." ], "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/meta-thinking-machines-lab-talent-raid", "title": "Meta has hired five founding members of Mira Murati\u2019s Thinking Machines Lab in a systematic talent raid", "published_at": "2026-04-21T08:57:27", "researcher": "Luke Metz", "left_lab": "Thinking Machines Lab", "joined_lab": "OpenAI", "move_month": "2026-01", "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# Meta has hired five founding members of Mira Murati\u2019s Thinking Machines Lab in a systematic talent raid", "Barret Zoph and Luke Metz returned to OpenAI in January 2026, along with Sam Schoenholz." ], "left_lab_evidence": [ "# Meta has hired five founding members of Mira Murati\u2019s Thinking Machines Lab in a systematic talent raid", "Barret Zoph and Luke Metz returned to OpenAI in January 2026, along with Sam Schoenholz." ], "joined_lab_evidence": [ "# Meta has hired five founding members of Mira Murati\u2019s Thinking Machines Lab in a systematic talent raid", "Barret Zoph and Luke Metz returned to OpenAI in January 2026, along with Sam Schoenholz." ], "move_month_evidence": [ "# Meta has hired five founding members of Mira Murati\u2019s Thinking Machines Lab in a systematic talent raid", "Barret Zoph and Luke Metz returned to OpenAI in January 2026, along with Sam Schoenholz." ], "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/meta-thinking-machines-lab-talent-raid", "title": "Meta has hired five founding members of Mira Murati\u2019s Thinking Machines Lab in a systematic talent raid", "published_at": "2026-04-21T08:57:27", "researcher": "Sam Schoenholz", "left_lab": "Thinking Machines Lab", "joined_lab": "OpenAI", "move_month": "2026-01", "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# Meta has hired five founding members of Mira Murati\u2019s Thinking Machines Lab in a systematic talent raid", "Barret Zoph and Luke Metz returned to OpenAI in January 2026, along with Sam Schoenholz." ], "left_lab_evidence": [ "# Meta has hired five founding members of Mira Murati\u2019s Thinking Machines Lab in a systematic talent raid", "Barret Zoph and Luke Metz returned to OpenAI in January 2026, along with Sam Schoenholz." ], "joined_lab_evidence": [ "# Meta has hired five founding members of Mira Murati\u2019s Thinking Machines Lab in a systematic talent raid", "Barret Zoph and Luke Metz returned to OpenAI in January 2026, along with Sam Schoenholz." ], "move_month_evidence": [ "# Meta has hired five founding members of Mira Murati\u2019s Thinking Machines Lab in a systematic talent raid", "Barret Zoph and Luke Metz returned to OpenAI in January 2026, along with Sam Schoenholz." ], "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/meta-thinking-machines-lab-talent-raid", "title": "Meta has hired five founding members of Mira Murati\u2019s Thinking Machines Lab in a systematic talent raid", "published_at": "2026-04-21T08:57:27", "researcher": "Devendra Chaplot", "left_lab": "Thinking Machines Lab", "joined_lab": "xAI", "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# Meta has hired five founding members of Mira Murati\u2019s Thinking Machines Lab in a systematic talent raid", "Devendra Chaplot left for xAI in March." ], "left_lab_evidence": [ "# Meta has hired five founding members of Mira Murati\u2019s Thinking Machines Lab in a systematic talent raid", "Devendra Chaplot left for xAI in March." ], "joined_lab_evidence": [ "# Meta has hired five founding members of Mira Murati\u2019s Thinking Machines Lab in a systematic talent raid", "Devendra Chaplot left for xAI in March." ], "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://edgen.tech/ja/news/post/google-deepmind-hires-thinking-machines-co-founder-in-12b-talent-war", "title": "Google DeepMind hires Thinking Machines co-founder in $12B talent war", "published_at": "2026-08-27T04:50:26", "researcher": "Barret Zoph", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "VP of research", "researcher_evidence": [ "Google DeepMind hires Thinking Machines co-founder in $12B talent war", "Barret Zoph, co-founder of $12 billion Thinking Machines Lab, joins Google DeepMind as VP of research", "Barret Zoph, co-founder of $12 billion Thinking Machines Lab, joins Google DeepMind as VP of research after a brief return to OpenAI." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Google DeepMind hires Thinking Machines co-founder in $12B talent war", "Barret Zoph, co-founder of $12 billion Thinking Machines Lab, joins Google DeepMind as VP of research", "Google DeepMind hired Barret Zoph, co-founder of $12 billion AI startup Thinking Machines Lab, as vice president of research, a homecoming after a string of high-profile departures from the search giant's AI unit." ] }, { "url": "https://edgen.tech/ja/news/post/google-deepmind-hires-thinking-machines-co-founder-in-12b-talent-war", "title": "Google DeepMind hires Thinking Machines co-founder in $12B talent war", "published_at": "2026-08-27T04:50:26", "researcher": "Luke Metz", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "Google DeepMind hires Thinking Machines co-founder in $12B talent war", "Meta has hired Luke Metz, another Thinking Machines Lab co-founder, to its Superintelligence Labs team, where he reports directly to Alexandr Wang, founder of Scale AI and Meta's chief AI officer." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://aol.com/news/12-executives-researchers-others-left-114801010.html", "title": "12 executives, researchers, others who left OpenAI in 2025 \u2014 mostly to Meta Superintelligence Lab", "published_at": "2025-12-26T11:48:01", "researcher": "Jason Wei", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "research scientist", "researcher_evidence": [ "# 12 executives, researchers, others who left OpenAI in 2025 \u2014 mostly to Meta Superintelligence Lab", "## Researchers lost to Meta", "Jason Wei", "Wei, a research scientist who worked on OpenAI's o1 and deep research models, left in July for Meta's Superintelligence Lab." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# 12 executives, researchers, others who left OpenAI in 2025 \u2014 mostly to Meta Superintelligence Lab", "## Researchers lost to Meta", "Jason Wei", "Wei, a research scientist who worked on OpenAI's o1 and deep research models, left in July for Meta's Superintelligence Lab." ] }, { "url": "https://aol.com/news/12-executives-researchers-others-left-114801010.html", "title": "12 executives, researchers, others who left OpenAI in 2025 \u2014 mostly to Meta Superintelligence Lab", "published_at": "2025-12-26T11:48:01", "researcher": "Zhiqing Sun", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "research scientist", "researcher_evidence": [ "# 12 executives, researchers, others who left OpenAI in 2025 \u2014 mostly to Meta Superintelligence Lab", "## Researchers lost to Meta", "Zhiqing Sun", "Sun, who left for Meta's Superintelligence Labs in July, was a research scientist at OpenAI*.*" ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# 12 executives, researchers, others who left OpenAI in 2025 \u2014 mostly to Meta Superintelligence Lab", "## Researchers lost to Meta", "Zhiqing Sun", "Sun, who left for Meta's Superintelligence Labs in July, was a research scientist at OpenAI*.*" ] }, { "url": "https://aol.com/news/12-executives-researchers-others-left-114801010.html", "title": "12 executives, researchers, others who left OpenAI in 2025 \u2014 mostly to Meta Superintelligence Lab", "published_at": "2025-12-26T11:48:01", "researcher": "Hyung Won Chung", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "research scientist", "researcher_evidence": [ "# 12 executives, researchers, others who left OpenAI in 2025 \u2014 mostly to Meta Superintelligence Lab", "## Researchers lost to Meta", "Hyung Won Chung", "Chung is part of the trio of OpenAI research scientists who departed for Meta's Superintelligence Lab in July." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# 12 executives, researchers, others who left OpenAI in 2025 \u2014 mostly to Meta Superintelligence Lab", "## Researchers lost to Meta", "Hyung Won Chung", "Chung is part of the trio of OpenAI research scientists who departed for Meta's Superintelligence Lab in July." ] }, { "url": "https://aol.com/news/12-executives-researchers-others-left-114801010.html", "title": "12 executives, researchers, others who left OpenAI in 2025 \u2014 mostly to Meta Superintelligence Lab", "published_at": "2025-12-26T11:48:01", "researcher": "Shengjia Zhao", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "chief scientist", "researcher_evidence": [ "# 12 executives, researchers, others who left OpenAI in 2025 \u2014 mostly to Meta Superintelligence Lab", "## Researchers lost to Meta", "Shengjia Zhao", "Zhaobecame the chief scientist of the Meta Superintelligence Lab in July after co-creating ChatGPT and GPT-4 at OpenAI." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# 12 executives, researchers, others who left OpenAI in 2025 \u2014 mostly to Meta Superintelligence Lab", "## Researchers lost to Meta", "Shengjia Zhao", "Zhaobecame the chief scientist of the Meta Superintelligence Lab in July after co-creating ChatGPT and GPT-4 at OpenAI." ] }, { "url": "https://aol.com/news/12-executives-researchers-others-left-114801010.html", "title": "12 executives, researchers, others who left OpenAI in 2025 \u2014 mostly to Meta Superintelligence Lab", "published_at": "2025-12-26T11:48:01", "researcher": "Jiahui Yu", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# 12 executives, researchers, others who left OpenAI in 2025 \u2014 mostly to Meta Superintelligence Lab", "## Researchers lost to Meta", "Jiahui Yu", "Yu is widely credited with leading the Perception team in OpenAI to develop the \"senses\" of a Large Language Model, including images, audio, and sensor readings." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://aol.com/news/12-executives-researchers-others-left-114801010.html", "title": "12 executives, researchers, others who left OpenAI in 2025 \u2014 mostly to Meta Superintelligence Lab", "published_at": "2025-12-26T11:48:01", "researcher": "Hongyu Ren", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# 12 executives, researchers, others who left OpenAI in 2025 \u2014 mostly to Meta Superintelligence Lab", "## Researchers lost to Meta", "Hongyu Ren", "Ren was poached by Meta's Superintelligence Lab over the summer." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://aol.com/news/12-executives-researchers-others-left-114801010.html", "title": "12 executives, researchers, others who left OpenAI in 2025 \u2014 mostly to Meta Superintelligence Lab", "published_at": "2025-12-26T11:48:01", "researcher": "Shuchao Bi", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "researcher", "researcher_evidence": [ "# 12 executives, researchers, others who left OpenAI in 2025 \u2014 mostly to Meta Superintelligence Lab", "## Researchers lost to Meta", "Shuchao Bi", "Bi was an OpenAI researcher on multimodal and reinforcement learning." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# 12 executives, researchers, others who left OpenAI in 2025 \u2014 mostly to Meta Superintelligence Lab", "## Researchers lost to Meta", "Shuchao Bi", "Bi was an OpenAI researcher on multimodal and reinforcement learning." ] }, { "url": "https://kingy.ai/news/ai-talent-war-noam-shazeer-john-jumper-openai-anthropic-google", "title": "The AI Talent War Is Becoming The Story", "published_at": "2026-06-21T01:43:45", "researcher": "Noam Shazeer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "AI News", "Reuters-reported moves by Noam Shazeer to OpenAI and John Jumper to Anthropic landed in the same month that Anthropic and OpenAI both announced confidential draft S-1 submissions.", "Noam Shazeer" ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://kingy.ai/news/ai-talent-war-noam-shazeer-john-jumper-openai-anthropic-google", "title": "The AI Talent War Is Becoming The Story", "published_at": "2026-06-21T01:43:45", "researcher": "John Jumper", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "AI News", "Reuters-reported moves by Noam Shazeer to OpenAI and John Jumper to Anthropic landed in the same month that Anthropic and OpenAI both announced confidential draft S-1 submissions.", "John Jumper" ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://aichatdaily.com/ai-business/lilian-weng-leaves-thinking-machines-citing-health-rejoins", "title": "Lilian Weng leaves Thinking Machines citing health, rejoins OpenAI days later", "published_at": "2026-07-29T22:06:00", "researcher": "Lilian Weng", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "lead a top-level team supporting cross-research work on recursive self-improvement", "researcher_evidence": [ "Main content", "Lilian Weng leaves Thinking Machines citing health, rejoins OpenAI days later", "Lilian Weng, a co-founder of Thinking Machines, has left the startup founded by former [OpenAI](/openai) CTO Mira Murati and rejoined OpenAI within days, the company confirmed on July 29, 2026." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Main content", "Lilian Weng leaves Thinking Machines citing health, rejoins OpenAI days later", "She is returning to OpenAI, where she previously served as VP of AI Safety Research, to lead a top-level team focused on accelerating internal research.", "According to an OpenAI spokesperson, Weng will lead a team supporting cross-research work on recursive self-improvement \u2014 the process by which an AI system iterates on itself to become more capable." ] }, { "url": "https://kingy.ai/ai/ai-talent-war-noam-shazeer-john-jumper-openai-anthropic-google", "title": "The AI Talent War Is Becoming The Story", "published_at": "2026-06-21T01:43:45", "researcher": "Noam Shazeer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Google VP of engineering and Gemini co-lead", "researcher_evidence": [ "What Happened" ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "What Happened" ] }, { "url": "https://kingy.ai/ai/ai-talent-war-noam-shazeer-john-jumper-openai-anthropic-google", "title": "The AI Talent War Is Becoming The Story", "published_at": "2026-06-21T01:43:45", "researcher": "John Jumper", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "AlphaFold leader and Nobel laureate", "researcher_evidence": [ "What Happened" ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Key takeaways", "- **John Jumper matters** because he helped lead AlphaFold, shared the [2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry](https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2024/press-release/) for protein structure prediction, and represents the bridge between frontier AI and scientific discovery." ] }, { "url": "https://genainews.tech/barret-zoph-joins-google-as-vp-of-research-after-brief-openai-return", "title": "Barret Zoph Joins Google as VP of Research After Brief OpenAI Return - GenAInews", "published_at": "2026-08-27T20:52:27", "researcher": "Barret Zoph", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "vice president of research", "researcher_evidence": [ "# Barret Zoph Joins Google as VP of Research After Brief OpenAI Return", "Barret Zoph has joined Google as vice president of research, returning to the company where he previously worked." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# Barret Zoph Joins Google as VP of Research After Brief OpenAI Return", "Barret Zoph has joined Google as vice president of research, returning to the company where he previously worked." ] }, { "url": "https://axios.com/2025/10/22/meta-superintelligence-tbd-ai-reorg", "title": "Exclusive: Meta slashes jobs in its AI operations", "published_at": "2025-10-22T12:00:05", "researcher": "Ananya Kumar", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "research scientist", "researcher_evidence": [ "Most recently, the company hired OpenAI research scientist Ananya Kumar, according to a source." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Most recently, the company hired OpenAI research scientist Ananya Kumar, according to a source." ] }, { "url": "https://newsglobenow.com/new384066.html", "title": "Google AI Talent Losses Hit Gemini and AlphaFold Teams", "published_at": "2026-06-20T05:32:27", "researcher": "Noam Shazeer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "## Executive Narrative", "According to the source report, Noam Shazeer, a core author of the Transformer paper and a co-lead of Google Gemini, announced on X on June 18 that he was leaving Google for OpenAI." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://newsglobenow.com/new384066.html", "title": "Google AI Talent Losses Hit Gemini and AlphaFold Teams", "published_at": "2026-06-20T05:32:27", "researcher": "John Jumper", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "## Executive Narrative", "One day later, John Jumper, a central AlphaFold leader and 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner, said he was leaving Google DeepMind after nearly nine years to join Anthropic." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://edgen.tech/zh/news/post/google-deepmind-hires-thinking-machines-co-founder-in-12b-talent-war", "title": "Google DeepMind hires Thinking Machines co-founder in $12B talent war", "published_at": "2026-08-27T04:50:26", "researcher": "Barret Zoph", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "VP of research", "researcher_evidence": [ "# Google DeepMind hires Thinking Machines co-founder in $12B talent war", "Barret Zoph, co-founder of $12 billion Thinking Machines Lab, joins Google DeepMind as VP of research" ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# Google DeepMind hires Thinking Machines co-founder in $12B talent war", "Barret Zoph, co-founder of $12 billion Thinking Machines Lab, joins Google DeepMind as VP of research" ] }, { "url": "https://thedeveloperstory.com/2026/06/22/four-top-google-ai-researchers-left-for-anthropic-and-openai-in-a-single-week-in-june-2026", "title": "Four Top Google AI Researchers Left for Anthropic and OpenAI in a Single Week in June 2026", "published_at": "2026-06-22T00:00:00", "researcher": "Noam Shazeer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "vice president of engineering and a co-lead of Gemini", "researcher_evidence": [ "On 18 June 2026, *Noam Shazeer* announced he was leaving Google for *OpenAI*." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://thedeveloperstory.com/2026/06/22/four-top-google-ai-researchers-left-for-anthropic-and-openai-in-a-single-week-in-june-2026", "title": "Four Top Google AI Researchers Left for Anthropic and OpenAI in a Single Week in June 2026", "published_at": "2026-06-22T00:00:00", "researcher": "John Jumper", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "One day later, on 19 June, *John Jumper* said he was leaving *Google DeepMind* for *Anthropic* after nearly nine years." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://thedeveloperstory.com/2026/06/22/four-top-google-ai-researchers-left-for-anthropic-and-openai-in-a-single-week-in-june-2026", "title": "Four Top Google AI Researchers Left for Anthropic and OpenAI in a Single Week in June 2026", "published_at": "2026-06-22T00:00:00", "researcher": "Jonas Adler", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "worked on Google\u2019s AI coding effort", "researcher_evidence": null, "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Adler worked on Google\u2019s AI coding effort, the area most directly relevant to competing with tools like *Cursor* and *Claude Code*, while Pritzel worked on pretraining, the early stage where a model learns from large volumes of data." ] }, { "url": "https://thedeveloperstory.com/2026/06/22/four-top-google-ai-researchers-left-for-anthropic-and-openai-in-a-single-week-in-june-2026", "title": "Four Top Google AI Researchers Left for Anthropic and OpenAI in a Single Week in June 2026", "published_at": "2026-06-22T00:00:00", "researcher": "Alexander Pritzel", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "worked on pretraining", "researcher_evidence": null, "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Adler worked on Google\u2019s AI coding effort, the area most directly relevant to competing with tools like *Cursor* and *Claude Code*, while Pritzel worked on pretraining, the early stage where a model learns from large volumes of data." ] }, { "url": "https://news.blab.com/2026-06-20-google-deepmind-loses-two-leading-researchers-to-rival-ai-firms", "title": "Google DeepMind Loses Two Leading Researchers to Rival AI Firms", "published_at": "2026-06-20T00:00:00", "researcher": "Noam Shazeer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "vice-president of engineering", "researcher_evidence": [ "# Google DeepMind Loses Two Leading Researchers to Rival AI Firms", "Noam Shazeer, co\u2011author of the transformer architecture and vice\u2011president of engineering, will join OpenAI." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# Google DeepMind Loses Two Leading Researchers to Rival AI Firms", "Noam Shazeer, co\u2011author of the transformer architecture and vice\u2011president of engineering, will join OpenAI." ] }, { "url": "https://news.blab.com/2026-06-20-google-deepmind-loses-two-leading-researchers-to-rival-ai-firms", "title": "Google DeepMind Loses Two Leading Researchers to Rival AI Firms", "published_at": "2026-06-20T00:00:00", "researcher": "John M. Jumper", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "vice-president of research", "researcher_evidence": [ "# Google DeepMind Loses Two Leading Researchers to Rival AI Firms", "John M. Jumper, vice\u2011president of research and the 2024 Nobel Prize\u2011winning lead author of AlphaFold, is moving to Anthropic." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# Google DeepMind Loses Two Leading Researchers to Rival AI Firms", "John M. Jumper, vice\u2011president of research and the 2024 Nobel Prize\u2011winning lead author of AlphaFold, is moving to Anthropic." ] }, { "url": "https://perplexity.ai/discover/top/meta-hires-three-openai-resear-bYqXx0DKQIKnc8RT5Nsi1A", "title": "Perplexity", "published_at": null, "researcher": "Lucas Beyer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "## Meta poaches three OpenAI researchers in AI talent war", "Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai, who helped establish OpenAI's Swiss operations last year, confirmed their departure to work on Meta's new \"superintelligence\" efforts." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://perplexity.ai/discover/top/meta-hires-three-openai-resear-bYqXx0DKQIKnc8RT5Nsi1A", "title": "Perplexity", "published_at": null, "researcher": "Alexander Kolesnikov", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "## Meta poaches three OpenAI researchers in AI talent war", "Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai, who helped establish OpenAI's Swiss operations last year, confirmed their departure to work on Meta's new \"superintelligence\" efforts." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://perplexity.ai/discover/top/meta-hires-three-openai-resear-bYqXx0DKQIKnc8RT5Nsi1A", "title": "Perplexity", "published_at": null, "researcher": "Xiaohua Zhai", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "## Meta poaches three OpenAI researchers in AI talent war", "Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai, who helped establish OpenAI's Swiss operations last year, confirmed their departure to work on Meta's new \"superintelligence\" efforts." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://perplexity.ai/discover/top/meta-hires-three-openai-resear-bYqXx0DKQIKnc8RT5Nsi1A", "title": "Perplexity", "published_at": null, "researcher": "Trapit Bansal", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "key contributor to OpenAI's o1 reasoning model", "researcher_evidence": [ "## Recruitment War Intensifies", "The company also hired Trapit Bansal, a key contributor to OpenAI's o1 reasoning model who previously worked with OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "## Recruitment War Intensifies", "The company also hired Trapit Bansal, a key contributor to OpenAI's o1 reasoning model who previously worked with OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever." ] }, { "url": "https://currently.att.yahoo.com/att/12-executives-left-openai-2026-022816160.html", "title": "14 executives who left OpenAI in 2026", "published_at": "2026-08-27T04:15:42", "researcher": "Barret Zoph", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "vice president of research", "researcher_evidence": [ "# 14 executives who left OpenAI in 2026", "Barret Zoph", "In an X post on Wednesday, Zoph said he joined Google DeepMind as vice president of research." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# 14 executives who left OpenAI in 2026", "In an X post on Wednesday, Zoph said he joined Google DeepMind as vice president of research." ] }, { "url": "https://endroid.com/2025/sam-altman-says-meta-failed-to-lure-openai-talent-despite-100m-offers", "title": "Sam Altman Says Meta Failed to Lure OpenAI Talent Despite $100M Offers", "published_at": "2025-06-18T12:07:37", "researcher": "Jack Rae", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "Notable AI Talent Movement and Offers (2024\u20132025)", "| **Company** | **Key Figures Poached or Targeted** | **Offer Size (Reported)** | **Outcome** |", "| Meta | Jack Rae (Google DeepMind) | Unknown | Accepted |" ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://edgen.tech/vi/news/post/google-deepmind-hires-thinking-machines-co-founder-in-12b-talent-war", "title": "Google DeepMind hires Thinking Machines co-founder in $12B talent war", "published_at": "2026-08-27T04:50:26", "researcher": "Barret Zoph", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "VP of research", "researcher_evidence": [ "Google DeepMind hires Thinking Machines co-founder in $12B talent war", "- Barret Zoph, co-founder of $12 billion Thinking Machines Lab, joins Google DeepMind as VP of research", "Barret Zoph, co-founder of $12 billion Thinking Machines Lab, joins Google DeepMind as VP of research after a brief return to OpenAI." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "- Barret Zoph, co-founder of $12 billion Thinking Machines Lab, joins Google DeepMind as VP of research", "Barret Zoph, co-founder of $12 billion Thinking Machines Lab, joins Google DeepMind as VP of research after a brief return to OpenAI." ] }, { "url": "https://edgen.tech/vi/news/post/google-deepmind-hires-thinking-machines-co-founder-in-12b-talent-war", "title": "Google DeepMind hires Thinking Machines co-founder in $12B talent war", "published_at": "2026-08-27T04:50:26", "researcher": "Luke Metz", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Superintelligence Labs team researcher", "researcher_evidence": [ "Google DeepMind hires Thinking Machines co-founder in $12B talent war", "The appointment is part of a broader reshuffling across the AI industry's top labs. Meta has hired Luke Metz, another Thinking Machines Lab co-founder, to its Superintelligence Labs team, where he reports directly to Alexandr Wang, founder of Scale AI and Meta's chief AI officer." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Google DeepMind hires Thinking Machines co-founder in $12B talent war", "The appointment is part of a broader reshuffling across the AI industry's top labs. Meta has hired Luke Metz, another Thinking Machines Lab co-founder, to its Superintelligence Labs team, where he reports directly to Alexandr Wang, founder of Scale AI and Meta's chief AI officer." ] }, { "url": "https://edgen.tech/vi/news/post/google-deepmind-hires-thinking-machines-co-founder-in-12b-talent-war", "title": "Google DeepMind hires Thinking Machines co-founder in $12B talent war", "published_at": "2026-08-27T04:50:26", "researcher": "Andrew Tulloch", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "researcher", "researcher_evidence": [ "Google DeepMind hires Thinking Machines co-founder in $12B talent war", "Meta also brought on Andrew Tulloch, a third Thinking Machines co-founder, plus two additional researchers from the startup." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Google DeepMind hires Thinking Machines co-founder in $12B talent war", "Meta also brought on Andrew Tulloch, a third Thinking Machines co-founder, plus two additional researchers from the startup." ] }, { "url": "https://wowhow.cloud/blogs/google-ai-talent-exodus-shazeer-openai-jumper-anthropic-2026", "title": "Google Lost Two of Its Greatest AI Researchers in 48 Hours \u2014 And Alphabet Paid $250 Billion for It", "published_at": "2026-06-23T08:00:00", "researcher": "Noam Shazeer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "Noam Shazeer left Google for OpenAI on June 18.", "On June 18, 2026, Noam Shazeer \u2014 who co-authored \"Attention Is All You Need,\" the 2017 paper that underpins every frontier AI model in production today \u2014 announced he was leaving Google for OpenAI." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://wowhow.cloud/blogs/google-ai-talent-exodus-shazeer-openai-jumper-anthropic-2026", "title": "Google Lost Two of Its Greatest AI Researchers in 48 Hours \u2014 And Alphabet Paid $250 Billion for It", "published_at": "2026-06-23T08:00:00", "researcher": "John Jumper", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "John Jumper left DeepMind for Anthropic on June 19.", "The following day, John Jumper, 2024 Nobel laureate and co-creator of AlphaFold, posted his departure from Google DeepMind for Anthropic." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://techstartups.com/2025/06/27/meta-poaches-three-openai-researchers-with-100m-bonuses-as-zuckerberg-escalates-ai-talent-war", "title": "Meta poaches three OpenAI researchers with $100M bonuses as Zuckerberg escalates AI talent war", "published_at": "2025-06-27T16:03:14", "researcher": "Lucas Beyer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# Meta poaches three OpenAI researchers with $100M bonuses as Zuckerberg escalates AI talent war", "According to the *Wall Street Journal (WSJ)*, Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai\u2014who helped set up OpenAI\u2019s Zurich office last year\u2014are now part of Meta\u2019s AI team." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://techstartups.com/2025/06/27/meta-poaches-three-openai-researchers-with-100m-bonuses-as-zuckerberg-escalates-ai-talent-war", "title": "Meta poaches three OpenAI researchers with $100M bonuses as Zuckerberg escalates AI talent war", "published_at": "2025-06-27T16:03:14", "researcher": "Alexander Kolesnikov", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# Meta poaches three OpenAI researchers with $100M bonuses as Zuckerberg escalates AI talent war", "According to the *Wall Street Journal (WSJ)*, Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai\u2014who helped set up OpenAI\u2019s Zurich office last year\u2014are now part of Meta\u2019s AI team." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://techstartups.com/2025/06/27/meta-poaches-three-openai-researchers-with-100m-bonuses-as-zuckerberg-escalates-ai-talent-war", "title": "Meta poaches three OpenAI researchers with $100M bonuses as Zuckerberg escalates AI talent war", "published_at": "2025-06-27T16:03:14", "researcher": "Xiaohua Zhai", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# Meta poaches three OpenAI researchers with $100M bonuses as Zuckerberg escalates AI talent war", "According to the *Wall Street Journal (WSJ)*, Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai\u2014who helped set up OpenAI\u2019s Zurich office last year\u2014are now part of Meta\u2019s AI team." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://techstartups.com/2025/06/27/meta-poaches-three-openai-researchers-with-100m-bonuses-as-zuckerberg-escalates-ai-talent-war", "title": "Meta poaches three OpenAI researchers with $100M bonuses as Zuckerberg escalates AI talent war", "published_at": "2025-06-27T16:03:14", "researcher": "Trapit Bansal", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# Meta poaches three OpenAI researchers with $100M bonuses as Zuckerberg escalates AI talent war", "Meta also hired Trapit Bansal, a key contributor to OpenAI\u2019s o1 reasoning model, who previously worked with OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://pokee.ai/en/blog/pokee-ai-daily-2026-06-21", "title": "Transformer Co-Inventor Shazeer Joins OpenAI, Erasing Google's $2.7B Bet", "published_at": "2026-06-22T00:49:11", "researcher": "Noam Shazeer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Lead for Architecture Research", "researcher_evidence": [ "# Transformer Co-Inventor Shazeer Joins OpenAI, Erasing Google's $2.7B Bet", "On June 18, Noam Shazeer, VP of Engineering at Google DeepMind and co-lead of the Gemini project, announced on X that he is joining OpenAI as Lead for Architecture Research." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# Transformer Co-Inventor Shazeer Joins OpenAI, Erasing Google's $2.7B Bet", "On June 18, Noam Shazeer, VP of Engineering at Google DeepMind and co-lead of the Gemini project, announced on X that he is joining OpenAI as Lead for Architecture Research." ] }, { "url": "https://aitechsuite.com/ai-news/money-fails-as-metas-ai-talent-defects-to-mission-driven-openai", "title": "Money fails as Meta's AI talent defects to mission-driven OpenAI", "published_at": "2025-08-29T18:11:49", "researcher": "Rishabh Agarwal", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "AI scientist", "researcher_evidence": [ "# Money fails as Meta's AI talent defects to mission-driven OpenAI", "## Despite nine-figure offers, top AI minds ditch Meta for OpenAI, proving mission and culture trump cash in the AGI race.", "August 29, 2025", "Another significant loss for Meta was Rishabh Agarwal, an AI scientist who joined from Google DeepMind with a reported million-dollar salary in April, only to announce his departure in August.[5][6]" ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# Money fails as Meta's AI talent defects to mission-driven OpenAI", "## Despite nine-figure offers, top AI minds ditch Meta for OpenAI, proving mission and culture trump cash in the AGI race.", "August 29, 2025", "Another significant loss for Meta was Rishabh Agarwal, an AI scientist who joined from Google DeepMind with a reported million-dollar salary in April, only to announce his departure in August.[5][6]" ] }, { "url": "https://storyboard18.com/brand-makers/openai-founding-member-andrej-karpathy-joins-rival-anthropic-98667.html", "title": "OpenAI founding member Andrej Karpathy joins rival Anthropic", "published_at": "2026-05-20T05:40:34", "researcher": "Andrej Karpathy", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "pretraining team, where he will help build research efforts around Claude's model training capabilities.", "researcher_evidence": [ "# OpenAI founding member Andrej Karpathy joins rival Anthropic", "Andrej Karpathy, one of the founding members of OpenAI and former artificial intelligence executive at Tesla, has joined Anthropic as competition for top AI talent continues to intensify across the industry." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "## Anthropic said Andrej Karpathy started work this week and joined its pretraining team, where he will help build research efforts around Claude's model training capabilities.", "# OpenAI founding member Andrej Karpathy joins rival Anthropic", "Anthropic said Karpathy began work this week and has joined its pretraining division, the team responsible for large-scale model training that powers Claude's knowledge and capabilities." ] }, { "url": "https://michaelparekh.substack.com/p/ai-missionaries-vs-mercenaries-battle", "title": "AI: \u2018Missionaries vs Mercenaries\u2019. Battle to Keep AI People. AI-RTZ #1168", "published_at": "2026-08-04T05:02:37", "researcher": "Noam Shazeer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# AI: \u2018Missionaries vs Mercenaries\u2019. Battle to Keep AI People. AI-RTZ #1168", "Some notable names of late cited.", "Noam Shazeer left Google for OpenAI in June." