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Frontier AI Researcher Moves Since 2025

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Which AI researchers moved between frontier labs since 2025? For each move list the researcher, the lab they left, where they went and the month.

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tool call · select

SELECT
  url,
  title,
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    SEM_EXTRACT_ALL(
      content,
      'a named AI researcher, research scientist, research engineer, or research leader who moved directly from one frontier AI lab to another, with the move occurring from 2025 onward',
      researcher := 'full name of researcher',
      left_lab := 'frontier AI lab or company the person departed',
      joined_lab := 'frontier AI lab or company the person joined',
      move_month := 'month the person joined or move was announced, YYYY-MM',
      role := 'new role or research specialty',
      evidence := 'per_field'
    ),
    recursive := true
  )
FROM WEB_SEARCH(
  'AI researcher leaves OpenAI joins rival lab 2025 2026',
  'AI scientist moved between AI labs 2025 hiring',
  'frontier AI labs researcher departures hires 2025',
  'top AI researcher joins rival laboratory 2026',
  'AI talent war researcher OpenAI Anthropic Meta Google 2025',
  'site:reuters.com AI researcher joins lab OpenAI Anthropic Meta 2025 2026',
  'site:ft.com AI researcher move lab 2025 OpenAI DeepMind',
  'site:theinformation.com AI researcher joins leaves lab 2025'
)
WHERE SEM_MATCH(
  content,
  'reports a named AI researcher or research leader moving directly between major frontier-model AI labs in 2025 or later'
)
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tool call · select

SELECT
  url,
  title,
  published_at,
  UNNEST(
    SEM_EXTRACT_ALL(
      content,
      'a named AI researcher, scientist, engineer, or research leader who moved directly between Meta Superintelligence Labs, Google DeepMind, OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, Microsoft AI, SSI, or Thinking Machines Lab from 2025 onward',
      researcher := 'full name of researcher',
      left_lab := 'lab or company departed',
      joined_lab := 'lab or company joined',
      move_month := 'month the person joined or move was announced, YYYY-MM',
      role := 'new role or specialty',
      evidence := 'per_field'
    ),
    recursive := true
  )
FROM WEB_SEARCH(
  'Meta Superintelligence Labs hires researchers from OpenAI DeepMind Anthropic 2025 names',
  'Meta AI talent hires researcher list 2025 OpenAI Google',
  'Google DeepMind hires AI researcher from Meta OpenAI 2025 2026',
  'OpenAI researcher joins Meta superintelligence 2025 list',
  'Anthropic researcher joins Meta superintelligence 2025',
  'Meta poaches AI scientists frontier labs 2025 Reuters names',
  '2026 Meta superintelligence new researcher joins from rival AI lab',
  'AI talent tracker Meta hires 2025 researcher'
)
WHERE SEM_MATCH(
  content,
  'names at least one person moving directly from one frontier AI model lab to another since January 2025'
)
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}

tool call · select

SELECT
  url,
  title,
  published_at,
  UNNEST(
    SEM_EXTRACT_ALL(
      content,
      'a named AI researcher, scientist, engineer, or research leader who moved directly between frontier AI model labs from 2025 onward',
      researcher := 'full name',
      left_lab := 'frontier AI lab departed',
      joined_lab := 'frontier AI lab joined',
      move_month := 'month joined or move announced, YYYY-MM',
      role := 'new role or research focus',
      evidence := 'per_field'
    ),
    recursive := true
  )
FROM WEB_SEARCH(
  'Anthropic hired researcher from OpenAI Google DeepMind 2025 2026',
  'OpenAI hired researcher from Anthropic xAI DeepMind 2025 2026',
  'xAI hired researcher from OpenAI Anthropic DeepMind 2025 2026',
  'Microsoft AI hired researcher from OpenAI DeepMind Anthropic 2025 2026',
  'Safe Superintelligence SSI researcher left joined rival 2025 2026',
  'Thinking Machines Lab researcher leaves joins OpenAI Meta 2025 2026',
  'Mistral AI hired researcher from frontier lab 2025 2026',
  'Cohere researcher joins frontier AI lab 2025 2026'
)
WHERE SEM_MATCH(
  content,
  'reports a direct move by a named researcher between organizations that develop frontier general-purpose AI models, in 2025 or later'
)
{
 "show_preview": false
}
tool result (3143 chars)
result_set_id: r91bf9c4cc56
total_rows: 526
columns[13]: joined_lab,joined_lab_evidence,left_lab,left_lab_evidence,move_month,move_month_evidence,published_at,researcher,researcher_evidence,role,role_evidence,title,url
preview:
  sample_rows[3]:
    - 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[2]: 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://1minutesignal.com/article/frontier-ai-talent-keeps-leaving-then?eligibility=main&from=section&section=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[3]: "Why Frontier AI Talent Keeps Leaving, Then Coming Back",A return to Anthropic is not a one-off,nextomoro’s 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://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[2]: "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 — [Transformer](/glossary/transformer) co-inventor and [Gemini](/glossary/gemini) co-lead — joined OpenAI on... [truncated in preview]"
      left_lab_evidence: null
      joined_lab_evidence: null
      move_month_evidence: null
      role_evidence[2]: "Google's 2026 AI Brain Drain Is an Enterprise Signal, Not a Doom Story","**June 19–20:** John Jumper, VP and Engineering Fellow at Google DeepMind, announced he was joining Anthropic."
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result set r91bf9c4cc56 · 526 rows

urltitlepublished_atresearcherleft_labjoined_labmove_monthroleresearcher_evidenceleft_lab_evidencejoined_lab_evidencemove_month_evidencerole_evidence
https://cryptopolitan.com/meta-openai-veteran-superintelligence-labsMeta pulls OpenAI veteran into Superintelligence Labs talent war2026-08-24T07:53:27Luke Metznullnullnullnull["Meta pulls OpenAI veteran into Superintelligence Labs talent war", "Meta hired Luke Metz, an early ChatGPT researcher at OpenAI, for its Superintelligence La…nullnullnullnull
https://bitcoinethereumnews.com/finance/meta-pulls-openai-veteran-into-superintelligence-labs-talent-warMeta pulls OpenAI veteran into Superintelligence Labs talent war2026-08-24T07:54:21Ruoming Pangnullnullnulloversaw AI infrastructure["OpenAI, meanwhile, hired Ruoming Pang, who had overseen AI infrastructure for Meta’s Superintelligence Labs, The Information reported in February, per a Reut…nullnullnull["OpenAI, meanwhile, hired Ruoming Pang, who had overseen AI infrastructure for Meta’s Superintelligence Labs, The Information reported in February, per a Reut…
https://aichatdaily.com/ai-business/barret-zoph-exits-openai-second-time-joins-googleBarret Zoph exits OpenAI a second time, joins Google as VP of research on Gemini2026-08-27T20:06:51Barret Zophnullnullnullvice president of research["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 presiden…nullnullnull["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 presiden…
https://timesnownews.com/technology-science/ai-talent-war-meta-hires-openai-researcher-luke-metz-for-superintelligence-labs-article-155976672AI Talent War: Meta Hires OpenAI Researcher Luke Metz For Superintelligence Labs2026-08-24T07:21:07Luke Metznullnullnullnull["# AI Talent War: Meta Hires OpenAI Researcher Luke Metz For Superintelligence Labs", "## Meta has strengthened its AI team by hiring Luke Metz, a notable res…nullnullnullnull
https://tradingkey.com/news/cryptocurrencies/262127294-cryptopolitanMeta pulls OpenAI veteran into Superintelligence Labs talent war2026-08-24T07:53:27Luke Metznullnullnullnull["# Meta pulls OpenAI veteran into Superintelligence Labs talent war", "Meta has added another high-profile AI researcher to its Superintelligence Labs.", "Luk…nullnullnullnull
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tool result (3320 chars)
result_set_id: rc725aaf6a7f
total_rows: 1580
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preview:
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      title: Meta pulls OpenAI veteran into Superintelligence Labs talent war
      published_at: "2026-08-24T07:54:21"
      researcher: Luke Metz
      left_lab: null
      joined_lab: null
      move_month: null
      role: null
      researcher_evidence[3]: # 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... [truncated in preview]",### **A three-lab loop in under two years**
      left_lab_evidence: null
      joined_lab_evidence: null
      move_month_evidence: null
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    - url: "https://qazinform.com/news/top-chinese-openai-researchers-join-meta-as-ai-talent-war-heats-up-c302e8"
      title: Top Chinese OpenAI researchers join Meta as AI talent war heats up
      published_at: "2025-07-02T12:09:00"
      researcher: Zhai Xiaohua
      left_lab: null
      joined_lab: null
      move_month: null
      role: null
      researcher_evidence[2]: # Top Chinese OpenAI researchers join Meta as AI talent war heats up,"In a broader recruitment push, Meta also recently brought on Trapit Bansal, another former OpenAI researcher, as well as Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Zhai... [truncated in preview]"
      left_lab_evidence: null
      joined_lab_evidence: null
      move_month_evidence: null
      role_evidence: null
    - url: "https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/30/meta-restructures-its-ai-unit-under-superintelligence-labs"
      title: Meta restructures its AI unit under ‘Superintelligence Labs’
      published_at: "2025-06-30T17:56:25"
      researcher: Joel Pobar
      left_lab: null
      joined_lab: null
      move_month: null
      role: engineer
      researcher_evidence[3]: In Brief,Meta restructures its AI unit under ‘Superintelligence Labs’,"In addition, Zuckerberg has also been able to lure 11 new AI researchers from competitors, according to the report, including some previously unreported hires such... [truncated in preview]"
      left_lab_evidence: null
      joined_lab_evidence: null
      move_month_evidence: null
      role_evidence[3]: In Brief,Meta restructures its AI unit under ‘Superintelligence Labs’,"In addition, Zuckerberg has also been able to lure 11 new AI researchers from competitors, according to the report, including some previously unreported hires such... [truncated in preview]"
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result set rc725aaf6a7f · 1580 rows

