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    "| Thinking Machines Lab (2024) | Mira Murati (former CTO, OpenAI); team includes dozens of ex-OpenAI researchers. Developing customizable, capable AI systems. | $2 B mega-seed (in progress, 2025) at ~$10 B valuation (pre-product stealth mode). |"
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    "| Thinking Machines Lab (2024) | Mira Murati (former CTO, OpenAI); team includes dozens of ex-OpenAI researchers. Developing customizable, capable AI systems. | $2 B mega-seed (in progress, 2025) at ~$10 B valuation (pre-product stealth mode). |"
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    "| Perplexity AI (2022) | Aravind Srinivas (former OpenAI research scientist) \u2013 co-founder/CEO of this AI answer engine. | Raised early funding from investors like Jeff Bezos and Nvidia; as of 2025, in talks to raise ~$1 B at a ~$18 B valuation. |"
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    "| Perplexity AI (2022) | Aravind Srinivas (former OpenAI research scientist) \u2013 co-founder/CEO of this AI answer engine. | Raised early funding from investors like Jeff Bezos and Nvidia; as of 2025, in talks to raise ~$1 B at a ~$18 B valuation. |"
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    "| Perplexity AI (2022) | Aravind Srinivas (former OpenAI research scientist) \u2013 co-founder/CEO of this AI answer engine. | Raised early funding from investors like Jeff Bezos and Nvidia; as of 2025, in talks to raise ~$1 B at a ~$18 B valuation. |"
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    "| Perplexity AI (2022) | Aravind Srinivas (former OpenAI research scientist) \u2013 co-founder/CEO of this AI answer engine. | Raised early funding from investors like Jeff Bezos and Nvidia; as of 2025, in talks to raise ~$1 B at a ~$18 B valuation. |"
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   "url": "https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kUC1LDJXLUDMuW3IuQ08764ao2pRuoRpuQvCBopwCw8/edit?usp=sharing",
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   "parent_lab_evidence": [
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    "| Stem AI (2024) | Emmett Shear (former interim CEO of OpenAI; ex-CEO of Twitch). Stealth-mode AI startup (\u201cStem AI\u201d). | Undisclosed (known to have raised funding from a16z in 2024). |"
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    "| Stem AI (2024) | Emmett Shear (former interim CEO of OpenAI; ex-CEO of Twitch). Stealth-mode AI startup (\u201cStem AI\u201d). | Undisclosed (known to have raised funding from a16z in 2024). |"
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    "| Stem AI (2024) | Emmett Shear (former interim CEO of OpenAI; ex-CEO of Twitch). Stealth-mode AI startup (\u201cStem AI\u201d). | Undisclosed (known to have raised funding from a16z in 2024). |"
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    "| Stem AI (2024) | Emmett Shear (former interim CEO of OpenAI; ex-CEO of Twitch). Stealth-mode AI startup (\u201cStem AI\u201d). | Undisclosed (known to have raised funding from a16z in 2024). |"
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   "parent_lab": "OpenAI",
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   "child_lab_evidence": [
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    "| Eureka Labs (2024) | Andrej Karpathy (founding member & former Research Scientist, OpenAI; later Tesla AI Director). Building AI-powered education tools (\u201cAI teacher\u2019s assistant\u201d). | Not disclosed (early-stage startup; Karpathy announced its founding in 2024). |"
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    "| Eureka Labs (2024) | Andrej Karpathy (founding member & former Research Scientist, OpenAI; later Tesla AI Director). Building AI-powered education tools (\u201cAI teacher\u2019s assistant\u201d). | Not disclosed (early-stage startup; Karpathy announced its founding in 2024). |"
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   "founders_evidence": null,
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   "title": "Ai startups, founders and funding - ex OpenAi, DeepMind, Meta",
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   "parent_lab_evidence": [
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    "| Pilot (2017) | Jeff Arnold (former Head of Operations, OpenAI in 2016) \u2013 co-founder of Pilot (AI-powered accounting). | $100 M Series C in 2021 (at $1.2 B valuation). Now a unicorn offering bookkeeping services. |"
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   "title": "Ai startups, founders and funding - ex OpenAi, DeepMind, Meta",