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://michaelparekh.substack.com/p/ai-missionaries-vs-mercenaries-battle", "title": "AI: \u2018Missionaries vs Mercenaries\u2019. Battle to Keep AI People. AI-RTZ #1168", "published_at": "2026-08-04T05:02:37", "researcher": "John Jumper", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# AI: \u2018Missionaries vs Mercenaries\u2019. Battle to Keep AI People. AI-RTZ #1168", "Some notable names of late cited.", "John Jumper, who won the Nobel in chemistry for AlphaFold, left Google DeepMind for Anthropic after nearly nine years." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://michaelparekh.substack.com/p/ai-missionaries-vs-mercenaries-battle", "title": "AI: \u2018Missionaries vs Mercenaries\u2019. Battle to Keep AI People. AI-RTZ #1168", "published_at": "2026-08-04T05:02:37", "researcher": "Lilian Weng", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "work on recursive self improvement", "researcher_evidence": [ "# AI: \u2018Missionaries vs Mercenaries\u2019. Battle to Keep AI People. AI-RTZ #1168", "Some notable names of late cited.", "Lilian Weng left Thinking Machines Lab citing health, then joined OpenAI two days later to work on recursive self improvement." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# AI: \u2018Missionaries vs Mercenaries\u2019. Battle to Keep AI People. AI-RTZ #1168", "Some notable names of late cited.", "Lilian Weng left Thinking Machines Lab citing health, then joined OpenAI two days later to work on recursive self improvement." ] }, { "url": "https://theclawstreetjournal.com/ai-frontier/2026/06/25/google-talent-exodus-anthropic-clampdown.html", "title": "Google\u2019s Brain Drain, Anthropic\u2019s Government Problem, and the AI Industry\u2019s Unsettled Week", "published_at": "2026-06-25T13:00:00", "researcher": "Noam Shazeer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "Ai frontier", "# Google's Brain Drain, Anthropic's Government Problem, and the AI Industry's Unsettled Week", "Noam Shazeer \u2014 the researcher who helped invent the transformer\u2019s key efficiency mechanisms and who Google paid more than $2 billion to re-acquire in 2024 \u2014 announced he was leaving Google DeepMind for OpenAI." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://theclawstreetjournal.com/ai-frontier/2026/06/25/google-talent-exodus-anthropic-clampdown.html", "title": "Google\u2019s Brain Drain, Anthropic\u2019s Government Problem, and the AI Industry\u2019s Unsettled Week", "published_at": "2026-06-25T13:00:00", "researcher": "John Jumper", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "Ai frontier", "# Google's Brain Drain, Anthropic's Government Problem, and the AI Industry's Unsettled Week", "Two days later, John Jumper, the Nobel laureate whose AlphaFold work at DeepMind became a landmark in AI-for-science, said he was joining Anthropic." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://botbeat.news/news/andrej-karpathy-joins-anthropic-to-lead-claude-pre-training-acceleration-6769", "title": "Andrej Karpathy Joins Anthropic to Lead Claude Pre-Training Acceleration", "published_at": "2026-05-20T00:00:00", "researcher": "Andrej Karpathy", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "lead pre-training research and build a team", "researcher_evidence": [ "Andrej Karpathy Joins Anthropic to Lead Claude Pre-Training Acceleration", "Andrej Karpathy, OpenAI co-founder and renowned AI researcher, joins Anthropic to lead pre-training research and build a team", "Andrej Karpathy, a founding member of OpenAI and one of the most prominent AI researchers of the past decade, has joined Anthropic to lead a team focused on accelerating Claude's pre-training research." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Andrej Karpathy, OpenAI co-founder and renowned AI researcher, joins Anthropic to lead pre-training research and build a team", "Andrej Karpathy, a founding member of OpenAI and one of the most prominent AI researchers of the past decade, has joined Anthropic to lead a team focused on accelerating Claude's pre-training research." ] }, { "url": "https://enterprisedna.co/resources/news/google-gemini-adler-pritzel-anthropic-talent-exodus-2026", "title": "Two More Gemini Researchers Leave Google for Anthropic", "published_at": "2026-06-26T00:00:00", "researcher": "John Jumper", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Nobel laureate", "researcher_evidence": [ "![Two More Gemini Researchers Leave Google for Anthropic](/resources/news-imagery/optimized/edna-news-03-section-lg.webp)", "The departures are the fourth and fifth significant exits from Google\u2019s AI teams in under a week, following Nobel laureate John Jumper\u2019s move to Anthropic and legendary researcher Noam Shazeer\u2019s decision to join OpenAI.", "- **John Jumper** (Nobel Prize in Chemistry, AlphaFold co-creator) leave for Anthropic" ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "![Two More Gemini Researchers Leave Google for Anthropic](/resources/news-imagery/optimized/edna-news-03-section-lg.webp)", "The departures are the fourth and fifth significant exits from Google\u2019s AI teams in under a week, following Nobel laureate John Jumper\u2019s move to Anthropic and legendary researcher Noam Shazeer\u2019s decision to join OpenAI." ] }, { "url": "https://enterprisedna.co/resources/news/google-gemini-adler-pritzel-anthropic-talent-exodus-2026", "title": "Two More Gemini Researchers Leave Google for Anthropic", "published_at": "2026-06-26T00:00:00", "researcher": "Noam Shazeer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "co-author of the original Transformer paper, 25-year Google veteran", "researcher_evidence": [ "![Two More Gemini Researchers Leave Google for Anthropic](/resources/news-imagery/optimized/edna-news-03-section-lg.webp)", "The departures are the fourth and fifth significant exits from Google\u2019s AI teams in under a week, following Nobel laureate John Jumper\u2019s move to Anthropic and legendary researcher Noam Shazeer\u2019s decision to join OpenAI.", "- **Noam Shazeer** (co-author of the original Transformer paper, 25-year Google veteran) leave for OpenAI" ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "![Two More Gemini Researchers Leave Google for Anthropic](/resources/news-imagery/optimized/edna-news-03-section-lg.webp)", "- **Noam Shazeer** (co-author of the original Transformer paper, 25-year Google veteran) leave for OpenAI" ] }, { "url": "https://enterprisedna.co/resources/news/google-gemini-adler-pritzel-anthropic-talent-exodus-2026", "title": "Two More Gemini Researchers Leave Google for Anthropic", "published_at": "2026-06-26T00:00:00", "researcher": "Jonas Adler", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "AI coding, AlphaFold contributor", "researcher_evidence": [ "![Two More Gemini Researchers Leave Google for Anthropic](/resources/news-imagery/optimized/edna-news-03-section-lg.webp)", "Google lost two more senior AI researchers to Anthropic this week, with Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel both confirming they are leaving the company.", "- **Jonas Adler** (AI coding, AlphaFold contributor) leave for Anthropic" ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "![Two More Gemini Researchers Leave Google for Anthropic](/resources/news-imagery/optimized/edna-news-03-section-lg.webp)", "- **Jonas Adler** (AI coding, AlphaFold contributor) leave for Anthropic" ] }, { "url": "https://enterprisedna.co/resources/news/google-gemini-adler-pritzel-anthropic-talent-exodus-2026", "title": "Two More Gemini Researchers Leave Google for Anthropic", "published_at": "2026-06-26T00:00:00", "researcher": "Alexander Pritzel", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "pretraining, AlphaFold contributor", "researcher_evidence": [ "![Two More Gemini Researchers Leave Google for Anthropic](/resources/news-imagery/optimized/edna-news-03-section-lg.webp)", "Google lost two more senior AI researchers to Anthropic this week, with Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel both confirming they are leaving the company.", "- **Alexander Pritzel** (pretraining, AlphaFold contributor) leave for Anthropic" ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "![Two More Gemini Researchers Leave Google for Anthropic](/resources/news-imagery/optimized/edna-news-03-section-lg.webp)", "- **Alexander Pritzel** (pretraining, AlphaFold contributor) leave for Anthropic" ] }, { "url": "https://businessinsider.com/meta-ai-talent-war-superintelligence-push-tension-desertion-2025-8", "title": "Meta's superintelligence push sparks tension, threats of desertion", "published_at": "2025-08-13T09:00:02", "researcher": "Laurens van der Maaten", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "distinguished research scientist", "researcher_evidence": [ "On August 6, Laurens van der Maaten, a distinguished research scientist at Meta, announced he was joining Anthropic." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "On August 6, Laurens van der Maaten, a distinguished research scientist at Meta, announced he was joining Anthropic." ] }, { "url": "https://businessinsider.com/yann-lecun-meta-chief-ai-scientist-shengjia-zhao-fair-superintelligence-2025-7", "title": "Yann LeCun clarifies role after Meta hires another chief scientist", "published_at": "2025-07-26T19:50:58", "researcher": "Shengjia Zhao", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "chief scientist at Meta's Superintelligence Labs", "researcher_evidence": null, "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://grayreserve.com/articles/google-losing-top-ai-researchers-openai-anthropic", "title": "Google Is Losing Its Best AI Researchers \u2014 And What That Means", "published_at": "2026-06-23T00:00:00", "researcher": "Noam Shazeer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "transformer architecture pioneer", "researcher_evidence": [ "# Google Is Losing Its Best AI Researchers \u2014 And What That Means", "Noam Shazeer \u2014 a transformer architecture pioneer and one of the engineers most responsible for Google\u2019s Gemini \u2014 accepted a position at OpenAI." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# Google Is Losing Its Best AI Researchers \u2014 And What That Means", "Noam Shazeer \u2014 a transformer architecture pioneer and one of the engineers most responsible for Google\u2019s Gemini \u2014 accepted a position at OpenAI." ] }, { "url": "https://grayreserve.com/articles/google-losing-top-ai-researchers-openai-anthropic", "title": "Google Is Losing Its Best AI Researchers \u2014 And What That Means", "published_at": "2026-06-23T00:00:00", "researcher": "John Jumper", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry", "researcher_evidence": [ "# Google Is Losing Its Best AI Researchers \u2014 And What That Means", "John Jumper, who won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for AlphaFold\u2019s protein-structure predictions, moved to Anthropic." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# Google Is Losing Its Best AI Researchers \u2014 And What That Means", "John Jumper, who won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for AlphaFold\u2019s protein-structure predictions, moved to Anthropic." ] }, { "url": "https://invezz.com/news/2025/08/21/why-is-tech-at-war-over-ai-talent", "title": "Why is tech at war over AI talent?", "published_at": "2025-08-21T09:15:06", "researcher": "Shengjia Zhao", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "chief AI scientist", "researcher_evidence": [ "Meta\u2019s struggle to execute", "For now, the showcase is not a model but the roster of names: Wang, former GitHub chief Nat Friedman, Safe Superintelligence co-founder Daniel Gross, and Shengjia Zhao, a co-creator of ChatGPT, who was appointed chief AI scientist." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Meta\u2019s struggle to execute", "For now, the showcase is not a model but the roster of names: Wang, former GitHub chief Nat Friedman, Safe Superintelligence co-founder Daniel Gross, and Shengjia Zhao, a co-creator of ChatGPT, who was appointed chief AI scientist." ] }, { "url": "https://techpulseglobe.com/ai/barret-zoph-leaves-openai-second-time-enterprise-ai-2026", "title": "Barret Zoph Leaves OpenAI Again After Just Five Months", "published_at": "2026-06-19T07:35:12", "researcher": "Barret Zoph", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "lead the company's enterprise push ahead of its planned IPO", "researcher_evidence": [ "# Barret Zoph Is Out at OpenAI Again \u2014 Five Months Was All It Took", "Barret Zoph has left OpenAI for the second time in less than two years \u2014 just five months after returning from Thinking Machines Lab to lead the company's enterprise push ahead of its planned IPO." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# Barret Zoph Is Out at OpenAI Again \u2014 Five Months Was All It Took", "Barret Zoph has left OpenAI for the second time in less than two years \u2014 just five months after returning from Thinking Machines Lab to lead the company's enterprise push ahead of its planned IPO." ] }, { "url": "https://thehansindia.com/technology/tech-news/thinking-machines-co-founder-resigned-due-to-stress-she-may-now-join-openai-1103040", "title": "Thinking Machines co-founder resigned due to stress; she may now join OpenAI", "published_at": "2026-07-30T08:00:27", "researcher": "Lilian Weng", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "lead a high-level team focused on recursive self-improvement", "researcher_evidence": [ "Days after leaving Thinking Machines Lab due to health concerns and stress, AI researcher Lilian Weng is returning to OpenAI." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "According to a famous publication Weng will now rejoin to lead a high-level team focused on recursive self-improvement." ] }, { "url": "https://thehansindia.com/technology/tech-news/thinking-machines-co-founder-resigned-due-to-stress-she-may-now-join-openai-1103040", "title": "Thinking Machines co-founder resigned due to stress; she may now join OpenAI", "published_at": "2026-07-30T08:00:27", "researcher": "Barret Zoph", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "Barret Zoph and Luke Metz previously left for OpenAI, while Andrew Tulloch joined Meta." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://thehansindia.com/technology/tech-news/thinking-machines-co-founder-resigned-due-to-stress-she-may-now-join-openai-1103040", "title": "Thinking Machines co-founder resigned due to stress; she may now join OpenAI", "published_at": "2026-07-30T08:00:27", "researcher": "Luke Metz", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "Barret Zoph and Luke Metz previously left for OpenAI, while Andrew Tulloch joined Meta." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://thehansindia.com/technology/tech-news/thinking-machines-co-founder-resigned-due-to-stress-she-may-now-join-openai-1103040", "title": "Thinking Machines co-founder resigned due to stress; she may now join OpenAI", "published_at": "2026-07-30T08:00:27", "researcher": "Andrew Tulloch", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "Barret Zoph and Luke Metz previously left for OpenAI, while Andrew Tulloch joined Meta." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://ft.com/content/d334970e-f791-4bf9-b43c-add8f90807b1?accessToken=zwAGOx6-V3vwkdPTNJcO95FL-dO0PK3Y-QgHsQ.MEUCIFn3rP7arrwWGTYZbXufgjClB0XDhL-7Xai3Qu0JBEgzAiEAoh9KJ_0FqWX5HN_naxOXje46iUNXt64g9JahYCiM7RE&sharetype=gift&token=90d13177-4bc9-41c2-81c7-fe3d9e951110", "title": "Will Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s secret, multibillion-dollar AI plan win over Wall Street?", "published_at": "2025-07-30T13:35:03", "researcher": "Shengjia Zhao", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "chief AI scientist", "researcher_evidence": [ "In a major coup, Meta announced on Friday that it had hired top OpenAI researcher Shengjia Zhao, who co-created ChatGPT, as the lab\u2019s chief AI scientist, reporting to Wang." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "In a major coup, Meta announced on Friday that it had hired top OpenAI researcher Shengjia Zhao, who co-created ChatGPT, as the lab\u2019s chief AI scientist, reporting to Wang." ] }, { "url": "https://1minutesignal.com/article/frontier-ai-talent-keeps-leaving-then?eligibility=main&from=section§ion=deep-dives", "title": "Why Frontier AI Talent Keeps Leaving, Then Coming Back", "published_at": "2026-07-24T15:03:30", "researcher": "John Schulman", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "Why Frontier AI Talent Keeps Leaving, Then Coming Back", "A return to Anthropic is not a one-off", "nextomoro\u2019s dataset also shows a more complex arc in which John Schulman moved from OpenAI to Anthropic and then to Thinking Machines Lab within months." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://inspire2rise.com/meta-ai-talent-grab-intensifies.html", "title": "Inspire2Rise", "published_at": "2025-06-29T07:53:59", "researcher": "Shengjia Zhao", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "A key contributor to GPT-4 and o1, specializing in reasoning and model optimization.", "researcher_evidence": [ "[Home](https://www.inspire2rise.com/) \\ [News](https://www.inspire2rise.com/world-news) \\", "On June 29, 2025, The Information reported that Meta has poached four key researchers from OpenAI, Shengjia Zhao, Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, and Hongyu Ren, hot on the heels of snagging Trapit Bansal and three others earlier in the week." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "[Home](https://www.inspire2rise.com/) \\ [News](https://www.inspire2rise.com/world-news) \\", "- Shengjia Zhao: A key contributor to GPT-4 and o1, specializing in reasoning and model optimization." ] }, { "url": "https://inspire2rise.com/meta-ai-talent-grab-intensifies.html", "title": "Inspire2Rise", "published_at": "2025-06-29T07:53:59", "researcher": "Jiahui Yu", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Led development of OpenAI\u2019s o3, o4-mini, and GPT-4.1 models, focusing on advanced reasoning and multimodal capabilities.", "researcher_evidence": [ "[Home](https://www.inspire2rise.com/) \\ [News](https://www.inspire2rise.com/world-news) \\", "On June 29, 2025, The Information reported that Meta has poached four key researchers from OpenAI, Shengjia Zhao, Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, and Hongyu Ren, hot on the heels of snagging Trapit Bansal and three others earlier in the week." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "[Home](https://www.inspire2rise.com/) \\ [News](https://www.inspire2rise.com/world-news) \\", "- Jiahui Yu: Led development of OpenAI\u2019s o3, o4-mini, and GPT-4.1 models, focusing on advanced reasoning and multimodal capabilities." ] }, { "url": "https://inspire2rise.com/meta-ai-talent-grab-intensifies.html", "title": "Inspire2Rise", "published_at": "2025-06-29T07:53:59", "researcher": "Shuchao Bi", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Headed OpenAI\u2019s post-training multimodal organization, enhancing models\u2019 ability to process text, images, and other data.", "researcher_evidence": [ "[Home](https://www.inspire2rise.com/) \\ [News](https://www.inspire2rise.com/world-news) \\", "On June 29, 2025, The Information reported that Meta has poached four key researchers from OpenAI, Shengjia Zhao, Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, and Hongyu Ren, hot on the heels of snagging Trapit Bansal and three others earlier in the week." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "[Home](https://www.inspire2rise.com/) \\ [News](https://www.inspire2rise.com/world-news) \\", "- Shuchao Bi: Headed OpenAI\u2019s post-training multimodal organization, enhancing models\u2019 ability to process text, images, and other data." ] }, { "url": "https://inspire2rise.com/meta-ai-talent-grab-intensifies.html", "title": "Inspire2Rise", "published_at": "2025-06-29T07:53:59", "researcher": "Hongyu Ren", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Created o3-mini and o1-mini, was a core contributor to OpenAI\u2019s o1 reasoning model, and led post-training for o3 and o4-mini, refining models after initial training.", "researcher_evidence": [ "[Home](https://www.inspire2rise.com/) \\ [News](https://www.inspire2rise.com/world-news) \\", "On June 29, 2025, The Information reported that Meta has poached four key researchers from OpenAI, Shengjia Zhao, Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, and Hongyu Ren, hot on the heels of snagging Trapit Bansal and three others earlier in the week." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "[Home](https://www.inspire2rise.com/) \\ [News](https://www.inspire2rise.com/world-news) \\", "- Hongyu Ren: Created o3-mini and o1-mini, was a core contributor to OpenAI\u2019s o1 reasoning model, and led post-training for o3 and o4-mini, refining models after initial training." ] }, { "url": "https://inspire2rise.com/meta-ai-talent-grab-intensifies.html", "title": "Inspire2Rise", "published_at": "2025-06-29T07:53:59", "researcher": "Trapit Bansal", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "[Home](https://www.inspire2rise.com/) \\ [News](https://www.inspire2rise.com/world-news) \\", "On June 29, 2025, The Information reported that Meta has poached four key researchers from OpenAI, Shengjia Zhao, Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, and Hongyu Ren, hot on the heels of snagging Trapit Bansal and three others earlier in the week." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://inspire2rise.com/meta-ai-talent-grab-intensifies.html", "title": "Inspire2Rise", "published_at": "2025-06-29T07:53:59", "researcher": "Lucas Beyer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "[Home](https://www.inspire2rise.com/) \\ [News](https://www.inspire2rise.com/world-news) \\", "The four newest additions, Shengjia Zhao, Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, and Hongyu Ren, join Trapit Bansal, Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai, all poached from OpenAI in the past week alone, per reports from TechCrunch, The Wall Street Journal, and The Information." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://inspire2rise.com/meta-ai-talent-grab-intensifies.html", "title": "Inspire2Rise", "published_at": "2025-06-29T07:53:59", "researcher": "Alexander Kolesnikov", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "[Home](https://www.inspire2rise.com/) \\ [News](https://www.inspire2rise.com/world-news) \\", "The four newest additions, Shengjia Zhao, Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, and Hongyu Ren, join Trapit Bansal, Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai, all poached from OpenAI in the past week alone, per reports from TechCrunch, The Wall Street Journal, and The Information." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://inspire2rise.com/meta-ai-talent-grab-intensifies.html", "title": "Inspire2Rise", "published_at": "2025-06-29T07:53:59", "researcher": "Xiaohua Zhai", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "[Home](https://www.inspire2rise.com/) \\ [News](https://www.inspire2rise.com/world-news) \\", "The four newest additions, Shengjia Zhao, Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, and Hongyu Ren, join Trapit Bansal, Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai, all poached from OpenAI in the past week alone, per reports from TechCrunch, The Wall Street Journal, and The Information." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://wnybrn.forumotion.com/t595-meta-poaches-openai-scientist-to-help-lead-ai-lab", "title": "Meta Poaches OpenAI Scientist to Help Lead AI Lab", "published_at": "2025-09-26T12:39:20", "researcher": "Yang Song", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "research principal", "researcher_evidence": [ "Meta Poaches OpenAI Scientist to Help Lead AI Lab", "Yang Song, who previously led the strategic explorations team at OpenAI, is now reporting to Shengjia Zhao, another OpenAI alum who has overseen the buzzy AI effort since July, according to multiple sources." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Meta Poaches OpenAI Scientist to Help Lead AI Lab" ] }, { "url": "https://industrywired.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-talent-war-heats-up-openai-shuts-down-for-a-week-as-meta-ramps-up-hiring-9471505", "title": "AI Talent War Heats Up: OpenAI Shuts Down For a Week as Meta Ramps Up Hiring", "published_at": "2025-07-07T20:50:00", "researcher": "Trapit Bansal", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "reinforcement learning researcher", "researcher_evidence": [ "OpenAI Halts Operations as Meta Lures Top AI Talent With $100M Offers in Escalating Industry War", "OpenAI's Response: Shutdowns, Retention Packages, and a Culture Clash", "[**Chief Research Officer Mark Chen**](https://www.wired.com/story/openai-meta-leadership-talent-rivalry/) sent a heartfelt message to staff after OpenAI lost at least eight senior researchers to Meta, including notable reinforcement learning researcher Trapit Bansal." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "OpenAI Halts Operations as Meta Lures Top AI Talent With $100M Offers in Escalating Industry War", "OpenAI's Response: Shutdowns, Retention Packages, and a Culture Clash", "[**Chief Research Officer Mark Chen**](https://www.wired.com/story/openai-meta-leadership-talent-rivalry/) sent a heartfelt message to staff after OpenAI lost at least eight senior researchers to Meta, including notable reinforcement learning researcher Trapit Bansal." ] }, { "url": "https://pokee.ai/blog/pokee-ai-daily-2026-06-21", "title": "Transformer Co-Inventor Shazeer Joins OpenAI, Erasing Google's $2.7B Bet", "published_at": "2026-06-22T00:49:11", "researcher": "Noam Shazeer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Lead for Architecture Research", "researcher_evidence": [ "Pokee AI WeeklyJune 22, 2026", "Transformer Co-Inventor Shazeer Joins OpenAI, Erasing Google's $2.7B Bet", "On June 18, Noam Shazeer, VP of Engineering at Google DeepMind and co-lead of the Gemini project, announced on X that he is joining OpenAI as Lead for Architecture Research." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Pokee AI WeeklyJune 22, 2026", "Transformer Co-Inventor Shazeer Joins OpenAI, Erasing Google's $2.7B Bet", "On June 18, Noam Shazeer, VP of Engineering at Google DeepMind and co-lead of the Gemini project, announced on X that he is joining OpenAI as Lead for Architecture Research." ] }, { "url": "https://explainx.ai/blog/anthropic-hiring-spree-2026-john-jumper-karpathy-talent-2026", "title": "Anthropic Hiring Spree 2026: Blomfield, Jumper, Karpathy & All Hires | explainx.ai Blog", "published_at": "2026-06-19T00:00:00", "researcher": "Andrej Karpathy", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Pre-training lead", "researcher_evidence": [ "Anthropic Hiring Spree 2026: John Jumper, Karpathy, and Every Major Hire From Google, OpenAI, xAI & Microsoft", "Anthropic's 2026 talent acquisitions \u2014 Tom Blomfield, Jelani Nelson, John Jumper, Andrej Karpathy, Eric Boyd, Ross Nordeen, and more.", "They join a **2026 roster** that already brought **OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy**, **Microsoft Azure AI president Eric Boyd**, **xAI co-founder Ross Nordeen**, **Nobel laureate John Jumper**, and a steady flow of **Google DeepMind researchers** \u2014 even as **[Fable 5 redeployment](/blog/anthropic-redeploying-fable-5-july-2026-official)** proceeds under export-control conditions." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Anthropic Hiring Spree 2026: John Jumper, Karpathy, and Every Major Hire From Google, OpenAI, xAI & Microsoft", "## TL;DR", "| **Biggest research hire** | **Andrej Karpathy** (May 2026) \u2014 OpenAI co-founder, pre-training lead |" ] }, { "url": "https://pub.towardsai.net/they-built-the-ai-then-they-started-leaving-whats-really-happening-inside-the-ai-labs-609ac3db1f68", "title": "They Built the AI. Then They Started Leaving. What\u2019s Really Happening Inside the AI Labs", "published_at": "2026-08-18T09:48:18", "researcher": "Noam Shazeer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# They Built the AI. Then They Started Leaving. What\u2019s Really Happening Inside the AI Labs", "On June 18, 2026, Noam Shazeer posted three sentences on X.", "He was excited." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://pub.towardsai.net/they-built-the-ai-then-they-started-leaving-whats-really-happening-inside-the-ai-labs-609ac3db1f68", "title": "They Built the AI. Then They Started Leaving. What\u2019s Really Happening Inside the AI Labs", "published_at": "2026-08-18T09:48:18", "researcher": "John Jumper", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# They Built the AI. Then They Started Leaving. What\u2019s Really Happening Inside the AI Labs", "The next day, John Jumper posted his own quiet announcement.", "After nearly nine years at Google DeepMind, he was leaving for Anthropic." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://exobrain.beehiiv.com/p/weekly-ai-news-2025-07-04", "title": "ExoBrain weekly AI news", "published_at": "2025-07-04T22:19:56", "researcher": "Daniel Gross", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "CEO", "researcher_evidence": [ "# ExoBrain weekly AI news", "### Missionaries versus mercenaries", "Meta's aggression extends beyond individual hires. After failing to acquire Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI), the company successfully recruited its CEO, Daniel Gross." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# ExoBrain weekly AI news", "### Missionaries versus mercenaries", "Meta's aggression extends beyond individual hires. After failing to acquire Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI), the company successfully recruited its CEO, Daniel Gross." ] }, { "url": "https://prnewswire.co.uk/news-releases/reka-and-moonvalley-join-forces-to-advance-models-and-infrastructure-for-physical-ai-302797890.html", "title": "Reka and Moonvalley Join Forces to Advance Models and Infrastructure for Physical AI", "published_at": "2026-06-11T08:37:00", "researcher": "Mateusz Malinowski", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "research leadership", "researcher_evidence": [ "# Reka and Moonvalley Join Forces to Advance Models and Infrastructure for Physical AI", "The merger brings Mateusz Malinowski, PhD, Miko\u0142aj Bi\u0144kowski, PhD along with a team of former DeepMind, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Wayve, and Runway researchers and engineers to Reka.", "Malinowski, previously a staff research scientist, and Bi\u0144kowski, previously a senior research scientist at Google DeepMind \u2014 both key contributors to models that became Google's Veo \u2014 join Reka's research leadership." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# Reka and Moonvalley Join Forces to Advance Models and Infrastructure for Physical AI", "Malinowski, previously a staff research scientist, and Bi\u0144kowski, previously a senior research scientist at Google DeepMind \u2014 both key contributors to models that became Google's Veo \u2014 join Reka's research leadership." ] }, { "url": "https://prnewswire.co.uk/news-releases/reka-and-moonvalley-join-forces-to-advance-models-and-infrastructure-for-physical-ai-302797890.html", "title": "Reka and Moonvalley Join Forces to Advance Models and Infrastructure for Physical AI", "published_at": "2026-06-11T08:37:00", "researcher": "Miko\u0142aj Bi\u0144kowski", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "research leadership", "researcher_evidence": [ "# Reka and Moonvalley Join Forces to Advance Models and Infrastructure for Physical AI", "The merger brings Mateusz Malinowski, PhD, Miko\u0142aj Bi\u0144kowski, PhD along with a team of former DeepMind, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Wayve, and Runway researchers and engineers to Reka.", "Malinowski, previously a staff research scientist, and Bi\u0144kowski, previously a senior research scientist at Google DeepMind \u2014 both key contributors to models that became Google's Veo \u2014 join Reka's research leadership." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# Reka and Moonvalley Join Forces to Advance Models and Infrastructure for Physical AI", "Malinowski, previously a staff research scientist, and Bi\u0144kowski, previously a senior research scientist at Google DeepMind \u2014 both key contributors to models that became Google's Veo \u2014 join Reka's research leadership." ] }, { "url": "https://bravenewcoin.com/insights/meta-vs-openai-the-ai-talent-war-goes-crypto", "title": "Meta vs. OpenAI: The AI Talent War Goes Crypto - Brave New Coin", "published_at": "2025-07-03T04:27:29", "researcher": "Shengjia Zhao", "left_lab": "OpenAI", "joined_lab": "Meta", "move_month": "2025-07", "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "Meta vs. OpenAI: The AI Talent War Goes Crypto", "Names like Shengjia Zhao, Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, and Hongyu Ren vanished from OpenAI Slack and re-appeared on Meta\u2019s org chart overnight." ], "left_lab_evidence": [ "Meta vs. OpenAI: The AI Talent War Goes Crypto", "Names like Shengjia Zhao, Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, and Hongyu Ren vanished from OpenAI Slack and re-appeared on Meta\u2019s org chart overnight." ], "joined_lab_evidence": [ "Meta vs. OpenAI: The AI Talent War Goes Crypto", "Names like Shengjia Zhao, Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, and Hongyu Ren vanished from OpenAI Slack and re-appeared on Meta\u2019s org chart overnight." ], "move_month_evidence": [ "Meta vs. OpenAI: The AI Talent War Goes Crypto", "3 Jul 2025" ], "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://bravenewcoin.com/insights/meta-vs-openai-the-ai-talent-war-goes-crypto", "title": "Meta vs. OpenAI: The AI Talent War Goes Crypto - Brave New Coin", "published_at": "2025-07-03T04:27:29", "researcher": "Jiahui Yu", "left_lab": "OpenAI", "joined_lab": "Meta", "move_month": "2025-07", "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "Meta vs. OpenAI: The AI Talent War Goes Crypto", "Names like Shengjia Zhao, Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, and Hongyu Ren vanished from OpenAI Slack and re-appeared on Meta\u2019s org chart overnight." ], "left_lab_evidence": [ "Meta vs. OpenAI: The AI Talent War Goes Crypto", "Names like Shengjia Zhao, Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, and Hongyu Ren vanished from OpenAI Slack and re-appeared on Meta\u2019s org chart overnight." ], "joined_lab_evidence": [ "Meta vs. OpenAI: The AI Talent War Goes Crypto", "Names like Shengjia Zhao, Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, and Hongyu Ren vanished from OpenAI Slack and re-appeared on Meta\u2019s org chart overnight." ], "move_month_evidence": [ "Meta vs. OpenAI: The AI Talent War Goes Crypto", "3 Jul 2025" ], "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://bravenewcoin.com/insights/meta-vs-openai-the-ai-talent-war-goes-crypto", "title": "Meta vs. OpenAI: The AI Talent War Goes Crypto - Brave New Coin", "published_at": "2025-07-03T04:27:29", "researcher": "Shuchao Bi", "left_lab": "OpenAI", "joined_lab": "Meta", "move_month": "2025-07", "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "Meta vs. OpenAI: The AI Talent War Goes Crypto", "Names like Shengjia Zhao, Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, and Hongyu Ren vanished from OpenAI Slack and re-appeared on Meta\u2019s org chart overnight." ], "left_lab_evidence": [ "Meta vs. OpenAI: The AI Talent War Goes Crypto", "Names like Shengjia Zhao, Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, and Hongyu Ren vanished from OpenAI Slack and re-appeared on Meta\u2019s org chart overnight." ], "joined_lab_evidence": [ "Meta vs. OpenAI: The AI Talent War Goes Crypto", "Names like Shengjia Zhao, Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, and Hongyu Ren vanished from OpenAI Slack and re-appeared on Meta\u2019s org chart overnight." ], "move_month_evidence": [ "Meta vs. OpenAI: The AI Talent War Goes Crypto", "3 Jul 2025" ], "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://bravenewcoin.com/insights/meta-vs-openai-the-ai-talent-war-goes-crypto", "title": "Meta vs. OpenAI: The AI Talent War Goes Crypto - Brave New Coin", "published_at": "2025-07-03T04:27:29", "researcher": "Hongyu Ren", "left_lab": "OpenAI", "joined_lab": "Meta", "move_month": "2025-07", "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "Meta vs. OpenAI: The AI Talent War Goes Crypto", "Names like Shengjia Zhao, Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, and Hongyu Ren vanished from OpenAI Slack and re-appeared on Meta\u2019s org chart overnight." ], "left_lab_evidence": [ "Meta vs. OpenAI: The AI Talent War Goes Crypto", "Names like Shengjia Zhao, Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, and Hongyu Ren vanished from OpenAI Slack and re-appeared on Meta\u2019s org chart overnight." ], "joined_lab_evidence": [ "Meta vs. OpenAI: The AI Talent War Goes Crypto", "Names like Shengjia Zhao, Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, and Hongyu Ren vanished from OpenAI Slack and re-appeared on Meta\u2019s org chart overnight." ], "move_month_evidence": [ "Meta vs. OpenAI: The AI Talent War Goes Crypto", "3 Jul 2025" ], "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://cdotimes.com/2025/07/26/meta-just-hired-the-co-creator-of-chatgpt-in-an-escalating-ai-talent-war-with-openai-business-insider", "title": "Meta just hired the co-creator of ChatGPT in an escalating AI talent war with OpenAI – Business Insider", "published_at": "2025-07-26T05:18:53", "researcher": "Shengjia Zhao", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "chief scientist of its Superintelligence Labs", "researcher_evidence": [ "# Meta just hired the co-creator of ChatGPT in an escalating AI talent war with OpenAI \u2013 Business Insider", "Shengjia Zhao, a co-creator of ChatGPT and former lead scientist at OpenAI, is joining Meta as chief scientist of its Superintelligence Labs." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# Meta just hired the co-creator of ChatGPT in an escalating AI talent war with OpenAI \u2013 Business Insider", "Shengjia Zhao, a co-creator of ChatGPT and former lead scientist at OpenAI, is joining Meta as chief scientist of its Superintelligence Labs." ] }, { "url": "https://reuters.com/technology/googles-gemini-co-lead-noam-shazeer-join-openai-2026-06-18", "title": "Google Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer to join IPO-bound OpenAI", "published_at": "2026-06-18T00:25:56", "researcher": "Noam Shazeer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "vice president of engineering", "researcher_evidence": [ "# Google Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer to join IPO-bound OpenAI", "June 17 (Reuters) - Noam Shazeer, a vice president of engineering at Google [(GOOGL.O), opens new tab](https://www.reuters.com/markets/companies/GOOGL.O) and co-lead \u200bof its Gemini artificial intelligence models, said \u200con Wednesday that he will leave the company to join [IPO-bound](https://www.reuters.com/technology/openai-files-us-ipo-after-anthropic-ai-giants-head-public-markets-2026-06-08/) ChatGPT maker OpenAI." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# Google Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer to join IPO-bound OpenAI", "June 17 (Reuters) - Noam Shazeer, a vice president of engineering at Google [(GOOGL.O), opens new tab](https://www.reuters.com/markets/companies/GOOGL.O) and co-lead \u200bof its Gemini artificial intelligence models, said \u200con Wednesday that he will leave the company to join [IPO-bound](https://www.reuters.com/technology/openai-files-us-ipo-after-anthropic-ai-giants-head-public-markets-2026-06-08/) ChatGPT maker OpenAI." ] }, { "url": "https://ainvest.com/news/meta-ai-overhaul-superintelligence-ambitions-spark-internal-divisions-2508", "title": "Meta's AI Overhaul: Superintelligence Ambitions Spark Internal Divisions", "published_at": "2025-08-21T08:51:44", "researcher": "Shengjia Zhao", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "chief AI scientist", "researcher_evidence": [ "Thursday, Aug 21, 2025 4:51 am ET2min read META-- Meta Platforms Inc. has temporarily halted hiring for its artificial intelligence division following a period of aggressive recruitment that included high-profile acquisitions and substantial financial outlays.", "For instance, Shengjia Zhao, co-creator of OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT, was recently appointed as Meta\u2019s chief AI scientist and has reportedly questioned the work of existing team members." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Thursday, Aug 21, 2025 4:51 am ET2min read META-- Meta Platforms Inc. has temporarily halted hiring for its artificial intelligence division following a period of aggressive recruitment that included high-profile acquisitions and substantial financial outlays.", "For instance, Shengjia Zhao, co-creator of OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT, was recently appointed as Meta\u2019s chief AI scientist and has reportedly questioned the work of existing team members." ] }, { "url": "https://techjacksolutions.com/ai-brief/the-deepmind-talent-exodus-what-googles-frontier-ai-roadmap", "title": "Analysis of Google's AI Roadmap 2026", "published_at": "2026-06-21T00:00:00", "researcher": "John Jumper", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "AlphaFold, 2024 Nobel", "researcher_evidence": [ "John Jumper\u2019s last day at Google DeepMind was June 19.", "#### Mapping the Pattern", "| Name | Known For | Destination | Timing |" ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Jumper shared the [2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48609506) with DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis.", "#### Mapping the Pattern", "| Name | Known For | Destination | Timing |", "| John Jumper | AlphaFold, 2024 Nobel | Anthropic | June 19, 2026 |" ] }, { "url": "https://techjacksolutions.com/ai-brief/the-deepmind-talent-exodus-what-googles-frontier-ai-roadmap", "title": "Analysis of Google's AI Roadmap 2026", "published_at": "2026-06-21T00:00:00", "researcher": "Andrej Karpathy", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "OpenAI founding researcher", "researcher_evidence": [ "#### Mapping the Pattern", "| Name | Known For | Destination | Timing |" ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "#### Mapping the Pattern", "| Name | Known For | Destination | Timing |", "| Andrej Karpathy | OpenAI founding researcher | Anthropic | May 2026 |" ] }, { "url": "https://techjacksolutions.com/ai-brief/the-deepmind-talent-exodus-what-googles-frontier-ai-roadmap", "title": "Analysis of Google's AI Roadmap 2026", "published_at": "2026-06-21T00:00:00", "researcher": "Noam Shazeer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Senior Google engineering leader (Gemini)", "researcher_evidence": [ "According to reports, senior Google engineering leader Noam Shazeer, who worked on Gemini, is joining OpenAI.", "#### Mapping the Pattern", "| Name | Known For | Destination | Timing |" ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "According to reports, senior Google engineering leader Noam Shazeer, who worked on Gemini, is joining OpenAI.", "#### Mapping the Pattern", "| Name | Known For | Destination | Timing |", "| Noam Shazeer | Senior Google engineering leader (Gemini) | OpenAI (reported) | 2026 |" ] }, { "url": "https://thetesserapress.com/articles/john-jumper-to-join-anthropic", "title": "John Jumper leaves DeepMind for Anthropic, taking AlphaFold know-how with him", "published_at": "2026-06-20T00:00:00", "researcher": "John Jumper", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "Research / T-2026-2619", "John Jumper leaves DeepMind for Anthropic, taking AlphaFold know-how with him", "John Jumper, the scientist who led the team that built AlphaFold, is leaving Google DeepMind for Anthropic." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://implicator.ai/met", "title": "Meta's $72B AI Talent Hunt Backfires as Elite Recruits Quit", "published_at": "2025-09-10T12:32:25", "researcher": "Shengjia Zhao", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "chief scientist", "researcher_evidence": [ "\ud83d\udca1 TL;DR - The 30 Seconds Version", "ChatGPT co-creator Shengjia Zhao nearly quit Meta within a week of joining in June, forcing the company to triple his compensation and grant chief scientist status." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "\ud83d\udca1 TL;DR - The 30 Seconds Version", "ChatGPT co-creator Shengjia Zhao nearly quit Meta within a week of joining in June, forcing the company to triple his compensation and grant chief scientist status." ] }, { "url": "https://implicator.ai/met", "title": "Meta's $72B AI Talent Hunt Backfires as Elite Recruits Quit", "published_at": "2025-09-10T12:32:25", "researcher": "Rishabh Agarwal", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "### The psychology of million-dollar defections", "Rishabh Agarwal, a Toronto-based researcher who joined in April, left for startup Periodic Labs after being told he'd have to work in-person at Meta's headquarters." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://fortune.com/2025/07/01/meta-stock-price-record-high-mark-zuckerberg-openai-anthropic-google-talent", "title": "Meta stock hits a record high as Mark Zuckerberg reveals poached new recruits from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google", "published_at": "2025-07-01T11:09:25", "researcher": "Trapit Bansal", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "co-creator of o-series models", "researcher_evidence": [ "Meta stock hits a record high as Mark Zuckerberg reveals poached new recruits from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google", "The team includes several prominent former OpenAI researchers, including:", "- Trapit Bansal, the co-creator of o-series models at OpenAI." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Meta stock hits a record high as Mark Zuckerberg reveals poached new recruits from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google", "The team includes several prominent former OpenAI researchers, including:", "- Trapit Bansal, the co-creator of o-series models at OpenAI." ] }, { "url": "https://fortune.com/2025/07/01/meta-stock-price-record-high-mark-zuckerberg-openai-anthropic-google-talent", "title": "Meta stock hits a record high as Mark Zuckerberg reveals poached new recruits from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google", "published_at": "2025-07-01T11:09:25", "researcher": "Shuchao Bi", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "co-creator of GPT-4o voice mode and o4-mini", "researcher_evidence": [ "Meta stock hits a record high as Mark Zuckerberg reveals poached new recruits from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google", "The team includes several prominent former OpenAI researchers, including:", "- Shuchao Bi, co-creator of GPT-4o voice mode and o4-mini." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Meta stock hits a record high as Mark Zuckerberg reveals poached new recruits from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google", "The team includes several prominent former OpenAI researchers, including:", "- Shuchao Bi, co-creator of GPT-4o voice mode and o4-mini." ] }, { "url": "https://fortune.com/2025/07/01/meta-stock-price-record-high-mark-zuckerberg-openai-anthropic-google-talent", "title": "Meta stock hits a record high as Mark Zuckerberg reveals poached new recruits from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google", "published_at": "2025-07-01T11:09:25", "researcher": "Hongyu Ren", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "led a group for post-training", "researcher_evidence": [ "Meta stock hits a record high as Mark Zuckerberg reveals poached new recruits from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google", "The team includes several prominent former OpenAI researchers, including:", "- Hongyu Ren, who previously led a group for post-training at OpenAI." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Meta stock hits a record high as Mark Zuckerberg reveals poached new recruits from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google", "The team includes several prominent former OpenAI researchers, including:", "- Hongyu Ren, who previously led a group for post-training at OpenAI." ] }, { "url": "https://fortune.com/2025/07/01/meta-stock-price-record-high-mark-zuckerberg-openai-anthropic-google-talent", "title": "Meta stock hits a record high as Mark Zuckerberg reveals poached new recruits from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google", "published_at": "2025-07-01T11:09:25", "researcher": "Jiahui Yu", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "led the perception team", "researcher_evidence": [ "Meta stock hits a record high as Mark Zuckerberg reveals poached new recruits from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google", "The team includes several prominent former OpenAI researchers, including:", "- Jiahui Yu, who previously led the perception team at OpenAI." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Meta stock hits a record high as Mark Zuckerberg reveals poached new recruits from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google", "The team includes several prominent former OpenAI researchers, including:", "- Jiahui Yu, who previously led the perception team at OpenAI." ] }, { "url": "https://fortune.com/2025/07/01/meta-stock-price-record-high-mark-zuckerberg-openai-anthropic-google-talent", "title": "Meta stock hits a record high as Mark Zuckerberg reveals poached new recruits from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google", "published_at": "2025-07-01T11:09:25", "researcher": "Shengjia Zhao", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "led synthetic data", "researcher_evidence": [ "Meta stock hits a record high as Mark Zuckerberg reveals poached new recruits from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google", "The team includes several prominent former OpenAI researchers, including:", "- Shengjia Zhao, who previously led synthetic data at OpenAI." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Meta stock hits a record high as Mark Zuckerberg reveals poached new recruits from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google", "The team includes several prominent former OpenAI researchers, including:", "- Shengjia Zhao, who previously led synthetic data at OpenAI." ] }, { "url": "https://lockurblock.com/barret-zoph-is-out-at-openai-again-after-just-five-months", "title": "Barret Zoph is out at OpenAI again after just five months", "published_at": "2026-06-20T09:18:26", "researcher": "Barret Zoph", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "lead OpenAI\u2019s enterprise AI sales efforts", "researcher_evidence": [ "Barret Zoph\u2019s Swift Return and Exit", "Barret Zoph, a prominent AI researcher and executive, has departed OpenAI for the second time in less than two years." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Barret Zoph\u2019s Swift Return and Exit", "Zoph had been brought back to lead OpenAI\u2019s enterprise AI sales efforts \u2014 a critical role as the organization seeks to strengthen its revenue streams ahead of a planned initial public offering." ] }, { "url": "https://businessinsider.com/meta-attracts-more-thinking-machines-lab-talent-in-ai-shakeup-2026-4", "title": "Meta attracts more Thinking Machines Lab talent in AI shakeup", "published_at": "2026-04-20T21:37:11", "researcher": "Soumith Chintala", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "CTO", "researcher_evidence": [ "[Thinking Machines Lab](https://www.businessinsider.com/thinking-machines-lab-loses-another-founding-member-to-meta-2026-4) is facing more departures.", "Its current CTO, [Soumith Chintala](https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-soumith-chintala-mira-murati-thinking-machines-lab-pytorch-ai-2025-11), left Meta to join the startup and is the creator of the open-source AI project PyTorch." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "[Thinking Machines Lab](https://www.businessinsider.com/thinking-machines-lab-loses-another-founding-member-to-meta-2026-4) is facing more departures.", "Its current CTO, [Soumith Chintala](https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-soumith-chintala-mira-murati-thinking-machines-lab-pytorch-ai-2025-11), left Meta to join the startup and is the creator of the open-source AI project PyTorch." ] }, { "url": "https://perplexity.ai/page/meta-poaches-four-key-openai-r-x7ZpSYIqRyKvhFw8h1ahCw", "title": "Perplexity", "published_at": null, "researcher": "Lucas Beyer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "## Meta poaches four key OpenAI researchers for AI team", "The social media giant hired Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai from OpenAI's Zurich office, according to The Wall Street Journal." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://perplexity.ai/page/meta-poaches-four-key-openai-r-x7ZpSYIqRyKvhFw8h1ahCw", "title": "Perplexity", "published_at": null, "researcher": "Alexander Kolesnikov", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "## Meta poaches four key OpenAI researchers for AI team", "The social media giant hired Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai from OpenAI's Zurich office, according to The Wall Street Journal." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://perplexity.ai/page/meta-poaches-four-key-openai-r-x7ZpSYIqRyKvhFw8h1ahCw", "title": "Perplexity", "published_at": null, "researcher": "Xiaohua Zhai", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "## Meta poaches four key OpenAI researchers for AI team", "The social media giant hired Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai from OpenAI's Zurich office, according to The Wall Street Journal." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://perplexity.ai/page/meta-poaches-four-key-openai-r-x7ZpSYIqRyKvhFw8h1ahCw", "title": "Perplexity", "published_at": null, "researcher": "Trapit Bansal", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "## Meta poaches four key OpenAI researchers for AI team", "Separately, Meta also recruited Trapit Bansal, who played a foundational role in developing OpenAI's first AI reasoning model, o1, according to TechCrunch." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://insight.tmcnet.com/insight/senior-ai-researchers-leave-google-for-competitors-1782340889791", "title": "Senior AI researchers leave Google for competitors", "published_at": "2026-06-24T22:41:29", "researcher": "Jonas Adler", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "### Key Takeaways", "- Google is losing key AI researchers, including Jonas Adler, Alexander Pritzel, Noam Shazeer, and John Jumper, to rivals Anthropic and OpenAI.", "The latest moves involve Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel heading to Anthropic." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://insight.tmcnet.com/insight/senior-ai-researchers-leave-google-for-competitors-1782340889791", "title": "Senior AI researchers leave Google for competitors", "published_at": "2026-06-24T22:41:29", "researcher": "Alexander Pritzel", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "### Key Takeaways", "- Google is losing key AI researchers, including Jonas Adler, Alexander Pritzel, Noam Shazeer, and John Jumper, to rivals Anthropic and OpenAI.", "The latest moves involve Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel heading to Anthropic." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://insight.tmcnet.com/insight/senior-ai-researchers-leave-google-for-competitors-1782340889791", "title": "Senior AI researchers leave Google for competitors", "published_at": "2026-06-24T22:41:29", "researcher": "Noam Shazeer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "### Key Takeaways", "- Google is losing key AI researchers, including Jonas Adler, Alexander Pritzel, Noam Shazeer, and John Jumper, to rivals Anthropic and OpenAI.", "Last week, legendary AI researcher Noam Shazeer announced he is leaving Google for OpenAI." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://insight.tmcnet.com/insight/senior-ai-researchers-leave-google-for-competitors-1782340889791", "title": "Senior AI researchers leave Google for competitors", "published_at": "2026-06-24T22:41:29", "researcher": "John Jumper", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Google DeepMind director", "researcher_evidence": [ "### Key Takeaways", "- Google is losing key AI researchers, including Jonas Adler, Alexander Pritzel, Noam Shazeer, and John Jumper, to rivals Anthropic and OpenAI.", "Just days after Shazeer made his announcement, Google DeepMind director John Jumper stated he was leaving Google for Anthropic." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Just days after Shazeer made his announcement, Google DeepMind director John Jumper stated he was leaving Google for Anthropic." ] }, { "url": "https://brandiconimage.com/2025/06/meta-lures-openai-talent-despite.html", "title": "Meta Lures OpenAI Talent Despite Altman\u2019s Criticism of Lavish Hiring Tactics", "published_at": "2025-06-26T07:17:00", "researcher": "Lucas Beyer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "superintelligence team researcher", "researcher_evidence": [ "In the escalating battle for artificial intelligence supremacy, Meta has scored a notable win by poaching three prominent researchers from OpenAI, intensifying a high-stakes talent war between the tech giants.", "According to *The Wall Street Journal*, the trio \u2014 Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai \u2014 have joined Meta\u2019s superintelligence team, marking a significant coup for CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who has reportedly adopted aggressive recruiting methods to build Meta's AI dominance." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "According to *The Wall Street Journal*, the trio \u2014 Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai \u2014 have joined Meta\u2019s superintelligence team, marking a significant coup for CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who has reportedly adopted aggressive recruiting methods to build Meta's AI dominance." ] }, { "url": "https://brandiconimage.com/2025/06/meta-lures-openai-talent-despite.html", "title": "Meta Lures OpenAI Talent Despite Altman\u2019s Criticism of Lavish Hiring Tactics", "published_at": "2025-06-26T07:17:00", "researcher": "Alexander Kolesnikov", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "superintelligence team researcher", "researcher_evidence": [ "In the escalating battle for artificial intelligence supremacy, Meta has scored a notable win by poaching three prominent researchers from OpenAI, intensifying a high-stakes talent war between the tech giants.", "According to *The Wall Street Journal*, the trio \u2014 Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai \u2014 have joined Meta\u2019s superintelligence team, marking a significant coup for CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who has reportedly adopted aggressive recruiting methods to build Meta's AI dominance." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "According to *The Wall Street Journal*, the trio \u2014 Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai \u2014 have joined Meta\u2019s superintelligence team, marking a significant coup for CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who has reportedly adopted aggressive recruiting methods to build Meta's AI dominance." ] }, { "url": "https://brandiconimage.com/2025/06/meta-lures-openai-talent-despite.html", "title": "Meta Lures OpenAI Talent Despite Altman\u2019s Criticism of Lavish Hiring Tactics", "published_at": "2025-06-26T07:17:00", "researcher": "Xiaohua Zhai", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "superintelligence team researcher", "researcher_evidence": [ "In the escalating battle for artificial intelligence supremacy, Meta has scored a notable win by poaching three prominent researchers from OpenAI, intensifying a high-stakes talent war between the tech giants.", "According to *The Wall Street Journal*, the trio \u2014 Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai \u2014 have joined Meta\u2019s superintelligence team, marking a significant coup for CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who has reportedly adopted aggressive recruiting methods to build Meta's AI dominance." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "According to *The Wall Street Journal*, the trio \u2014 Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai \u2014 have joined Meta\u2019s superintelligence team, marking a significant coup for CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who has reportedly adopted aggressive recruiting methods to build Meta's AI dominance." ] }, { "url": "https://github.com/pedro-bright/the-ledger/blob/main/content/events/2026/74-noam-shazeer-joins-openai.md", "title": "the-ledger/content/events/2026/74-noam-shazeer-joins-openai.md at main \u00b7 pedro-bright/the-ledger", "published_at": null, "researcher": "Noam Shazeer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "Noam Shazeer, Co-Author of 'Attention Is All You Need,' Leaves Google for OpenAI", "On June 18, 2026, Noam Shazeer announced on X that he is leaving Google to join OpenAI." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://businessinsider.com/openai-xai-quit-burnout-ai-lab-vietnam-2026-2", "title": "Former OpenAI, xAI staffer quits over burnout and returns to Vietnam", "published_at": "2026-02-26T09:12:20", "researcher": "Dylan Scandinaro", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "head of preparedness", "researcher_evidence": [ "[Dylan Scandinaro](https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-anthropic-safety-researcher-head-of-preparedness-dylan-scand-2026-2), who left Anthropic earlier this month to join OpenAI as head of preparedness, wrote on LinkedIn: \"AI is advancing rapidly. The potential benefits are great \u2014 and so are the risks of extreme and even irrecoverable harm.\"" ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "[Dylan Scandinaro](https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-anthropic-safety-researcher-head-of-preparedness-dylan-scand-2026-2), who left Anthropic earlier this month to join OpenAI as head of preparedness, wrote on LinkedIn: \"AI is advancing rapidly. The potential benefits are great \u2014 and so are the risks of extreme and even irrecoverable harm.\"" ] }, { "url": "https://htx.com/news/429546", "title": "Nobel Laureate Becomes New Employee at Anthropic", "published_at": "2026-06-20T01:15:39", "researcher": "John Jumper", "left_lab": "Google DeepMind", "joined_lab": "Anthropic", "move_month": "2026-06", "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# Nobel Laureate Becomes New Employee at Anthropic", "Nobel laureate and AlphaFold lead John Jumper has left Google DeepMind after nearly nine years to join AI company Anthropic." ], "left_lab_evidence": [ "# Nobel Laureate Becomes New Employee at Anthropic", "Nobel laureate and AlphaFold lead John Jumper has left Google DeepMind after nearly nine years to join AI company Anthropic." ], "joined_lab_evidence": [ "# Nobel Laureate Becomes New Employee at Anthropic", "Nobel laureate and AlphaFold lead John Jumper has left Google DeepMind after nearly nine years to join AI company Anthropic." ], "move_month_evidence": [ "# Nobel Laureate Becomes New Employee at Anthropic", "marsbitPublished on 2026-06-20Last updated on 2026-06-20", "Nobel laureate and AlphaFold lead John Jumper has left Google DeepMind after nearly nine years to join AI company Anthropic." ], "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://htx.com/news/429546", "title": "Nobel Laureate Becomes New Employee at Anthropic", "published_at": "2026-06-20T01:15:39", "researcher": "Noam Shazeer", "left_lab": "Google", "joined_lab": "OpenAI", "move_month": "2026-06", "role": "Head of Architecture Research", "researcher_evidence": [ "# Nobel Laureate Becomes New Employee at Anthropic", "His departure follows closely that of Transformer co-inventor Noam Shazeer, who recently left Google for OpenAI, marking a significant talent drain for the tech giant." ], "left_lab_evidence": [ "# Nobel Laureate Becomes New Employee at Anthropic", "His departure follows closely that of Transformer co-inventor Noam Shazeer, who recently left Google for OpenAI, marking a significant talent drain for the tech giant." ], "joined_lab_evidence": [ "# Nobel Laureate Becomes New Employee at Anthropic", "His departure follows closely that of Transformer co-inventor Noam Shazeer, who recently left Google for OpenAI, marking a significant talent drain for the tech giant." ], "move_month_evidence": [ "# Nobel Laureate Becomes New Employee at Anthropic", "marsbitPublished on 2026-06-20Last updated on 2026-06-20", "His departure follows closely that of Transformer co-inventor Noam Shazeer, who recently left Google for OpenAI, marking a significant talent drain for the tech giant." ], "role_evidence": [ "# Nobel Laureate Becomes New Employee at Anthropic", "Just two days before Jumper's announcement, Noam Shazeer announced leaving Google for OpenAI, as \"Head of Architecture Research.\"" ] }, { "url": "https://618ebf17-c616-472e-b991-7f435e7211ad.frame.claudeusercontent.com/_f/1786326679-1050?__frame_v=manifest.6888d66fadc7b1af.json", "title": "Reasoning Labs \u2014 Employee Census", "published_at": null, "researcher": "Joelle Pineau", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Chief AI Officer", "researcher_evidence": [ "Cohere | [cohere.com](https://cohere.com) | Toronto/SF/London; enterprise-focused (Command A, Aya multilingual line); Joelle Pineau joined as Chief AI Officer (Aug 2025); Cohere Labs now led by Marzieh Fadaee after Sara Hooker's departure.", "# Reasoning Labs \u2014 Employee Census", "## Lab profiles", "| Lab | Website | Profile (as of Aug 2026) | People visibility |" ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Cohere | [cohere.com](https://cohere.com) | Toronto/SF/London; enterprise-focused (Command A, Aya multilingual line); Joelle Pineau joined as Chief AI Officer (Aug 2025); Cohere Labs now led by Marzieh Fadaee after Sara Hooker's departure.", "# Reasoning Labs \u2014 Employee Census", "## Lab profiles", "| Lab | Website | Profile (as of Aug 2026) | People visibility |" ] }, { "url": "https://budgyapp.com/google-deepmind-shazeer-jumper-ai-talent-exits", "title": "Google DeepMind Loses Two Top AI Researchers in a Week", "published_at": "2026-06-23T00:00:00", "researcher": "Noam Shazeer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Google's vice president of engineering and a co-lead of its Gemini AI models", "researcher_evidence": [ "Google DeepMind Loses Shazeer and Jumper in One Week of AI Talent Exits", "On June 18, Noam Shazeer, Google\u2019s vice president of engineering and a co-lead of its Gemini AI models, said on X that he was joining OpenAI." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Google DeepMind Loses Shazeer and Jumper in One Week of AI Talent Exits", "On June 18, Noam Shazeer, Google\u2019s vice president of engineering and a co-lead of its Gemini AI models, said on X that he was joining OpenAI." ] }, { "url": "https://budgyapp.com/google-deepmind-shazeer-jumper-ai-talent-exits", "title": "Google DeepMind Loses Two Top AI Researchers in a Week", "published_at": "2026-06-23T00:00:00", "researcher": "John Jumper", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "DeepMind scientist", "researcher_evidence": [ "Google DeepMind Loses Shazeer and Jumper in One Week of AI Talent Exits", "One day later, John Jumper, the DeepMind scientist who shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for AlphaFold, said on X that he was leaving for Anthropic." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Google DeepMind Loses Shazeer and Jumper in One Week of AI Talent Exits", "One day later, John Jumper, the DeepMind scientist who shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for AlphaFold, said on X that he was leaving for Anthropic." ] }, { "url": "https://aidb.digital/blog/2026-07-19-anthropic-hires-andrej-karpathy-as-google-deepmind-talent-exodus-acce", "title": "Anthropic Hires Andrej Karpathy as Google DeepMind Talent Exodus Accelerates \u00b7 AIDB", "published_at": "2026-07-19T00:00:00", "researcher": "Andrej Karpathy", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Member of Anthropic's pre-training team", "researcher_evidence": [ "## Karpathy Joins Anthropic's Pre-Training Team", "Andrej Karpathy, one of the best-known artificial intelligence researchers in the world and a founding member of OpenAI, announced on May 19, 2026, that he is joining rival AI lab Anthropic." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "## Karpathy Joins Anthropic's Pre-Training Team", "Karpathy joined Anthropic's pre-training team, which is responsible for the massive training runs that give Claude its core knowledge and capabilities, and will help launch a new team focused on using Claude itself to accelerate pre-training research." ] }, { "url": "https://aidb.digital/blog/2026-07-19-anthropic-hires-andrej-karpathy-as-google-deepmind-talent-exodus-acce", "title": "Anthropic Hires Andrej Karpathy as Google DeepMind Talent Exodus Accelerates \u00b7 AIDB", "published_at": "2026-07-19T00:00:00", "researcher": "John Jumper", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "## DeepMind Departures Intensify", "Five senior Google DeepMind researchers departed for Anthropic and OpenAI within one week in June 2026. Alphabet lost roughly $270 billion in market value as exits included Nobel laureate John Jumper and Transformer co-author Noam Shazeer.", "The exits include Nobel Prize winner John Jumper (to Anthropic), Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer (to OpenAI), AI coding researcher Jonas Adler (to Anthropic), pre-training specialist Alexander Pritzel (to Anthropic), and Gemini 2.5 contributor Arthur Conmy (to Anthropic)." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://aidb.digital/blog/2026-07-19-anthropic-hires-andrej-karpathy-as-google-deepmind-talent-exodus-acce", "title": "Anthropic Hires Andrej Karpathy as Google DeepMind Talent Exodus Accelerates \u00b7 AIDB", "published_at": "2026-07-19T00:00:00", "researcher": "Noam Shazeer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Gemini co-lead", "researcher_evidence": [ "## DeepMind Departures Intensify", "Five senior Google DeepMind researchers departed for Anthropic and OpenAI within one week in June 2026. Alphabet lost roughly $270 billion in market value as exits included Nobel laureate John Jumper and Transformer co-author Noam Shazeer.", "The exits include Nobel Prize winner John Jumper (to Anthropic), Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer (to OpenAI), AI coding researcher Jonas Adler (to Anthropic), pre-training specialist Alexander Pritzel (to Anthropic), and Gemini 2.5 contributor Arthur Conmy (to Anthropic)." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "## DeepMind Departures Intensify", "The exits include Nobel Prize winner John Jumper (to Anthropic), Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer (to OpenAI), AI coding researcher Jonas Adler (to Anthropic), pre-training specialist Alexander Pritzel (to Anthropic), and Gemini 2.5 contributor Arthur Conmy (to Anthropic)." ] }, { "url": "https://aidb.digital/blog/2026-07-19-anthropic-hires-andrej-karpathy-as-google-deepmind-talent-exodus-acce", "title": "Anthropic Hires Andrej Karpathy as Google DeepMind Talent Exodus Accelerates \u00b7 AIDB", "published_at": "2026-07-19T00:00:00", "researcher": "Jonas Adler", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "AI coding researcher", "researcher_evidence": [ "## DeepMind Departures Intensify", "The exits include Nobel Prize winner John Jumper (to Anthropic), Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer (to OpenAI), AI coding researcher Jonas Adler (to Anthropic), pre-training specialist Alexander Pritzel (to Anthropic), and Gemini 2.5 contributor Arthur Conmy (to Anthropic)." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "## DeepMind Departures Intensify", "The exits include Nobel Prize winner John Jumper (to Anthropic), Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer (to OpenAI), AI coding researcher Jonas Adler (to Anthropic), pre-training specialist Alexander Pritzel (to Anthropic), and Gemini 2.5 contributor Arthur Conmy (to Anthropic)." ] }, { "url": "https://aidb.digital/blog/2026-07-19-anthropic-hires-andrej-karpathy-as-google-deepmind-talent-exodus-acce", "title": "Anthropic Hires Andrej Karpathy as Google DeepMind Talent Exodus Accelerates \u00b7 AIDB", "published_at": "2026-07-19T00:00:00", "researcher": "Alexander Pritzel", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "pre-training specialist", "researcher_evidence": [ "## DeepMind Departures Intensify", "The exits include Nobel Prize winner John Jumper (to Anthropic), Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer (to OpenAI), AI coding researcher Jonas Adler (to Anthropic), pre-training specialist Alexander Pritzel (to Anthropic), and Gemini 2.5 contributor Arthur Conmy (to Anthropic)." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "## DeepMind Departures Intensify", "The exits include Nobel Prize winner John Jumper (to Anthropic), Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer (to OpenAI), AI coding researcher Jonas Adler (to Anthropic), pre-training specialist Alexander Pritzel (to Anthropic), and Gemini 2.5 contributor Arthur Conmy (to Anthropic)." ] }, { "url": "https://aidb.digital/blog/2026-07-19-anthropic-hires-andrej-karpathy-as-google-deepmind-talent-exodus-acce", "title": "Anthropic Hires Andrej Karpathy as Google DeepMind Talent Exodus Accelerates \u00b7 AIDB", "published_at": "2026-07-19T00:00:00", "researcher": "Arthur Conmy", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Gemini 2.5 contributor", "researcher_evidence": [ "## DeepMind Departures Intensify", "The exits include Nobel Prize winner John Jumper (to Anthropic), Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer (to OpenAI), AI coding researcher Jonas Adler (to Anthropic), pre-training specialist Alexander Pritzel (to Anthropic), and Gemini 2.5 contributor Arthur Conmy (to Anthropic)." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "## DeepMind Departures Intensify", "The exits include Nobel Prize winner John Jumper (to Anthropic), Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer (to OpenAI), AI coding researcher Jonas Adler (to Anthropic), pre-training specialist Alexander Pritzel (to Anthropic), and Gemini 2.5 contributor Arthur Conmy (to Anthropic)." ] }, { "url": "https://taeho.io/en/reading/silicon-valley-s-ai-talent-war-loyalty-legends-and-the-lure-of-a-billion-dollars_9165", "title": "Silicon Valley's AI Talent War: Loyalty, Legends, and the Lure of a Billion Dollars", "published_at": "2025-08-02T20:11:56", "researcher": "Shengjia Zhao", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Head of Meta's Superintelligence team", "researcher_evidence": [ "This article covers in chronological detail the background behind Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's push to recruit OpenAI alumni, the choices of key individuals, and the culture and values of the AI industry.", "## 3. Meta's Aggressive Recruiting and Companies' Defense Strategies", "On July 25, 2025, Zuckerberg appointed Chinese researcher **Shengjia Zhao**, an OpenAI alumnus, as head of Meta's Superintelligence team." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "This article covers in chronological detail the background behind Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's push to recruit OpenAI alumni, the choices of key individuals, and the culture and values of the AI industry.", "## 3. Meta's Aggressive Recruiting and Companies' Defense Strategies", "On July 25, 2025, Zuckerberg appointed Chinese researcher **Shengjia Zhao**, an OpenAI alumnus, as head of Meta's Superintelligence team." ] }, { "url": "https://gentic.news/article/nobel-laureate-john-jumper-leaves", "title": "Google DeepMind loses its third senior AI researcher in months as Nobel laureate John Jumper joins Anthropic", "published_at": "2026-06-19T17:54:14", "researcher": "John Jumper", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "Listen to today's AI briefing", "Google DeepMind loses its third senior AI researcher in months as Nobel laureate John Jumper joins Anthropic", "Nobel laureate John Jumper, DeepMind Director and VP Engineering Fellow who co-created AlphaFold, has left Google after nine years for Anthropic." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://gentic.news/article/nobel-laureate-john-jumper-leaves", "title": "Google DeepMind loses its third senior AI researcher in months as Nobel laureate John Jumper joins Anthropic", "published_at": "2026-06-19T17:54:14", "researcher": "Noam Shazeer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Lead for Architecture Research", "researcher_evidence": [ "Listen to today's AI briefing", "Google DeepMind loses its third senior AI researcher in months as Nobel laureate John Jumper joins Anthropic", "The move follows Noam Shazeer's exit to OpenAI two days earlier \u2014 less than two years after Google paid $2.7B to reacquire him \u2014 and David Silver's Januar" ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Listen to today's AI briefing", "The Shazeer context makes the pattern harder to dismiss", "Less than two years later he announced on X that he is joining OpenAI as Lead for Architecture Research." ] }, { "url": "https://implicator.ai/chinas-ai-talent-is-going-home-the-real-blow-is-the-students-who-stopped-leaving-2", "title": "Chinese AI Talent Returns Home as US Pipeline Narrows", "published_at": "2026-04-12T12:27:58", "researcher": "Wu Yonghui", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "vice president of research", "researcher_evidence": [ "Who are Wu Yonghui and Yao Shunyu?", "Wu Yonghui is a former vice president of research at Google DeepMind who left in early 2025 to run ByteDance's Seed AI lab." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Who are Wu Yonghui and Yao Shunyu?", "Wu Yonghui is a former vice president of research at Google DeepMind who left in early 2025 to run ByteDance's Seed AI lab." ] }, { "url": "https://implicator.ai/chinas-ai-talent-is-going-home-the-real-blow-is-the-students-who-stopped-leaving-2", "title": "Chinese AI Talent Returns Home as US Pipeline Narrows", "published_at": "2026-04-12T12:27:58", "researcher": "Yao Shunyu", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "Not exactly the dress code at Tencent.", "Who are Wu Yonghui and Yao Shunyu?", "Yao Shunyu is a 27-year-old former OpenAI researcher, best known for proposing the ReAct paradigm, who joined Tencent in late 2025 reporting directly to president Martin Lau for a package reportedly worth 100 million yuan." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/24/ai-researchers-continue-to-leave-google-for-its-rivals", "title": "AI researchers continue to leave Google for its rivals", "published_at": "2026-06-24T21:42:07", "researcher": "Jonas Adler", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "Top AI researchers Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel are leaving Google for Anthropic, according to [Bloomberg](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-24/google-poised-to-lose-two-more-high-profile-ai-staffers-to-anthropic).", "In Brief" ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/24/ai-researchers-continue-to-leave-google-for-its-rivals", "title": "AI researchers continue to leave Google for its rivals", "published_at": "2026-06-24T21:42:07", "researcher": "Alexander Pritzel", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "Top AI researchers Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel are leaving Google for Anthropic, according to [Bloomberg](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-24/google-poised-to-lose-two-more-high-profile-ai-staffers-to-anthropic).", "In Brief" ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/24/ai-researchers-continue-to-leave-google-for-its-rivals", "title": "AI researchers continue to leave Google for its rivals", "published_at": "2026-06-24T21:42:07", "researcher": "Noam Shazeer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "In Brief" ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/24/ai-researchers-continue-to-leave-google-for-its-rivals", "title": "AI researchers continue to leave Google for its rivals", "published_at": "2026-06-24T21:42:07", "researcher": "John Jumper", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Google DeepMind director", "researcher_evidence": [ "Just days after Shazeer made his announcement, Google DeepMind director [John Jumper](https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/20/nobel-laureate-john-jumper-is-leaving-deepmind-for-rival-anthropic/) said he was leaving Google for Anthropic.", "In Brief" ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Just days after Shazeer made his announcement, Google DeepMind director [John Jumper](https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/20/nobel-laureate-john-jumper-is-leaving-deepmind-for-rival-anthropic/) said he was leaving Google for Anthropic.", "In Brief" ] }, { "url": "https://news.ainauten.com/en/story/openai-mitgruender-andrej-karpathy-wechselt-zu-anthropic", "title": "OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic", "published_at": "2026-05-19T15:38:01", "researcher": "Andrej Karpathy", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "pre-training team responsible for the massive training runs behind Claude, and will help launch a new team that uses Claude itself to accelerate pretraining research", "researcher_evidence": [ "tech", "# OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic", "Andrej Karpathy, one of the best-known AI researchers in the world and a founding member of OpenAI, is joining rival lab Anthropic." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "tech", "# OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic", "He starts this week on the pre-training team responsible for the massive training runs behind Claude, and will help launch a new team that uses Claude itself to accelerate pretraining research." ] }, { "url": "https://taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2026/06/22/2003859496", "title": "Nobel Prize AI researcher leaves Google to Anthropic", "published_at": "2026-06-21T16:00:00", "researcher": "John Jumper", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "vice president", "researcher_evidence": [ "Google DeepMind vice president John Jumper, who won the 2024 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work on artificial intelligence (AI), is leaving the company to join Anthropic PBC.", "Nobel Prize AI researcher leaves Google to Anthropic" ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Google DeepMind vice president John Jumper, who won the 2024 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work on artificial intelligence (AI), is leaving the company to join Anthropic PBC.", "Nobel Prize AI researcher leaves Google to Anthropic" ] }, { "url": "https://mlq.ai/news/metas-yann-lecun-clarifies-role-amid-ai-leadership-shifts", "title": "Meta's Yann LeCun Clarifies Role Amid AI Leadership Shifts", "published_at": "2025-07-27T17:33:54", "researcher": "Shengjia Zhao", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Chief Scientist of Superintelligence Labs", "researcher_evidence": [ "# Meta's Yann LeCun Clarifies Role Amid AI Leadership Shifts", "Shengjia Zhao, previously part of the team that developed ChatGPT at OpenAI, has been appointed chief scientist of Superintelligence Labs." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# Meta's Yann LeCun Clarifies Role Amid AI Leadership Shifts", "Meta hired Alexandr Wang as Chief AI Officer and Shengjia Zhao, a former OpenAI researcher, as Chief Scientist of Superintelligence Labs." ] }, { "url": "https://worldaffairscharlotte.wordpress.com/2025/07/13/inside-the-ai-talent-war", "title": "Inside the AI Talent War", "published_at": "2025-07-13T00:00:00", "researcher": "Lucas Beyer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# Inside the AI Talent War", "Since its inception, the company has, controversially, hired eight researchers from OpenAI, including Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, Xiaohua Zhai, Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, and Hongyu Ren, as well as Shengjia Zhao, most notably." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://worldaffairscharlotte.wordpress.com/2025/07/13/inside-the-ai-talent-war", "title": "Inside the AI Talent War", "published_at": "2025-07-13T00:00:00", "researcher": "Alexander Kolesnikov", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# Inside the AI Talent War", "Since its inception, the company has, controversially, hired eight researchers from OpenAI, including Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, Xiaohua Zhai, Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, and Hongyu Ren, as well as Shengjia Zhao, most notably." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://worldaffairscharlotte.wordpress.com/2025/07/13/inside-the-ai-talent-war", "title": "Inside the AI Talent War", "published_at": "2025-07-13T00:00:00", "researcher": "Xiaohua Zhai", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# Inside the AI Talent War", "Since its inception, the company has, controversially, hired eight researchers from OpenAI, including Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, Xiaohua Zhai, Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, and Hongyu Ren, as well as Shengjia Zhao, most notably." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://worldaffairscharlotte.wordpress.com/2025/07/13/inside-the-ai-talent-war", "title": "Inside the AI Talent War", "published_at": "2025-07-13T00:00:00", "researcher": "Jiahui Yu", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# Inside the AI Talent War", "Since its inception, the company has, controversially, hired eight researchers from OpenAI, including Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, Xiaohua Zhai, Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, and Hongyu Ren, as well as Shengjia Zhao, most notably." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://worldaffairscharlotte.wordpress.com/2025/07/13/inside-the-ai-talent-war", "title": "Inside the AI Talent War", "published_at": "2025-07-13T00:00:00", "researcher": "Shuchao Bi", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# Inside the AI Talent War", "Since its inception, the company has, controversially, hired eight researchers from OpenAI, including Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, Xiaohua Zhai, Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, and Hongyu Ren, as well as Shengjia Zhao, most notably." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://worldaffairscharlotte.wordpress.com/2025/07/13/inside-the-ai-talent-war", "title": "Inside the AI Talent War", "published_at": "2025-07-13T00:00:00", "researcher": "Hongyu Ren", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# Inside the AI Talent War", "Since its inception, the company has, controversially, hired eight researchers from OpenAI, including Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, Xiaohua Zhai, Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, and Hongyu Ren, as well as Shengjia Zhao, most notably." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://worldaffairscharlotte.wordpress.com/2025/07/13/inside-the-ai-talent-war", "title": "Inside the AI Talent War", "published_at": "2025-07-13T00:00:00", "researcher": "Shengjia Zhao", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "senior-level researcher", "researcher_evidence": [ "# Inside the AI Talent War", "Since its inception, the company has, controversially, hired eight researchers from OpenAI, including Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, Xiaohua Zhai, Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, and Hongyu Ren, as well as Shengjia Zhao, most notably.", "Shengjia Zhao was a senior-level researcher at OpenAI with a deep background in alignment, interpretability, and large language models." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# Inside the AI Talent War", "Shengjia Zhao was a senior-level researcher at OpenAI with a deep background in alignment, interpretability, and large language models." ] }, { "url": "https://thorstenmeyerai.com/insights/a-frontier-lab-hired-a-head-of-leasing-land-and-energy-thats-the-story", "title": "A Frontier Lab Hired a Head of Leasing, Land and Energy. That's the Story. - Thorsten Meyer AI", "published_at": "2026-07-17T02:48:00", "researcher": "John Jumper", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "remind undisclosed", "researcher_evidence": [ "A Frontier Lab Hired a Head of Leasing, Land and Energy \u2014 Reality Check", "Frontier research3the headlines", "**John Jumper** announced on 19 June that he was leaving Google DeepMind after nearly nine years \u2014 he shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for AlphaFold." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "A Frontier Lab Hired a Head of Leasing, Land and Energy \u2014 Reality Check", "Frontier research3the headlines", "**John Jumper** announced on 19 June that he was leaving Google DeepMind after nearly nine years \u2014 he shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for AlphaFold.", "**His title, team and project have not been disclosed.**" ] }, { "url": "https://cryptonews.net/news/metaverse/31194988", "title": "Mark Zuckerberg Unveils New Meta AI Lab After Poaching OpenAI Talent", "published_at": "2025-07-01T00:11:01", "researcher": "Lucas Beyer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# Mark Zuckerberg Unveils New Meta AI Lab After Poaching OpenAI Talent", "The fallout became public last week, when OpenAI confirmed that researchers Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai had left the company." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://cryptonews.net/news/metaverse/31194988", "title": "Mark Zuckerberg Unveils New Meta AI Lab After Poaching OpenAI Talent", "published_at": "2025-07-01T00:11:01", "researcher": "Alexander Kolesnikov", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# Mark Zuckerberg Unveils New Meta AI Lab After Poaching OpenAI Talent", "The fallout became public last week, when OpenAI confirmed that researchers Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai had left the company." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://cryptonews.net/news/metaverse/31194988", "title": "Mark Zuckerberg Unveils New Meta AI Lab After Poaching OpenAI Talent", "published_at": "2025-07-01T00:11:01", "researcher": "Xiaohua Zhai", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# Mark Zuckerberg Unveils New Meta AI Lab After Poaching OpenAI Talent", "The fallout became public last week, when OpenAI confirmed that researchers Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai had left the company." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://cryptonews.net/news/metaverse/31194988", "title": "Mark Zuckerberg Unveils New Meta AI Lab After Poaching OpenAI Talent", "published_at": "2025-07-01T00:11:01", "researcher": "Jiahui Yu", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "led o3, o4-mini, GPT-4.1", "researcher_evidence": [ "# Mark Zuckerberg Unveils New Meta AI Lab After Poaching OpenAI Talent", "- Jiahui Yu: led o3, o4-mini, GPT-4.1" ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# Mark Zuckerberg Unveils New Meta AI Lab After Poaching OpenAI Talent", "- Jiahui Yu: led o3, o4-mini, GPT-4.1" ] }, { "url": "https://cryptonews.net/news/metaverse/31194988", "title": "Mark Zuckerberg Unveils New Meta AI Lab After Poaching OpenAI Talent", "published_at": "2025-07-01T00:11:01", "researcher": "Hongyu Ren", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "creator of o3-mini & o1-mini, core contributor to o1", "researcher_evidence": [ "# Mark Zuckerberg Unveils New Meta AI Lab After Poaching OpenAI Talent", "- Hongyu Ren: creator of o3-mini & o1-mini, core contributor to o1" ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# Mark Zuckerberg Unveils New Meta AI Lab After Poaching OpenAI Talent", "- Hongyu Ren: creator of o3-mini & o1-mini, core contributor to o1" ] }, { "url": "https://cryptonews.net/news/metaverse/31194988", "title": "Mark Zuckerberg Unveils New Meta AI Lab After Poaching OpenAI Talent", "published_at": "2025-07-01T00:11:01", "researcher": "Shuchao Bi", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "head of post-training multimodal org", "researcher_evidence": [ "# Mark Zuckerberg Unveils New Meta AI Lab After Poaching OpenAI Talent", "- Shuchao Bi: head of post-training multimodal org" ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# Mark Zuckerberg Unveils New Meta AI Lab After Poaching OpenAI Talent", "- Shuchao Bi: head of post-training multimodal org" ] }, { "url": "https://cryptonews.net/news/metaverse/31194988", "title": "Mark Zuckerberg Unveils New Meta AI Lab After Poaching OpenAI Talent", "published_at": "2025-07-01T00:11:01", "researcher": "Shengjia Zhao", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "key contributor to GPT-4 & o1", "researcher_evidence": [ "# Mark Zuckerberg Unveils New Meta AI Lab After Poaching OpenAI Talent", "- Shengjia Zhao: key contributor to GPT-4 & o1" ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# Mark Zuckerberg Unveils New Meta AI Lab After Poaching OpenAI Talent", "- Shengjia Zhao: key contributor to GPT-4 & o1" ] }, { "url": "https://cryptonews.net/news/metaverse/31194988", "title": "Mark Zuckerberg Unveils New Meta AI Lab After Poaching OpenAI Talent", "published_at": "2025-07-01T00:11:01", "researcher": "Jack Rae", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# Mark Zuckerberg Unveils New Meta AI Lab After Poaching OpenAI Talent", "Meta\u2019s new team includes Daniel Gross, co-founder and CEO of Safe Superintelligence (SSI); former DeepMind researchers Jack Rae and Pei Sun; and several high-profile AI researchers from OpenAI, including Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, Shengjia Zhao, and Hongyu Ren, as well as Joel Pobar, an Anthropic engineer and Meta veteran, and Google Fellow, Johan Schalkwyk." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://cryptonews.net/news/metaverse/31194988", "title": "Mark Zuckerberg Unveils New Meta AI Lab After Poaching OpenAI Talent", "published_at": "2025-07-01T00:11:01", "researcher": "Pei Sun", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# Mark Zuckerberg Unveils New Meta AI Lab After Poaching OpenAI Talent", "Meta\u2019s new team includes Daniel Gross, co-founder and CEO of Safe Superintelligence (SSI); former DeepMind researchers Jack Rae and Pei Sun; and several high-profile AI researchers from OpenAI, including Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, Shengjia Zhao, and Hongyu Ren, as well as Joel Pobar, an Anthropic engineer and Meta veteran, and Google Fellow, Johan Schalkwyk." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://mlq.ai/news/google-loses-two-more-senior-ai-researchers-to-anthropic-as-deepmind-talent-exodus-accelerates", "title": "Google Loses Two More Senior AI Researchers to Anthropic as DeepMind Talent Exodus Accelerates", "published_at": null, "researcher": "Jonas Adler", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "principal research scientist", "researcher_evidence": [ "# Google Loses Two More Senior AI Researchers to Anthropic as DeepMind Talent Exodus Accelerates", "Jonas Adler, a principal research scientist who worked on Google's AI coding efforts and Gemini model, and Alexander Pritzel, a researcher focused on pretraining for Gemini, both plan to join the Claude maker." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# Google Loses Two More Senior AI Researchers to Anthropic as DeepMind Talent Exodus Accelerates", "Jonas Adler, a principal research scientist who worked on Google's AI coding efforts and Gemini model, and Alexander Pritzel, a researcher focused on pretraining for Gemini, both plan to join the Claude maker." ] }, { "url": "https://mlq.ai/news/google-loses-two-more-senior-ai-researchers-to-anthropic-as-deepmind-talent-exodus-accelerates", "title": "Google Loses Two More Senior AI Researchers to Anthropic as DeepMind Talent Exodus Accelerates", "published_at": null, "researcher": "Alexander Pritzel", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "researcher focused on pretraining for Gemini", "researcher_evidence": [ "# Google Loses Two More Senior AI Researchers to Anthropic as DeepMind Talent Exodus Accelerates", "Jonas Adler, a principal research scientist who worked on Google's AI coding efforts and Gemini model, and Alexander Pritzel, a researcher focused on pretraining for Gemini, both plan to join the Claude maker." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# Google Loses Two More Senior AI Researchers to Anthropic as DeepMind Talent Exodus Accelerates", "Jonas Adler, a principal research scientist who worked on Google's AI coding efforts and Gemini model, and Alexander Pritzel, a researcher focused on pretraining for Gemini, both plan to join the Claude maker." ] }, { "url": "https://mlq.ai/news/google-loses-two-more-senior-ai-researchers-to-anthropic-as-deepmind-talent-exodus-accelerates", "title": "Google Loses Two More Senior AI Researchers to Anthropic as DeepMind Talent Exodus Accelerates", "published_at": null, "researcher": "John Jumper", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# Google Loses Two More Senior AI Researchers to Anthropic as DeepMind Talent Exodus Accelerates" ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://mlq.ai/news/google-loses-two-more-senior-ai-researchers-to-anthropic-as-deepmind-talent-exodus-accelerates", "title": "Google Loses Two More Senior AI Researchers to Anthropic as DeepMind Talent Exodus Accelerates", "published_at": null, "researcher": "Noam Shazeer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Gemini co-lead", "researcher_evidence": [ "# Google Loses Two More Senior AI Researchers to Anthropic as DeepMind Talent Exodus Accelerates" ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# Google Loses Two More Senior AI Researchers to Anthropic as DeepMind Talent Exodus Accelerates" ] }, { "url": "https://finance.biggo.com/news/49bc58b2-87ab-421b-a148-fadfc806bedb", "title": "Lilian Weng Quits Startup, Returns to OpenAI Within 24 Hours to Lead AI Self-Evolution Research", "published_at": "2026-07-30T04:25:48", "researcher": "Lilian Weng", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "lead a research team focused on 'Recursive Self-Improvement' \u2014 technology aimed at enabling AI systems to iteratively evolve themselves", "researcher_evidence": [ "# Lilian Weng Quits Startup, Returns to OpenAI Within 24 Hours to Lead AI Self-Evolution Research", "Lilian Weng, former VP of Safety Research at OpenAI, resigned as co-founder of startup Thinking Machines Lab on July 27, citing health reasons." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# Lilian Weng Quits Startup, Returns to OpenAI Within 24 Hours to Lead AI Self-Evolution Research", "The very next day, OpenAI confirmed she would return to lead a research team focused on \"Recursive Self-Improvement\" \u2014 technology aimed at enabling AI systems to iteratively evolve themselves." ] }, { "url": "https://featureddaily.com/news/deepmind-departures-brief", "title": "DeepMind departures: 4 AI stars leave Google in a week", "published_at": "2026-06-25T11:00:00", "researcher": "Shazeer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "co-author of *Attention Is All You Need*", "researcher_evidence": [ "# DeepMind departures: 4 AI stars leave Google in a week", "Shazeer, a co-author of *Attention Is All You Need*, joined **OpenAI** (announced 18 June)." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# DeepMind departures: 4 AI stars leave Google in a week", "Shazeer, a co-author of *Attention Is All You Need*, joined **OpenAI** (announced 18 June)." ] }, { "url": "https://featureddaily.com/news/deepmind-departures-brief", "title": "DeepMind departures: 4 AI stars leave Google in a week", "published_at": "2026-06-25T11:00:00", "researcher": "Jumper", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "DeepMind director and 2024 Nobel chemistry laureate for AlphaFold", "researcher_evidence": [ "# DeepMind departures: 4 AI stars leave Google in a week", "Jumper \u2014 a DeepMind director and 2024 Nobel chemistry laureate for AlphaFold \u2014 went to **Anthropic** (20 June)." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# DeepMind departures: 4 AI stars leave Google in a week", "Jumper \u2014 a DeepMind director and 2024 Nobel chemistry laureate for AlphaFold \u2014 went to **Anthropic** (20 June)." ] }, { "url": "https://featureddaily.com/news/deepmind-departures-brief", "title": "DeepMind departures: 4 AI stars leave Google in a week", "published_at": "2026-06-25T11:00:00", "researcher": "Adler", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "AI coding", "researcher_evidence": [ "# DeepMind departures: 4 AI stars leave Google in a week", "Bloomberg then reported Adler (AI coding) and Pritzel (pretraining, AlphaFold) were also Anthropic-bound." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# DeepMind departures: 4 AI stars leave Google in a week", "Bloomberg then reported Adler (AI coding) and Pritzel (pretraining, AlphaFold) were also Anthropic-bound." ] }, { "url": "https://featureddaily.com/news/deepmind-departures-brief", "title": "DeepMind departures: 4 AI stars leave Google in a week", "published_at": "2026-06-25T11:00:00", "researcher": "Pritzel", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "pretraining, AlphaFold", "researcher_evidence": [ "# DeepMind departures: 4 AI stars leave Google in a week", "Bloomberg then reported Adler (AI coding) and Pritzel (pretraining, AlphaFold) were also Anthropic-bound." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# DeepMind departures: 4 AI stars leave Google in a week", "Bloomberg then reported Adler (AI coding) and Pritzel (pretraining, AlphaFold) were also Anthropic-bound." ] }, { "url": "https://ciol.com/news/google-loses-more-ai-researchers-to-openai-and-anthropic-12117740", "title": "Google Loses More AI Leaders to OpenAI and Anthropic", "published_at": "2026-06-29T11:43:26", "researcher": "Jonas Adler", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# Google Loses More AI Leaders to OpenAI and Anthropic", "Google has lost more senior AI researchers to Anthropic and OpenAI, signalling that the fight for top talent is becoming as critical as the race to build advanced AI models.", "According to reports, senior AI researchers Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel, both contributors to Google's Gemini model, are leaving Google to join Anthropic." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://ciol.com/news/google-loses-more-ai-researchers-to-openai-and-anthropic-12117740", "title": "Google Loses More AI Leaders to OpenAI and Anthropic", "published_at": "2026-06-29T11:43:26", "researcher": "Alexander Pritzel", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# Google Loses More AI Leaders to OpenAI and Anthropic", "Google has lost more senior AI researchers to Anthropic and OpenAI, signalling that the fight for top talent is becoming as critical as the race to build advanced AI models.", "According to reports, senior AI researchers Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel, both contributors to Google's Gemini model, are leaving Google to join Anthropic." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://ciol.com/news/google-loses-more-ai-researchers-to-openai-and-anthropic-12117740", "title": "Google Loses More AI Leaders to OpenAI and Anthropic", "published_at": "2026-06-29T11:43:26", "researcher": "Noam Shazeer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# Google Loses More AI Leaders to OpenAI and Anthropic", "Google has lost more senior AI researchers to Anthropic and OpenAI, signalling that the fight for top talent is becoming as critical as the race to build advanced AI models.", "The departures come just days after AI researcher Noam Shazeer announced he was leaving Google for OpenAI." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://ciol.com/news/google-loses-more-ai-researchers-to-openai-and-anthropic-12117740", "title": "Google Loses More AI Leaders to OpenAI and Anthropic", "published_at": "2026-06-29T11:43:26", "researcher": "John Jumper", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "director at Google DeepMind", "researcher_evidence": [ "# Google Loses More AI Leaders to OpenAI and Anthropic", "Google has lost more senior AI researchers to Anthropic and OpenAI, signalling that the fight for top talent is becoming as critical as the race to build advanced AI models.", "Soon after, John Jumper, director at Google DeepMind and co-recipient of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on AlphaFold, also announced that he would be joining Anthropic." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# Google Loses More AI Leaders to OpenAI and Anthropic", "Google has lost more senior AI researchers to Anthropic and OpenAI, signalling that the fight for top talent is becoming as critical as the race to build advanced AI models.", "Soon after, John Jumper, director at Google DeepMind and co-recipient of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on AlphaFold, also announced that he would be joining Anthropic." ] }, { "url": "https://the-ledger.net/events/noam-shazeer-joins-openai", "title": "Noam Shazeer, Co-Author of 'Attention Is All You Need,' Leaves Google for OpenAI \u2014 The Ledger", "published_at": "2026-06-24T01:30:53", "researcher": "Noam Shazeer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# Noam Shazeer, Co-Author of 'Attention Is All You Need,' Leaves Google for OpenAI", "On June 18, 2026, Noam Shazeer announced on X that he is leaving Google to join OpenAI." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://cyclenews.blog/2025/08/26/researchers-are-already-leaving-metas-new-superintelligence-lab", "title": "Researchers Are Already Leaving Meta\u2019s New Superintelligence Lab", "published_at": "2025-08-26T23:02:50", "researcher": "Chaya Nayak", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "work on special initiatives", "researcher_evidence": [ "Chaya Nayak, the director of generative AI product management at Meta, is joining OpenAI to work on special initiatives, according to two sources with direct knowledge of the hire." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Chaya Nayak, the director of generative AI product management at Meta, is joining OpenAI to work on special initiatives, according to two sources with direct knowledge of the hire." ] }, { "url": "https://scanx.trade/stock-market-news/startups/openai-hardware-engineer-joins-rival-anthropic/42503945", "title": "AI talent battle intensifies as OpenAI's second hardware hire jumps to Anthropic", "published_at": "2026-06-09T18:33:48", "researcher": "Clive Chan", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "technical staff member, with a specific focus on Perplexity per Picojoule, a foundational metric used to gauge AI hardware efficiency", "researcher_evidence": [ "# AI talent battle intensifies as OpenAI's second hardware hire jumps to Anthropic", "OpenAI technical staff member Clive Chan has joined rival Anthropic, intensifying the competition for specialized talent in the artificial intelligence hardware sector." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# AI talent battle intensifies as OpenAI's second hardware hire jumps to Anthropic", "At Anthropic, he has assumed the role of technical staff member, with a specific focus on Perplexity per Picojoule, a foundational metric used to gauge AI hardware efficiency." ] }, { "url": "https://winbuzzer.com/2025/09/25/meta-doubles-down-on-ai-talent-war-poaching-another-top-openai-researcher-xcxwbn", "title": "Meta Doubles Down on AI Talent War, Poaching Another Top OpenAI Researcher", "published_at": "2025-09-25T13:08:35", "researcher": "Yang Song", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "research principal", "researcher_evidence": [ "# Meta Doubles Down on AI Talent War, Poaching Another Top OpenAI Researcher", "Meta hires OpenAI's Yang Song for its Superintelligence Lab, escalating the AI talent war despite facing internal turmoil, restructuring, and high-profile exits.", "Meta has poached another top researcher from rival OpenAI, [hiring Yang Song as a \u201cresearch principal\u201d for its embattled AI division](https://www.wired.com/story/meta-poaches-openai-researcher-yang-song/)." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# Meta Doubles Down on AI Talent War, Poaching Another Top OpenAI Researcher", "Meta has poached another top researcher from rival OpenAI, [hiring Yang Song as a \u201cresearch principal\u201d for its embattled AI division](https://www.wired.com/story/meta-poaches-openai-researcher-yang-song/)." ] }, { "url": "https://mlq.ai/news/openai-hires-transformer-co-inventor-noam-shazeer-away-from-google-deepmind", "title": "OpenAI Hires Transformer Co-Inventor Noam Shazeer Away From Google DeepMind", "published_at": "2026-06-19T18:08:24", "researcher": "Noam Shazeer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Lead for Architecture Research", "researcher_evidence": [ "# OpenAI Hires Transformer Co-Inventor Noam Shazeer Away From Google DeepMind", "- Noam Shazeer, co-author of the 2017 'Attention Is All You Need' paper and VP of Engineering at Google DeepMind, is leaving to join OpenAI as Lead for Architecture Research [[1]](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/18/google-gemini-co-lead-noam-shazeer-leaves-for-openai.html)", "OpenAI Hires Transformer Co-Inventor Noam Shazeer Away From Google DeepMind" ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# OpenAI Hires Transformer Co-Inventor Noam Shazeer Away From Google DeepMind", "- Noam Shazeer, co-author of the 2017 'Attention Is All You Need' paper and VP of Engineering at Google DeepMind, is leaving to join OpenAI as Lead for Architecture Research [[1]](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/18/google-gemini-co-lead-noam-shazeer-leaves-for-openai.html)", "OpenAI Hires Transformer Co-Inventor Noam Shazeer Away From Google DeepMind" ] }, { "url": "https://theoutpost.ai/news-story/meta-plans-fourth-ai-restructuring-in-six-months-signaling-aggressive-push-in-ai-race-19145", "title": "Meta Restructures AI Division and Pauses Hiring Amid Intense AI Race", "published_at": "2025-08-22T00:31:49", "researcher": "Shengjia Zhao", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "chief A.I. scientist", "researcher_evidence": [ "NYT", "Zuckerberg Plans Another Overhaul of Meta's A.I. Efforts", "In July, Meta named Shengjia Zhao, an OpenAI researcher and co-creator of its ChatGPT chatbot, as its chief A.I. scientist." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "NYT", "Zuckerberg Plans Another Overhaul of Meta's A.I. Efforts", "In July, Meta named Shengjia Zhao, an OpenAI researcher and co-creator of its ChatGPT chatbot, as its chief A.I. scientist." ] }, { "url": "https://outlookbusiness.com/artificial-intelligence/mira-muratis-thinking-machines-lab-takes-talent-hit-two-cofounders-researcher-rejoin-openai", "title": "Mira Murati\u2019s Thinking Machines Lab Takes Talent Hit, Two Cofounders & Researcher Rejoin OpenAI", "published_at": "2026-01-15T07:40:13", "researcher": "Barret Zoph", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Co-founder", "researcher_evidence": [ "Mira Murati\u2019s Thinking Machines Lab Takes Talent Hit, Two Cofounders & Researcher Rejoin OpenAI", "Co-founders Barret Zoph and Luke Metz, plus researcher Sam Schoenholz, return to OpenAI; Murati names Soumith Chintala as Thinking Machines\u2019 new CTO", "Two Thinking Machines co-founders, Barret Zoph and Luke Metz, rejoined OpenAI", "Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati\u2019s high-profile startup, Thinking Machines Lab, lost two of its co-founders on Wednesday after OpenAI announced the rehiring of Barret Zoph and Luke Metz." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Mira Murati\u2019s Thinking Machines Lab Takes Talent Hit, Two Cofounders & Researcher Rejoin OpenAI", "Co-founders Barret Zoph and Luke Metz, plus researcher Sam Schoenholz, return to OpenAI; Murati names Soumith Chintala as Thinking Machines\u2019 new CTO", "Two Thinking Machines co-founders, Barret Zoph and Luke Metz, rejoined OpenAI", "Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati\u2019s high-profile startup, Thinking Machines Lab, lost two of its co-founders on Wednesday after OpenAI announced the rehiring of Barret Zoph and Luke Metz." ] }, { "url": "https://outlookbusiness.com/artificial-intelligence/mira-muratis-thinking-machines-lab-takes-talent-hit-two-cofounders-researcher-rejoin-openai", "title": "Mira Murati\u2019s Thinking Machines Lab Takes Talent Hit, Two Cofounders & Researcher Rejoin OpenAI", "published_at": "2026-01-15T07:40:13", "researcher": "Luke Metz", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Co-founder", "researcher_evidence": [ "Mira Murati\u2019s Thinking Machines Lab Takes Talent Hit, Two Cofounders & Researcher Rejoin OpenAI", "Co-founders Barret Zoph and Luke Metz, plus researcher Sam Schoenholz, return to OpenAI; Murati names Soumith Chintala as Thinking Machines\u2019 new CTO", "Two Thinking Machines co-founders, Barret Zoph and Luke Metz, rejoined OpenAI", "Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati\u2019s high-profile startup, Thinking Machines Lab, lost two of its co-founders on Wednesday after OpenAI announced the rehiring of Barret Zoph and Luke Metz." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Mira Murati\u2019s Thinking Machines Lab Takes Talent Hit, Two Cofounders & Researcher Rejoin OpenAI", "Co-founders Barret Zoph and Luke Metz, plus researcher Sam Schoenholz, return to OpenAI; Murati names Soumith Chintala as Thinking Machines\u2019 new CTO", "Two Thinking Machines co-founders, Barret Zoph and Luke Metz, rejoined OpenAI", "Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati\u2019s high-profile startup, Thinking Machines Lab, lost two of its co-founders on Wednesday after OpenAI announced the rehiring of Barret Zoph and Luke Metz." ] }, { "url": "https://outlookbusiness.com/artificial-intelligence/mira-muratis-thinking-machines-lab-takes-talent-hit-two-cofounders-researcher-rejoin-openai", "title": "Mira Murati\u2019s Thinking Machines Lab Takes Talent Hit, Two Cofounders & Researcher Rejoin OpenAI", "published_at": "2026-01-15T07:40:13", "researcher": "Sam Schoenholz", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Researcher", "researcher_evidence": [ "Mira Murati\u2019s Thinking Machines Lab Takes Talent Hit, Two Cofounders & Researcher Rejoin OpenAI", "Co-founders Barret Zoph and Luke Metz, plus researcher Sam Schoenholz, return to OpenAI; Murati names Soumith Chintala as Thinking Machines\u2019 new CTO", "OpenAI also confirmed the return of researcher Sam Schoenholz." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Mira Murati\u2019s Thinking Machines Lab Takes Talent Hit, Two Cofounders & Researcher Rejoin OpenAI", "Co-founders Barret Zoph and Luke Metz, plus researcher Sam Schoenholz, return to OpenAI; Murati names Soumith Chintala as Thinking Machines\u2019 new CTO", "OpenAI also confirmed the return of researcher Sam Schoenholz." ] }, { "url": "https://inspire2rise.com/meta-ai-talent-grab-intensifies.html/amp", "title": "Inspire2Rise", "published_at": "2025-06-29T07:53:59", "researcher": "Shengjia Zhao", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "specializing in reasoning and model optimization", "researcher_evidence": [ "On June 29, 2025, The Information reported that Meta has poached four key researchers from OpenAI, Shengjia Zhao, Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, and Hongyu Ren, hot on the heels of snagging Trapit Bansal and three others earlier in the week.", "Meta\u2019s latest hires mark a significant escalation in its push to build a \u201csuperintelligence\u201d team.", "The four newest additions, Shengjia Zhao, Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, and Hongyu Ren, join Trapit Bansal, Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai, all poached from OpenAI in the past week alone, per reports from TechCrunch, The Wall Street Journal, and The Information." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Shengjia Zhao: A key contributor to GPT-4 and o1, specializing in reasoning and model optimization.", "**These researchers bring deep expertise:**" ] }, { "url": "https://inspire2rise.com/meta-ai-talent-grab-intensifies.html/amp", "title": "Inspire2Rise", "published_at": "2025-06-29T07:53:59", "researcher": "Jiahui Yu", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Led development of OpenAI\u2019s o3, o4-mini, and GPT-4.1 models, focusing on advanced reasoning and multimodal capabilities", "researcher_evidence": [ "On June 29, 2025, The Information reported that Meta has poached four key researchers from OpenAI, Shengjia Zhao, Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, and Hongyu Ren, hot on the heels of snagging Trapit Bansal and three others earlier in the week.", "Meta\u2019s latest hires mark a significant escalation in its push to build a \u201csuperintelligence\u201d team.", "The four newest additions, Shengjia Zhao, Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, and Hongyu Ren, join Trapit Bansal, Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai, all poached from OpenAI in the past week alone, per reports from TechCrunch, The Wall Street Journal, and The Information." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Jiahui Yu: Led development of OpenAI\u2019s o3, o4-mini, and GPT-4.1 models, focusing on advanced reasoning and multimodal capabilities.", "**These researchers bring deep expertise:**" ] }, { "url": "https://inspire2rise.com/meta-ai-talent-grab-intensifies.html/amp", "title": "Inspire2Rise", "published_at": "2025-06-29T07:53:59", "researcher": "Shuchao Bi", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Headed OpenAI\u2019s post-training multimodal organization, enhancing models\u2019 ability to process text, images, and other data", "researcher_evidence": [ "On June 29, 2025, The Information reported that Meta has poached four key researchers from OpenAI, Shengjia Zhao, Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, and Hongyu Ren, hot on the heels of snagging Trapit Bansal and three others earlier in the week.", "Meta\u2019s latest hires mark a significant escalation in its push to build a \u201csuperintelligence\u201d team.", "The four newest additions, Shengjia Zhao, Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, and Hongyu Ren, join Trapit Bansal, Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai, all poached from OpenAI in the past week alone, per reports from TechCrunch, The Wall Street Journal, and The Information." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Shuchao Bi: Headed OpenAI\u2019s post-training multimodal organization, enhancing models\u2019 ability to process text, images, and other data.", "**These researchers bring deep expertise:**" ] }, { "url": "https://inspire2rise.com/meta-ai-talent-grab-intensifies.html/amp", "title": "Inspire2Rise", "published_at": "2025-06-29T07:53:59", "researcher": "Hongyu Ren", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Created o3-mini and o1-mini, was a core contributor to OpenAI\u2019s o1 reasoning model, and led post-training for o3 and o4-mini, refining models after initial training", "researcher_evidence": [ "On June 29, 2025, The Information reported that Meta has poached four key researchers from OpenAI, Shengjia Zhao, Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, and Hongyu Ren, hot on the heels of snagging Trapit Bansal and three others earlier in the week.", "Meta\u2019s latest hires mark a significant escalation in its push to build a \u201csuperintelligence\u201d team.", "The four newest additions, Shengjia Zhao, Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, and Hongyu Ren, join Trapit Bansal, Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai, all poached from OpenAI in the past week alone, per reports from TechCrunch, The Wall Street Journal, and The Information." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Hongyu Ren: Created o3-mini and o1-mini, was a core contributor to OpenAI\u2019s o1 reasoning model, and led post-training for o3 and o4-mini, refining models after initial training.", "**These researchers bring deep expertise:**" ] }, { "url": "https://inspire2rise.com/meta-ai-talent-grab-intensifies.html/amp", "title": "Inspire2Rise", "published_at": "2025-06-29T07:53:59", "researcher": "Trapit Bansal", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "On June 29, 2025, The Information reported that Meta has poached four key researchers from OpenAI, Shengjia Zhao, Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, and Hongyu Ren, hot on the heels of snagging Trapit Bansal and three others earlier in the week.", "Meta\u2019s latest hires mark a significant escalation in its push to build a \u201csuperintelligence\u201d team.", "The four newest additions, Shengjia Zhao, Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, and Hongyu Ren, join Trapit Bansal, Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai, all poached from OpenAI in the past week alone, per reports from TechCrunch, The Wall Street Journal, and The Information." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://inspire2rise.com/meta-ai-talent-grab-intensifies.html/amp", "title": "Inspire2Rise", "published_at": "2025-06-29T07:53:59", "researcher": "Lucas Beyer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "former Google DeepMind researcher", "researcher_evidence": [ "Meta\u2019s latest hires mark a significant escalation in its push to build a \u201csuperintelligence\u201d team.", "The four newest additions, Shengjia Zhao, Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, and Hongyu Ren, join Trapit Bansal, Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai, all poached from OpenAI in the past week alone, per reports from TechCrunch, The Wall Street Journal, and The Information." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "The hires, including former Google DeepMind researchers Beyer, Kolesnikov, and Zhai, who set up OpenAI\u2019s Zurich office, will now establish Meta\u2019s Zurich hub, signaling a global talent grab.", "## The Talent War Heats Up" ] }, { "url": "https://inspire2rise.com/meta-ai-talent-grab-intensifies.html/amp", "title": "Inspire2Rise", "published_at": "2025-06-29T07:53:59", "researcher": "Alexander Kolesnikov", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "former Google DeepMind researcher", "researcher_evidence": [ "Meta\u2019s latest hires mark a significant escalation in its push to build a \u201csuperintelligence\u201d team.", "The four newest additions, Shengjia Zhao, Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, and Hongyu Ren, join Trapit Bansal, Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai, all poached from OpenAI in the past week alone, per reports from TechCrunch, The Wall Street Journal, and The Information." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "The hires, including former Google DeepMind researchers Beyer, Kolesnikov, and Zhai, who set up OpenAI\u2019s Zurich office, will now establish Meta\u2019s Zurich hub, signaling a global talent grab.", "## The Talent War Heats Up" ] }, { "url": "https://inspire2rise.com/meta-ai-talent-grab-intensifies.html/amp", "title": "Inspire2Rise", "published_at": "2025-06-29T07:53:59", "researcher": "Xiaohua Zhai", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "former Google DeepMind researcher", "researcher_evidence": [ "Meta\u2019s latest hires mark a significant escalation in its push to build a \u201csuperintelligence\u201d team.", "The four newest additions, Shengjia Zhao, Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, and Hongyu Ren, join Trapit Bansal, Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai, all poached from OpenAI in the past week alone, per reports from TechCrunch, The Wall Street Journal, and The Information." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "The hires, including former Google DeepMind researchers Beyer, Kolesnikov, and Zhai, who set up OpenAI\u2019s Zurich office, will now establish Meta\u2019s Zurich hub, signaling a global talent grab.", "## The Talent War Heats Up" ] }, { "url": "https://megaoneai.com/research/andrej-karpathy-anthropic-pretraining-team", "title": "Andrej Karpathy Joins Anthropic\u2019s Pretraining Team, Leaves OpenAI for Frontier LLM Work", "published_at": "2026-05-19T19:16:59", "researcher": "Andrej Karpathy", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Pretraining researcher / Pretraining team leader", "researcher_evidence": [ "# Andrej Karpathy Joins Anthropic\u2019s Pretraining Team, Leaves OpenAI for Frontier LLM Work", "Andrej Karpathy is joining [Anthropic](https://megaoneai.com/funding/ai-startup-revenue-80-billion-concentration/)\u2018s pretraining team, the group that handles initial training of large AI models, per Axios." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Andrej Karpathy is joining [Anthropic](https://megaoneai.com/funding/ai-startup-revenue-80-billion-concentration/)\u2018s pretraining team, the group that handles initial training of large AI models, per Axios.", "# Andrej Karpathy Joins Anthropic\u2019s Pretraining Team, Leaves OpenAI for Frontier LLM Work" ] }, { "url": "https://b17news.com/a-top-meta-ai-researcher-has-joined-mira-muratis-hot-new-startup-thinking-machines-lab", "title": "A top Meta AI researcher has joined Mira Murati's hot new startup, Thinking Machines Lab - B17 News", "published_at": "2025-11-19T20:11:07", "researcher": "Soumith Chintala", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# A top Meta AI researcher has joined Mira Murati\u2019s hot new startup, Thinking Machines Lab", "**PyTorch cofounder Soumith Chintala.**", "Soumith Chintala, a former AI leader at Meta and one of the most influential figures in modern AI infrastructure, has joined former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati\u2019s startup, Thinking Machines Lab." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://b17news.com/a-top-meta-ai-researcher-has-joined-mira-muratis-hot-new-startup-thinking-machines-lab", "title": "A top Meta AI researcher has joined Mira Murati's hot new startup, Thinking Machines Lab - B17 News", "published_at": "2025-11-19T20:11:07", "researcher": "Andrew Tulloch", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "The company has also weathered departures. Andrew Tulloch, a cofounder and former Meta researcher, left in October to rejoin Meta, The Wall Street Journal reported." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://cybercorsairs.com/zucks-ai-heist-guts-apples-ai-team", "title": "AI Talent War: Meta Raids Apple for AGI Supremacy", "published_at": null, "researcher": "Mark Lee", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# Zuck\u2019s AI Heist: Guts Apple\u2019s AI Team", "Meta just poached two more top-tier AI researchers, Mark Lee and Tom Gunter, directly from Apple." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://cybercorsairs.com/zucks-ai-heist-guts-apples-ai-team", "title": "AI Talent War: Meta Raids Apple for AGI Supremacy", "published_at": null, "researcher": "Tom Gunter", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# Zuck\u2019s AI Heist: Guts Apple\u2019s AI Team", "Meta just poached two more top-tier AI researchers, Mark Lee and Tom Gunter, directly from Apple." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://cybercorsairs.com/zucks-ai-heist-guts-apples-ai-team", "title": "AI Talent War: Meta Raids Apple for AGI Supremacy", "published_at": null, "researcher": "Ruoming Pang", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "head of Apple\u2019s entire Foundation Models team", "researcher_evidence": [ "# Zuck\u2019s AI Heist: Guts Apple\u2019s AI Team", "A few weeks ago, Meta snagged Ruoming Pang, who was the head of Apple\u2019s entire Foundation Models team." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# Zuck\u2019s AI Heist: Guts Apple\u2019s AI Team", "A few weeks ago, Meta snagged Ruoming Pang, who was the head of Apple\u2019s entire Foundation Models team." ] }, { "url": "https://gate.com/news/detail/google-loses-two-ai-leaders-as-transformer-co-author-joins-openai-alphafold-21984125", "title": "Google Loses Two AI Leaders as Transformer Co-Author Joins OpenAI, AlphaFold Father Moves to Anthropic | Gate News", "published_at": "2026-06-20T10:01:31", "researcher": "Noam Shazeer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "co-author of the Transformer architecture", "researcher_evidence": [ "# Google Loses Two AI Leaders as Transformer Co-Author Joins OpenAI, AlphaFold Father Moves to Anthropic", "On June 18, Noam Shazeer, co-author of the Transformer architecture that underpins modern large language models, announced he was leaving Google to join OpenAI." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# Google Loses Two AI Leaders as Transformer Co-Author Joins OpenAI, AlphaFold Father Moves to Anthropic", "On June 18, Noam Shazeer, co-author of the Transformer architecture that underpins modern large language models, announced he was leaving Google to join OpenAI." ] }, { "url": "https://gate.com/news/detail/google-loses-two-ai-leaders-as-transformer-co-author-joins-openai-alphafold-21984125", "title": "Google Loses Two AI Leaders as Transformer Co-Author Joins OpenAI, AlphaFold Father Moves to Anthropic | Gate News", "published_at": "2026-06-20T10:01:31", "researcher": "John Jumper", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "led the development of AlphaFold protein-folding system and won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry", "researcher_evidence": [ "# Google Loses Two AI Leaders as Transformer Co-Author Joins OpenAI, AlphaFold Father Moves to Anthropic", "Shortly after, John Jumper, who led the development of AlphaFold protein-folding system and won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, declared he would depart DeepMind after nearly nine years to join Anthropic." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# Google Loses Two AI Leaders as Transformer Co-Author Joins OpenAI, AlphaFold Father Moves to Anthropic", "Shortly after, John Jumper, who led the development of AlphaFold protein-folding system and won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, declared he would depart DeepMind after nearly nine years to join Anthropic." ] }, { "url": "https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/meta-names-former-openai-researcher-shengjia-zhao-as-chief-scientist-for-superintelligence-lab/printarticle/122913202.cms", "title": "Meta names former OpenAI researcher Shengjia Zhao as Chief scientist for superintelligence lab", "published_at": null, "researcher": "Shengjia Zhao", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Chief Scientist of its new Superintelligence AI group", "researcher_evidence": [ "[Meta Platforms](/topic/meta-platforms) has appointed [Shengjia Zhao](/topic/shengjia-zhao), a former [OpenAI](/topic/openai) researcher and co-author of the original [ChatGPT](/topic/chatgpt) paper, as the Chief Scientist of its new Superintelligence AI group, the company confirmed Friday (July 25)." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "[Meta Platforms](/topic/meta-platforms) has appointed [Shengjia Zhao](/topic/shengjia-zhao), a former [OpenAI](/topic/openai) researcher and co-author of the original [ChatGPT](/topic/chatgpt) paper, as the Chief Scientist of its new Superintelligence AI group, the company confirmed Friday (July 25)." ] }, { "url": "https://devcuration.com/articles/lilian-weng-returns-to-openai-after-leaving-thinking-machines", "title": "Lilian Weng Returns to OpenAI After Leaving Thinking Machines", "published_at": "2026-08-04T17:46:00", "researcher": "Lilian Weng", "left_lab": "Thinking Machines Lab", "joined_lab": "OpenAI", "move_month": "2026-07", "role": "lead a top-level team focused on accelerating internal research, including cross-research work on recursive self-improvement", "researcher_evidence": [ "# Lilian Weng Returns to OpenAI After Leaving Thinking Machines", "Thinking Machines\n\n[Thinking Machines Lab](https://thinkingmachines.ai/) co-founder Lilian Weng said on July 27, 2026, that she was leaving the AI research company after the pace, stress, and workload of startup life exceeded what her health could sustain." ], "left_lab_evidence": [ "# Lilian Weng Returns to OpenAI After Leaving Thinking Machines", "Thinking Machines\n\n[Thinking Machines Lab](https://thinkingmachines.ai/) co-founder Lilian Weng said on July 27, 2026, that she was leaving the AI research company after the pace, stress, and workload of startup life exceeded what her health could sustain." ], "joined_lab_evidence": [ "# Lilian Weng Returns to OpenAI After Leaving Thinking Machines", "Two days later, [TechCrunch reported](https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/29/thinking-machines-co-founder-lilian-weng-left-the-company-citing-health-reasons-then-joined-openai/) that OpenAI had confirmed Weng would return to the company.", "OpenAI told TechCrunch that Weng will lead a top-level team focused on accelerating internal research, including cross-research work on recursive self-improvement." ], "move_month_evidence": [ "Thinking Machines\n\n[Thinking Machines Lab](https://thinkingmachines.ai/) co-founder Lilian Weng said on July 27, 2026, that she was leaving the AI research company after the pace, stress, and workload of startup life exceeded what her health could sustain.", "Two days later, [TechCrunch reported](https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/29/thinking-machines-co-founder-lilian-weng-left-the-company-citing-health-reasons-then-joined-openai/) that OpenAI had confirmed Weng would return to the company." ], "role_evidence": [ "# Lilian Weng Returns to OpenAI After Leaving Thinking Machines", "OpenAI told TechCrunch that Weng will lead a top-level team focused on accelerating internal research, including cross-research work on recursive self-improvement." ] }, { "url": "https://nourished.news/story/zvpvpmyf3p397ovv", "title": "AI lab talent shifts reshape frontier race", "published_at": "2026-06-18T03:30:54", "researcher": "Noam Shazeer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Gemini co-lead", "researcher_evidence": [ "### What's happened", "Executives are leaving top AI labs for rivals, highlighting a talent war as Google loses senior researchers to Anthropic and OpenAI.", "- [CNBC](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/18/google-gemini-co-lead-noam-shazeer-leaves-for-openai.html) and [Business Insider UK](https://www.businessinsider.com/google-director-resigned-pentagon-ai-deal-military-artificial-intelligence-gemini-2026-6) pieces detailing Shazeer\u2019s move and industry dynamics (June 18, 2026 and June 11, 2026)." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "### What's happened", "Executives are leaving top AI labs for rivals, highlighting a talent war as Google loses senior researchers to Anthropic and OpenAI.", "- [CNBC](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/18/google-gemini-co-lead-noam-shazeer-leaves-for-openai.html) and [Business Insider UK](https://www.businessinsider.com/google-director-resigned-pentagon-ai-deal-military-artificial-intelligence-gemini-2026-6) pieces detailing Shazeer\u2019s move and industry dynamics (June 18, 2026 and June 11, 2026)." ] }, { "url": "https://bitgetapp.com/news/detail/12560604841987", "title": "Mark Zuckerberg Unveils New Meta AI Lab After Poaching OpenAI Talent", "published_at": "2025-06-30T16:32:44", "researcher": "Lucas Beyer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "The fallout became public last week, when OpenAI confirmed that researchers Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai had left the company.", "According to The Wall Street Journal, Meta hired all three scientists, who had previously worked together at Google DeepMind." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://bitgetapp.com/news/detail/12560604841987", "title": "Mark Zuckerberg Unveils New Meta AI Lab After Poaching OpenAI Talent", "published_at": "2025-06-30T16:32:44", "researcher": "Alexander Kolesnikov", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "The fallout became public last week, when OpenAI confirmed that researchers Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai had left the company.", "According to The Wall Street Journal, Meta hired all three scientists, who had previously worked together at Google DeepMind." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://bitgetapp.com/news/detail/12560604841987", "title": "Mark Zuckerberg Unveils New Meta AI Lab After Poaching OpenAI Talent", "published_at": "2025-06-30T16:32:44", "researcher": "Xiaohua Zhai", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "The fallout became public last week, when OpenAI confirmed that researchers Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai had left the company." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://bitgetapp.com/news/detail/12560604841987", "title": "Mark Zuckerberg Unveils New Meta AI Lab After Poaching OpenAI Talent", "published_at": "2025-06-30T16:32:44", "researcher": "Jiahui Yu", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "led o3, o4-mini, GPT-4.1", "researcher_evidence": [ "Zuck poached 4 elite Chinese researchers from OpenAI:", "- Jiahui Yu: led o3, o4-mini, GPT-4.1", "Meta\u2019s new team includes Daniel Gross, co-founder and CEO of Safe Superintelligence (SSI); former DeepMind researchers Jack Rae and Pei Sun; and several high-profile AI researchers from OpenAI, including Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, Shengjia Zhao, and Hongyu Ren, as well as Joel Pobar, an Anthropic engineer and Meta veteran, and Google Fellow, Johan Schalkwyk." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "- Jiahui Yu: led o3, o4-mini, GPT-4.1" ] }, { "url": "https://bitgetapp.com/news/detail/12560604841987", "title": "Mark Zuckerberg Unveils New Meta AI Lab After Poaching OpenAI Talent", "published_at": "2025-06-30T16:32:44", "researcher": "Hongyu Ren", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "creator of o3-mini & o1-mini, core contributor to o1", "researcher_evidence": [ "Zuck poached 4 elite Chinese researchers from OpenAI:", "- Hongyu Ren: creator of o3-mini & o1-mini, core contributor to o1", "Meta\u2019s new team includes Daniel Gross, co-founder and CEO of Safe Superintelligence (SSI); former DeepMind researchers Jack Rae and Pei Sun; and several high-profile AI researchers from OpenAI, including Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, Shengjia Zhao, and Hongyu Ren, as well as Joel Pobar, an Anthropic engineer and Meta veteran, and Google Fellow, Johan Schalkwyk." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "- Hongyu Ren: creator of o3-mini & o1-mini, core contributor to o1" ] }, { "url": "https://bitgetapp.com/news/detail/12560604841987", "title": "Mark Zuckerberg Unveils New Meta AI Lab After Poaching OpenAI Talent", "published_at": "2025-06-30T16:32:44", "researcher": "Shuchao Bi", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "head of post-training multimodal org", "researcher_evidence": [ "Zuck poached 4 elite Chinese researchers from OpenAI:", "- Shuchao Bi: head of post-training multimodal org", "Meta\u2019s new team includes Daniel Gross, co-founder and CEO of Safe Superintelligence (SSI); former DeepMind researchers Jack Rae and Pei Sun; and several high-profile AI researchers from OpenAI, including Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, Shengjia Zhao, and Hongyu Ren, as well as Joel Pobar, an Anthropic engineer and Meta veteran, and Google Fellow, Johan Schalkwyk." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "- Shuchao Bi: head of post-training multimodal org" ] }, { "url": "https://bitgetapp.com/news/detail/12560604841987", "title": "Mark Zuckerberg Unveils New Meta AI Lab After Poaching OpenAI Talent", "published_at": "2025-06-30T16:32:44", "researcher": "Shengjia Zhao", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "key contributor to GPT-4 & o1", "researcher_evidence": [ "Zuck poached 4 elite Chinese researchers from OpenAI:", "- Shengjia Zhao: key contributor to GPT-4 & o1", "Meta\u2019s new team includes Daniel Gross, co-founder and CEO of Safe Superintelligence (SSI); former DeepMind researchers Jack Rae and Pei Sun; and several high-profile AI researchers from OpenAI, including Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, Shengjia Zhao, and Hongyu Ren, as well as Joel Pobar, an Anthropic engineer and Meta veteran, and Google Fellow, Johan Schalkwyk." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "- Shengjia Zhao: key contributor to GPT-4 & o1" ] }, { "url": "https://bitgetapp.com/news/detail/12560604841987", "title": "Mark Zuckerberg Unveils New Meta AI Lab After Poaching OpenAI Talent", "published_at": "2025-06-30T16:32:44", "researcher": "Jack Rae", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "Meta\u2019s new team includes Daniel Gross, co-founder and CEO of Safe Superintelligence (SSI); former DeepMind researchers Jack Rae and Pei Sun; and several high-profile AI researchers from OpenAI, including Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, Shengjia Zhao, and Hongyu Ren, as well as Joel Pobar, an Anthropic engineer and Meta veteran, and Google Fellow, Johan Schalkwyk." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://bitgetapp.com/news/detail/12560604841987", "title": "Mark Zuckerberg Unveils New Meta AI Lab After Poaching OpenAI Talent", "published_at": "2025-06-30T16:32:44", "researcher": "Pei Sun", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "Meta\u2019s new team includes Daniel Gross, co-founder and CEO of Safe Superintelligence (SSI); former DeepMind researchers Jack Rae and Pei Sun; and several high-profile AI researchers from OpenAI, including Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, Shengjia Zhao, and Hongyu Ren, as well as Joel Pobar, an Anthropic engineer and Meta veteran, and Google Fellow, Johan Schalkwyk." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/shengjia-zhao-jason-wei-and-list-of-other-executives-ai-researchers-who-quit-openai-in-2025/articleshow/126192959.cms", "title": "Shengjia Zhao, Jason Wei and list of other executives, AI researchers who quit OpenAI in 2025", "published_at": "2025-12-26T16:44:00", "researcher": "Shengjia Zhao", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Chief Scientist of Meta\u2019s Superintelligence Lab", "researcher_evidence": [ "Shengjia Zhao, Jason Wei and list of other executives, AI researchers who quit OpenAI in 2025", "## OpenAI researchers who quit to join Meta", "Shengjia Zhao: A co-creator of ChatGPT and GPT-4, Zhao now serves as Chief Scientist of Meta\u2019s Superintelligence Lab." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Shengjia Zhao, Jason Wei and list of other executives, AI researchers who quit OpenAI in 2025", "## OpenAI researchers who quit to join Meta", "Shengjia Zhao: A co-creator of ChatGPT and GPT-4, Zhao now serves as Chief Scientist of Meta\u2019s Superintelligence Lab." ] }, { "url": "https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/shengjia-zhao-jason-wei-and-list-of-other-executives-ai-researchers-who-quit-openai-in-2025/articleshow/126192959.cms", "title": "Shengjia Zhao, Jason Wei and list of other executives, AI researchers who quit OpenAI in 2025", "published_at": "2025-12-26T16:44:00", "researcher": "Jason Wei", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "key research scientists to work on deep research models", "researcher_evidence": [ "Shengjia Zhao, Jason Wei and list of other executives, AI researchers who quit OpenAI in 2025", "## OpenAI researchers who quit to join Meta", "Jason Wei & Zhiqing Sun: These are the two key research scientists who joined Meta in July to work on deep research models." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Shengjia Zhao, Jason Wei and list of other executives, AI researchers who quit OpenAI in 2025", "## OpenAI researchers who quit to join Meta", "Jason Wei & Zhiqing Sun: These are the two key research scientists who joined Meta in July to work on deep research models." ] }, { "url": "https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/shengjia-zhao-jason-wei-and-list-of-other-executives-ai-researchers-who-quit-openai-in-2025/articleshow/126192959.cms", "title": "Shengjia Zhao, Jason Wei and list of other executives, AI researchers who quit OpenAI in 2025", "published_at": "2025-12-26T16:44:00", "researcher": "Zhiqing Sun", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "key research scientists to work on deep research models", "researcher_evidence": [ "Shengjia Zhao, Jason Wei and list of other executives, AI researchers who quit OpenAI in 2025", "## OpenAI researchers who quit to join Meta", "Jason Wei & Zhiqing Sun: These are the two key research scientists who joined Meta in July to work on deep research models." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Shengjia Zhao, Jason Wei and list of other executives, AI researchers who quit OpenAI in 2025", "## OpenAI researchers who quit to join Meta", "Jason Wei & Zhiqing Sun: These are the two key research scientists who joined Meta in July to work on deep research models." ] }, { "url": "https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/shengjia-zhao-jason-wei-and-list-of-other-executives-ai-researchers-who-quit-openai-in-2025/articleshow/126192959.cms", "title": "Shengjia Zhao, Jason Wei and list of other executives, AI researchers who quit OpenAI in 2025", "published_at": "2025-12-26T16:44:00", "researcher": "Jiahui Yu", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "lead of OpenAI\u2019s Perception team", "researcher_evidence": [ "Shengjia Zhao, Jason Wei and list of other executives, AI researchers who quit OpenAI in 2025", "## OpenAI researchers who quit to join Meta", "Jiahui Yu: Yu worked as the lead of OpenAI\u2019s Perception team and played an important role in giving large language models image and audio processing capabilities." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Shengjia Zhao, Jason Wei and list of other executives, AI researchers who quit OpenAI in 2025", "## OpenAI researchers who quit to join Meta", "Jiahui Yu: Yu worked as the lead of OpenAI\u2019s Perception team and played an important role in giving large language models image and audio processing capabilities." ] }, { "url": "https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/shengjia-zhao-jason-wei-and-list-of-other-executives-ai-researchers-who-quit-openai-in-2025/articleshow/126192959.cms", "title": "Shengjia Zhao, Jason Wei and list of other executives, AI researchers who quit OpenAI in 2025", "published_at": "2025-12-26T16:44:00", "researcher": "Hongyu Ren", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "core contributors to GPT-4o and but migrated to Meta to develop next-generation AI agents", "researcher_evidence": [ "Shengjia Zhao, Jason Wei and list of other executives, AI researchers who quit OpenAI in 2025", "## OpenAI researchers who quit to join Meta", "Hongyu Ren & Shuchao Bi: These were the two core contributors to GPT-4o and but migrated to Meta to develop next-generation AI agents." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Shengjia Zhao, Jason Wei and list of other executives, AI researchers who quit OpenAI in 2025", "## OpenAI researchers who quit to join Meta", "Hongyu Ren & Shuchao Bi: These were the two core contributors to GPT-4o and but migrated to Meta to develop next-generation AI agents." ] }, { "url": "https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/shengjia-zhao-jason-wei-and-list-of-other-executives-ai-researchers-who-quit-openai-in-2025/articleshow/126192959.cms", "title": "Shengjia Zhao, Jason Wei and list of other executives, AI researchers who quit OpenAI in 2025", "published_at": "2025-12-26T16:44:00", "researcher": "Shuchao Bi", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "core contributors to GPT-4o and but migrated to Meta to develop next-generation AI agents", "researcher_evidence": [ "Shengjia Zhao, Jason Wei and list of other executives, AI researchers who quit OpenAI in 2025", "## OpenAI researchers who quit to join Meta", "Hongyu Ren & Shuchao Bi: These were the two core contributors to GPT-4o and but migrated to Meta to develop next-generation AI agents." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Shengjia Zhao, Jason Wei and list of other executives, AI researchers who quit OpenAI in 2025", "## OpenAI researchers who quit to join Meta", "Hongyu Ren & Shuchao Bi: These were the two core contributors to GPT-4o and but migrated to Meta to develop next-generation AI agents." ] }, { "url": "https://spoonai.me/posts/2026-06-23-google-shazeer-openai-jumper-anthropic-talent-war-en", "title": "Google Loses Two Crown Jewels in 48 Hours: Shazeer to OpenAI, Nobel Laureate Jumper to Anthropic", "published_at": "2026-06-22T23:00:00", "researcher": "Noam Shazeer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Lead for Architecture Research", "researcher_evidence": [ "Google Loses Two Crown Jewels in 48 Hours: Shazeer to OpenAI, Nobel Laureate Jumper to Anthropic", "Transformer co-author and Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer announced he's joining OpenAI on June 18.", "On June 18, Noam Shazeer \u2014 co-lead of Google Gemini and first author of the Transformer paper \"Attention Is All You Need\" \u2014 announced he's joining OpenAI." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Now he's heading to OpenAI as **Lead for Architecture Research**, the seat that directly shapes the neural-network design of future GPT models." ] }, { "url": "https://thecosmicmeta.com/googles-leading-ai-researchers-exit-to-launch-discovery-loop", "title": "Google\u2019s Leading AI Researchers Exit To Launch Discovery Loop", "published_at": "2026-08-05T16:11:55", "researcher": "Noam Shazeer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Gemini co-lead", "researcher_evidence": [ "Google\u2019s AI edge looks fragile.", "Notable moves included Noam Shazeer, a Gemini co-lead, leaving for OpenAI, and John Jumper, AlphaFold\u2019s Nobel-winning leader, moving to Anthropic." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Google\u2019s AI edge looks fragile.", "Notable moves included Noam Shazeer, a Gemini co-lead, leaving for OpenAI, and John Jumper, AlphaFold\u2019s Nobel-winning leader, moving to Anthropic." ] }, { "url": "https://thecosmicmeta.com/googles-leading-ai-researchers-exit-to-launch-discovery-loop", "title": "Google\u2019s Leading AI Researchers Exit To Launch Discovery Loop", "published_at": "2026-08-05T16:11:55", "researcher": "John Jumper", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "AlphaFold\u2019s Nobel-winning leader", "researcher_evidence": [ "Google\u2019s AI edge looks fragile.", "Notable moves included Noam Shazeer, a Gemini co-lead, leaving for OpenAI, and John Jumper, AlphaFold\u2019s Nobel-winning leader, moving to Anthropic." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Google\u2019s AI edge looks fragile.", "Notable moves included Noam Shazeer, a Gemini co-lead, leaving for OpenAI, and John Jumper, AlphaFold\u2019s Nobel-winning leader, moving to Anthropic." ] }, { "url": "https://thecosmicmeta.com/googles-leading-ai-researchers-exit-to-launch-discovery-loop", "title": "Google\u2019s Leading AI Researchers Exit To Launch Discovery Loop", "published_at": "2026-08-05T16:11:55", "researcher": "Jonas Adler", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "Google\u2019s AI edge looks fragile.", "More exits followed, with Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel reported headed to Anthropic, reinforcing the sense that Google is losing influential minds." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://thecosmicmeta.com/googles-leading-ai-researchers-exit-to-launch-discovery-loop", "title": "Google\u2019s Leading AI Researchers Exit To Launch Discovery Loop", "published_at": "2026-08-05T16:11:55", "researcher": "Alexander Pritzel", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "Google\u2019s AI edge looks fragile.", "More exits followed, with Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel reported headed to Anthropic, reinforcing the sense that Google is losing influential minds." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/08/zuckerbergs-ai-hires-disrupt-meta-with-swift-exits-and-threats-to-leave?trk=article-ssr-frontend-pulse_little-text-block", "title": "Zuckerberg\u2019s AI hires disrupt Meta with swift exits and threats to leave", "published_at": "2025-08-29T18:02:22", "researcher": "Shengjia Zhao", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "chief AI scientist", "researcher_evidence": [ "Within days of joining Meta, Shengjia Zhao, co-creator of OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT, had threatened to quit and return to his former employer, in a blow to Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s multibillion-dollar push to build \u201cpersonal superintelligence.\u201d" ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Shortly afterwards, according to four people familiar with the matter, he was given the title of Meta\u2019s new \u201cchief AI scientist.\u201d" ] }, { "url": "https://bitgetapps.com/news/detail/12560604841987", "title": "Mark Zuckerberg Unveils New Meta AI Lab After Poaching OpenAI Talent", "published_at": "2025-06-30T16:32:44", "researcher": "Lucas Beyer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "The fallout became public last week, when OpenAI confirmed that researchers Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai had left the company." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://bitgetapps.com/news/detail/12560604841987", "title": "Mark Zuckerberg Unveils New Meta AI Lab After Poaching OpenAI Talent", "published_at": "2025-06-30T16:32:44", "researcher": "Alexander Kolesnikov", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "The fallout became public last week, when OpenAI confirmed that researchers Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai had left the company." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://bitgetapps.com/news/detail/12560604841987", "title": "Mark Zuckerberg Unveils New Meta AI Lab After Poaching OpenAI Talent", "published_at": "2025-06-30T16:32:44", "researcher": "Xiaohua Zhai", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "The fallout became public last week, when OpenAI confirmed that researchers Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai had left the company." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://bitgetapps.com/news/detail/12560604841987", "title": "Mark Zuckerberg Unveils New Meta AI Lab After Poaching OpenAI Talent", "published_at": "2025-06-30T16:32:44", "researcher": "Jiahui Yu", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "led o3, o4-mini, GPT-4.1", "researcher_evidence": [ "- Jiahui Yu: led o3, o4-mini, GPT-4.1-" ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "- Jiahui Yu: led o3, o4-mini, GPT-4.1-" ] }, { "url": "https://bitgetapps.com/news/detail/12560604841987", "title": "Mark Zuckerberg Unveils New Meta AI Lab After Poaching OpenAI Talent", "published_at": "2025-06-30T16:32:44", "researcher": "Hongyu Ren", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "creator of o3-mini & o1-mini, core contributor to o1", "researcher_evidence": [ "- Hongyu Ren: creator of o3-mini & o1-mini, core contributor to o1-" ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "- Hongyu Ren: creator of o3-mini & o1-mini, core contributor to o1-" ] }, { "url": "https://bitgetapps.com/news/detail/12560604841987", "title": "Mark Zuckerberg Unveils New Meta AI Lab After Poaching OpenAI Talent", "published_at": "2025-06-30T16:32:44", "researcher": "Shuchao Bi", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "head of post-training multimodal org", "researcher_evidence": [ "- Shuchao Bi: head of post-training multimodal org-" ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "- Shuchao Bi: head of post-training multimodal org-" ] }, { "url": "https://bitgetapps.com/news/detail/12560604841987", "title": "Mark Zuckerberg Unveils New Meta AI Lab After Poaching OpenAI Talent", "published_at": "2025-06-30T16:32:44", "researcher": "Shengjia Zhao", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "key contributor to GPT-4 & o1", "researcher_evidence": [ "- Shengjia Zhao: key contributor to GPT-4 & o1" ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "- Shengjia Zhao: key contributor to GPT-4 & o1" ] }, { "url": "https://chatforest.com/builders-log/openai-heidecke-sixth-safety-leader-research-merger-builder-vendor-risk-guide", "title": "OpenAI's Sixth Safety Head Departs, Safety Team Folds Into Research \u2014 Builder Vendor-Risk Guide", "published_at": "2026-07-16T15:00:00", "researcher": "Andrea Vallone", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "alignment team", "researcher_evidence": [ "# OpenAI's Sixth Safety Head Departs, Safety Team Folds Into Research \u2014 Builder Vendor-Risk Guide", "The current exit is not a one-off. Independent reporting counts multiple senior safety-related departures and reorganizations at OpenAI since May 2024 \u2014 outlets differ on the exact tally (some count six, [Bloomberg/Wired](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-11/openai-safety-head-heidecke-to-leave-firm-after-reshuffle-wired) among them), but the pattern itself is well documented:", "- **December 2025** \u2014 [Andrea Vallone, who founded OpenAI\u2019s Model Policy research team, moves to Anthropic\u2019s alignment team](https://the-decoder.com/openai-safety-researcher-joins-anthropics-alignment-team/)" ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# OpenAI's Sixth Safety Head Departs, Safety Team Folds Into Research \u2014 Builder Vendor-Risk Guide", "The current exit is not a one-off. Independent reporting counts multiple senior safety-related departures and reorganizations at OpenAI since May 2024 \u2014 outlets differ on the exact tally (some count six, [Bloomberg/Wired](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-11/openai-safety-head-heidecke-to-leave-firm-after-reshuffle-wired) among them), but the pattern itself is well documented:", "- **December 2025** \u2014 [Andrea Vallone, who founded OpenAI\u2019s Model Policy research team, moves to Anthropic\u2019s alignment team](https://the-decoder.com/openai-safety-researcher-joins-anthropics-alignment-team/)" ] }, { "url": "https://thedailyjagran.com/technology/meta-ramps-up-ai-talent-war-poaches-8-more-researchers-from-openai-10248830", "title": "Meta Ramps Up AI Talent War, Poaches 8 Researchers From OpenAI", "published_at": "2025-06-29T16:39:00", "researcher": "Trapit Bansal", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Influential AI researcher with expertise in model training and optimisation.", "researcher_evidence": [ "To improve its artificial intelligence capabilities, Meta has allegedly brought on eight new researchers from OpenAI including top names Trapit Bansal, Shengjia Zhao, Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, and Hongyu Ren.", "According to The Information, the following OpenAI researchers have recently joined Meta:", "- Trapit Bansal \u2013 Influential AI researcher with expertise in model training and optimisation." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "To improve its artificial intelligence capabilities, Meta has allegedly brought on eight new researchers from OpenAI including top names Trapit Bansal, Shengjia Zhao, Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, and Hongyu Ren.", "According to The Information, the following OpenAI researchers have recently joined Meta:", "- Trapit Bansal \u2013 Influential AI researcher with expertise in model training and optimisation." ] }, { "url": "https://thedailyjagran.com/technology/meta-ramps-up-ai-talent-war-poaches-8-more-researchers-from-openai-10248830", "title": "Meta Ramps Up AI Talent War, Poaches 8 Researchers From OpenAI", "published_at": "2025-06-29T16:39:00", "researcher": "Shengjia Zhao", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Known for work on generative modelling and representation learning.", "researcher_evidence": [ "To improve its artificial intelligence capabilities, Meta has allegedly brought on eight new researchers from OpenAI including top names Trapit Bansal, Shengjia Zhao, Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, and Hongyu Ren.", "According to The Information, the following OpenAI researchers have recently joined Meta:", "- Shengjia Zhao \u2013 Known for work on generative modelling and representation learning." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "To improve its artificial intelligence capabilities, Meta has allegedly brought on eight new researchers from OpenAI including top names Trapit Bansal, Shengjia Zhao, Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, and Hongyu Ren.", "According to The Information, the following OpenAI researchers have recently joined Meta:", "- Shengjia Zhao \u2013 Known for work on generative modelling and representation learning." ] }, { "url": "https://thedailyjagran.com/technology/meta-ramps-up-ai-talent-war-poaches-8-more-researchers-from-openai-10248830", "title": "Meta Ramps Up AI Talent War, Poaches 8 Researchers From OpenAI", "published_at": "2025-06-29T16:39:00", "researcher": "Jiahui Yu", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Contributor to multimodal systems and vision-language integration.", "researcher_evidence": [ "To improve its artificial intelligence capabilities, Meta has allegedly brought on eight new researchers from OpenAI including top names Trapit Bansal, Shengjia Zhao, Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, and Hongyu Ren.", "According to The Information, the following OpenAI researchers have recently joined Meta:", "- Jiahui Yu \u2013 Contributor to multimodal systems and vision-language integration." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "To improve its artificial intelligence capabilities, Meta has allegedly brought on eight new researchers from OpenAI including top names Trapit Bansal, Shengjia Zhao, Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, and Hongyu Ren.", "According to The Information, the following OpenAI researchers have recently joined Meta:", "- Jiahui Yu \u2013 Contributor to multimodal systems and vision-language integration." ] }, { "url": "https://thedailyjagran.com/technology/meta-ramps-up-ai-talent-war-poaches-8-more-researchers-from-openai-10248830", "title": "Meta Ramps Up AI Talent War, Poaches 8 Researchers From OpenAI", "published_at": "2025-06-29T16:39:00", "researcher": "Shuchao Bi", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Specialist in machine learning algorithms and systems.", "researcher_evidence": [ "To improve its artificial intelligence capabilities, Meta has allegedly brought on eight new researchers from OpenAI including top names Trapit Bansal, Shengjia Zhao, Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, and Hongyu Ren.", "According to The Information, the following OpenAI researchers have recently joined Meta:", "- Shuchao Bi \u2013 Specialist in machine learning algorithms and systems." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "To improve its artificial intelligence capabilities, Meta has allegedly brought on eight new researchers from OpenAI including top names Trapit Bansal, Shengjia Zhao, Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, and Hongyu Ren.", "According to The Information, the following OpenAI researchers have recently joined Meta:", "- Shuchao Bi \u2013 Specialist in machine learning algorithms and systems." ] }, { "url": "https://thedailyjagran.com/technology/meta-ramps-up-ai-talent-war-poaches-8-more-researchers-from-openai-10248830", "title": "Meta Ramps Up AI Talent War, Poaches 8 Researchers From OpenAI", "published_at": "2025-06-29T16:39:00", "researcher": "Hongyu Ren", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Focused on knowledge graphs and large-scale data reasoning.", "researcher_evidence": [ "To improve its artificial intelligence capabilities, Meta has allegedly brought on eight new researchers from OpenAI including top names Trapit Bansal, Shengjia Zhao, Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, and Hongyu Ren.", "According to The Information, the following OpenAI researchers have recently joined Meta:", "- Hongyu Ren \u2013 Focused on knowledge graphs and large-scale data reasoning." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "To improve its artificial intelligence capabilities, Meta has allegedly brought on eight new researchers from OpenAI including top names Trapit Bansal, Shengjia Zhao, Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, and Hongyu Ren.", "According to The Information, the following OpenAI researchers have recently joined Meta:", "- Hongyu Ren \u2013 Focused on knowledge graphs and large-scale data reasoning." ] }, { "url": "https://timesnownews.com/technology-science/metas-ai-meltdown-hiring-freeze-talent-drain-and-scrapped-projects-raise-alarms-article-152520145", "title": "Meta\u2019s AI Meltdown? Hiring Freeze, Talent Drain and Scrapped Projects Raise Alarms", "published_at": "2025-08-25T07:10:20", "researcher": "Angela Fan", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "research scientist", "researcher_evidence": [ "# Meta\u2019s AI Meltdown? Hiring Freeze, Talent Drain and Scrapped Projects Raise Alarms", "Meta\u2019s AI Shake-Up Sparks Talent Exodus", "According to The New York Times, key figures including research scientist Angela Fan, who helped build Meta's Llama AI model, recently left for OpenAI." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# Meta\u2019s AI Meltdown? Hiring Freeze, Talent Drain and Scrapped Projects Raise Alarms", "Meta\u2019s AI Shake-Up Sparks Talent Exodus", "According to The New York Times, key figures including research scientist Angela Fan, who helped build Meta's Llama AI model, recently left for OpenAI." ] }, { "url": "https://europesays.com/2276565", "title": "Meta Just Escalated the AI Talent War With OpenAI - EUROPE SAYS", "published_at": "2025-07-26T07:09:48", "researcher": "Shengjia Zhao", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "chief scientist of its Superintelligence Labs", "researcher_evidence": [ "Shengjia Zhao, a co-creator of ChatGPT and former lead scientist at OpenAI, is joining Meta as chief scientist of its Superintelligence Labs." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Shengjia Zhao, a co-creator of ChatGPT and former lead scientist at OpenAI, is joining Meta as chief scientist of its Superintelligence Labs." ] }, { "url": "https://europesays.com/2276565", "title": "Meta Just Escalated the AI Talent War With OpenAI - EUROPE SAYS", "published_at": "2025-07-26T07:09:48", "researcher": "Lucas Beyer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "In addition to Zhao, the company has lured away the three researchers who built OpenAI\u2019s Zurich office \u2014 [Lucas Beyer](https://www.businessinsider.com/ex-openai-researcher-meta-not-give-100-million-signing-bonus-2025-6), Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai \u2014 all of whom previously also worked at Google\u2019s DeepMind." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://europesays.com/2276565", "title": "Meta Just Escalated the AI Talent War With OpenAI - EUROPE SAYS", "published_at": "2025-07-26T07:09:48", "researcher": "Alexander Kolesnikov", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "In addition to Zhao, the company has lured away the three researchers who built OpenAI\u2019s Zurich office \u2014 [Lucas Beyer](https://www.businessinsider.com/ex-openai-researcher-meta-not-give-100-million-signing-bonus-2025-6), Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai \u2014 all of whom previously also worked at Google\u2019s DeepMind." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://europesays.com/2276565", "title": "Meta Just Escalated the AI Talent War With OpenAI - EUROPE SAYS", "published_at": "2025-07-26T07:09:48", "researcher": "Xiaohua Zhai", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "In addition to Zhao, the company has lured away the three researchers who built OpenAI\u2019s Zurich office \u2014 [Lucas Beyer](https://www.businessinsider.com/ex-openai-researcher-meta-not-give-100-million-signing-bonus-2025-6), Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai \u2014 all of whom previously also worked at Google\u2019s DeepMind." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://asiae.co.kr/en/article/2026062208100780228", "title": "Google Hired Him for $2.7 Billion, but \"How Much of a Genius Is He?\" Developer Leaves for Rival Again After Just 2 Years - The Asia Business Daily", "published_at": "2026-06-21T23:15:27", "researcher": "Noam Shazeer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "research methods for developing next-generation AI models", "researcher_evidence": [ "# Google Hired Him for $2.7 Billion, but \"How Much of a Genius Is He?\" Developer Leaves for Rival Again After Just 2 Years", "Noam Shazeer, an artificial intelligence (AI) researcher recruited by Google for 2.7 billion dollars (about 4 trillion won), has moved to competitor OpenAI." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# Google Hired Him for $2.7 Billion, but \"How Much of a Genius Is He?\" Developer Leaves for Rival Again After Just 2 Years", "Mark Chen, Chief Research Officer (CRO) at OpenAI, explained on the same day that \"Shazeer will research methods for developing next-generation AI models.\"" ] }, { "url": "https://asiae.co.kr/en/article/2026062208100780228", "title": "Google Hired Him for $2.7 Billion, but \"How Much of a Genius Is He?\" Developer Leaves for Rival Again After Just 2 Years - The Asia Business Daily", "published_at": "2026-06-21T23:15:27", "researcher": "John Jumper", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# Google Hired Him for $2.7 Billion, but \"How Much of a Genius Is He?\" Developer Leaves for Rival Again After Just 2 Years", "On June 19, John Jumper, Vice President of DeepMind, stated on X (formerly Twitter) that \"after nine years, I am leaving DeepMind to join Anthropic.\"" ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://abcdstable.com/news/detail/12560604841987", "title": "Mark Zuckerberg Unveils New Meta AI Lab After Poaching OpenAI Talent", "published_at": "2025-06-30T16:32:44", "researcher": "Lucas Beyer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "The fallout became public last week, when OpenAI confirmed that researchers Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai had left the company.", "According to The Wall Street Journal, Meta hired all three scientists, who had previously worked together at Google DeepMind." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://abcdstable.com/news/detail/12560604841987", "title": "Mark Zuckerberg Unveils New Meta AI Lab After Poaching OpenAI Talent", "published_at": "2025-06-30T16:32:44", "researcher": "Alexander Kolesnikov", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "The fallout became public last week, when OpenAI confirmed that researchers Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai had left the company.", "According to The Wall Street Journal, Meta hired all three scientists, who had previously worked together at Google DeepMind." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://abcdstable.com/news/detail/12560604841987", "title": "Mark Zuckerberg Unveils New Meta AI Lab After Poaching OpenAI Talent", "published_at": "2025-06-30T16:32:44", "researcher": "Xiaohua Zhai", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "The fallout became public last week, when OpenAI confirmed that researchers Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai had left the company.", "According to The Wall Street Journal, Meta hired all three scientists, who had previously worked together at Google DeepMind." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://abcdstable.com/news/detail/12560604841987", "title": "Mark Zuckerberg Unveils New Meta AI Lab After Poaching OpenAI Talent", "published_at": "2025-06-30T16:32:44", "researcher": "Jiahui Yu", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "led o3, o4-mini, GPT-4.1", "researcher_evidence": [ "Zuck poached 4 elite Chinese researchers from OpenAI:", "- Jiahui Yu: led o3, o4-mini, GPT-4.1" ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Zuck poached 4 elite Chinese researchers from OpenAI:", "- Jiahui Yu: led o3, o4-mini, GPT-4.1" ] }, { "url": "https://abcdstable.com/news/detail/12560604841987", "title": "Mark Zuckerberg Unveils New Meta AI Lab After Poaching OpenAI Talent", "published_at": "2025-06-30T16:32:44", "researcher": "Hongyu Ren", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "creator of o3-mini & o1-mini, core contributor to o1", "researcher_evidence": [ "Zuck poached 4 elite Chinese researchers from OpenAI:", "- Hongyu Ren: creator of o3-mini & o1-mini, core contributor to o1" ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Zuck poached 4 elite Chinese researchers from OpenAI:", "- Hongyu Ren: creator of o3-mini & o1-mini, core contributor to o1" ] }, { "url": "https://abcdstable.com/news/detail/12560604841987", "title": "Mark Zuckerberg Unveils New Meta AI Lab After Poaching OpenAI Talent", "published_at": "2025-06-30T16:32:44", "researcher": "Shuchao Bi", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "head of post-training multimodal org", "researcher_evidence": [ "Zuck poached 4 elite Chinese researchers from OpenAI:", "- Shuchao Bi: head of post-training multimodal org" ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Zuck poached 4 elite Chinese researchers from OpenAI:", "- Shuchao Bi: head of post-training multimodal org" ] }, { "url": "https://abcdstable.com/news/detail/12560604841987", "title": "Mark Zuckerberg Unveils New Meta AI Lab After Poaching OpenAI Talent", "published_at": "2025-06-30T16:32:44", "researcher": "Shengjia Zhao", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "key contributor to GPT-4 & o1", "researcher_evidence": [ "Zuck poached 4 elite Chinese researchers from OpenAI:", "- Shengjia Zhao: key contributor to GPT-4 & o1" ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Zuck poached 4 elite Chinese researchers from OpenAI:", "- Shengjia Zhao: key contributor to GPT-4 & o1" ] }, { "url": "https://abcdstable.com/news/detail/12560604841987", "title": "Mark Zuckerberg Unveils New Meta AI Lab After Poaching OpenAI Talent", "published_at": "2025-06-30T16:32:44", "researcher": "Jack Rae", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "Meta\u2019s new team includes Daniel Gross, co-founder and CEO of Safe Superintelligence (SSI); former DeepMind researchers Jack Rae and Pei Sun; and several high-profile AI researchers from OpenAI, including Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, Shengjia Zhao, and Hongyu Ren, as well as Joel Pobar, an Anthropic engineer and Meta veteran, and Google Fellow, Johan Schalkwyk." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://abcdstable.com/news/detail/12560604841987", "title": "Mark Zuckerberg Unveils New Meta AI Lab After Poaching OpenAI Talent", "published_at": "2025-06-30T16:32:44", "researcher": "Pei Sun", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "Meta\u2019s new team includes Daniel Gross, co-founder and CEO of Safe Superintelligence (SSI); former DeepMind researchers Jack Rae and Pei Sun; and several high-profile AI researchers from OpenAI, including Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, Shengjia Zhao, and Hongyu Ren, as well as Joel Pobar, an Anthropic engineer and Meta veteran, and Google Fellow, Johan Schalkwyk." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://abcdstable.com/news/detail/12560604841987", "title": "Mark Zuckerberg Unveils New Meta AI Lab After Poaching OpenAI Talent", "published_at": "2025-06-30T16:32:44", "researcher": "Joel Pobar", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "Meta\u2019s new team includes Daniel Gross, co-founder and CEO of Safe Superintelligence (SSI); former DeepMind researchers Jack Rae and Pei Sun; and several high-profile AI researchers from OpenAI, including Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, Shengjia Zhao, and Hongyu Ren, as well as Joel Pobar, an Anthropic engineer and Meta veteran, and Google Fellow, Johan Schalkwyk." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://abcdstable.com/news/detail/12560604841987", "title": "Mark Zuckerberg Unveils New Meta AI Lab After Poaching OpenAI Talent", "published_at": "2025-06-30T16:32:44", "researcher": "Johan Schalkwyk", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "Meta\u2019s new team includes Daniel Gross, co-founder and CEO of Safe Superintelligence (SSI); former DeepMind researchers Jack Rae and Pei Sun; and several high-profile AI researchers from OpenAI, including Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, Shengjia Zhao, and Hongyu Ren, as well as Joel Pobar, an Anthropic engineer and Meta veteran, and Google Fellow, Johan Schalkwyk." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://thehansindia.com/amp/technology/tech-news/thinking-machines-co-founder-resigned-due-to-stress-she-may-now-join-openai-1103040", "title": "Thinking Machines co-founder resigned due to stress; she may now join OpenAI", "published_at": "2026-07-30T08:00:27", "researcher": "Lilian Weng", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "lead a high-level team focused on recursive self-improvement", "researcher_evidence": [ "# Thinking Machines co-founder resigned due to stress; she may now join OpenAI", "Days after leaving Thinking Machines Lab due to health concerns and stress, AI researcher Lilian Weng is returning to OpenAI." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# Thinking Machines co-founder resigned due to stress; she may now join OpenAI", "According to a famous publication Weng will now rejoin to lead a high-level team focused on recursive self-improvement." ] }, { "url": "https://thehansindia.com/amp/technology/tech-news/thinking-machines-co-founder-resigned-due-to-stress-she-may-now-join-openai-1103040", "title": "Thinking Machines co-founder resigned due to stress; she may now join OpenAI", "published_at": "2026-07-30T08:00:27", "researcher": "Barret Zoph", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# Thinking Machines co-founder resigned due to stress; she may now join OpenAI", "Barret Zoph and Luke Metz previously left for OpenAI, while Andrew Tulloch joined Meta." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://thehansindia.com/amp/technology/tech-news/thinking-machines-co-founder-resigned-due-to-stress-she-may-now-join-openai-1103040", "title": "Thinking Machines co-founder resigned due to stress; she may now join OpenAI", "published_at": "2026-07-30T08:00:27", "researcher": "Luke Metz", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# Thinking Machines co-founder resigned due to stress; she may now join OpenAI", "Barret Zoph and Luke Metz previously left for OpenAI, while Andrew Tulloch joined Meta." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://thehansindia.com/amp/technology/tech-news/thinking-machines-co-founder-resigned-due-to-stress-she-may-now-join-openai-1103040", "title": "Thinking Machines co-founder resigned due to stress; she may now join OpenAI", "published_at": "2026-07-30T08:00:27", "researcher": "Andrew Tulloch", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# Thinking Machines co-founder resigned due to stress; she may now join OpenAI", "Barret Zoph and Luke Metz previously left for OpenAI, while Andrew Tulloch joined Meta." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://opendatascience.com/meta-restructures-ai-division-cuts-600-jobs-while-expanding-tbd-lab", "title": "Meta Restructures AI Division, Cuts 600 Jobs While Expanding TBD Lab", "published_at": "2025-10-22T12:36:29", "researcher": "Ananya Kumar", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "research scientist", "researcher_evidence": [ "Meta Restructures AI Division, Cuts 600 Jobs While Expanding TBD Lab", "New Hires Signal Strategic Shift", "The company recently hired Ananya Kumar, a research scientist formerly with [OpenAI](https://opendatascience.com/openai-launches-chatgpt-atlas-a-browser-built-around-ai/), and Andrew Tulloch, co-founder of Thinking Machines." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Meta Restructures AI Division, Cuts 600 Jobs While Expanding TBD Lab", "New Hires Signal Strategic Shift", "The company recently hired Ananya Kumar, a research scientist formerly with [OpenAI](https://opendatascience.com/openai-launches-chatgpt-atlas-a-browser-built-around-ai/), and Andrew Tulloch, co-founder of Thinking Machines." ] }, { "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/14/cohere-hires-long-time-meta-research-head-joelle-pineau-as-its-chief-ai-officer", "title": "Cohere hires long-time Meta research head Joelle Pineau as its chief AI officer", "published_at": "2025-08-14T14:00:00", "researcher": "Joelle Pineau", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "chief AI officer", "researcher_evidence": [ "Now, the company is bringing in a veteran research leader to revamp its AI efforts: Cohere has hired Joelle Pineau, Meta\u2019s former VP of AI research who previously oversaw the tech giant\u2019s fundamental AI research (FAIR) lab." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "In her newly created chief AI officer role, Pineau will oversee AI strategy across Cohere\u2019s research, product, and policy teams." ] }, { "url": "https://techstartups.com/2026/05/15/spacexai-exodus-more-than-50-ai-researchers-leave-elon-musks-venture-as-meta-and-thinking-machines-poach-talent", "title": "SpaceXAI Exodus: More than 50 AI researchers leave Elon Musk\u2019s venture as Meta and Thinking Machines poach talent", "published_at": "2026-05-15T16:53:20", "researcher": "Juntang Zhuang", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "led the pre-training team responsible for building new frontier models", "researcher_evidence": [ "# SpaceXAI Exodus: More than 50 AI researchers leave Elon Musk\u2019s venture as Meta and Thinking Machines poach talent", "Juntang Zhuang, who led the pre-training team responsible for building new frontier models, has reportedly left as well." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# SpaceXAI Exodus: More than 50 AI researchers leave Elon Musk\u2019s venture as Meta and Thinking Machines poach talent", "Juntang Zhuang, who led the pre-training team responsible for building new frontier models, has reportedly left as well." ] }, { "url": "https://dailynews.us/metas-100m-signing-bonuses-for-openai-staff-are-just-the-latest-sign-of-extreme-ai-talent-war-dn", "title": "Meta\u2019s $100m signing bonuses for OpenAI staff are just the latest sign of extreme AI talent war | DN", "published_at": "2025-06-18T12:30:32", "researcher": "Jack Rae", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "principal researcher", "researcher_evidence": [ "# Meta\u2019s $100m signing bonuses for OpenAI staff are just the latest sign of extreme AI talent war | DN", "[According to Bloomberg](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-11/meta-hires-top-researchers-from-google-sesame-for-new-ai-lab), Meta has additionally employed Jack Rae, a principal researcher at [Google](https://fortune.com/company/alphabet/) [DeepMind](https://fortune.com/company/deepmind/), for the group and introduced on Johan Schalkwyk, a machine studying chief from the AI voice startup Sesame AI." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# Meta\u2019s $100m signing bonuses for OpenAI staff are just the latest sign of extreme AI talent war | DN", "[According to Bloomberg](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-11/meta-hires-top-researchers-from-google-sesame-for-new-ai-lab), Meta has additionally employed Jack Rae, a principal researcher at [Google](https://fortune.com/company/alphabet/) [DeepMind](https://fortune.com/company/deepmind/), for the group and introduced on Johan Schalkwyk, a machine studying chief from the AI voice startup Sesame AI." ] }, { "url": "https://frontiernews.ai/news/article/google-deepminds-talent-exodus-why-five-top-resear-6424a6b3", "title": "Google DeepMind's Talent Exodus: Why Five Top Researchers Left in One Week", "published_at": "2026-06-25T00:00:00", "researcher": "Arthur Conmy", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "senior research engineer", "researcher_evidence": [ "# Google DeepMind's Talent Exodus: Why Five Top Researchers Left in One Week", "The most recent departure is Arthur Conmy, a senior research engineer who spent three years at DeepMind working on alignment and interpretability for Gemini, Google's flagship AI model." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# Google DeepMind's Talent Exodus: Why Five Top Researchers Left in One Week", "The most recent departure is Arthur Conmy, a senior research engineer who spent three years at DeepMind working on alignment and interpretability for Gemini, Google's flagship AI model." ] }, { "url": "https://frontiernews.ai/news/article/google-deepminds-talent-exodus-why-five-top-resear-6424a6b3", "title": "Google DeepMind's Talent Exodus: Why Five Top Researchers Left in One Week", "published_at": "2026-06-25T00:00:00", "researcher": "John Jumper", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Nobel laureate", "researcher_evidence": [ "# Google DeepMind's Talent Exodus: Why Five Top Researchers Left in One Week", "His exit on June 25 follows Nobel laureate John Jumper and Transformer co-author Noam Shazeer, plus two additional Gemini contributors set to join Anthropic." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# Google DeepMind's Talent Exodus: Why Five Top Researchers Left in One Week", "His exit on June 25 follows Nobel laureate John Jumper and Transformer co-author Noam Shazeer, plus two additional Gemini contributors set to join Anthropic." ] }, { "url": "https://frontiernews.ai/news/article/google-deepminds-talent-exodus-why-five-top-resear-6424a6b3", "title": "Google DeepMind's Talent Exodus: Why Five Top Researchers Left in One Week", "published_at": "2026-06-25T00:00:00", "researcher": "Noam Shazeer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Transformer co-author", "researcher_evidence": [ "# Google DeepMind's Talent Exodus: Why Five Top Researchers Left in One Week", "His exit on June 25 follows Nobel laureate John Jumper and Transformer co-author Noam Shazeer, plus two additional Gemini contributors set to join Anthropic." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# Google DeepMind's Talent Exodus: Why Five Top Researchers Left in One Week", "His exit on June 25 follows Nobel laureate John Jumper and Transformer co-author Noam Shazeer, plus two additional Gemini contributors set to join Anthropic." ] }, { "url": "https://adam.holter.com/ai-talent-war-meta-and-microsoft-poach-top-deepmind-researchers-as-googles-gemini-falters", "title": "AI Talent War: Meta and Microsoft Poach Top DeepMind Researchers as Google\u2019s Gemini Falters", "published_at": "2025-07-23T00:48:53", "researcher": "Amar Subramanya", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "VP of Engineering for Gemini", "researcher_evidence": [ "AI Talent War: Meta and Microsoft Poach Top DeepMind Researchers as Google\u2019s Gemini Falters", "Key players and their targeted talent acquisitions in the AI poaching war.", "| Microsoft | 20+ Google DeepMind Experts (Amar Subramanya, Adam Sadovsky, Sonal Gupta, Jonas Rothfuss) | Enhance Copilot, Rival Gemini |", "Over 20 top DeepMind employees, including key figures like Amar Subramanya (ex-Google VP of Engineering for Gemini) and Adam Sadovsky (former distinguished engineer and senior director at DeepMind), have jumped ship." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "AI Talent War: Meta and Microsoft Poach Top DeepMind Researchers as Google\u2019s Gemini Falters", "Key players and their targeted talent acquisitions in the AI poaching war.", "| Microsoft | 20+ Google DeepMind Experts (Amar Subramanya, Adam Sadovsky, Sonal Gupta, Jonas Rothfuss) | Enhance Copilot, Rival Gemini |", "Over 20 top DeepMind employees, including key figures like Amar Subramanya (ex-Google VP of Engineering for Gemini) and Adam Sadovsky (former distinguished engineer and senior director at DeepMind), have jumped ship." ] }, { "url": "https://adam.holter.com/ai-talent-war-meta-and-microsoft-poach-top-deepmind-researchers-as-googles-gemini-falters", "title": "AI Talent War: Meta and Microsoft Poach Top DeepMind Researchers as Google\u2019s Gemini Falters", "published_at": "2025-07-23T00:48:53", "researcher": "Adam Sadovsky", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "distinguished engineer and senior director", "researcher_evidence": [ "AI Talent War: Meta and Microsoft Poach Top DeepMind Researchers as Google\u2019s Gemini Falters", "Key players and their targeted talent acquisitions in the AI poaching war.", "| Microsoft | 20+ Google DeepMind Experts (Amar Subramanya, Adam Sadovsky, Sonal Gupta, Jonas Rothfuss) | Enhance Copilot, Rival Gemini |", "Over 20 top DeepMind employees, including key figures like Amar Subramanya (ex-Google VP of Engineering for Gemini) and Adam Sadovsky (former distinguished engineer and senior director at DeepMind), have jumped ship." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "AI Talent War: Meta and Microsoft Poach Top DeepMind Researchers as Google\u2019s Gemini Falters", "Key players and their targeted talent acquisitions in the AI poaching war.", "| Microsoft | 20+ Google DeepMind Experts (Amar Subramanya, Adam Sadovsky, Sonal Gupta, Jonas Rothfuss) | Enhance Copilot, Rival Gemini |", "Over 20 top DeepMind employees, including key figures like Amar Subramanya (ex-Google VP of Engineering for Gemini) and Adam Sadovsky (former distinguished engineer and senior director at DeepMind), have jumped ship." ] }, { "url": "https://adam.holter.com/ai-talent-war-meta-and-microsoft-poach-top-deepmind-researchers-as-googles-gemini-falters", "title": "AI Talent War: Meta and Microsoft Poach Top DeepMind Researchers as Google\u2019s Gemini Falters", "published_at": "2025-07-23T00:48:53", "researcher": "Sonal Gupta", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "engineer and researcher", "researcher_evidence": [ "AI Talent War: Meta and Microsoft Poach Top DeepMind Researchers as Google\u2019s Gemini Falters", "Key players and their targeted talent acquisitions in the AI poaching war.", "| Microsoft | 20+ Google DeepMind Experts (Amar Subramanya, Adam Sadovsky, Sonal Gupta, Jonas Rothfuss) | Enhance Copilot, Rival Gemini |", "Sonal Gupta and Jonas Rothfuss, both talented engineers and researchers, are also now at Microsoft AI." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "AI Talent War: Meta and Microsoft Poach Top DeepMind Researchers as Google\u2019s Gemini Falters", "Key players and their targeted talent acquisitions in the AI poaching war.", "| Microsoft | 20+ Google DeepMind Experts (Amar Subramanya, Adam Sadovsky, Sonal Gupta, Jonas Rothfuss) | Enhance Copilot, Rival Gemini |", "Sonal Gupta and Jonas Rothfuss, both talented engineers and researchers, are also now at Microsoft AI." ] }, { "url": "https://adam.holter.com/ai-talent-war-meta-and-microsoft-poach-top-deepmind-researchers-as-googles-gemini-falters", "title": "AI Talent War: Meta and Microsoft Poach Top DeepMind Researchers as Google\u2019s Gemini Falters", "published_at": "2025-07-23T00:48:53", "researcher": "Jonas Rothfuss", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "engineer and researcher", "researcher_evidence": [ "AI Talent War: Meta and Microsoft Poach Top DeepMind Researchers as Google\u2019s Gemini Falters", "Key players and their targeted talent acquisitions in the AI poaching war.", "| Microsoft | 20+ Google DeepMind Experts (Amar Subramanya, Adam Sadovsky, Sonal Gupta, Jonas Rothfuss) | Enhance Copilot, Rival Gemini |", "Sonal Gupta and Jonas Rothfuss, both talented engineers and researchers, are also now at Microsoft AI." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "AI Talent War: Meta and Microsoft Poach Top DeepMind Researchers as Google\u2019s Gemini Falters", "Key players and their targeted talent acquisitions in the AI poaching war.", "| Microsoft | 20+ Google DeepMind Experts (Amar Subramanya, Adam Sadovsky, Sonal Gupta, Jonas Rothfuss) | Enhance Copilot, Rival Gemini |", "Sonal Gupta and Jonas Rothfuss, both talented engineers and researchers, are also now at Microsoft AI." ] }, { "url": "https://theoutpost.ai/news-story/meta-appoints-shengjia-zhao-as-chief-scientist-of-ai-superintelligence-unit-18250", "title": "Meta Appoints Ex-OpenAI Researcher Shengjia Zhao as Chief Scientist of New Superintelligence Lab", "published_at": "2025-07-26T00:23:01", "researcher": "Shengjia Zhao", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Chief Scientist", "researcher_evidence": [ "# Meta Appoints Ex-OpenAI Researcher Shengjia Zhao as Chief Scientist of New Superintelligence Lab", "Mark Zuckerberg has named Shengjia Zhao, an artificial intelligence researcher who joined Meta Platforms Inc. from OpenAI in June, as the chief scientist for the social media company's new superintelligence AI group." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# Meta Appoints Ex-OpenAI Researcher Shengjia Zhao as Chief Scientist of New Superintelligence Lab", "Mark Zuckerberg has named Shengjia Zhao, an artificial intelligence researcher who joined Meta Platforms Inc. from OpenAI in June, as the chief scientist for the social media company's new superintelligence AI group." ] }, { "url": "https://benched.ai/companies/meta-ai", "title": "Meta AI (FAIR) | Benched.ai", "published_at": null, "researcher": "Joelle Pineau", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Chief AI Officer", "researcher_evidence": [ "Meta AI (FAIR)", "The period from late 2023 through late 2025 saw the most consequential talent exodus in FAIR's history: Yann LeCun departed as Chief AI Scientist in November 2025, followed shortly before and after by **Joelle Pineau** (VP AI Research, now Chief AI Officer at [Anthropic](/labs/anthropic) rival Cohere), **Soumith Chintala** (PyTorch co-creator, now at Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab), and years earlier by Llama paper co-authors **Guillaume Lample** and **Timoth\u00e9e Lacroix**, who co-founded [Mistral AI](/labs/mistral-ai). LeCun subsequently launched **AMI Labs** in Paris in March 2026, raising a reported $1.03 billion to pursue \"world models\" \u2014 a direct intellectual continuation of the research agenda he championed but increasingly could not pursue at Meta.3\n\nDespite these departures, Meta's AI" ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Meta AI (FAIR)", "The period from late 2023 through late 2025 saw the most consequential talent exodus in FAIR's history: Yann LeCun departed as Chief AI Scientist in November 2025, followed shortly before and after by **Joelle Pineau** (VP AI Research, now Chief AI Officer at [Anthropic](/labs/anthropic) rival Cohere), **Soumith Chintala** (PyTorch co-creator, now at Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab), and years earlier by Llama paper co-authors **Guillaume Lample** and **Timoth\u00e9e Lacroix**, who co-founded [Mistral AI](/labs/mistral-ai). LeCun subsequently launched **AMI Labs** in Paris in March 2026, raising a reported $1.03 billion to pursue \"world models\" \u2014 a direct intellectual continuation of the research agenda he championed but increasingly could not pursue at Meta.3\n\nDespite these departures, Meta's AI" ] }, { "url": "https://bitget.com/news/detail/12560604841987", "title": "Mark Zuckerberg Unveils New Meta AI Lab After Poaching OpenAI Talent", "published_at": "2025-06-30T16:32:44", "researcher": "Lucas Beyer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "The fallout became public last week, when OpenAI confirmed that researchers Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai had left the company.", "According to The Wall Street Journal, Meta hired all three scientists, who had previously worked together at Google DeepMind." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://bitget.com/news/detail/12560604841987", "title": "Mark Zuckerberg Unveils New Meta AI Lab After Poaching OpenAI Talent", "published_at": "2025-06-30T16:32:44", "researcher": "Alexander Kolesnikov", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "The fallout became public last week, when OpenAI confirmed that researchers Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai had left the company.", "According to The Wall Street Journal, Meta hired all three scientists, who had previously worked together at Google DeepMind." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://bitget.com/news/detail/12560604841987", "title": "Mark Zuckerberg Unveils New Meta AI Lab After Poaching OpenAI Talent", "published_at": "2025-06-30T16:32:44", "researcher": "Xiaohua Zhai", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "The fallout became public last week, when OpenAI confirmed that researchers Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai had left the company.", "According to The Wall Street Journal, Meta hired all three scientists, who had previously worked together at Google DeepMind." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://bitget.com/news/detail/12560604841987", "title": "Mark Zuckerberg Unveils New Meta AI Lab After Poaching OpenAI Talent", "published_at": "2025-06-30T16:32:44", "researcher": "Jiahui Yu", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "Meta\u2019s new team includes Daniel Gross, co-founder and CEO of Safe Superintelligence (SSI); former DeepMind researchers Jack Rae and Pei Sun; and several high-profile AI researchers from OpenAI, including Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, Shengjia Zhao, and Hongyu Ren, as well as Joel Pobar, an Anthropic engineer and Meta veteran, and Google Fellow, Johan Schalkwyk." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://bitget.com/news/detail/12560604841987", "title": "Mark Zuckerberg Unveils New Meta AI Lab After Poaching OpenAI Talent", "published_at": "2025-06-30T16:32:44", "researcher": "Hongyu Ren", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "Meta\u2019s new team includes Daniel Gross, co-founder and CEO of Safe Superintelligence (SSI); former DeepMind researchers Jack Rae and Pei Sun; and several high-profile AI researchers from OpenAI, including Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, Shengjia Zhao, and Hongyu Ren, as well as Joel Pobar, an Anthropic engineer and Meta veteran, and Google Fellow, Johan Schalkwyk." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://bitget.com/news/detail/12560604841987", "title": "Mark Zuckerberg Unveils New Meta AI Lab After Poaching OpenAI Talent", "published_at": "2025-06-30T16:32:44", "researcher": "Shuchao Bi", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "Meta\u2019s new team includes Daniel Gross, co-founder and CEO of Safe Superintelligence (SSI); former DeepMind researchers Jack Rae and Pei Sun; and several high-profile AI researchers from OpenAI, including Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, Shengjia Zhao, and Hongyu Ren, as well as Joel Pobar, an Anthropic engineer and Meta veteran, and Google Fellow, Johan Schalkwyk." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://bitget.com/news/detail/12560604841987", "title": "Mark Zuckerberg Unveils New Meta AI Lab After Poaching OpenAI Talent", "published_at": "2025-06-30T16:32:44", "researcher": "Shengjia Zhao", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "Meta\u2019s new team includes Daniel Gross, co-founder and CEO of Safe Superintelligence (SSI); former DeepMind researchers Jack Rae and Pei Sun; and several high-profile AI researchers from OpenAI, including Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, Shengjia Zhao, and Hongyu Ren, as well as Joel Pobar, an Anthropic engineer and Meta veteran, and Google Fellow, Johan Schalkwyk." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://bitget.com/news/detail/12560604841987", "title": "Mark Zuckerberg Unveils New Meta AI Lab After Poaching OpenAI Talent", "published_at": "2025-06-30T16:32:44", "researcher": "Jack Rae", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "Meta\u2019s new team includes Daniel Gross, co-founder and CEO of Safe Superintelligence (SSI); former DeepMind researchers Jack Rae and Pei Sun; and several high-profile AI researchers from OpenAI, including Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, Shengjia Zhao, and Hongyu Ren, as well as Joel Pobar, an Anthropic engineer and Meta veteran, and Google Fellow, Johan Schalkwyk." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://bitget.com/news/detail/12560604841987", "title": "Mark Zuckerberg Unveils New Meta AI Lab After Poaching OpenAI Talent", "published_at": "2025-06-30T16:32:44", "researcher": "Pei Sun", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "Meta\u2019s new team includes Daniel Gross, co-founder and CEO of Safe Superintelligence (SSI); former DeepMind researchers Jack Rae and Pei Sun; and several high-profile AI researchers from OpenAI, including Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, Shengjia Zhao, and Hongyu Ren, as well as Joel Pobar, an Anthropic engineer and Meta veteran, and Google Fellow, Johan Schalkwyk." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://techloy.com/inside-the-openai-exodus-21-key-leaders-who-left-and-why", "title": "Inside the OpenAI Exodus: 21 Key Leaders Who Left and Why", "published_at": "2026-04-20T15:54:57", "researcher": "Shengjia Zhao", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "chief scientist", "researcher_evidence": [ "# Inside the OpenAI Exodus: 21 Key Leaders Who Left and Why", "1. **Shengjia Zhao \u2014 July 2025**", "Zhao, a key architect of ChatGPT and GPT-4, became chief scientist at Meta's Superintelligence Lab in July 2025, reporting directly to Mark Zuckerberg." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# Inside the OpenAI Exodus: 21 Key Leaders Who Left and Why", "1. **Shengjia Zhao \u2014 July 2025**", "Zhao, a key architect of ChatGPT and GPT-4, became chief scientist at Meta's Superintelligence Lab in July 2025, reporting directly to Mark Zuckerberg." ] }, { "url": "https://outlookbusiness.com/corporate/openai-brings-in-ex-trump-ai-advisor-dean-ball-as-ai-policy-battle-intensifies", "title": "OpenAI Brings In Ex-Trump AI Advisor Dean Ball As AI Policy Battle Intensifies", "published_at": "2026-06-19T06:03:16", "researcher": "Noam Shazeer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "key architect behind modern generative AI and co-author of the landmark Attention Is All You Need research paper", "researcher_evidence": [ "# OpenAI Brings In Ex-Trump AI Advisor Dean Ball As AI Policy Battle Intensifies", "The Sam Altman-led company has also hired top AI researcher Noam Shazeer from Google as competition among leading AI firms intensifies", "OpenAI is expanding both its technical and policy leadership after hiring former White House AI advisor Dean Ball to lead a newly created policy division, while also bringing in prominent AI researcher Noam Shazeer from Google.", "At the same time, OpenAI has also recruited [Noam Shazeer](https://www.outlookbusiness.com/news/noam-shazeer-exits-google-for-openai-check-his-career-net-worth), one of the key architects behind modern generative AI and co-author of the landmark Attention Is All You Need research paper." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# OpenAI Brings In Ex-Trump AI Advisor Dean Ball As AI Policy Battle Intensifies", "At the same time, OpenAI has also recruited [Noam Shazeer](https://www.outlookbusiness.com/news/noam-shazeer-exits-google-for-openai-check-his-career-net-worth), one of the key architects behind modern generative AI and co-author of the landmark Attention Is All You Need research paper." ] }, { "url": "https://mlq.ai/news/openai-says-lilian-weng-will-return-after-leaving-thinking-machines", "title": "OpenAI Says Lilian Weng Will Return After Leaving Thinking Machines", "published_at": "2026-07-30T15:00:07", "researcher": "Lilian Weng", "left_lab": "Thinking Machines", "joined_lab": "OpenAI", "move_month": "2026-07", "role": "lead a top-level team supporting research across the company, including work on recursive self-improvement", "researcher_evidence": [ "OpenAI Says Lilian Weng Will Return After Leaving Thinking Machines", "Weng said July 28 would be her final day at Thinking Machines after sustained stress and workload exceeded what her health could support.[[1]](https://x.com/lilianweng/status/2081816923088814421)" ], "left_lab_evidence": [ "OpenAI Says Lilian Weng Will Return After Leaving Thinking Machines", "Weng said July 28 would be her final day at Thinking Machines after sustained stress and workload exceeded what her health could support.[[1]](https://x.com/lilianweng/status/2081816923088814421)" ], "joined_lab_evidence": [ "OpenAI Says Lilian Weng Will Return After Leaving Thinking Machines", "OpenAI confirmed that Weng will lead a top-level team supporting research across the company, including work on recursive self-improvement, but did not provide a start date.[[2]](https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/29/thinking-machines-co-founder-lilian-weng-left-the-company-citing-health-reasons-then-joined-openai/)" ], "move_month_evidence": [ "OpenAI Says Lilian Weng Will Return After Leaving Thinking Machines", "Jul 30, 2026 \u00b7 11:00 AM \u00b7 by MLQ Agent \u00b7 2 min read" ], "role_evidence": [ "OpenAI Says Lilian Weng Will Return After Leaving Thinking Machines", "OpenAI confirmed that Weng will lead a top-level team supporting research across the company, including work on recursive self-improvement, but did not provide a start date.[[2]](https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/29/thinking-machines-co-founder-lilian-weng-left-the-company-citing-health-reasons-then-joined-openai/)" ] }, { "url": "https://tensorfeed.ai/originals/deepmind-talent-exodus-gemini-pro-slip", "title": "John Jumper Walked. The DeepMind Bench Lost Four in Eleven Days, and Gemini 3.5 Pro Slipped Again.", "published_at": "2026-06-29T00:00:00", "researcher": "Noam Shazeer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Transformer paper, Gemini co-lead", "researcher_evidence": [ "Frontier Labs \u00b7 Talent Flow", "The Names", "On June 18, Shazeer told staff he was joining OpenAI." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Frontier Labs \u00b7 Talent Flow", "The Scoreboard", "| Researcher | From | To | Known for |", "| Noam Shazeer | Google DeepMind | OpenAI | Transformer paper, Gemini co-lead |" ] }, { "url": "https://tensorfeed.ai/originals/deepmind-talent-exodus-gemini-pro-slip", "title": "John Jumper Walked. The DeepMind Bench Lost Four in Eleven Days, and Gemini 3.5 Pro Slipped Again.", "published_at": "2026-06-29T00:00:00", "researcher": "John Jumper", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "AlphaFold lead, 2024 Nobel laureate", "researcher_evidence": [ "Frontier Labs \u00b7 Talent Flow", "The Names", "On June 23, Fortune confirmed John Jumper is leaving Google DeepMind for Anthropic." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Frontier Labs \u00b7 Talent Flow", "The Scoreboard", "| Researcher | From | To | Known for |", "| John Jumper | Google DeepMind | Anthropic | AlphaFold lead, 2024 Nobel laureate |" ] }, { "url": "https://tensorfeed.ai/originals/deepmind-talent-exodus-gemini-pro-slip", "title": "John Jumper Walked. The DeepMind Bench Lost Four in Eleven Days, and Gemini 3.5 Pro Slipped Again.", "published_at": "2026-06-29T00:00:00", "researcher": "Jonas Adler", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "AlphaFold and Gemini contributor", "researcher_evidence": [ "Frontier Labs \u00b7 Talent Flow", "The Names", "On June 24, Bloomberg reported that Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel, both viewed internally as key contributors to Gemini, are also moving to Anthropic." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Frontier Labs \u00b7 Talent Flow", "The Scoreboard", "| Researcher | From | To | Known for |", "| Jonas Adler | Google DeepMind | Anthropic | AlphaFold and Gemini contributor |" ] }, { "url": "https://tensorfeed.ai/originals/deepmind-talent-exodus-gemini-pro-slip", "title": "John Jumper Walked. The DeepMind Bench Lost Four in Eleven Days, and Gemini 3.5 Pro Slipped Again.", "published_at": "2026-06-29T00:00:00", "researcher": "Alexander Pritzel", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Early DeepMind, Gemini contributor", "researcher_evidence": [ "Frontier Labs \u00b7 Talent Flow", "The Names", "On June 24, Bloomberg reported that Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel, both viewed internally as key contributors to Gemini, are also moving to Anthropic." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Frontier Labs \u00b7 Talent Flow", "The Scoreboard", "| Researcher | From | To | Known for |", "| Alexander Pritzel | Google DeepMind | Anthropic | Early DeepMind, Gemini contributor |" ] }, { "url": "https://trendforce.com/news/2025/08/05/news-metas-poaching-effort-at-ex-openai-ctos-startup-fails-as-ai-talent-war-escalates", "title": "[News] Meta\u2019s Poaching Effort at Ex-OpenAI CTO\u2019s Startup Fails as AI Talent War Escalates", "published_at": "2025-08-05T07:30:58", "researcher": "Shengjia Zhao", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "lead research at the company\u2019s newly established AI division, Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL)", "researcher_evidence": [ "# [News] Meta\u2019s Poaching Effort at Ex-OpenAI CTO\u2019s Startup Fails as AI Talent War Escalates", "Last month, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that former OpenAI researcher Shengjia Zhao will lead research at the company\u2019s newly established AI division, Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL)." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# [News] Meta\u2019s Poaching Effort at Ex-OpenAI CTO\u2019s Startup Fails as AI Talent War Escalates", "Last month, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that former OpenAI researcher Shengjia Zhao will lead research at the company\u2019s newly established AI division, Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL)." ] }, { "url": "https://trendforce.com/news/2025/08/05/news-metas-poaching-effort-at-ex-openai-ctos-startup-fails-as-ai-talent-war-escalates", "title": "[News] Meta\u2019s Poaching Effort at Ex-OpenAI CTO\u2019s Startup Fails as AI Talent War Escalates", "published_at": "2025-08-05T07:30:58", "researcher": "Amar Subramanya", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "corporate vice president", "researcher_evidence": [ "# [News] Meta\u2019s Poaching Effort at Ex-OpenAI CTO\u2019s Startup Fails as AI Talent War Escalates", "**The AI Talent War Escalates Across Big Tech: Microsoft, Google, and Beyond**", "Notably, Amar Subramanya\u2014a 16-year Google veteran who most recently served as VP of Engineering for the Gemini assistant\u2014announced on LinkedIn that he has joined Microsoft AI as a corporate vice president, CNBC reports." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# [News] Meta\u2019s Poaching Effort at Ex-OpenAI CTO\u2019s Startup Fails as AI Talent War Escalates", "**The AI Talent War Escalates Across Big Tech: Microsoft, Google, and Beyond**", "Notably, Amar Subramanya\u2014a 16-year Google veteran who most recently served as VP of Engineering for the Gemini assistant\u2014announced on LinkedIn that he has joined Microsoft AI as a corporate vice president, CNBC reports." ] }, { "url": "https://trendforce.com/news/2025/08/05/news-metas-poaching-effort-at-ex-openai-ctos-startup-fails-as-ai-talent-war-escalates", "title": "[News] Meta\u2019s Poaching Effort at Ex-OpenAI CTO\u2019s Startup Fails as AI Talent War Escalates", "published_at": "2025-08-05T07:30:58", "researcher": "Varun Mohan", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "CEO", "researcher_evidence": [ "# [News] Meta\u2019s Poaching Effort at Ex-OpenAI CTO\u2019s Startup Fails as AI Talent War Escalates", "**The AI Talent War Escalates Across Big Tech: Microsoft, Google, and Beyond**", "These include CEO Varun Mohan, co-founder Douglas Chen, and several members of the company\u2019s research and development team, all of whom will join Google\u2019s DeepMind AI division." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# [News] Meta\u2019s Poaching Effort at Ex-OpenAI CTO\u2019s Startup Fails as AI Talent War Escalates", "**The AI Talent War Escalates Across Big Tech: Microsoft, Google, and Beyond**", "These include CEO Varun Mohan, co-founder Douglas Chen, and several members of the company\u2019s research and development team, all of whom will join Google\u2019s DeepMind AI division." ] }, { "url": "https://trendforce.com/news/2025/08/05/news-metas-poaching-effort-at-ex-openai-ctos-startup-fails-as-ai-talent-war-escalates", "title": "[News] Meta\u2019s Poaching Effort at Ex-OpenAI CTO\u2019s Startup Fails as AI Talent War Escalates", "published_at": "2025-08-05T07:30:58", "researcher": "Douglas Chen", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "co-founder", "researcher_evidence": [ "# [News] Meta\u2019s Poaching Effort at Ex-OpenAI CTO\u2019s Startup Fails as AI Talent War Escalates", "**The AI Talent War Escalates Across Big Tech: Microsoft, Google, and Beyond**", "These include CEO Varun Mohan, co-founder Douglas Chen, and several members of the company\u2019s research and development team, all of whom will join Google\u2019s DeepMind AI division." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# [News] Meta\u2019s Poaching Effort at Ex-OpenAI CTO\u2019s Startup Fails as AI Talent War Escalates", "**The AI Talent War Escalates Across Big Tech: Microsoft, Google, and Beyond**", "These include CEO Varun Mohan, co-founder Douglas Chen, and several members of the company\u2019s research and development team, all of whom will join Google\u2019s DeepMind AI division." ] }, { "url": "https://europesays.com/ai/130564", "title": "Anthropic Leads AI Labs on Retention; CEO Amodei Privately Fears Mission Is Losing to Money - AI Europe", "published_at": "2026-08-05T17:47:34", "researcher": "John Jumper", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "AlphaFold Nobel laureate", "researcher_evidence": [ "Thinking Machines is not an outlier. Google lost two prominent researchers in June alone: Noam Shazeer departed for OpenAI, while AlphaFold Nobel laureate John Jumper [went to Anthropic from DeepMind](https://www.techtimes.com/articles/318754/20260620/alphafold-nobel-laureate-john-jumper-joins-anthropic-after-nine-years-deepmind.htm)." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Thinking Machines is not an outlier. Google lost two prominent researchers in June alone: Noam Shazeer departed for OpenAI, while AlphaFold Nobel laureate John Jumper [went to Anthropic from DeepMind](https://www.techtimes.com/articles/318754/20260620/alphafold-nobel-laureate-john-jumper-joins-anthropic-after-nine-years-deepmind.htm)." ] }, { "url": "https://memeburn.com/google-deepmind-talent-exodus-hits-alphabet-with-270b-loss", "title": "Google DeepMind Talent Exodus Hits Alphabet With $270B Loss", "published_at": "2026-06-28T16:52:35", "researcher": "John Jumper", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# Google DeepMind Talent Exodus Hits Alphabet With $270B Loss", "The exits include Nobel Prize winner **John Jumper** (to Anthropic), Gemini co-lead **Noam Shazeer** (to OpenAI), AI coding researcher **Jonas Adler** (to Anthropic), pretraining specialist **Alexander Pritzel** (to Anthropic), and Gemini 2.5 contributor **Arthur Conmy** (to Anthropic)." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://memeburn.com/google-deepmind-talent-exodus-hits-alphabet-with-270b-loss", "title": "Google DeepMind Talent Exodus Hits Alphabet With $270B Loss", "published_at": "2026-06-28T16:52:35", "researcher": "Noam Shazeer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Gemini co-lead", "researcher_evidence": [ "# Google DeepMind Talent Exodus Hits Alphabet With $270B Loss", "The exits include Nobel Prize winner **John Jumper** (to Anthropic), Gemini co-lead **Noam Shazeer** (to OpenAI), AI coding researcher **Jonas Adler** (to Anthropic), pretraining specialist **Alexander Pritzel** (to Anthropic), and Gemini 2.5 contributor **Arthur Conmy** (to Anthropic)." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# Google DeepMind Talent Exodus Hits Alphabet With $270B Loss", "The exits include Nobel Prize winner **John Jumper** (to Anthropic), Gemini co-lead **Noam Shazeer** (to OpenAI), AI coding researcher **Jonas Adler** (to Anthropic), pretraining specialist **Alexander Pritzel** (to Anthropic), and Gemini 2.5 contributor **Arthur Conmy** (to Anthropic)." ] }, { "url": "https://memeburn.com/google-deepmind-talent-exodus-hits-alphabet-with-270b-loss", "title": "Google DeepMind Talent Exodus Hits Alphabet With $270B Loss", "published_at": "2026-06-28T16:52:35", "researcher": "Jonas Adler", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "AI coding researcher", "researcher_evidence": [ "# Google DeepMind Talent Exodus Hits Alphabet With $270B Loss", "The exits include Nobel Prize winner **John Jumper** (to Anthropic), Gemini co-lead **Noam Shazeer** (to OpenAI), AI coding researcher **Jonas Adler** (to Anthropic), pretraining specialist **Alexander Pritzel** (to Anthropic), and Gemini 2.5 contributor **Arthur Conmy** (to Anthropic)." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# Google DeepMind Talent Exodus Hits Alphabet With $270B Loss", "The exits include Nobel Prize winner **John Jumper** (to Anthropic), Gemini co-lead **Noam Shazeer** (to OpenAI), AI coding researcher **Jonas Adler** (to Anthropic), pretraining specialist **Alexander Pritzel** (to Anthropic), and Gemini 2.5 contributor **Arthur Conmy** (to Anthropic)." ] }, { "url": "https://memeburn.com/google-deepmind-talent-exodus-hits-alphabet-with-270b-loss", "title": "Google DeepMind Talent Exodus Hits Alphabet With $270B Loss", "published_at": "2026-06-28T16:52:35", "researcher": "Alexander Pritzel", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "pretraining specialist", "researcher_evidence": [ "# Google DeepMind Talent Exodus Hits Alphabet With $270B Loss", "The exits include Nobel Prize winner **John Jumper** (to Anthropic), Gemini co-lead **Noam Shazeer** (to OpenAI), AI coding researcher **Jonas Adler** (to Anthropic), pretraining specialist **Alexander Pritzel** (to Anthropic), and Gemini 2.5 contributor **Arthur Conmy** (to Anthropic)." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# Google DeepMind Talent Exodus Hits Alphabet With $270B Loss", "The exits include Nobel Prize winner **John Jumper** (to Anthropic), Gemini co-lead **Noam Shazeer** (to OpenAI), AI coding researcher **Jonas Adler** (to Anthropic), pretraining specialist **Alexander Pritzel** (to Anthropic), and Gemini 2.5 contributor **Arthur Conmy** (to Anthropic)." ] }, { "url": "https://memeburn.com/google-deepmind-talent-exodus-hits-alphabet-with-270b-loss", "title": "Google DeepMind Talent Exodus Hits Alphabet With $270B Loss", "published_at": "2026-06-28T16:52:35", "researcher": "Arthur Conmy", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Gemini 2.5 contributor", "researcher_evidence": [ "# Google DeepMind Talent Exodus Hits Alphabet With $270B Loss", "The exits include Nobel Prize winner **John Jumper** (to Anthropic), Gemini co-lead **Noam Shazeer** (to OpenAI), AI coding researcher **Jonas Adler** (to Anthropic), pretraining specialist **Alexander Pritzel** (to Anthropic), and Gemini 2.5 contributor **Arthur Conmy** (to Anthropic)." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# Google DeepMind Talent Exodus Hits Alphabet With $270B Loss", "The exits include Nobel Prize winner **John Jumper** (to Anthropic), Gemini co-lead **Noam Shazeer** (to OpenAI), AI coding researcher **Jonas Adler** (to Anthropic), pretraining specialist **Alexander Pritzel** (to Anthropic), and Gemini 2.5 contributor **Arthur Conmy** (to Anthropic)." ] }, { "url": "https://memeburn.com/google-deepmind-talent-exodus-hits-alphabet-with-270b-loss", "title": "Google DeepMind Talent Exodus Hits Alphabet With $270B Loss", "published_at": "2026-06-28T16:52:35", "researcher": "Andrej Karpathy", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "OpenAI co-founder and former Tesla AI director", "researcher_evidence": [ "## **Anthropic\u2019s Broader Hiring Strategy**", "In May, OpenAI co-founder and former Tesla AI director **Andrej Karpathy**[ joined Anthropic\u2019s pretraining team](https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/openai-co-founder-andrej-karpathy-joins-anthropics-pre-training-team/) to build a group focused on using Claude to accelerate pretraining research." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "## **Anthropic\u2019s Broader Hiring Strategy**", "In May, OpenAI co-founder and former Tesla AI director **Andrej Karpathy**[ joined Anthropic\u2019s pretraining team](https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/openai-co-founder-andrej-karpathy-joins-anthropics-pre-training-team/) to build a group focused on using Claude to accelerate pretraining research." ] }, { "url": "https://outlookbusiness.com/corporate/alphabet-loses-270-bn-after-google-ai-departures-how-two-exits-sparked-concerns", "title": "Alphabet Loses $270 Bn After Google AI Departures; How Two Exits Sparked Concerns", "published_at": "2026-06-24T05:03:20", "researcher": "Noam Shazeer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "vice president of engineering", "researcher_evidence": [ "# Alphabet Loses $270 Bn After Google AI Departures; How Two Exits Sparked Concerns", "Noam Shazeer became the first researcher to exit Google, joining OpenAI on June 16" ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# Alphabet Loses $270 Bn After Google AI Departures; How Two Exits Sparked Concerns", "The vice president of engineering, who helped lead the company's Gemini artificial intelligence models, announced on June 16 that he was joining OpenAI." ] }, { "url": "https://outlookbusiness.com/corporate/alphabet-loses-270-bn-after-google-ai-departures-how-two-exits-sparked-concerns", "title": "Alphabet Loses $270 Bn After Google AI Departures; How Two Exits Sparked Concerns", "published_at": "2026-06-24T05:03:20", "researcher": "John Jumper", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "engineering fellow", "researcher_evidence": [ "# Alphabet Loses $270 Bn After Google AI Departures; How Two Exits Sparked Concerns", "Three days later, John Jumper also announced that he would leave Google DeepMind for Anthropic, bringing an end to his nine-year association with the company." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# Alphabet Loses $270 Bn After Google AI Departures; How Two Exits Sparked Concerns", "The engineering fellow helped develop AlphaFold and shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis." ] }, { "url": "https://bitget.ng/news/detail/12560604841987", "title": "Mark Zuckerberg Unveils New Meta AI Lab After Poaching OpenAI Talent", "published_at": "2025-06-30T16:32:44", "researcher": "Lucas Beyer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "The fallout became public last week, when OpenAI confirmed that researchers Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai had left the company.", "According to The Wall Street Journal, Meta hired all three scientists, who had previously worked together at Google DeepMind." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://bitget.ng/news/detail/12560604841987", "title": "Mark Zuckerberg Unveils New Meta AI Lab After Poaching OpenAI Talent", "published_at": "2025-06-30T16:32:44", "researcher": "Alexander Kolesnikov", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "The fallout became public last week, when OpenAI confirmed that researchers Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai had left the company.", "According to The Wall Street Journal, Meta hired all three scientists, who had previously worked together at Google DeepMind." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://bitget.ng/news/detail/12560604841987", "title": "Mark Zuckerberg Unveils New Meta AI Lab After Poaching OpenAI Talent", "published_at": "2025-06-30T16:32:44", "researcher": "Xiaohua Zhai", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "The fallout became public last week, when OpenAI confirmed that researchers Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai had left the company.", "According to The Wall Street Journal, Meta hired all three scientists, who had previously worked together at Google DeepMind." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://bitget.ng/news/detail/12560604841987", "title": "Mark Zuckerberg Unveils New Meta AI Lab After Poaching OpenAI Talent", "published_at": "2025-06-30T16:32:44", "researcher": "Jiahui Yu", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "Meta\u2019s new team includes Daniel Gross, co-founder and CEO of Safe Superintelligence (SSI); former DeepMind researchers Jack Rae and Pei Sun; and several high-profile AI researchers from OpenAI, including Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, Shengjia Zhao, and Hongyu Ren, as well as Joel Pobar, an Anthropic engineer and Meta veteran, and Google Fellow, Johan Schalkwyk." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://bitget.ng/news/detail/12560604841987", "title": "Mark Zuckerberg Unveils New Meta AI Lab After Poaching OpenAI Talent", "published_at": "2025-06-30T16:32:44", "researcher": "Hongyu Ren", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "Meta\u2019s new team includes Daniel Gross, co-founder and CEO of Safe Superintelligence (SSI); former DeepMind researchers Jack Rae and Pei Sun; and several high-profile AI researchers from OpenAI, including Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, Shengjia Zhao, and Hongyu Ren, as well as Joel Pobar, an Anthropic engineer and Meta veteran, and Google Fellow, Johan Schalkwyk." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://bitget.ng/news/detail/12560604841987", "title": "Mark Zuckerberg Unveils New Meta AI Lab After Poaching OpenAI Talent", "published_at": "2025-06-30T16:32:44", "researcher": "Shuchao Bi", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "Meta\u2019s new team includes Daniel Gross, co-founder and CEO of Safe Superintelligence (SSI); former DeepMind researchers Jack Rae and Pei Sun; and several high-profile AI researchers from OpenAI, including Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, Shengjia Zhao, and Hongyu Ren, as well as Joel Pobar, an Anthropic engineer and Meta veteran, and Google Fellow, Johan Schalkwyk." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://bitget.ng/news/detail/12560604841987", "title": "Mark Zuckerberg Unveils New Meta AI Lab After Poaching OpenAI Talent", "published_at": "2025-06-30T16:32:44", "researcher": "Shengjia Zhao", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "Meta\u2019s new team includes Daniel Gross, co-founder and CEO of Safe Superintelligence (SSI); former DeepMind researchers Jack Rae and Pei Sun; and several high-profile AI researchers from OpenAI, including Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, Shengjia Zhao, and Hongyu Ren, as well as Joel Pobar, an Anthropic engineer and Meta veteran, and Google Fellow, Johan Schalkwyk." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://aiweekly.co/alerts/lilian-weng-rejoins-openai-for-recursive-self-improvement", "title": "Lilian Weng Rejoins OpenAI for Recursive Self-Improvement", "published_at": "2026-07-29T19:57:28", "researcher": "Lilian Weng", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "work on recursive self-improvement, using AI to speed up how OpenAI designs, trains and evaluates its own future models", "researcher_evidence": [ "# Lilian Weng Rejoins OpenAI for Recursive Self-Improvement", "Lilian Weng is returning to OpenAI to work on recursive self-improvement, using AI to speed up how OpenAI designs, trains and evaluates its own future models." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# Lilian Weng Rejoins OpenAI for Recursive Self-Improvement", "Lilian Weng is returning to OpenAI to work on recursive self-improvement, using AI to speed up how OpenAI designs, trains and evaluates its own future models." ] }, { "url": "https://biggo.com/news/202602031121_Apple_AI_Researchers_Leave_for_Meta_Google_After_Strategy_Change", "title": "Apple's AI Brain Drain: Key Researchers Depart Amid Strategic Shift to Google's Gemini", "published_at": "2026-02-03T11:21:10", "researcher": "Zirui Wang", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Post-Training Lead for Apple Foundation Models", "researcher_evidence": [ "Apple's AI Brain Drain: Key Researchers Depart Amid Strategic Shift to Google's Gemini", "### A Cluster of Departures Hits Apple's Core AI Team", "The departures include Zirui Wang, the Post-Training Lead for Apple Foundation Models, who has moved to Google DeepMind." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Apple's AI Brain Drain: Key Researchers Depart Amid Strategic Shift to Google's Gemini", "### A Cluster of Departures Hits Apple's Core AI Team", "The departures include Zirui Wang, the Post-Training Lead for Apple Foundation Models, who has moved to Google DeepMind." ] }, { "url": "https://biggo.com/news/202602031121_Apple_AI_Researchers_Leave_for_Meta_Google_After_Strategy_Change", "title": "Apple's AI Brain Drain: Key Researchers Depart Amid Strategic Shift to Google's Gemini", "published_at": "2026-02-03T11:21:10", "researcher": "Haoxuan You", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Senior Research Scientist", "researcher_evidence": [ "Apple's AI Brain Drain: Key Researchers Depart Amid Strategic Shift to Google's Gemini", "### A Cluster of Departures Hits Apple's Core AI Team", "Furthermore, Haoxuan You, a senior research scientist, and Bailin Wang, a research scientist, have both joined Meta\u2014the former in its Superintelligence Lab and the latter in its recommendation algorithms team." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Apple's AI Brain Drain: Key Researchers Depart Amid Strategic Shift to Google's Gemini", "### A Cluster of Departures Hits Apple's Core AI Team", "Furthermore, Haoxuan You, a senior research scientist, and Bailin Wang, a research scientist, have both joined Meta\u2014the former in its Superintelligence Lab and the latter in its recommendation algorithms team." ] }, { "url": "https://biggo.com/news/202602031121_Apple_AI_Researchers_Leave_for_Meta_Google_After_Strategy_Change", "title": "Apple's AI Brain Drain: Key Researchers Depart Amid Strategic Shift to Google's Gemini", "published_at": "2026-02-03T11:21:10", "researcher": "Bailin Wang", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Research Scientist", "researcher_evidence": [ "Apple's AI Brain Drain: Key Researchers Depart Amid Strategic Shift to Google's Gemini", "### A Cluster of Departures Hits Apple's Core AI Team", "Furthermore, Haoxuan You, a senior research scientist, and Bailin Wang, a research scientist, have both joined Meta\u2014the former in its Superintelligence Lab and the latter in its recommendation algorithms team." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Apple's AI Brain Drain: Key Researchers Depart Amid Strategic Shift to Google's Gemini", "### A Cluster of Departures Hits Apple's Core AI Team", "Furthermore, Haoxuan You, a senior research scientist, and Bailin Wang, a research scientist, have both joined Meta\u2014the former in its Superintelligence Lab and the latter in its recommendation algorithms team." ] }, { "url": "https://biggo.com/news/202602031121_Apple_AI_Researchers_Leave_for_Meta_Google_After_Strategy_Change", "title": "Apple's AI Brain Drain: Key Researchers Depart Amid Strategic Shift to Google's Gemini", "published_at": "2026-02-03T11:21:10", "researcher": "Ruoming Pang", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "former head of Apple's foundational model team", "researcher_evidence": [ "Apple's AI Brain Drain: Key Researchers Depart Amid Strategic Shift to Google's Gemini", "### A Cluster of Departures Hits Apple's Core AI Team", "This wave follows the high-profile exit last July of Ruoming Pang, the former head of Apple's foundational model team, who also joined Meta in a deal reportedly worth up to $200 million USD." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Apple's AI Brain Drain: Key Researchers Depart Amid Strategic Shift to Google's Gemini", "### A Cluster of Departures Hits Apple's Core AI Team", "This wave follows the high-profile exit last July of Ruoming Pang, the former head of Apple's foundational model team, who also joined Meta in a deal reportedly worth up to $200 million USD." ] }, { "url": "https://aitechconnect.in/news/google-deepmind-shazeer-jumper-departures-2026", "title": "Google DeepMind Loses Two Star Researchers in 48 Hours", "published_at": "2026-07-09T09:30:00", "researcher": "Noam Shazeer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "VP of Engineering, Gemini co-lead", "researcher_evidence": [ "## What happened", "- **Noam Shazeer, Google's VP of Engineering and co-lead of the Gemini model family, announced on 18 June 2026 that he was leaving for OpenAI.** Shazeer co-authored the 2017 \"Attention Is All You Need\" paper that introduced the Transformer architecture underpinning virtually every major large language model in production today, including GPT, Gemini and Claude." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "## What happened", "- **Noam Shazeer, Google's VP of Engineering and co-lead of the Gemini model family, announced on 18 June 2026 that he was leaving for OpenAI.** Shazeer co-authored the 2017 \"Attention Is All You Need\" paper that introduced the Transformer architecture underpinning virtually every major large language model in production today, including GPT, Gemini and Claude.", "| Researcher | Google DeepMind role | Known for | Departure announced | Destination |", "| Noam Shazeer | VP of Engineering, Gemini co-lead | Co-author, \"Attention Is All You Need\" (2017 Transformer paper); co-founder, Character.AI | 18 June 2026 | OpenAI |" ] }, { "url": "https://aitechconnect.in/news/google-deepmind-shazeer-jumper-departures-2026", "title": "Google DeepMind Loses Two Star Researchers in 48 Hours", "published_at": "2026-07-09T09:30:00", "researcher": "John Jumper", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Vice President, DeepMind", "researcher_evidence": [ "## What happened", "- **John Jumper, a Google DeepMind vice president and co-creator of AlphaFold, announced on 19 June 2026 \u2014 the very next day \u2014 that he was leaving to join Anthropic** after nearly nine years at the lab. Jumper shares the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for AlphaFold's breakthrough in predicting protein structures." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "## What happened", "- **John Jumper, a Google DeepMind vice president and co-creator of AlphaFold, announced on 19 June 2026 \u2014 the very next day \u2014 that he was leaving to join Anthropic** after nearly nine years at the lab. Jumper shares the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for AlphaFold's breakthrough in predicting protein structures.", "| Researcher | Google DeepMind role | Known for | Departure announced | Destination |", "| John Jumper | Vice President, DeepMind | AlphaFold co-creator; 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry | 19 June 2026 | Anthropic |" ] }, { "url": "https://searchenginejournal.com/google-loses-two-top-ai-researchers-to-openai-anthropic/580201", "title": "Google Loses Two Top AI Researchers To OpenAI & Anthropic", "published_at": "2026-06-22T23:52:22", "researcher": "Noam Shazeer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Gemini co-lead", "researcher_evidence": [ "# Google Loses Two Top AI Researchers To OpenAI & Anthropic", "Two senior Google AI researchers, Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer and AlphaFold's John Jumper, are leaving for OpenAI and Anthropic within the same week." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# Google Loses Two Top AI Researchers To OpenAI & Anthropic", "Two senior Google AI researchers, Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer and AlphaFold's John Jumper, are leaving for OpenAI and Anthropic within the same week." ] }, { "url": "https://searchenginejournal.com/google-loses-two-top-ai-researchers-to-openai-anthropic/580201", "title": "Google Loses Two Top AI Researchers To OpenAI & Anthropic", "published_at": "2026-06-22T23:52:22", "researcher": "John Jumper", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "AlphaFold leader", "researcher_evidence": [ "# Google Loses Two Top AI Researchers To OpenAI & Anthropic", "Two senior Google AI researchers, Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer and AlphaFold's John Jumper, are leaving for OpenAI and Anthropic within the same week." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# Google Loses Two Top AI Researchers To OpenAI & Anthropic", "Two senior Google AI researchers, Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer and AlphaFold's John Jumper, are leaving for OpenAI and Anthropic within the same week." ] }, { "url": "https://lumienai.com/news/tech-veterans-anthropic-openai-ai-labs-member-technical-staff", "title": "Why Tech\u2019s Already-Rich Are Grinding Again at AI Labs", "published_at": "2026-07-14T03:44:28", "researcher": "Andrej Karpathy", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "Anthropic pre-training team", "researcher_evidence": [ "# Why Tech\u2019s Already-Rich Are Grinding Again at AI Labs", "Tom Blomfield, Andrej Karpathy, Peter Bailis and others are leaving senior roles to join Anthropic as technical staff. Here's what's driving the trend.", "What happened", "| Andrej Karpathy | Founding member of OpenAI, head of AI at Tesla, founder of Eureka Labs | Anthropic pre-training team (joined May 2026) |" ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "What happened", "| Andrej Karpathy | Founding member of OpenAI, head of AI at Tesla, founder of Eureka Labs | Anthropic pre-training team (joined May 2026) |" ] }, { "url": "https://outlookbusiness.com/corporate/openai-hires-ai-researcher-that-meta-poached-from-apple", "title": "OpenAI Hires AI Researcher that Meta Poached from Apple", "published_at": "2026-02-26T07:58:11", "researcher": "Ruoming Pang", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# OpenAI Hires AI Researcher that Meta Poached from Apple", "OpenAI successfully recruits high-profile researcher Ruoming Pang from Meta\u2019s Superintelligence Labs", "AI start-up OpenAI hired Meta\u2019s AI researcher Ruoming Pang a week ago, The Information reported." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://yourstory.com/ai-story/talent-u-turn-openai-researchers-leave-mira-murati-ai-startup", "title": "Talent u-turn as OpenAI researchers leave Mira Murati\u2019s AI startup", "published_at": null, "researcher": "Barret Zoph", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "The high-stakes world of [artificial intelligence](https://yourstory.com/ai-story/tag/artificial-intelligence) (AI) has seen another shift in its talent landscape as three prominent researchers depart Mira Murati-founded Thinking Machines Lab to return to [Sam Altman](https://yourstory.com/ai-story/tag/sam-altman)-led OpenAI.", "This exodus includes two of the startup\u2019s co-founders, Barret Zoph and Luke Metz, alongside staffer Sam Schoenholz." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://yourstory.com/ai-story/talent-u-turn-openai-researchers-leave-mira-murati-ai-startup", "title": "Talent u-turn as OpenAI researchers leave Mira Murati\u2019s AI startup", "published_at": null, "researcher": "Luke Metz", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "The high-stakes world of [artificial intelligence](https://yourstory.com/ai-story/tag/artificial-intelligence) (AI) has seen another shift in its talent landscape as three prominent researchers depart Mira Murati-founded Thinking Machines Lab to return to [Sam Altman](https://yourstory.com/ai-story/tag/sam-altman)-led OpenAI.", "This exodus includes two of the startup\u2019s co-founders, Barret Zoph and Luke Metz, alongside staffer Sam Schoenholz." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://yourstory.com/ai-story/talent-u-turn-openai-researchers-leave-mira-murati-ai-startup", "title": "Talent u-turn as OpenAI researchers leave Mira Murati\u2019s AI startup", "published_at": null, "researcher": "Sam Schoenholz", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "The high-stakes world of [artificial intelligence](https://yourstory.com/ai-story/tag/artificial-intelligence) (AI) has seen another shift in its talent landscape as three prominent researchers depart Mira Murati-founded Thinking Machines Lab to return to [Sam Altman](https://yourstory.com/ai-story/tag/sam-altman)-led OpenAI.", "This exodus includes two of the startup\u2019s co-founders, Barret Zoph and Luke Metz, alongside staffer Sam Schoenholz." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://yourstory.com/ai-story/talent-u-turn-openai-researchers-leave-mira-murati-ai-startup", "title": "Talent u-turn as OpenAI researchers leave Mira Murati\u2019s AI startup", "published_at": null, "researcher": "Andrew Tulloch", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "This is not the first time the company has lost founding members, as Andrew Tulloch previously left to join Meta in October last year." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://grayreserve.com/articles/john-jumper-deepmind-anthropic-frontier-ai-talent", "title": "Why John Jumper's Move to Anthropic Reshapes Frontier AI", "published_at": "2026-06-21T00:00:00", "researcher": "John Jumper", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "research capacity", "researcher_evidence": [ "# Why John Jumper's Move to Anthropic Reshapes Frontier AI", "In June 2026, John Jumper \u2014 the Google DeepMind researcher whose AlphaFold 2 model essentially solved the 50-year protein-folding problem and earned him a share of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry \u2014 announced he is joining Anthropic." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "# Why John Jumper's Move to Anthropic Reshapes Frontier AI", "According to reporting by TechCrunch on June 20, 2026, Jumper is joining Anthropic in a research capacity \u2014 which means Anthropic is not hiring him to manage, to fundraise, or to present at conferences." ] }, { "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/lilian-weng-thinking-machines-openai-recursive-self-improvement", "title": "She left the AI race over her health. Two days later, OpenAI had her back.", "published_at": "2026-07-29T20:01:22", "researcher": "Lilian Weng", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "recursive self-improvement", "researcher_evidence": [ "She left the AI race over her health. Two days later, OpenAI had her back.", "Lilian Weng stepped down from Thinking Machines Lab on Tuesday, saying stress and illness had pushed her past what her health could take.", "By Wednesday, OpenAI confirmed she was rejoining to work on recursive self-improvement, the effort to make AI that builds better AI." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "She left the AI race over her health. Two days later, OpenAI had her back.", "By Wednesday, OpenAI confirmed she was rejoining to work on recursive self-improvement, the effort to make AI that builds better AI." ] }, { "url": "https://aitechsuite.com/ai-news/meta-raids-openai-unleashing-multimillion-dollar-offers-in-fierce-ai-talent-war", "title": "Meta Raids OpenAI, Unleashing Multimillion-Dollar Offers in Fierce AI Talent War", "published_at": "2025-07-02T08:17:29", "researcher": "Lucas Beyer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# Meta Raids OpenAI, Unleashing Multimillion-Dollar Offers in Fierce AI Talent War", "Among them are Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai, a trio who were instrumental in establishing OpenAI's office in Zurich.[2]" ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://aitechsuite.com/ai-news/meta-raids-openai-unleashing-multimillion-dollar-offers-in-fierce-ai-talent-war", "title": "Meta Raids OpenAI, Unleashing Multimillion-Dollar Offers in Fierce AI Talent War", "published_at": "2025-07-02T08:17:29", "researcher": "Alexander Kolesnikov", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# Meta Raids OpenAI, Unleashing Multimillion-Dollar Offers in Fierce AI Talent War", "Among them are Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai, a trio who were instrumental in establishing OpenAI's office in Zurich.[2]" ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://aitechsuite.com/ai-news/meta-raids-openai-unleashing-multimillion-dollar-offers-in-fierce-ai-talent-war", "title": "Meta Raids OpenAI, Unleashing Multimillion-Dollar Offers in Fierce AI Talent War", "published_at": "2025-07-02T08:17:29", "researcher": "Xiaohua Zhai", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# Meta Raids OpenAI, Unleashing Multimillion-Dollar Offers in Fierce AI Talent War", "Among them are Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai, a trio who were instrumental in establishing OpenAI's office in Zurich.[2]" ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://aitechsuite.com/ai-news/meta-raids-openai-unleashing-multimillion-dollar-offers-in-fierce-ai-talent-war", "title": "Meta Raids OpenAI, Unleashing Multimillion-Dollar Offers in Fierce AI Talent War", "published_at": "2025-07-02T08:17:29", "researcher": "Shengjia Zhao", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# Meta Raids OpenAI, Unleashing Multimillion-Dollar Offers in Fierce AI Talent War", "This group, along with others who have recently made the switch, such as Shengjia Zhao, Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, and Hongyu Ren, represent a significant brain drain from OpenAI and a major coup for Meta's burgeoning \"superintelligence\" lab.[3][1][4]" ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://aitechsuite.com/ai-news/meta-raids-openai-unleashing-multimillion-dollar-offers-in-fierce-ai-talent-war", "title": "Meta Raids OpenAI, Unleashing Multimillion-Dollar Offers in Fierce AI Talent War", "published_at": "2025-07-02T08:17:29", "researcher": "Jiahui Yu", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# Meta Raids OpenAI, Unleashing Multimillion-Dollar Offers in Fierce AI Talent War", "This group, along with others who have recently made the switch, such as Shengjia Zhao, Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, and Hongyu Ren, represent a significant brain drain from OpenAI and a major coup for Meta's burgeoning \"superintelligence\" lab.[3][1][4]" ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://aitechsuite.com/ai-news/meta-raids-openai-unleashing-multimillion-dollar-offers-in-fierce-ai-talent-war", "title": "Meta Raids OpenAI, Unleashing Multimillion-Dollar Offers in Fierce AI Talent War", "published_at": "2025-07-02T08:17:29", "researcher": "Shuchao Bi", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# Meta Raids OpenAI, Unleashing Multimillion-Dollar Offers in Fierce AI Talent War", "This group, along with others who have recently made the switch, such as Shengjia Zhao, Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, and Hongyu Ren, represent a significant brain drain from OpenAI and a major coup for Meta's burgeoning \"superintelligence\" lab.[3][1][4]" ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://aitechsuite.com/ai-news/meta-raids-openai-unleashing-multimillion-dollar-offers-in-fierce-ai-talent-war", "title": "Meta Raids OpenAI, Unleashing Multimillion-Dollar Offers in Fierce AI Talent War", "published_at": "2025-07-02T08:17:29", "researcher": "Hongyu Ren", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": null, "researcher_evidence": [ "# Meta Raids OpenAI, Unleashing Multimillion-Dollar Offers in Fierce AI Talent War", "This group, along with others who have recently made the switch, such as Shengjia Zhao, Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, and Hongyu Ren, represent a significant brain drain from OpenAI and a major coup for Meta's burgeoning \"superintelligence\" lab.[3][1][4]" ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": null }, { "url": "https://academy.kspl.tech/blog/2026-06-26-google-brain-drain-enterprise-ai", "title": "Google's 2026 AI Brain Drain Is an Enterprise Signal, Not a Doom Story", "published_at": "2026-06-26T00:00:00", "researcher": "Noam Shazeer", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "VP of Engineering and co-lead of Google's flagship Gemini AI models", "researcher_evidence": [ "Google's 2026 AI Brain Drain Is an Enterprise Signal, Not a Doom Story", "Two of Google's most consequential AI researchers left for rivals in five days: Noam Shazeer \u2014 [Transformer](/glossary/transformer) co-inventor and [Gemini](/glossary/gemini) co-lead \u2014 joined OpenAI on June 18, 2026, and Nobel laureate John Jumper (AlphaFold creator) joined Anthropic after nearly nine years at DeepMind." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Google's 2026 AI Brain Drain Is an Enterprise Signal, Not a Doom Story", "**June 18:** Noam Shazeer, VP of Engineering and co-lead of Google's flagship Gemini AI models, announced he was joining OpenAI." ] }, { "url": "https://academy.kspl.tech/blog/2026-06-26-google-brain-drain-enterprise-ai", "title": "Google's 2026 AI Brain Drain Is an Enterprise Signal, Not a Doom Story", "published_at": "2026-06-26T00:00:00", "researcher": "John Jumper", "left_lab": null, "joined_lab": null, "move_month": null, "role": "VP and Engineering Fellow at Google DeepMind", "researcher_evidence": [ "Google's 2026 AI Brain Drain Is an Enterprise Signal, Not a Doom Story", "Two of Google's most consequential AI researchers left for rivals in five days: Noam Shazeer \u2014 [Transformer](/glossary/transformer) co-inventor and [Gemini](/glossary/gemini) co-lead \u2014 joined OpenAI on June 18, 2026, and Nobel laureate John Jumper (AlphaFold creator) joined Anthropic after nearly nine years at DeepMind." ], "left_lab_evidence": null, "joined_lab_evidence": null, "move_month_evidence": null, "role_evidence": [ "Google's 2026 AI Brain Drain Is an Enterprise Signal, Not a Doom Story", "**June 19\u201320:** John Jumper, VP and Engineering Fellow at Google DeepMind, announced he was joining Anthropic." ] } ], "notes": [ "Merged 8 queries (1600 total) \u2192 1489 unique results", "Search result set: rb11dd942cf2 (1489 rows), reference it as FROM rb11dd942cf2 in follow-up queries" ] }