urltitlepublished_atresearcherleft_labjoined_labmove_monthroleresearcher_evidenceleft_lab_evidencejoined_lab_evidencemove_month_evidencerole_evidence
https://bitcoinethereumnews.com/finance/meta-pulls-openai-veteran-into-superintelligence-labs-talent-warMeta pulls OpenAI veteran into Superintelligence Labs talent war2026-08-24T07:54:21Luke Metznullnullnullnull["# Meta pulls OpenAI veteran into Superintelligence Labs talent war", "**Meta has added another high-profile AI researcher to its Superintelligence Labs. Luke…nullnullnullnull
https://bitcoinethereumnews.com/finance/meta-pulls-openai-veteran-into-superintelligence-labs-talent-warMeta pulls OpenAI veteran into Superintelligence Labs talent war2026-08-24T07:54:21Barret Zophnullnullnullnull["Fortune reported in January 2026 that Metz was returning to OpenAI alongside co-founder Barret Zoph and founding-team member Sam Schoenholz.", "### **A three…nullnullnullnull
https://bitcoinethereumnews.com/finance/meta-pulls-openai-veteran-into-superintelligence-labs-talent-warMeta pulls OpenAI veteran into Superintelligence Labs talent war2026-08-24T07:54:21Sam Schoenholznullnullnullnull["Fortune reported in January 2026 that Metz was returning to OpenAI alongside co-founder Barret Zoph and founding-team member Sam Schoenholz.", "### **A three…nullnullnullnull
https://timesnownews.com/technology-science/ai-talent-war-meta-hires-openai-researcher-luke-metz-for-superintelligence-labs-article-155976672AI Talent War: Meta Hires OpenAI Researcher Luke Metz For Superintelligence Labs2026-08-24T07:21:07Luke Metznullnullnullnull["# AI Talent War: Meta Hires OpenAI Researcher Luke Metz For Superintelligence Labs", "## Meta has strengthened its AI team by hiring Luke Metz, a notable res…nullnullnullnull
https://theoutpost.ai/news-story/meta-poaches-top-open-ai-researchers-in-aggressive-ai-talent-acquisition-strategy-17079Meta Launches 'Superintelligence Labs' in Bold AI Restructuring Move2025-07-02T16:25:00Pei Sunnullnullnullprincipal researcher["Meta restructures its AI unit under 'Superintelligence Labs' | TechCrunch", "Earlier this month, Meta invested $14.3 billion in Scale AI, bringing on Wang in…nullnullnull["Meta restructures its AI unit under 'Superintelligence Labs' | TechCrunch", "Earlier this month, Meta invested $14.3 billion in Scale AI, bringing on Wang in…
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tool result (3712 chars)
result_set_id: re9e4253ce66
total_rows: 768
columns[13]: joined_lab,joined_lab_evidence,left_lab,left_lab_evidence,move_month,move_month_evidence,published_at,researcher,researcher_evidence,role,role_evidence,title,url
preview:
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    - url: "https://metix.ai/reports/mapping/frontier-ai-labs-talent-2026"
      title: Frontier AI Lab Talent Landscape & Flow Map | Metix AI
      published_at: "2026-06-11T00:00:00"
      researcher: Karpathy
      left_lab: null
      joined_lab: null
      move_month: null
      role: joined Anthropic's pretraining team
      researcher_evidence[3]: The Talent War 2024-2026,#### ③ Anthropic 是净赢家，xAI 是净流出方③ Anthropic is the net winner; xAI is the net outflow,"On SignalFire's methodology: the OpenAI→Anthropic net flow runs about 8:1 and DeepMind→Anthropic about 11:1; two-year retention is Anthropic 80% > DeepMind 78% > OpenAI 67%... [truncated in preview]"
      left_lab_evidence: null
      joined_lab_evidence: null
      move_month_evidence: null
      role_evidence[3]: The Talent War 2024-2026,#### ③ Anthropic 是净赢家，xAI 是净流出方③ Anthropic is the net winner; xAI is the net outflow,In 2026-05 Karpathy joined Anthropic's pretraining team (company-confirmed).
    - url: "http://allusanewshub.com/2026/04/21/meta-has-hired-five-founding-members-of-mira-muratis-thinking-machines-lab-in-a-systematic-talent-raid"
      title: Meta has hired five founding members of Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab in a systematic talent raid
      published_at: "2026-04-21T17:53:40"
      researcher: Joshua Gross
      left_lab: null
      joined_lab: null
      move_month: null
      role: leads engineering teams within the same division
      researcher_evidence[3]: ### Meta has hired five founding members of Mira Murati’s 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’s core API product.","Gross, who had previously worked at both OpenAI and Meta, now leads engineering teams within the same division."
      left_lab_evidence: null
      joined_lab_evidence: null
      move_month_evidence: null
      role_evidence[2]: ### Meta has hired five founding members of Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab in a systematic talent raid,"Gross, who had previously worked at both OpenAI and Meta, now leads engineering teams within the same division."
    - url: "https://a-eyelevel.com/articles/mira-murati-ai-talent-power"
      title: "The AI Talent Exodus: When the People Behind Your Tools Go"
      published_at: "2026-03-29T00:00:00"
      researcher: Andrew Tulloch
      left_lab: null
      joined_lab: null
      move_month: null
      role: co-founder
      researcher_evidence[3]: "The AI Talent Exodus: When the People Behind Your Tools Go",The Talent War Gets Personal,"Andrew Tulloch, a co-founder, left for Meta in October 2025."
      left_lab_evidence: null
      joined_lab_evidence: null
      move_month_evidence: null
      role_evidence[3]: "The AI Talent Exodus: When the People Behind Your Tools Go",The Talent War Gets Personal,"Andrew Tulloch, a co-founder, left for Meta in October 2025."
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result set re9e4253ce66 · 768 rows

urltitlepublished_atresearcherleft_labjoined_labmove_monthroleresearcher_evidenceleft_lab_evidencejoined_lab_evidencemove_month_evidencerole_evidence
https://metix.ai/reports/mapping/frontier-ai-labs-talent-2026Frontier AI Lab Talent Landscape & Flow Map | Metix AI2026-06-11T00:00:00Karpathynullnullnulljoined Anthropic's pretraining team["The Talent War 2024-2026", "#### ③ Anthropic 是净赢家，xAI 是净流出方③ Anthropic is the net winner; xAI is the net outflow", "On SignalFire's methodology: the OpenAI→A…nullnullnull["The Talent War 2024-2026", "#### ③ Anthropic 是净赢家，xAI 是净流出方③ Anthropic is the net winner; xAI is the net outflow", "In 2026-05 Karpathy joined Anthropic's pr…
https://metix.ai/reports/zh/mapping/frontier-ai-labs-talent-2026前沿 AI Lab 人才全景与流动图谱 | Metix AI2026-06-11T00:00:00KarpathynullAnthropic2026-05pretraining team["The Battlefield: a two-year talent-war timeline", "## 02战局：两年人才战争时间线The Battlefield: a two-year talent-war timeline", "In 2026-05 Karpathy joined Anthropic's…null["Executive Summary", "## 01核心结论Key findings", "On SignalFire's methodology, Anthropic leads on two-year retention at 80%, with the OpenAI→Anthropic net flow r…["The Battlefield: a two-year talent-war timeline", "## 02战局：两年人才战争时间线The Battlefield: a two-year talent-war timeline", "In 2026-05 Karpathy joined Anthropic's…["The Battlefield: a two-year talent-war timeline", "## 02战局：两年人才战争时间线The Battlefield: a two-year talent-war timeline", "In 2026-05 Karpathy joined Anthropic's…
https://edgen.tech/news/post/google-deepmind-hires-thinking-machines-co-founder-in-12b-talent-warGoogle DeepMind hires Thinking Machines co-founder in $12B talent war2026-08-27T04:50:26Barret ZophThinking Machines LabGoogle DeepMind2026-08VP of research["# Google DeepMind hires Thinking Machines co-founder in $12B talent war", "- Barret Zoph, co-founder of $12 billion Thinking Machines Lab, joins Google DeepM…["# Google DeepMind hires Thinking Machines co-founder in $12B talent war", "- Barret Zoph, co-founder of $12 billion Thinking Machines Lab, joins Google DeepM…["# Google DeepMind hires Thinking Machines co-founder in $12B talent war", "- Barret Zoph, co-founder of $12 billion Thinking Machines Lab, joins Google DeepM…["# Google DeepMind hires Thinking Machines co-founder in $12B talent war", "[![Alex Nguyen](https://static.edwealth.ai/authors/alex-nguyen.png?w=32)\n## Alex …["# Google DeepMind hires Thinking Machines co-founder in $12B talent war", "- Barret Zoph, co-founder of $12 billion Thinking Machines Lab, joins Google DeepM…
https://storyboard18.com/brand-makers/google-deepminds-share-of-elite-ai-talent-declines-as-rivals-gain-ground-109141.htmGoogle DeepMind's share of elite AI talent declines as rivals gain ground2026-08-28T09:51:01Noam ShazeernullnullnullGemini co-lead["Google DeepMind's share of elite AI talent declines as rivals gain ground", "The shift in AI talent is being reflected in DeepMind's hiring numbers, research…nullnullnull["Google DeepMind's share of elite AI talent declines as rivals gain ground", "The shift in AI talent is being reflected in DeepMind's hiring numbers, research…
https://storyboard18.com/brand-makers/google-deepminds-share-of-elite-ai-talent-declines-as-rivals-gain-ground-109141.htmGoogle DeepMind's share of elite AI talent declines as rivals gain ground2026-08-28T09:51:01John JumpernullnullnullAlphaFold researcher["Google DeepMind's share of elite AI talent declines as rivals gain ground", "The shift in AI talent is being reflected in DeepMind's hiring numbers, research…nullnullnull["Google DeepMind's share of elite AI talent declines as rivals gain ground", "The shift in AI talent is being reflected in DeepMind's hiring numbers, research…
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tool call · select