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    "| Cresta (2017) | Tim Shi (former OpenAI research engineer in 2017) \u2013 co-founder of Cresta (AI for contact centers). | $270 M+ total funding raised (Sequoia, a16z, etc.); last known valuation ~$1.6 B (2022). |"
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    "| Glyphic AI (2022) | Devang Agrawal & Adam Liska (ex-DeepMind research engineers). Building an AI copilot for B2B sales (analyzing sales calls and advising teams). | $5.5 M pre-seed in 2023 (London-based). Developing chatbot assistants for enterprise sales. |"
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    "| Nabla (2018) | Alexandre LeBrun (former engineering lead at FAIR; previously founder of Wit.ai) and Martin Raison (ex-FAIR engineer). Paris-based; builds an AI \u201ccopilot\u201d for doctors to automate clinical notes and admin tasks. | $70 M Series C in 2025 (HV Capital led). Earlier raises include $17 M Series A (2019) and $27 M B (2021). Nabla\u2019s ambient medical scribe is deployed in hospitals. |"
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   "url": "https://nextomoro.com/frontier-lab-exodus",
   "title": "The Frontier Lab Exodus",
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    "SSI, co-founded with [Daniel Gross](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Gross_%28entrepreneur%29?ref=nextomoro.com) and [Daniel Levy](https://nextomoro.com/daniel-levy/) in June 2024, exists because the founders concluded that no commercial lab could do responsible work toward superintelligence."
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    "The Frontier Lab Exodus",
    "## Sutskever"
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    "The Frontier Lab Exodus",
    "## Sutskever",
    "SSI, co-founded with [Daniel Gross](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Gross_%28entrepreneur%29?ref=nextomoro.com) and [Daniel Levy](https://nextomoro.com/daniel-levy/) in June 2024, exists because the founders concluded that no commercial lab could do responsible work toward superintelligence."
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   "url": "https://nextomoro.com/frontier-lab-exodus",
   "title": "The Frontier Lab Exodus",
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    "The Frontier Lab Exodus",
    "## The product companies",
    "[Thinking Machines Lab](https://nextomoro.com/thinking-machines-lab/) is the opposite of SSI."
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   "founding_year_evidence": [
    "The Frontier Lab Exodus",
    "## The product companies",
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   "parent_lab_evidence": [
    "The Frontier Lab Exodus",
    "## The product companies",
    "Her team is the largest cluster of OpenAI alumni anywhere outside OpenAI: [Barret Zoph](https://nextomoro.com/barret-zoph/), [John Schulman](https://nextomoro.com/john-schulman/), [Lilian Weng](https://nextomoro.com/lilian-weng/), Jonathan Lachman, and a long list of senior researchers from the company."
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   "founders_evidence": null,
   "relationship_evidence": [
    "The Frontier Lab Exodus",
    "## The product companies",
    "[Mira Murati](https://nextomoro.com/mira-murati/) raised her $2 billion seed in mid-2025 to build a product company at frontier scale, with no pretense of stealth."
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   "url": "https://nextomoro.com/frontier-lab-exodus",
   "title": "The Frontier Lab Exodus",
   "child_lab": "AMI",
   "founding_year": "2025",
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   "child_lab_evidence": [
    "The Frontier Lab Exodus",
    "## Against the consensus",
    "[AMI](https://nextomoro.com/ami/) is the most public entrant: [Yann LeCun](https://nextomoro.com/yann-lecun/) has spent a decade arguing that autoregressive next-token prediction leads nowhere, and that JEPA-style world models are the path forward."
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   "founding_year_evidence": [
    "The Frontier Lab Exodus",
    "## Against the consensus",
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   "parent_lab_evidence": [
    "The Frontier Lab Exodus",
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   "founders_evidence": null,
   "relationship_evidence": [
    "The Frontier Lab Exodus",
    "## Against the consensus",
    "AMI raised $1 billion at $3.5 billion pre-money inside four months of LeCun's late-2025 departure from Meta."