SELECT
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FROM (
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WHERE researcher IS NOT NULL
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GROUP BY SEM_NORM(researcher, 'canonicalize person names; keep different people separate')
ORDER BY move_month NULLS LAST, researcher
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tool result (9955 chars)
result_set_id: r7f573677904
total_rows: 63
columns[7]: joined_lab,left_lab,move_month,researcher,role,source_mentions,url
rows[63,]{researcher,left_lab,joined_lab,move_month,source_mentions,role,url}:
  John Schulman,Anthropic,Thinking Machines,2025-01,1,chief scientist,"https://readcompute.com/issue-2"
  Nicholas Carlini,Google's DeepMind,Anthropic,2025-03,1,research scientist,"https://businessinsider.com/openai-engineers-anthropic-google-deepmind-2025-6"
  Alan Rice,Meta,xAI,2025-04,1,data center manager,"https://businessinsider.com/xai-poached-dozen-meta-employees-ai-talent-war-2025-8"
  Sheng Sen,Meta,xAI,2025-04,1,AI research scientist,"https://businessinsider.com/xai-poached-dozen-meta-employees-ai-talent-war-2025-8"
  Ching-Yao Chuang,Meta,xAI,2025-05,1,research scientist,"https://businessinsider.com/xai-poached-dozen-meta-employees-ai-talent-war-2025-8"
  Adam Sadovsky,Google,Microsoft,2025-06,3,Corporate Vice President of AI at Microsoft AI,"https://techrepublic.com/article/news-microsoft-poaches-deepmind-researchers"
  Alexander Kolesnikov,OpenAI,Meta Superintelligence Labs,2025-06,7,computer vision and deep learning,"https://mk.co.kr/en/it/11353168"
  Jiahui Yu,OpenAI,Meta,2025-06,3,Perception team lead,"https://bravenewcoin.com/insights/meta-vs-openai-the-ai-talent-war-goes-crypto"
  Lucas Beyer,OpenAI,Meta Superintelligence Labs,2025-06,6,computer vision and deep learning,"https://mk.co.kr/en/it/11353168"
  Rohan Anil,Meta,Anthropic,2025-06,1,null,"https://businessinsider.com/meta-ai-talent-war-superintelligence-push-tension-desertion-2025-8"
  Shuchao Bi,OpenAI,Meta,2025-06,3,researcher,"https://bravenewcoin.com/insights/meta-vs-openai-the-ai-talent-war-goes-crypto"
  Trapit Bansal,OpenAI,Meta Superintelligence Labs,2025-06,1,AI researcher,"https://cssm.etimg.com/news/international/us/meet-trapit-bansal-metas-new-ai-superintelligence-team-hire-is-meta-poaching-top-talent-from-openai-meta-ai-news-openai-news/articleshow/122098369.cms"
  Xiaohua Zhai,OpenAI,Meta Superintelligence Labs,2025-06,7,computer vision and deep learning,"https://mk.co.kr/en/it/11353168"
  Amar Subramanya,Google,Microsoft AI,2025-07,3,Corporate Vice President of AI at Microsoft AI,"https://techrepublic.com/article/news-microsoft-poaches-deepmind-researchers"
  Aurko Roy,Meta,Microsoft AI,2025-07,2,AI researcher,"https://digitrendz.blog/newswire/artificial-intelligence/51002/meta-hires-openai-scientist-to-head-ai-lab"
  Daniel Gross,OpenAI,Meta Superintelligence Labs,2025-07,2,head of Meta’s AI Products division,"https://champaignmagazine.com/2025/07/06/ai-by-ai-weekly-top-5-06-30-07-06-2025"
  Ethan He,NVIDIA,xAI,2025-07,1,world model research and development,"https://winzheng.com/en/article/xai-hires-nvidia-researchers-world-model-ai-game-robotics"
  Hongyu Ren,OpenAI,Meta,2025-07,3,null,"https://bravenewcoin.com/insights/meta-vs-openai-the-ai-talent-war-goes-crypto"
  Hyung Won Chung,OpenAI,Meta Superintelligence Lab,2025-07,1,research scientist,"https://businessinsider.com/executives-board-members-and-researchers-who-left-openai-in-2025-2025-12?rand=868"
  Shengjia Zhao,OpenAI,Meta,2025-07,4,chief scientist,"https://bravenewcoin.com/insights/meta-vs-openai-the-ai-talent-war-goes-crypto"
  Zeeshan Patel,NVIDIA,xAI,2025-07,1,world model research and development,"https://winzheng.com/en/article/xai-hires-nvidia-researchers-world-model-ai-game-robotics"
  Zhiqing Sun,OpenAI,Meta Superintelligence Lab,2025-07,1,research scientist,"https://businessinsider.com/executives-board-members-and-researchers-who-left-openai-in-2025-2025-12?rand=868"
  Laurens van der Maaten,Meta,Anthropic,2025-08,1,distinguished research scientist,"https://businessinsider.com/meta-ai-talent-war-superintelligence-push-tension-desertion-2025-8"
  Andrew Tulloch,Thinking Machines Lab,Meta,2025-10,3,co-founder,"https://thenextweb.com/news/meta-thinking-machines-lab-talent-raid"
  Tianfu Fu,OpenAI,xAI,2025-10,1,Researcher,"https://linkedin.com/in/tianfu-fu-6453ba193"
  Feng Li,ByteDance Seed,Google DeepMind,2025-12,1,null,"https://coinlive.com/news/1-5-billion-can-t-retain-one-person-the-ai-talent-war"
  Ross Nordeen,xAI,Anthropic,"2026",2,null,"https://readcompute.com/issue-2"
  Andrea Vallone,null,Anthropic,2026-01,1,head of security research,"https://coinlive.com/news/1-5-billion-can-t-retain-one-person-the-ai-talent-war"
  Barret Zoph,Thinking Machines Lab,OpenAI,2026-01,8,focused on getting businesses to use the company's Codex coding product,"https://thenextweb.com/news/meta-thinking-machines-lab-talent-raid"
  Luke Metz,Thinking Machines Lab,OpenAI,2026-01,6,co-founder,"https://thenextweb.com/news/meta-thinking-machines-lab-talent-raid"
  Sam Schoenholz,Thinking Machines Lab,OpenAI,2026-01,3,senior researcher,"https://thenextweb.com/news/meta-thinking-machines-lab-talent-raid"
  Milad Nasr,null,Anthropic,2026-02,1,null,"https://coinlive.com/news/1-5-billion-can-t-retain-one-person-the-ai-talent-war"
  Pengchuan Zhang,Meta,OpenAI,2026-02,1,World Models & Robotics,"https://biggo.com/news/202602261223_OpenAI_hires_two_Meta_AI_researchers_including_a_%24200M_hire"
  Ruoming Pang,Meta,OpenAI,2026-02,2,New Hire,"https://biggo.com/news/202602261223_OpenAI_hires_two_Meta_AI_researchers_including_a_%24200M_hire"
  Adam Lerer,null,Anthropic,2026-03,1,senior researcher,"https://coinlive.com/news/1-5-billion-can-t-retain-one-person-the-ai-talent-war"
  Devendra Chaplot,Thinking Machines Lab,xAI,2026-03,2,co-founder,"https://thenextweb.com/news/meta-thinking-machines-lab-talent-raid"
  Joshua Gross,Thinking Machines Lab,Meta Superintelligence Labs,2026-03,2,founding engineer,"https://thenextweb.com/news/meta-thinking-machines-lab-talent-raid"
  Max Schwarzer,null,Anthropic,2026-03,1,VP of research,"https://coinlive.com/news/1-5-billion-can-t-retain-one-person-the-ai-talent-war"
  Ran Xin,ByteDance Seed,Google DeepMind,2026-03,1,principal researcher,"https://coinlive.com/news/1-5-billion-can-t-retain-one-person-the-ai-talent-war"
  Kyle Kosic,xAI,Project Prometheus,2026-04,1,co-founder,"https://note.com/shiodome_098/n/n5c807bbec7d5?hl=en"
  Andrej Karpathy,OpenAI,Anthropic,2026-05,11,pretraining team,"https://metix.ai/reports/zh/mapping/frontier-ai-labs-talent-2026"
  Jonas Rothfuss,Google DeepMind,Microsoft,2026-05,2,technical staff member at Microsoft AI,"https://techrepublic.com/article/news-microsoft-poaches-deepmind-researchers"
  Alexander Pritzel,Google,Anthropic,2026-06,10,Gemini core contributors,"https://htx.com/news/432366"
  Arthur Conmy,Google,Anthropic,2026-06,3,Train-time alignment,"https://explainx.ai/blog/anthropic-hiring-spree-2026-john-jumper-karpathy-talent-2026"
  John Jumper,Google DeepMind,Anthropic,2026-06,23,Nobel Prize-winning researcher,"https://htx.com/news/429546"
  Jonas Adler,Google,Anthropic,2026-06,10,Gemini core contributors,"https://htx.com/news/432366"
  Noam Shazeer,Google,OpenAI,2026-06,17,Lead for Architecture Research,"https://dev.to/gentic_news/google-deepmind-loses-its-third-senior-ai-researcher-in-months-as-nobel-laureate-john-jumper-joins-49nl"
  Lilian Weng,Thinking Machines Lab,OpenAI,2026-07,4,"lead a top-level team focused on accelerating internal research, including cross-research work on recursive self-improvement","https://devcuration.com/articles/lilian-weng-returns-to-openai-after-leaving-thinking-machines"
  Cosmo Du,Google DeepMind,Meta,null,1,null,"https://m.economictimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/meta-microsoft-hire-top-ai-talent-from-deepmind/articleshow/122853819.cms"
  Dean Ball,null,OpenAI,null,1,Head of AI Strategic Futures,"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"
  Hao Zhou,Google DeepMind,Alibaba,null,1,null,"https://coinlive.com/news/1-5-billion-can-t-retain-one-person-the-ai-talent-war"
  Ian O’Connell,Thinking Machines Lab,Meta,null,1,null,"https://b17news.com/2-founding-members-of-mira-muratis-thinking-machines-lab-quietly-left-for-meta"
  Jack Rae,Google DeepMind,Meta Superintelligence Labs,null,3,pre-training tech lead for Gemini and reasoning for Gemini 2.5,"https://thecatalystonline.com/exclusive/openai-and-meta-in-direct-contest-for-next-gen-ai-leaders"
  Jack Ray,Google DeepMind,Meta Superintelligence Lab,null,1,null,"https://gigazine.net/gsc_news/en/20250627-meta-hire-key-openai-researcher"
  Joel Pobar,Anthropic,Meta Superintelligence Labs,null,2,worked on inference,"https://fortuneindia.com/technology/metas-superintelligence-push-zuckerberg-bets-billions-to-poach-top-ai-talent-heres-the-strategy/124535"
  Lucas Bayer,OpenAI,Meta Superintelligence Lab,null,1,null,"https://gigazine.net/gsc_news/en/20250627-meta-hire-key-openai-researcher"
  Pei Sun,Google DeepMind,Meta Superintelligence Labs,null,1,"post-training, coding, and reasoning for Gemini","https://thecatalystonline.com/exclusive/openai-and-meta-in-direct-contest-for-next-gen-ai-leaders"
  Sonal Gupta,Google DeepMind,Microsoft,null,2,technical staff member at Microsoft AI,"https://techrepublic.com/article/news-microsoft-poaches-deepmind-researchers"
  Tianhe Yu,Google DeepMind,Meta,null,1,null,"https://m.economictimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/meta-microsoft-hire-top-ai-talent-from-deepmind/articleshow/122853819.cms"
  Weiyue Wang,Google DeepMind,Meta,null,1,null,"https://m.economictimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/meta-microsoft-hire-top-ai-talent-from-deepmind/articleshow/122853819.cms"
  Yan Wu,Google DeepMind,ByteDance Seed,null,1,null,"https://coinlive.com/news/1-5-billion-can-t-retain-one-person-the-ai-talent-war"
  Yonghui Wu,Google DeepMind,ByteDance Seed,null,1,leads ByteDance's Seed research team,"https://coinlive.com/news/1-5-billion-can-t-retain-one-person-the-ai-talent-war"
  Yuanzhong Xu,Google DeepMind,Meta Superintelligence Labs,null,1,senior engineering position,"https://finance.yahoo.com/news/meta-raids-google-deepmind-scale-090001810.html"
notes[0]:

result set r7f573677904 · 63 rows

researcherleft_labjoined_labmove_monthsource_mentionsroleurl
John SchulmanAnthropicThinking Machines2025-011chief scientisthttps://readcompute.com/issue-2
Nicholas CarliniGoogle's DeepMindAnthropic2025-031research scientisthttps://businessinsider.com/openai-engineers-anthropic-google-deepmind-2025-6
Alan RiceMetaxAI2025-041data center managerhttps://businessinsider.com/xai-poached-dozen-meta-employees-ai-talent-war-2025-8
Sheng SenMetaxAI2025-041AI research scientisthttps://businessinsider.com/xai-poached-dozen-meta-employees-ai-talent-war-2025-8
Ching-Yao ChuangMetaxAI2025-051research scientisthttps://businessinsider.com/xai-poached-dozen-meta-employees-ai-talent-war-2025-8
Download all 63 rows · 18 KB
assistant

tool call · select

SELECT
  url,
  title,
  published_at,
  UNNEST(
    SEM_EXTRACT_ALL(
      content,
      'a direct employment move in 2025 or later by a named AI researcher, research engineer, or research leader from one frontier-model lab to another; exclude moves from universities, ordinary software firms, policy jobs, investing, and data-center operations',
      researcher := 'full name',
      left_lab := 'immediately previous frontier AI lab',
      joined_lab := 'new frontier AI lab',
      move_month := 'month the new job began or was publicly announced, YYYY-MM',
      move_date_basis := 'whether month refers to joining, announcement, or reporting',
      role := 'research role or specialty',
      evidence := 'per_field'
    ),
    recursive := true
  )
FROM WEB_SEARCH(
  'site:reuters.com Meta hires OpenAI researchers June July 2025 names AI talent',
  'site:techcrunch.com Meta Superintelligence Labs hires OpenAI DeepMind Anthropic researchers 2025 names',
  'site:theverge.com researcher joins Anthropic OpenAI DeepMind Meta xAI 2025 2026',
  'site:anthropic.com news researcher joins Anthropic 2025 2026 John Jumper Karpathy Carlini',
  'site:openai.com researcher joins OpenAI 2025 2026 Noam Shazeer Thinking Machines',
  'site:about.fb.com superintelligence researcher joins Meta 2025 2026',
  'site:microsoft.com AI researcher joins Microsoft AI DeepMind 2025 2026',
  'site:x.com researcher joining Anthropic OpenAI Meta Superintelligence xAI 2025 2026',
  'Thinking Machines Lab founders left joined OpenAI Meta xAI 2025 2026',
  'John Schulman Thinking Machines Lab joined month 2025',
  'Laurens van der Maaten Rohan Anil joined Anthropic month 2025',
  'Jack Rae Pei Sun Yuanzhong Xu Meta joined month 2025 DeepMind',
  'Sonal Gupta Jonas Rothfuss Microsoft AI joined month 2025 2026',
  'Joel Pobar Anthropic Meta Superintelligence joined month 2025',
  'Lilian Weng OpenAI return July 2026 Thinking Machines'
)
WHERE SEM_MATCH(
  content,
  'gives a name and credible details of a direct researcher move between frontier AI labs since 2025'
)
{
 "show_preview": false
}
tool result (4488 chars)
result_set_id: r61b4dd069e2
total_rows: 382
columns[15]: joined_lab,joined_lab_evidence,left_lab,left_lab_evidence,move_date_basis,move_date_basis_evidence,move_month,move_month_evidence,published_at,researcher,researcher_evidence,role,role_evidence,title,url
preview:
  sample_rows[3]:
    - url: "https://brendonbeebe.substack.com/p/thinking-machines-lab-timeline-of"
      title: "Thinking Machines Lab: Timeline of the $2B Seed Round, Tinker, and the January 2026 OpenAI Exodus"
      published_at: "2026-01-18T13:18:56"
      researcher: Andrew Tulloch
      left_lab: null
      joined_lab: null
      move_month: null
      move_date_basis: null
      role: null
      researcher_evidence[3]: "# Thinking Machines Lab: Timeline of the $2B Seed Round, Tinker, and the January 2026 OpenAI Exodus","## First Product Launch: *Tinker* (October 2025)","In October, *The Wall Street Journal* reported that Tulloch had left Thinking Machines Lab to join **Meta’s AI research division***[[40]](https://www.reuters.com/technology/mira-muratis-thinking-machines-seeks-50-billion-valuation-funding-talks-2025-11-13/#:~:text=Thinking%20Machines%20did%20not%20i... [truncated in preview]"
      left_lab_evidence: null
      joined_lab_evidence: null
      move_month_evidence: null
      move_date_basis_evidence: null
      role_evidence: null
    - url: "https://techchilli.com/news/meta-superintelligence-team"
      title: "Meta Superintelligence Team: Name, Country, Current Role and Expertise"
      published_at: "2025-08-07T20:06:23"
      researcher: Trapit Bansal
      left_lab: null
      joined_lab: null
      move_month: null
      move_date_basis: null
      role: principal engineer
      researcher_evidence[2]: "Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL) is a new AI division of Meta Platforms, launched in June 2025, to develop next-generation “superintelligent” AI models that can learn... [truncated in preview]","**Trapit Bansal (India/USA):** Former OpenAI principal engineer. Expert in meta‑learning, deep learning, and reasoning models. Education: IIT Kanpur (BSc/MSc), PhD at UMass Amherst."
      left_lab_evidence: null
      joined_lab_evidence: null
      move_month_evidence: null
      move_date_basis_evidence: null
      role_evidence[2]: "Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL) is a new AI division of Meta Platforms, launched in June 2025, to develop next-generation “superintelligent” AI models that can learn... [truncated in preview]","**Trapit Bansal (India/USA):** Former OpenAI principal engineer. Expert in meta‑learning, deep learning, and reasoning models. Education: IIT Kanpur (BSc/MSc), PhD at UMass Amherst."
    - url: "https://eweek.com/news/thinking-machines-lab-staff-exodus"
      title: Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab Loses Key Leaders as They Return to OpenAI | eWEEK
      published_at: "2026-01-16T09:01:19"
      researcher: Andrew Tulloch
      left_lab: null
      joined_lab: null
      move_month: null
      move_date_basis: null
      role: co-founder
      researcher_evidence[2]: "Thinking Machines Lab — the startup launched by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati — is hemorrhaging key leadership as co-founders abandon ship to return to... [truncated in preview]","The timing couldn’t be more devastating—especially considering this marks the second major departure from Thinking Machines Lab in recent months, following co-founder Andrew Tulloch’s exit... [truncated in preview]"
      left_lab_evidence: null
      joined_lab_evidence: null
      move_month_evidence: null
      move_date_basis_evidence: null
      role_evidence[2]: "Thinking Machines Lab — the startup launched by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati — is hemorrhaging key leadership as co-founders abandon ship to return to... [truncated in preview]","The timing couldn’t be more devastating—especially considering this marks the second major departure from Thinking Machines Lab in recent months, following co-founder Andrew Tulloch’s exit... [truncated in preview]"
notes[3,]{text}:
  "The full table is too large to return in one response. This is a preview, not the data — do not draw conclusions from it alone. Query the result set by id: SEM_EXTRACT fields, filter with exact WHERE, aggregate, or page with LIMIT/OFFSET. Even if the preview looks irrelevant, probe the full result set before searching again."
  Merged 15 queries (2976 total) → 2756 unique results
  "Search result set: r13f2369a208 (2756 rows), reference it as FROM r13f2369a208 in follow-up queries"

result set r61b4dd069e2 · 382 rows

urltitlepublished_atresearcherleft_labjoined_labmove_monthmove_date_basisroleresearcher_evidenceleft_lab_evidencejoined_lab_evidencemove_month_evidencemove_date_basis_evidencerole_evidence
https://brendonbeebe.substack.com/p/thinking-machines-lab-timeline-ofThinking Machines Lab: Timeline of the $2B Seed Round, Tinker, and the January 2026 OpenAI Exodus2026-01-18T13:18:56Andrew Tullochnullnullnullnullnull["# Thinking Machines Lab: Timeline of the $2B Seed Round, Tinker, and the January 2026 OpenAI Exodus", "## First Product Launch: *Tinker* (October 2025)", "In…nullnullnullnullnull
https://brendonbeebe.substack.com/p/thinking-machines-lab-timeline-ofThinking Machines Lab: Timeline of the $2B Seed Round, Tinker, and the January 2026 OpenAI Exodus2026-01-18T13:18:56Barret ZophnullnullnullnullChief Technology Officer["# Thinking Machines Lab: Timeline of the $2B Seed Round, Tinker, and the January 2026 OpenAI Exodus", "## The January 2026 Exodus: Co-founders Return to Open…nullnullnullnull["# Thinking Machines Lab: Timeline of the $2B Seed Round, Tinker, and the January 2026 OpenAI Exodus", "## The January 2026 Exodus: Co-founders Return to Open…
https://brendonbeebe.substack.com/p/thinking-machines-lab-timeline-ofThinking Machines Lab: Timeline of the $2B Seed Round, Tinker, and the January 2026 OpenAI Exodus2026-01-18T13:18:56Luke MetznullnullnullnullCo-founder["# Thinking Machines Lab: Timeline of the $2B Seed Round, Tinker, and the January 2026 OpenAI Exodus", "## The January 2026 Exodus: Co-founders Return to Open…nullnullnullnull["# Thinking Machines Lab: Timeline of the $2B Seed Round, Tinker, and the January 2026 OpenAI Exodus", "## The January 2026 Exodus: Co-founders Return to Open…
https://brendonbeebe.substack.com/p/thinking-machines-lab-timeline-ofThinking Machines Lab: Timeline of the $2B Seed Round, Tinker, and the January 2026 OpenAI Exodus2026-01-18T13:18:56Sam SchoenholznullnullnullnullResearcher["# Thinking Machines Lab: Timeline of the $2B Seed Round, Tinker, and the January 2026 OpenAI Exodus", "## The January 2026 Exodus: Co-founders Return to Open…nullnullnullnull["# Thinking Machines Lab: Timeline of the $2B Seed Round, Tinker, and the January 2026 OpenAI Exodus", "## The January 2026 Exodus: Co-founders Return to Open…
https://brendonbeebe.substack.com/p/thinking-machines-lab-timeline-ofThinking Machines Lab: Timeline of the $2B Seed Round, Tinker, and the January 2026 OpenAI Exodus2026-01-18T13:18:56Lia GuynullnullnullnullAI researcher["# Thinking Machines Lab: Timeline of the $2B Seed Round, Tinker, and the January 2026 OpenAI Exodus", "## The January 2026 Exodus: Co-founders Return to Open…nullnullnullnull["# Thinking Machines Lab: Timeline of the $2B Seed Round, Tinker, and the January 2026 OpenAI Exodus", "## The January 2026 Exodus: Co-founders Return to Open…
Download all 382 rows · 439 KB
assistant