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   "url": "https://nextomoro.com/frontier-lab-exodus",
   "title": "The Frontier Lab Exodus",
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   "founding_year": null,
   "parent_lab": "DeepMind",
   "founders": null,
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    "## Against the consensus"
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    "The Frontier Lab Exodus",
    "## Against the consensus"
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   "url": "https://nextomoro.com/frontier-lab-exodus",
   "title": "The Frontier Lab Exodus",
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   "founding_year": "2024",
   "parent_lab": "DeepMind",
   "founders": null,
   "relationship": "founded by ex-DeepMind and Meta researchers in 2024",
   "child_lab_evidence": [
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   "founding_year_evidence": [
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    "## Autonomous science"
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   "parent_lab_evidence": [
    "The Frontier Lab Exodus",
    "## Autonomous science"
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    "The Frontier Lab Exodus",
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   "url": "https://nextomoro.com/frontier-lab-exodus",
   "title": "The Frontier Lab Exodus",
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   "founding_year": null,
   "parent_lab": "Anthropic",
   "founders": null,
   "relationship": "founded by ex-Anthropic interpretability researchers",
   "child_lab_evidence": [
    "The Frontier Lab Exodus",
    "## Autonomous science",
    "[Goodfire](https://nextomoro.com/goodfire/), founded by ex-Anthropic interpretability researchers, sits near this group."
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   "founding_year_evidence": null,
   "parent_lab_evidence": [
    "The Frontier Lab Exodus",
    "## Autonomous science",
    "[Goodfire](https://nextomoro.com/goodfire/), founded by ex-Anthropic interpretability researchers, sits near this group."
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   "founders_evidence": null,
   "relationship_evidence": [
    "The Frontier Lab Exodus",
    "## Autonomous science",
    "[Goodfire](https://nextomoro.com/goodfire/), founded by ex-Anthropic interpretability researchers, sits near this group."
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   "url": "https://dailyaibite.com/18-billion-ai-brain-drain-researchers-leaving-big-tech",
   "title": "The $18.8 Billion AI Brain Drain: Why Top Researchers Are Leaving Big Tech to Build the Next Generation of AI",
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   "parent_lab": "DeepMind",
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   "relationship": "David Silver left DeepMind to found Ineffable Intelligence.",
   "child_lab_evidence": [
    "# The $18.8 Billion AI Brain Drain: Why Top Researchers Are Leaving Big Tech to Build the Next Generation of AI",
    "## The Numbers Behind the Exodus",
    "**Ineffable Intelligence**: David Silver's months-old startup raised $1.1 billion at a $5.1 billion valuation \u2014 a record seed round led by Sequoia Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from Index Ventures, Google, Nvidia, and the UK's Sovereign AI fund."
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   "founding_year_evidence": null,
   "parent_lab_evidence": [
    "# The $18.8 Billion AI Brain Drain: Why Top Researchers Are Leaving Big Tech to Build the Next Generation of AI",
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    "David Silver, who led AlphaZero at DeepMind."
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   "founders_evidence": [
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    "## The Numbers Behind the Exodus",
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   "relationship_evidence": [
    "# The $18.8 Billion AI Brain Drain: Why Top Researchers Are Leaving Big Tech to Build the Next Generation of AI",
    "The recipients are the architects of modern AI, the researchers who built the systems now powering billions of user interactions.",
    "David Silver, who led AlphaZero at DeepMind.",
    "## The Numbers Behind the Exodus",
    "**Ineffable Intelligence**: David Silver's months-old startup raised $1.1 billion at a $5.1 billion valuation \u2014 a record seed round led by Sequoia Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from Index Ventures, Google, Nvidia, and the UK's Sovereign AI fund."
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   "title": "The $18.8 Billion AI Brain Drain: Why Top Researchers Are Leaving Big Tech to Build the Next Generation of AI",
   "child_lab": "AMI Labs",
   "founding_year": null,
   "parent_lab": "Meta",
   "founders": "Yann LeCun",
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   "child_lab_evidence": [
    "# The $18.8 Billion AI Brain Drain: Why Top Researchers Are Leaving Big Tech to Build the Next Generation of AI",
    "## The Numbers Behind the Exodus",
    "**AMI Labs**: Co-founded by Yann LeCun after his departure from Meta, raised $1.03 billion at a $3.5 billion pre-money valuation to build \"world models\" \u2014 AI systems that can learn from continuous real-world data."
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   "founding_year_evidence": null,
   "parent_lab_evidence": [
    "# The $18.8 Billion AI Brain Drain: Why Top Researchers Are Leaving Big Tech to Build the Next Generation of AI",
    "The recipients are the architects of modern AI, the researchers who built the systems now powering billions of user interactions.",
    "Yann LeCun, Meta's former chief AI scientist and Turing Award winner."
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   "founders_evidence": [
    "# The $18.8 Billion AI Brain Drain: Why Top Researchers Are Leaving Big Tech to Build the Next Generation of AI",
    "## The Numbers Behind the Exodus",
    "**AMI Labs**: Co-founded by Yann LeCun after his departure from Meta, raised $1.03 billion at a $3.5 billion pre-money valuation to build \"world models\" \u2014 AI systems that can learn from continuous real-world data."
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   "relationship_evidence": [
    "# The $18.8 Billion AI Brain Drain: Why Top Researchers Are Leaving Big Tech to Build the Next Generation of AI",
    "The recipients are the architects of modern AI, the researchers who built the systems now powering billions of user interactions.",
    "Yann LeCun, Meta's former chief AI scientist and Turing Award winner.",
    "## The Numbers Behind the Exodus",
    "**AMI Labs**: Co-founded by Yann LeCun after his departure from Meta, raised $1.03 billion at a $3.5 billion pre-money valuation to build \"world models\" \u2014 AI systems that can learn from continuous real-world data."
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   "url": "https://dailyaibite.com/18-billion-ai-brain-drain-researchers-leaving-big-tech",
   "title": "The $18.8 Billion AI Brain Drain: Why Top Researchers Are Leaving Big Tech to Build the Next Generation of AI",
   "child_lab": "Recursive Superintelligence",
   "founding_year": null,
   "parent_lab": "DeepMind",
   "founders": "Tim Rockt\u00e4schel",
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   "child_lab_evidence": [
    "# The $18.8 Billion AI Brain Drain: Why Top Researchers Are Leaving Big Tech to Build the Next Generation of AI",
    "## The Numbers Behind the Exodus",
    "**Recursive Superintelligence**: Co-founded by DeepMind's former principal scientist Tim Rockt\u00e4schel, reportedly raised $500 million with enough demand to stretch to $1 billion."
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   "founding_year_evidence": null,
   "parent_lab_evidence": [
    "# The $18.8 Billion AI Brain Drain: Why Top Researchers Are Leaving Big Tech to Build the Next Generation of AI",
    "The recipients are the architects of modern AI, the researchers who built the systems now powering billions of user interactions.",
    "Tim Rockt\u00e4schel, DeepMind's former principal scientist."
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   "founders_evidence": [
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    "## The Numbers Behind the Exodus",
    "**Recursive Superintelligence**: Co-founded by DeepMind's former principal scientist Tim Rockt\u00e4schel, reportedly raised $500 million with enough demand to stretch to $1 billion."
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   "relationship_evidence": [
    "# The $18.8 Billion AI Brain Drain: Why Top Researchers Are Leaving Big Tech to Build the Next Generation of AI",
    "The recipients are the architects of modern AI, the researchers who built the systems now powering billions of user interactions.",
    "Tim Rockt\u00e4schel, DeepMind's former principal scientist.",
    "## The Numbers Behind the Exodus",
    "**Recursive Superintelligence**: Co-founded by DeepMind's former principal scientist Tim Rockt\u00e4schel, reportedly raised $500 million with enough demand to stretch to $1 billion."
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   "url": "https://dailyaibite.com/18-billion-ai-brain-drain-researchers-leaving-big-tech",
   "title": "The $18.8 Billion AI Brain Drain: Why Top Researchers Are Leaving Big Tech to Build the Next Generation of AI",
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   "child_lab_evidence": [
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    "## The Numbers Behind the Exodus",
    "**Ricursive Intelligence**: Founded by former Anthropic and DeepMind researchers Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini, raised $335 million across two rounds in December and January to build AI tools for semiconductor design."