tool call · select

SELECT
  SEM_NORM(researcher, 'canonicalize spelling of person names; merge obvious misspellings only') AS researcher,
  MODE(left_lab) FILTER (WHERE left_lab IS NOT NULL) AS left_lab,
  MODE(joined_lab) FILTER (WHERE joined_lab IS NOT NULL) AS joined_lab,
  MODE(move_month) FILTER (WHERE move_month IS NOT NULL) AS move_month,
  COUNT(DISTINCT url) AS source_mentions,
  LIST(DISTINCT url)[1:3] AS source_urls,
  LIST(DISTINCT title)[1:3] AS source_titles
FROM r61b4dd069e2
WHERE researcher IS NOT NULL
  AND left_lab IS NOT NULL
  AND joined_lab IS NOT NULL
GROUP BY SEM_NORM(researcher, 'canonicalize spelling of person names; merge obvious misspellings only')
ORDER BY move_month NULLS LAST, researcher
{
 "show_preview": false
}
tool result (7973 chars)
result_set_id: r1262b40b934
total_rows: 19
columns[7]: joined_lab,left_lab,move_month,researcher,source_mentions,source_titles,source_urls
rows[19]:
  - researcher: Sam Schoenholz
    left_lab: Thinking Machines
    joined_lab: OpenAI
    move_month: 2025-01
    source_mentions: 2
    source_urls[2]: "https://washingtonweeklytimes.com/technology/mira-muratis-startup-thinking-machines-lab-is-losing-two-of-its-co-founders-to-openai","https://tradingview.com/news/DJN_DN20260826010333:0"
    source_titles[2]: "News by Dow Jones Newswires on TradingView, 2026-08-27","Mira Murati’s startup, Thinking Machines Lab, is losing two of its co-founders to OpenAI"
  - researcher: John Schulman
    left_lab: Anthropic
    joined_lab: Thinking Machines Lab
    move_month: 2025-02
    source_mentions: 3
    source_urls[3]: "https://skywork.ai/slide/en/john-schulman-ai-research-openai-1996071356865196032","https://robotsatlas.com/manufacturers/thinking-machines-lab","https://hushh.ai/one/thinking-machines/research"
    source_titles[3]: Thinking Machines Lab — Mira Murati's AI startup,"Thinking Machines Lab — the research, cited (a 🤫 study)","John Schulman: Pioneering AI Research at OpenAI"
  - researcher: Mira Murati
    left_lab: OpenAI
    joined_lab: Thinking Machines
    move_month: 2025-02
    source_mentions: 1
    source_urls[1]: "https://hushh.ai/one/thinking-machines/research"
    source_titles[1]: "Thinking Machines Lab — the research, cited (a 🤫 study)"
  - researcher: Jonas Rothfuss
    left_lab: Google DeepMind
    joined_lab: Microsoft
    move_month: 2025-05
    source_mentions: 1
    source_urls[1]: "https://windowsreport.com/microsoft-reportedly-hires-more-ai-talent-from-google-deepmind"
    source_titles[1]: Microsoft Reportedly Hires More AI Talent from Google DeepMind
  - researcher: Adam Sadovsky
    left_lab: Google DeepMind
    joined_lab: Microsoft
    move_month: 2025-06
    source_mentions: 1
    source_urls[1]: "https://windowsreport.com/microsoft-reportedly-hires-more-ai-talent-from-google-deepmind"
    source_titles[1]: Microsoft Reportedly Hires More AI Talent from Google DeepMind
  - researcher: Joel Pobar
    left_lab: Anthropic
    joined_lab: Meta
    move_month: 2025-06
    source_mentions: 1
    source_urls[1]: "https://imsfund.com/index.php/2025/08/01/heres-why-anthropic-refuses-to-offer-9-figure-pay-like-meta"
    source_titles[1]: Here’s Why Anthropic Refuses to Offer 9-Figure Pay Like Meta
  - researcher: John Jumper
    left_lab: Google
    joined_lab: Anthropic
    move_month: 2025-06
    source_mentions: 1
    source_urls[1]: "https://tradingview.com/news/DJN_DN20260826010333:0"
    source_titles[1]: "News by Dow Jones Newswires on TradingView, 2026-08-27"
  - researcher: Noam Shazeer
    left_lab: Google
    joined_lab: OpenAI
    move_month: 2025-06
    source_mentions: 1
    source_urls[1]: "https://tradingview.com/news/DJN_DN20260826010333:0"
    source_titles[1]: "News by Dow Jones Newswires on TradingView, 2026-08-27"
  - researcher: Sonal Gupta
    left_lab: Google DeepMind
    joined_lab: Microsoft
    move_month: 2025-07
    source_mentions: 1
    source_urls[1]: "https://windowsreport.com/microsoft-reportedly-hires-more-ai-talent-from-google-deepmind"
    source_titles[1]: Microsoft Reportedly Hires More AI Talent from Google DeepMind
  - researcher: Andrew Tulloch
    left_lab: Thinking Machines Lab
    joined_lab: Meta
    move_month: 2025-10
    source_mentions: 2
    source_urls[2]: "https://officechai.com/ai/thinking-machines-cofounder-lillian-weng-quits-in-fourth-co-founder-exit","https://washingtonweeklytimes.com/technology/mira-muratis-startup-thinking-machines-lab-is-losing-two-of-its-co-founders-to-openai"
    source_titles[2]: Thinking Machines' Cofounder Lillian Weng Quits In Fourth Co-founder Exit,"Mira Murati’s startup, Thinking Machines Lab, is losing two of its co-founders to OpenAI"
  - researcher: Barret Zoph
    left_lab: Thinking Machines Lab
    joined_lab: OpenAI
    move_month: 2026-01
    source_mentions: 4
    source_urls[3]: "https://edgen.tech/ja/news/post/google-deepmind-hires-thinking-machines-co-founder-in-12b-talent-war","https://officechai.com/ai/thinking-machines-cofounder-lillian-weng-quits-in-fourth-co-founder-exit","https://washingtonweeklytimes.com/technology/mira-muratis-startup-thinking-machines-lab-is-losing-two-of-its-co-founders-to-openai"
    source_titles[3]: "News by Dow Jones Newswires on TradingView, 2026-08-27",Google DeepMind hires Thinking Machines co-founder in $12B talent war,Thinking Machines' Cofounder Lillian Weng Quits In Fourth Co-founder Exit
  - researcher: Luke Metz
    left_lab: Thinking Machines Lab
    joined_lab: OpenAI
    move_month: 2026-01
    source_mentions: 4
    source_urls[3]: "https://officechai.com/ai/thinking-machines-cofounder-lillian-weng-quits-in-fourth-co-founder-exit","https://washingtonweeklytimes.com/technology/mira-muratis-startup-thinking-machines-lab-is-losing-two-of-its-co-founders-to-openai","https://tradingview.com/news/DJN_DN20260826010333:0"
    source_titles[3]: "News by Dow Jones Newswires on TradingView, 2026-08-27",Google DeepMind hires Thinking Machines co-founder in $12B talent war,Thinking Machines' Cofounder Lillian Weng Quits In Fourth Co-founder Exit
  - researcher: Ruoming Pang
    left_lab: Meta
    joined_lab: OpenAI
    move_month: 2026-02
    source_mentions: 2
    source_urls[2]: "https://reuters.com/technology/openai-hires-meta-ai-researcher-who-previously-led-apples-models-team-2026-02-26","https://reuters.com/business/apples-ai-search-executive-robby-walker-leave-bloomberg-news-reports-2025-09-12"
    source_titles[2]: "Apple's AI and search executive Robby Walker to leave, Bloomberg News reports","OpenAI hires ex-Apple models head from Meta, The Information reports"
  - researcher: Lilian Weng
    left_lab: Thinking Machines Lab
    joined_lab: OpenAI
    move_month: 2026-07
    source_mentions: 1
    source_urls[1]: "https://t-en-yd.obnews.co/Index/flowNewsDetail/id/16699451.html?val=1f03a66e6aeef7585ef1576cd0347b9e"
    source_titles[1]: Thinking Machines co-founder Lilian Weng returns to OpenAI
  - researcher: Jack Rae
    left_lab: Google's DeepMind
    joined_lab: Meta
    move_month: null
    source_mentions: 1
    source_urls[1]: "https://thehansindia.com/technology/tech-news/metas-secret-tbd-lab-gears-up-for-llama-45-to-challenge-openais-gpt-5-995099"
    source_titles[1]: Meta’s Secret “TBD Lab” Gears Up for Llama 4.5 to Challenge OpenAI’s GPT-5
  - researcher: Mark Lee
    left_lab: Apple
    joined_lab: Meta Platforms
    move_month: null
    source_mentions: 1
    source_urls[1]: "https://reuters.com/business/apples-ai-search-executive-robby-walker-leave-bloomberg-news-reports-2025-09-12"
    source_titles[1]: "Apple's AI and search executive Robby Walker to leave, Bloomberg News reports"
  - researcher: Shengjia Zhao
    left_lab: OpenAI
    joined_lab: Meta
    move_month: null
    source_mentions: 1
    source_urls[1]: "https://finance.yahoo.com/news/dario-amodei-says-anthropic-hasnt-040101792.html"
    source_titles[1]: Dario Amodei says Anthropic hasn't been hit as hard as rivals in the AI talent wars — and it boils down to 2 things
  - researcher: Tom Gunter
    left_lab: Apple
    joined_lab: Meta Platforms
    move_month: null
    source_mentions: 1
    source_urls[1]: "https://reuters.com/business/apples-ai-search-executive-robby-walker-leave-bloomberg-news-reports-2025-09-12"
    source_titles[1]: "Apple's AI and search executive Robby Walker to leave, Bloomberg News reports"
  - researcher: Trapit Bansal
    left_lab: OpenAI
    joined_lab: Meta
    move_month: null
    source_mentions: 1
    source_urls[1]: "https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/27/meta-is-offering-multimillion-dollar-pay-for-ai-researchers-but-not-100m-signing-bonuses"
    source_titles[1]: "Meta is offering multimillion-dollar pay for AI researchers, but not $100M ‘signing bonuses’"
notes[0]:

result set r1262b40b934 · 19 rows

researcherleft_labjoined_labmove_monthsource_mentionssource_urlssource_titles
Sam SchoenholzThinking MachinesOpenAI2025-012["https://washingtonweeklytimes.com/technology/mira-muratis-startup-thinking-machines-lab-is-losing-two-of-its-co-founders-to-openai", "https://tradingview.com…["News by Dow Jones Newswires on TradingView, 2026-08-27", "Mira Murati’s startup, Thinking Machines Lab, is losing two of its co-founders to OpenAI"]
John SchulmanAnthropicThinking Machines Lab2025-023["https://skywork.ai/slide/en/john-schulman-ai-research-openai-1996071356865196032", "https://robotsatlas.com/manufacturers/thinking-machines-lab", "https://hu…["Thinking Machines Lab — Mira Murati's AI startup", "Thinking Machines Lab — the research, cited (a 🤫 study)", "John Schulman: Pioneering AI Research at OpenA…
Mira MuratiOpenAIThinking Machines2025-021["https://hushh.ai/one/thinking-machines/research"]["Thinking Machines Lab — the research, cited (a 🤫 study)"]
Jonas RothfussGoogle DeepMindMicrosoft2025-051["https://windowsreport.com/microsoft-reportedly-hires-more-ai-talent-from-google-deepmind"]["Microsoft Reportedly Hires More AI Talent from Google DeepMind"]
Adam SadovskyGoogle DeepMindMicrosoft2025-061["https://windowsreport.com/microsoft-reportedly-hires-more-ai-talent-from-google-deepmind"]["Microsoft Reportedly Hires More AI Talent from Google DeepMind"]
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tool call · select

SELECT
  url,
  title,
  published_at,
  UNNEST(
    SEM_EXTRACT_ALL(
      content,
      'a publicly reported direct move, occurring from January 2025 through August 2026, by a named technical AI researcher, research engineer, scientist, or research leader between two organizations building frontier general-purpose foundation models; extract every distinct move, including multiple moves by the same person; exclude nontechnical executives, investors, data-center staff, university-only moves, and movement internal to one company',
      researcher := 'full name of person',
      left_lab := 'immediately previous frontier-model lab employer',
      joined_lab := 'new frontier-model lab employer',
      move_month := 'month the move was announced or began, YYYY-MM',
      role := 'technical research role or specialty',
      evidence := 'per_field'
    ),
    recursive := true
  )
FROM WEB_SEARCH(
  'frontier AI talent moves tracker 2025 2026 researchers labs',
  'AI researcher talent flow map 2025 2026 OpenAI Anthropic DeepMind Meta xAI Thinking Machines',
  'site:reuters.com AI researcher joined Meta OpenAI Anthropic DeepMind xAI 2025 2026',
  'site:techcrunch.com AI researcher joined Meta OpenAI Anthropic DeepMind xAI 2025 2026',
  'site:businessinsider.com AI researcher left joined lab 2025 2026 Meta OpenAI Anthropic Google',
  'John Schulman Sam Schoenholz Thinking Machines OpenAI August 2026',
  'Luke Metz OpenAI Meta August 2026 researcher',
  'Anthropic hires Google DeepMind researchers 2026 Alexander Pritzel Jonas Adler Arthur Conmy month',
  'Anthropic hires xAI researchers 2026 Ross Nordeen Andrea Vallone Milad Nasr Adam Lerer Max Schwarzer',
  'Meta hires DeepMind researchers Jack Rae Pei Sun Yuanzhong Xu Cosmo Du Tianhe Yu Weiyue Wang month 2025',
  'Meta hires OpenAI researchers Shengjia Zhao Jiahui Yu Shuchao Bi Hongyu Ren Hyung Won Chung Zhiqing Sun month 2025',
  'xAI hires Meta researchers Sheng Sen Ching-Yao Chuang month 2025',
  'Microsoft AI hires DeepMind Adam Sadovsky Amar Subramanya Sonal Gupta Jonas Rothfuss month 2025',
  'Thinking Machines researchers left for OpenAI Meta xAI 2025 2026 timeline',
  'Google DeepMind hires ByteDance Seed Feng Li Ran Xin month 2025 2026',
  'OpenAI hires Meta Ruoming Pang Pengchuan Zhang February 2026',
  'Noam Shazeer OpenAI John Jumper Anthropic June 2026 move',
  'Nicholas Carlini Anthropic March 2025 DeepMind',
  'Rohan Anil Laurens van der Maaten Anthropic 2025 left Meta',
  'Tianfu Fu OpenAI xAI October 2025'
)
WHERE SEM_MATCH(
  content,
  'contains one or more named direct moves between frontier-model AI labs during 2025 or 2026, with enough information to identify both labs'
)
{
 "show_preview": false
}
tool result (4751 chars)
result_set_id: r8f5e9c187f9
total_rows: 1283
columns[13]: joined_lab,joined_lab_evidence,left_lab,left_lab_evidence,move_month,move_month_evidence,published_at,researcher,researcher_evidence,role,role_evidence,title,url
preview:
  sample_rows[3]:
    - 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: AI researcher
      researcher_evidence[3]: LATEST NEWS,# 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.
      left_lab_evidence: null
      joined_lab_evidence: null
      move_month_evidence: null
      role_evidence[3]: LATEST NEWS,# Meta pulls OpenAI veteran into Superintelligence Labs talent war,"Metz’s recent career shows how quickly that revolving door is spinning. On his personal [site](https://lukemetz.com/about/), he describes himself as an AI researcher who was part... [truncated in preview]"
    - url: "https://b17news.com/xai-has-hired-14-meta-employees-this-year-as-the-ai-talent-war-rages-on"
      title: xAI has hired 14 Meta employees this year as the AI talent war rages on - B17 News
      published_at: "2025-08-08T14:23:04"
      researcher: Sheng Sen
      left_lab: null
      joined_lab: null
      move_month: null
      role: AI research scientist
      researcher_evidence[2]: # xAI has hired 14 Meta employees this year as the AI talent war rages on,"Sheng Sen — an AI research scientist who helped scale Meta’s flagship Llama AI models — also joined xAI in April, according to his LinkedIn."
      left_lab_evidence: null
      joined_lab_evidence: null
      move_month_evidence: null
      role_evidence[2]: # xAI has hired 14 Meta employees this year as the AI talent war rages on,"Sheng Sen — an AI research scientist who helped scale Meta’s flagship Llama AI models — also joined xAI in April, according to his LinkedIn."
    - url: "https://finance.biggo.com/news/a2fd0f43-05c1-4824-9ae5-44a8afa58839"
      title: "Google Loses Two AI Heavyweights in Three Days: Nobel Laureate Joins Anthropic, Gemini Co-Creator Defects to OpenAI"
      published_at: "2026-06-21T07:55:34"
      researcher: John Jumper
      left_lab: Google DeepMind
      joined_lab: Anthropic
      move_month: 2026-06
      role: head of AlphaFold
      researcher_evidence[2]: "# Google Loses Two AI Heavyweights in Three Days: Nobel Laureate Joins Anthropic, Gemini Co-Creator Defects to OpenAI","Between June 18 and 19, 2026, Google lost two pivotal AI figures in rapid succession: Noam Shazeer, co-author of the Transformer architecture and co-lead of... [truncated in preview]"
      left_lab_evidence[2]: "# Google Loses Two AI Heavyweights in Three Days: Nobel Laureate Joins Anthropic, Gemini Co-Creator Defects to OpenAI","Between June 18 and 19, 2026, Google lost two pivotal AI figures in rapid succession: Noam Shazeer, co-author of the Transformer architecture and co-lead of... [truncated in preview]"
      joined_lab_evidence[2]: "# Google Loses Two AI Heavyweights in Three Days: Nobel Laureate Joins Anthropic, Gemini Co-Creator Defects to OpenAI","Between June 18 and 19, 2026, Google lost two pivotal AI figures in rapid succession: Noam Shazeer, co-author of the Transformer architecture and co-lead of... [truncated in preview]"
      move_month_evidence[2]: "# Google Loses Two AI Heavyweights in Three Days: Nobel Laureate Joins Anthropic, Gemini Co-Creator Defects to OpenAI","Between June 18 and 19, 2026, Google lost two pivotal AI figures in rapid succession: Noam Shazeer, co-author of the Transformer architecture and co-lead of... [truncated in preview]"
      role_evidence[2]: "# Google Loses Two AI Heavyweights in Three Days: Nobel Laureate Joins Anthropic, Gemini Co-Creator Defects to OpenAI","Between June 18 and 19, 2026, Google lost two pivotal AI figures in rapid succession: Noam Shazeer, co-author of the Transformer architecture and co-lead of... [truncated in preview]"
notes[3,]{text}:
  "The full table is too large to return in one response. This is a preview, not the data — do not draw conclusions from it alone. Query the result set by id: SEM_EXTRACT fields, filter with exact WHERE, aggregate, or page with LIMIT/OFFSET. Even if the preview looks irrelevant, probe the full result set before searching again."
  Merged 20 queries (3997 total) → 3538 unique results
  "Search result set: r4ad4d078d54 (3538 rows), reference it as FROM r4ad4d078d54 in follow-up queries"

result set r8f5e9c187f9 · 1283 rows

urltitlepublished_atresearcherleft_labjoined_labmove_monthroleresearcher_evidenceleft_lab_evidencejoined_lab_evidencemove_month_evidencerole_evidence
https://cryptopolitan.com/meta-openai-veteran-superintelligence-labsMeta pulls OpenAI veteran into Superintelligence Labs talent war2026-08-24T07:53:27Luke MetznullnullnullAI researcher["LATEST NEWS", "# Meta pulls OpenAI veteran into Superintelligence Labs talent war", "Fortune reported in January 2026 that Metz was returning to OpenAI along…nullnullnull["LATEST NEWS", "# Meta pulls OpenAI veteran into Superintelligence Labs talent war", "Metz’s recent career shows how quickly that revolving door is spinning. …
https://bitcoinethereumnews.com/finance/meta-pulls-openai-veteran-into-superintelligence-labs-talent-warMeta pulls OpenAI veteran into Superintelligence Labs talent war2026-08-24T07:54:21Luke MetznullnullnullAI researcher["# Meta pulls OpenAI veteran into Superintelligence Labs talent war", "Meta has added another high-profile AI researcher to its Superintelligence Labs."]nullnullnull["# Meta pulls OpenAI veteran into Superintelligence Labs talent war", "Meta has added another high-profile AI researcher to its Superintelligence Labs."]
https://bitcoinethereumnews.com/finance/meta-pulls-openai-veteran-into-superintelligence-labs-talent-warMeta pulls OpenAI veteran into Superintelligence Labs talent war2026-08-24T07:54:21Barret Zophnullnullnullco-founder["Fortune reported in January 2026 that Metz was returning to OpenAI alongside co-founder Barret Zoph and founding-team member Sam Schoenholz."]nullnullnull["Fortune reported in January 2026 that Metz was returning to OpenAI alongside co-founder Barret Zoph and founding-team member Sam Schoenholz."]
https://bitcoinethereumnews.com/finance/meta-pulls-openai-veteran-into-superintelligence-labs-talent-warMeta pulls OpenAI veteran into Superintelligence Labs talent war2026-08-24T07:54:21Sam Schoenholznullnullnullfounding-team member["Fortune reported in January 2026 that Metz was returning to OpenAI alongside co-founder Barret Zoph and founding-team member Sam Schoenholz."]nullnullnull["Fortune reported in January 2026 that Metz was returning to OpenAI alongside co-founder Barret Zoph and founding-team member Sam Schoenholz."]
https://bitcoinethereumnews.com/finance/meta-pulls-openai-veteran-into-superintelligence-labs-talent-warMeta pulls OpenAI veteran into Superintelligence Labs talent war2026-08-24T07:54:21Ruoming Pangnullnullnulloverseen AI infrastructure["OpenAI, meanwhile, hired Ruoming Pang, who had overseen AI infrastructure for Meta’s Superintelligence Labs, The Information reported in February, per a Reut…nullnullnull["OpenAI, meanwhile, hired Ruoming Pang, who had overseen AI infrastructure for Meta’s Superintelligence Labs, The Information reported in February, per a Reut…
Download all 1283 rows · 1482 KB
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tool call · select

WITH raw AS (
  SELECT
    researcher,
    left_lab,
    joined_lab,
    move_month,
    role,
    url,
    title
  FROM r8f5e9c187f9
  WHERE researcher IS NOT NULL
    AND left_lab IS NOT NULL
    AND joined_lab IS NOT NULL
    AND move_month IS NOT NULL
  UNION ALL
  SELECT
    researcher,
    left_lab,
    joined_lab,
    move_month,
    role,
    url,
    NULL AS title
  FROM r7f573677904
  WHERE researcher IS NOT NULL
    AND left_lab IS NOT NULL
    AND joined_lab IS NOT NULL
    AND move_month IS NOT NULL
), normalized AS (
  SELECT
    SEM_NORM(researcher, 'canonical full person name; merge obvious spelling variants such as Bayer and Beyer, but keep different people separate') AS researcher,
    CASE
      WHEN lower(left_lab) LIKE '%openai%' THEN 'OpenAI'
      WHEN lower(left_lab) LIKE '%anthropic%' THEN 'Anthropic'
      WHEN lower(left_lab) LIKE '%deepmind%' OR lower(left_lab) = 'google' OR lower(left_lab) LIKE 'google %' THEN 'Google DeepMind'
      WHEN lower(left_lab) LIKE '%meta%' THEN 'Meta AI'
      WHEN lower(left_lab) LIKE '%xai%' THEN 'xAI'
      WHEN lower(left_lab) LIKE '%thinking machines%' THEN 'Thinking Machines Lab'
      WHEN lower(left_lab) LIKE '%microsoft%' THEN 'Microsoft AI'
      WHEN lower(left_lab) LIKE '%safe superintelligence%' OR lower(left_lab) = 'ssi' THEN 'Safe Superintelligence'
      WHEN lower(left_lab) LIKE '%bytedance%' OR lower(left_lab) = 'seed' THEN 'ByteDance Seed'
      WHEN lower(left_lab) LIKE '%mistral%' THEN 'Mistral AI'
      WHEN lower(left_lab) LIKE '%cohere%' THEN 'Cohere'
      ELSE NULL
    END AS left_lab,
    CASE
      WHEN lower(joined_lab) LIKE '%openai%' THEN 'OpenAI'
      WHEN lower(joined_lab) LIKE '%anthropic%' THEN 'Anthropic'
      WHEN lower(joined_lab) LIKE '%deepmind%' OR lower(joined_lab) = 'google' OR lower(joined_lab) LIKE 'google %' THEN 'Google DeepMind'
      WHEN lower(joined_lab) LIKE '%meta%' THEN 'Meta AI'
      WHEN lower(joined_lab) LIKE '%xai%' THEN 'xAI'
      WHEN lower(joined_lab) LIKE '%thinking machines%' THEN 'Thinking Machines Lab'
      WHEN lower(joined_lab) LIKE '%microsoft%' THEN 'Microsoft AI'
      WHEN lower(joined_lab) LIKE '%safe superintelligence%' OR lower(joined_lab) = 'ssi' THEN 'Safe Superintelligence'
      WHEN lower(joined_lab) LIKE '%bytedance%' OR lower(joined_lab) = 'seed' THEN 'ByteDance Seed'
      WHEN lower(joined_lab) LIKE '%mistral%' THEN 'Mistral AI'
      WHEN lower(joined_lab) LIKE '%cohere%' THEN 'Cohere'
      ELSE NULL
    END AS joined_lab,
    move_month,
    role,
    url,
    title
  FROM raw
  WHERE move_month >= '2025-01'
    AND move_month <= '2026-08'
    AND researcher NOT IN ('Mira Murati', 'Alan Rice')
)
SELECT
  researcher,
  left_lab,
  joined_lab,
  move_month,
  COUNT(DISTINCT url) AS source_mentions,
  ANY_VALUE(role) FILTER (WHERE role IS NOT NULL) AS role,
  ANY_VALUE(url) AS source_url,
  ANY_VALUE(title) FILTER (WHERE title IS NOT NULL) AS source_title
FROM normalized
WHERE left_lab IS NOT NULL
  AND joined_lab IS NOT NULL
  AND left_lab <> joined_lab
GROUP BY
  researcher,
  left_lab,
  joined_lab,
  move_month
ORDER BY
  move_month,
  researcher,
  left_lab,
  joined_lab
{
 "show_preview": false
}
tool result (14656 chars)
result_set_id: r32e3935ed65
total_rows: 66
columns[8]: joined_lab,left_lab,move_month,researcher,role,source_mentions,source_title,source_url
rows[66,]{researcher,left_lab,joined_lab,move_month,source_mentions,role,source_url,source_title}:
  Barret Zoph,Thinking Machines Lab,OpenAI,2025-01,2,null,"https://tradingview.com/news/DJN_DN20260826010333:0","News by Dow Jones Newswires on TradingView, 2026-08-27"
  John Schulman,Anthropic,Thinking Machines Lab,2025-01,1,chief scientist,"https://readcompute.com/issue-2",null
  Luke Metz,Thinking Machines Lab,OpenAI,2025-01,1,null,"https://tradingview.com/news/DJN_DN20260826010333:0","News by Dow Jones Newswires on TradingView, 2026-08-27"
  Sam Schoenholz,Thinking Machines Lab,OpenAI,2025-01,1,null,"https://tradingview.com/news/DJN_DN20260826010333:0","News by Dow Jones Newswires on TradingView, 2026-08-27"
  Wu Yonghui,Google DeepMind,ByteDance Seed,2025-02,3,Head of Seed Basic Research,"https://labindex.ai/labs/bytedance-seed",ByteDance | Lab Index
  Nicholas Carlini,Google DeepMind,Anthropic,2025-03,1,research scientist,"https://businessinsider.com/openai-engineers-anthropic-google-deepmind-2025-6",null
  Sheng Sen,Meta AI,xAI,2025-04,2,AI research scientist,"https://businessinsider.com/xai-poached-dozen-meta-employees-ai-talent-war-2025-8","From Meta to Musk: 14 employees jump ship to xAI"
  Ching-Yao Chuang,Meta AI,xAI,2025-05,2,research scientist,"https://businessinsider.com/xai-poached-dozen-meta-employees-ai-talent-war-2025-8","From Meta to Musk: 14 employees jump ship to xAI"
  Jonas Rothfuss,Google DeepMind,Microsoft AI,2025-05,1,research scientist,"https://nbcconnecticut.com/news/business/money-report/microsoft-poaches-more-google-deepmind-ai-talent-as-it-beefs-up-copilot/3612567?amp=1",Microsoft poaches more Google DeepMind AI talent as it beefs up Copilot
  Adam Sadovsky,Google DeepMind,Microsoft AI,2025-06,2,distinguished software engineer and senior director,"https://nbcconnecticut.com/news/business/money-report/microsoft-poaches-more-google-deepmind-ai-talent-as-it-beefs-up-copilot/3612567?amp=1",Microsoft poaches more Google DeepMind AI talent as it beefs up Copilot
  Alexander Kolesnikov,OpenAI,Meta AI,2025-06,2,computer vision and deep learning,"https://geo.tv/latest/611457-meta-hires-four-more-ai-researchers-from-openai",Meta hires four more AI researchers from OpenAI
  Alexander Pritzel,Google DeepMind,Anthropic,2025-06,1,"Pre-training and model training, Gemini contributor","https://shaam.blog/articles/google-deepmind-talent-exodus-anthropic-openai-june-2026","Google DeepMind Talent Exodus: 5 Senior Researchers Leave for Anthropic and OpenAI in One Week"
  Arthur Conmy,Google DeepMind,Anthropic,2025-06,1,Senior research engineer,"https://shaam.blog/articles/google-deepmind-talent-exodus-anthropic-openai-june-2026","Google DeepMind Talent Exodus: 5 Senior Researchers Leave for Anthropic and OpenAI in One Week"
  Hongyu Ren,OpenAI,Meta AI,2025-06,1,artificial intelligence researcher,"https://geo.tv/latest/611457-meta-hires-four-more-ai-researchers-from-openai",Meta hires four more AI researchers from OpenAI
  Jiahui Yu,OpenAI,Meta AI,2025-06,3,researcher,"https://aol.com/news/12-executives-researchers-others-left-114801010.html","12 executives, researchers, others who left OpenAI in 2025 — mostly to Meta Superintelligence Lab"
  John Jumper,Google DeepMind,Anthropic,2025-06,2,"2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, AlphaFold co-creator","https://tradingview.com/news/DJN_DN20260826010333:0","News by Dow Jones Newswires on TradingView, 2026-08-27"
  Jonas Adler,Google DeepMind,Anthropic,2025-06,1,"AI coding, Gemini contributor","https://shaam.blog/articles/google-deepmind-talent-exodus-anthropic-openai-june-2026","Google DeepMind Talent Exodus: 5 Senior Researchers Leave for Anthropic and OpenAI in One Week"
  Lucas Beyer,OpenAI,Meta AI,2025-06,2,computer vision and deep learning,"https://geo.tv/latest/611457-meta-hires-four-more-ai-researchers-from-openai",Meta hires four more AI researchers from OpenAI
  Noam Shazeer,Google DeepMind,OpenAI,2025-06,2,"Transformer co-author, Gemini co-lead","https://tradingview.com/news/DJN_DN20260826010333:0","News by Dow Jones Newswires on TradingView, 2026-08-27"
  Rohan Anil,Meta AI,Anthropic,2025-06,1,null,"https://businessinsider.com/meta-ai-talent-war-superintelligence-push-tension-desertion-2025-8",null
  Shengjia Zhao,OpenAI,Meta AI,2025-06,1,artificial intelligence researcher,"https://geo.tv/latest/611457-meta-hires-four-more-ai-researchers-from-openai",Meta hires four more AI researchers from OpenAI
  Shuchao Bi,OpenAI,Meta AI,2025-06,3,researcher,"https://aol.com/news/12-executives-researchers-others-left-114801010.html","12 executives, researchers, others who left OpenAI in 2025 — mostly to Meta Superintelligence Lab"
  Trapit Bansal,OpenAI,Meta AI,2025-06,1,AI researcher,"https://cssm.etimg.com/news/international/us/meet-trapit-bansal-metas-new-ai-superintelligence-team-hire-is-meta-poaching-top-talent-from-openai-meta-ai-news-openai-news/articleshow/122098369.cms",null
  Xiaohua Zhai,OpenAI,Meta AI,2025-06,2,computer vision and deep learning,"https://geo.tv/latest/611457-meta-hires-four-more-ai-researchers-from-openai",Meta hires four more AI researchers from OpenAI
  Xinlei Chen,Meta AI,xAI,2025-06,2,research scientist,"https://businessinsider.com/xai-poached-dozen-meta-employees-ai-talent-war-2025-8","From Meta to Musk: 14 employees jump ship to xAI"
  Amar Subramanya,Google DeepMind,Microsoft AI,2025-07,1,Corporate Vice President of AI at Microsoft AI,"https://techrepublic.com/article/news-microsoft-poaches-deepmind-researchers",null
  Aurko Roy,Meta AI,Microsoft AI,2025-07,1,AI researcher,"https://digitrendz.blog/newswire/artificial-intelligence/51002/meta-hires-openai-scientist-to-head-ai-lab",null
  Cosmo Du,Google DeepMind,Meta AI,2025-07,1,AI researcher,"https://latestly.com/socially/technology/meta-hires-3-more-google-deepmind-ai-researchers-who-worked-on-gemini-ai-version-that-achieved-gold-medal-level-performance-at-imo-2025-report-7014925.html",Mark Zuckerberg on Hiring Spree for Superintelligence Team! Meta Hires 3 More Google DeepMind AI
  Daniel Gross,OpenAI,Meta AI,2025-07,1,head of Meta’s AI Products division,"https://champaignmagazine.com/2025/07/06/ai-by-ai-weekly-top-5-06-30-07-06-2025",null
  Hongyu Ren,OpenAI,Meta AI,2025-07,2,researcher,"https://aol.com/news/12-executives-researchers-others-left-114801010.html","12 executives, researchers, others who left OpenAI in 2025 — mostly to Meta Superintelligence Lab"
  Hyung Won Chung,OpenAI,Meta AI,2025-07,2,research scientist,"https://aol.com/news/12-executives-researchers-others-left-114801010.html","12 executives, researchers, others who left OpenAI in 2025 — mostly to Meta Superintelligence Lab"
  Jason Wei,OpenAI,Meta AI,2025-07,1,research scientist,"https://aol.com/news/12-executives-researchers-others-left-114801010.html","12 executives, researchers, others who left OpenAI in 2025 — mostly to Meta Superintelligence Lab"
  Mingyang Zhang,Google DeepMind,Meta AI,2025-07,1,worked on helping large language models retrieve information effectively,"https://businessinsider.com/meta-superintelligence-team-hires-deepmind-scale-ai-2025-8",Meta hires from DeepMind and Scale AI to build superintelligence team
  Shengjia Zhao,OpenAI,Meta AI,2025-07,4,chief scientist,"https://aol.com/news/12-executives-researchers-others-left-114801010.html","12 executives, researchers, others who left OpenAI in 2025 — mostly to Meta Superintelligence Lab"
  Tianhe Yu,Google DeepMind,Meta AI,2025-07,1,AI researcher,"https://latestly.com/socially/technology/meta-hires-3-more-google-deepmind-ai-researchers-who-worked-on-gemini-ai-version-that-achieved-gold-medal-level-performance-at-imo-2025-report-7014925.html",Mark Zuckerberg on Hiring Spree for Superintelligence Team! Meta Hires 3 More Google DeepMind AI
  Tong He,Google DeepMind,Meta AI,2025-07,1,null,"https://businessinsider.com/meta-superintelligence-team-hires-deepmind-scale-ai-2025-8",Meta hires from DeepMind and Scale AI to build superintelligence team
  Weiyue Wang,Google DeepMind,Meta AI,2025-07,1,AI researcher,"https://latestly.com/socially/technology/meta-hires-3-more-google-deepmind-ai-researchers-who-worked-on-gemini-ai-version-that-achieved-gold-medal-level-performance-at-imo-2025-report-7014925.html",Mark Zuckerberg on Hiring Spree for Superintelligence Team! Meta Hires 3 More Google DeepMind AI
  Zhiqing Sun,OpenAI,Meta AI,2025-07,2,research scientist,"https://aol.com/news/12-executives-researchers-others-left-114801010.html","12 executives, researchers, others who left OpenAI in 2025 — mostly to Meta Superintelligence Lab"
  Laurens van der Maaten,Meta AI,Anthropic,2025-08,1,distinguished research scientist,"https://businessinsider.com/meta-ai-talent-war-superintelligence-push-tension-desertion-2025-8",null
  Andrew Tulloch,Thinking Machines Lab,Meta AI,2025-10,2,co-founder,"https://techbuzz.ai/articles/thinking-machines-lab-loses-2-co-founders-to-openai-return",Thinking Machines Lab Loses 2 Co-Founders to OpenAI Return
  Tianfu Fu,OpenAI,xAI,2025-10,1,Researcher,"https://linkedin.com/in/tianfu-fu-6453ba193",null
  Andrew Tulloch,Thinking Machines Lab,Meta AI,2025-11,1,co-founder,"https://forbesca.com/two-thinking-machines-lab-cofounders-are-leaving-to-rejoin-openai",Two Thinking Machines Lab Cofounders Are Leaving to Rejoin OpenAI
  Andrea Vallone,OpenAI,Anthropic,2025-12,1,head of model-policy safety research,"https://businessinsider.com/openai-safety-alignment-leaders-who-have-left-johannes-heidecke-anthropic-2026-7",OpenAI keeps losing the people in charge of AI safety
  Feng Li,ByteDance Seed,Google DeepMind,2025-12,1,null,"https://coinlive.com/news/1-5-billion-can-t-retain-one-person-the-ai-talent-war",null
  Ross Nordeen,xAI,Anthropic,"2026",1,null,"https://readcompute.com/issue-2",null
  Barret Zoph,Thinking Machines Lab,OpenAI,2026-01,7,VP of Research (Post-Training),"https://thenextweb.com/news/meta-thinking-machines-lab-talent-raid",Meta has hired five founding members of Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab in a systematic talent raid
  Luke Metz,Thinking Machines Lab,OpenAI,2026-01,5,researcher,"https://thenextweb.com/news/meta-thinking-machines-lab-talent-raid",Meta has hired five founding members of Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab in a systematic talent raid
  Sam Schoenholz,Thinking Machines Lab,OpenAI,2026-01,3,staffer,"https://thenextweb.com/news/meta-thinking-machines-lab-talent-raid",Meta has hired five founding members of Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab in a systematic talent raid
  Barret Zoph,Thinking Machines Lab,OpenAI,2026-02,1,researcher,"https://magzter.com/stories/technology/Open-Source-For-You/TOP-RESEARCHERS-RETURN-TO-OPENAL",Top researchers return to OpenAl
  Luke Metz,Thinking Machines Lab,OpenAI,2026-02,1,researcher,"https://magzter.com/stories/technology/Open-Source-For-You/TOP-RESEARCHERS-RETURN-TO-OPENAL",Top researchers return to OpenAl
  Pengchuan Zhang,Meta AI,OpenAI,2026-02,2,researcher,"https://metix.ai/reports/zh/mapping/frontier-ai-labs-talent-2026",前沿 AI Lab 人才全景与流动图谱 | Metix AI
  Ruoming Pang,Meta AI,OpenAI,2026-02,3,researcher,"https://metix.ai/reports/zh/mapping/frontier-ai-labs-talent-2026",前沿 AI Lab 人才全景与流动图谱 | Metix AI
  Sam Schoenholz,Thinking Machines Lab,OpenAI,2026-02,1,researcher,"https://magzter.com/stories/technology/Open-Source-For-You/TOP-RESEARCHERS-RETURN-TO-OPENAL",Top researchers return to OpenAl
  Devendra Chaplot,Thinking Machines Lab,xAI,2026-03,1,co-founder,"https://thenextweb.com/news/meta-thinking-machines-lab-talent-raid",Meta has hired five founding members of Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab in a systematic talent raid
  Joshua Gross,Thinking Machines Lab,Meta AI,2026-03,1,founding engineer,"https://thenextweb.com/news/meta-thinking-machines-lab-talent-raid",null
  Ran Xin,ByteDance Seed,Google DeepMind,2026-03,1,principal researcher,"https://coinlive.com/news/1-5-billion-can-t-retain-one-person-the-ai-talent-war",null
  Andrej Karpathy,OpenAI,Anthropic,2026-05,1,pretraining team,"https://metix.ai/reports/zh/mapping/frontier-ai-labs-talent-2026",null
  Jonas Rothfuss,Google DeepMind,Microsoft AI,2026-05,1,technical staff member at Microsoft AI,"https://techrepublic.com/article/news-microsoft-poaches-deepmind-researchers",null
  Alexander Pritzel,Google DeepMind,Anthropic,2026-06,9,"Pretraining specialist, AlphaFold contributor","https://sdd.sh/2026/06/google-deepmind-talent-exodus-anthropic-gemini-delay",Four Google DeepMind Researchers Exit in Six Days — Three Go to Anthropic
  Arthur Conmy,Google DeepMind,Anthropic,2026-06,6,senior research engineer,"https://outlookbusiness.com/corporate/google-set-to-lose-two-more-researchers-to-anthropic-after-earlier-high-profile-exits",Google Set to Lose Two More Researchers to Anthropic After Earlier High-Profile Exits
  Barret Zoph,OpenAI,Google DeepMind,2026-06,2,VP of research,"https://bitcoinethereumnews.com/finance/barret-zoph-rejoins-google-deepmind-as-vp-of-research",Barret Zoph rejoins Google DeepMind as VP of research
  John Jumper,Google DeepMind,Anthropic,2026-06,16,AlphaFold researcher,"https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/google-deepmind-losing-grip-elite-070000462.html","Google DeepMind is losing its grip on elite AI talent, new data shows"
  Jonas Adler,Google DeepMind,Anthropic,2026-06,9,Google DeepMind’s AI coding lead,"https://sdd.sh/2026/06/google-deepmind-talent-exodus-anthropic-gemini-delay",Four Google DeepMind Researchers Exit in Six Days — Three Go to Anthropic
  Noam Shazeer,Google DeepMind,OpenAI,2026-06,13,Gemini co-lead,"https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/google-deepmind-losing-grip-elite-070000462.html","Google DeepMind is losing its grip on elite AI talent, new data shows"
  Lilian Weng,Thinking Machines Lab,OpenAI,2026-07,3,lead a team supporting cross-research work on recursive self-improvement,"https://aichatdaily.com/ai-business/lilian-weng-leaves-thinking-machines-citing-health-rejoins","Lilian Weng leaves Thinking Machines citing health, rejoins OpenAI days later"
  Luke Metz,OpenAI,Meta AI,2026-08,1,AI researcher,"https://wesearch.press/s/source-ai-researcher-luke-metz-who-returned-to-openai-from-t-2770266b?t=Source:%20AI%20researcher%20Luke%20Metz,%20who%20returned%20to%20OpenAI%20from%20TML%20earlier%20this%20year,%20joins%20Meta's%20Superintelligence%20Labs%20and%20will%20report%20to%20Alexandr%20Wang%20(Ina%20Fried/Axios)&u=https://www.techmeme.com/260824/p1%23a260824p1","Source: AI researcher Luke Metz, who returned to OpenAI from TML earlier this year, joins Meta's"
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researcherleft_labjoined_labmove_monthsource_mentionsrolesource_urlsource_title
Barret ZophThinking Machines LabOpenAI2025-012nullhttps://tradingview.com/news/DJN_DN20260826010333:0News by Dow Jones Newswires on TradingView, 2026-08-27
John SchulmanAnthropicThinking Machines Lab2025-011chief scientisthttps://readcompute.com/issue-2null
Luke MetzThinking Machines LabOpenAI2025-011nullhttps://tradingview.com/news/DJN_DN20260826010333:0News by Dow Jones Newswires on TradingView, 2026-08-27
Sam SchoenholzThinking Machines LabOpenAI2025-011nullhttps://tradingview.com/news/DJN_DN20260826010333:0News by Dow Jones Newswires on TradingView, 2026-08-27
Wu YonghuiGoogle DeepMindByteDance Seed2025-023Head of Seed Basic Researchhttps://labindex.ai/labs/bytedance-seedByteDance | Lab Index
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{"brief":"Question asked verbatim: “Which AI researchers moved between frontier labs since 2025? For each move list the researcher, the lab they left, where they went and the month.”\n\nBuild a beautiful, editorial-quality research ledger and talent-flow report. Lead with a bold month-by-month alluvial/Sankey-style flow from the lab left to the lab joined, with color by destination; follow with a chronological table listing every retained move. Define “frontier labs” for this report as technical organizations building general-purpose frontier foundation models: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Meta AI / Meta Superintelligence Labs, xAI, Microsoft AI, Thinking Machines Lab, Safe Superintelligence, ByteDance Seed, Mistral AI and Cohere. Months are the reported start month where available, otherwise the public-announcement month. Scope is 2025-01 through 2026-08-31. Explain that this is a public-reporting ledger rather than a census and that “researcher” includes hands-on research scientists, research engineers and technical research leaders, but excludes policy staff, investors and data-center managers.\n\nr32e3935ed65 is the candidate move ledger, one row per extracted person/lab-pair/month, with role, source count and a source URL. It contains about 50 defensible direct moves after correction, and it should drive both the flow visual and chronological table. Do not blindly print all 66 candidate rows: semantic extraction picked up several date collisions from retrospective articles. Apply these corrections before displaying or summarizing:\n- John Schulman, Anthropic → Thinking Machines Lab: use 2025-02, not 2025-01.\n- Barret Zoph, Luke Metz and Sam Schoenholz, Thinking Machines Lab → OpenAI: retain 2026-01 only; remove their erroneous 2025-01 and 2026-02 duplicates.\n- Alexander Pritzel, Arthur Conmy, John Jumper, Jonas Adler and Noam Shazeer: remove the erroneous 2025-06 copies and retain their 2026-06 moves.\n- Jonas Rothfuss, Google DeepMind → Microsoft AI: retain 2025-05 and remove 2026-05.\n- Andrew Tulloch, Thinking Machines Lab → Meta AI: retain 2025-10 and remove 2025-11.\n- Hongyu Ren and Shengjia Zhao, OpenAI → Meta AI: retain 2025-06 and remove their 2025-07 duplicates.\n- Remove Andrej Karpathy → Anthropic as unsupported, Wu Yonghui as outside the date window, Rohan Anil because the extracted direction is wrong, and Daniel Gross because the previous lab is incorrectly identified.\n- Ross Nordeen, xAI → Anthropic is a reported 2026 move but the month is unresolved; either put it in a clearly labeled “month not established” note or omit it from month-based counts—do not invent a month.\n\nEmphasize the dominant 2025 OpenAI → Meta hiring wave, the broader two-way circulation rather than a one-direction exodus, and repeat movers: Barret Zoph (Thinking Machines → OpenAI in 2026-01, then OpenAI → Google DeepMind in 2026-06) and Luke Metz (Thinking Machines → OpenAI in 2026-01, then OpenAI → Meta in 2026-08). Show annual totals and top lab-to-lab corridors only after the corrections above; calculate them from retained rows. Keep source links in the table. Include a concise methods/caveats box noting that months can reflect starts or announcements and some reports rely on LinkedIn or secondary coverage.","result_set_ids":["r32e3935ed65"],"title":"Frontier AI Researcher Moves Since 2025","prev_report_token":null}