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   "founding_year_evidence": null,
   "parent_lab_evidence": [
    "# The $18.8 Billion AI Brain Drain: Why Top Researchers Are Leaving Big Tech to Build the Next Generation of AI",
    "The recipients are the architects of modern AI, the researchers who built the systems now powering billions of user interactions.",
    "Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini, who contributed to Anthropic's most advanced work."
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   "founders_evidence": [
    "# The $18.8 Billion AI Brain Drain: Why Top Researchers Are Leaving Big Tech to Build the Next Generation of AI",
    "## The Numbers Behind the Exodus",
    "**Ricursive Intelligence**: Founded by former Anthropic and DeepMind researchers Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini, raised $335 million across two rounds in December and January to build AI tools for semiconductor design."
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   "relationship_evidence": [
    "# The $18.8 Billion AI Brain Drain: Why Top Researchers Are Leaving Big Tech to Build the Next Generation of AI",
    "The recipients are the architects of modern AI, the researchers who built the systems now powering billions of user interactions.",
    "Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini, who contributed to Anthropic's most advanced work.",
    "## The Numbers Behind the Exodus",
    "**Ricursive Intelligence**: Founded by former Anthropic and DeepMind researchers Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini, raised $335 million across two rounds in December and January to build AI tools for semiconductor design."
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   "url": "https://dailyaibite.com/18-billion-ai-brain-drain-researchers-leaving-big-tech",
   "title": "The $18.8 Billion AI Brain Drain: Why Top Researchers Are Leaving Big Tech to Build the Next Generation of AI",
   "child_lab": "Periodic Labs",
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   "relationship": "Former OpenAI and DeepMind staff founded Periodic Labs.",
   "child_lab_evidence": [
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    "## The Numbers Behind the Exodus",
    "**Periodic Labs**: Founded by former OpenAI and DeepMind staff, raised $300 million in September to develop autonomous research laboratories."
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   "founding_year_evidence": null,
   "parent_lab_evidence": [
    "# The $18.8 Billion AI Brain Drain: Why Top Researchers Are Leaving Big Tech to Build the Next Generation of AI",
    "Top AI researchers from DeepMind, Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic are leaving Big Tech to launch startups that have already raised $18.8 billion in 2026.",
    "## The Numbers Behind the Exodus",
    "**Periodic Labs**: Founded by former OpenAI and DeepMind staff, raised $300 million in September to develop autonomous research laboratories."
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   "founders_evidence": [
    "# The $18.8 Billion AI Brain Drain: Why Top Researchers Are Leaving Big Tech to Build the Next Generation of AI",
    "## The Numbers Behind the Exodus",
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    "# The $18.8 Billion AI Brain Drain: Why Top Researchers Are Leaving Big Tech to Build the Next Generation of AI",
    "## The Numbers Behind the Exodus",
    "**Periodic Labs**: Founded by former OpenAI and DeepMind staff, raised $300 million in September to develop autonomous research laboratories."
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   "url": "https://dailyaibite.com/18-billion-ai-brain-drain-researchers-leaving-big-tech",
   "title": "The $18.8 Billion AI Brain Drain: Why Top Researchers Are Leaving Big Tech to Build the Next Generation of AI",
   "child_lab": "Humans&",
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   "relationship": "Former Anthropic and xAI employees launched Humans&.",
   "child_lab_evidence": [
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    "## The Numbers Behind the Exodus",
    "**Humans&**: Launched by former Anthropic and xAI employees, raised $480 million in January for reinforcement learning-based AI systems."
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   "parent_lab_evidence": [
    "# The $18.8 Billion AI Brain Drain: Why Top Researchers Are Leaving Big Tech to Build the Next Generation of AI",
    "Top AI researchers from DeepMind, Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic are leaving Big Tech to launch startups that have already raised $18.8 billion in 2026.",
    "## The Numbers Behind the Exodus",
    "**Humans&**: Launched by former Anthropic and xAI employees, raised $480 million in January for reinforcement learning-based AI systems."
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    "## The Numbers Behind the Exodus",
    "**Humans&**: Launched by former Anthropic and xAI employees, raised $480 million in January for reinforcement learning-based AI systems."
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    "# The $18.8 Billion AI Brain Drain: Why Top Researchers Are Leaving Big Tech to Build the Next Generation of AI",
    "## The Numbers Behind the Exodus",
    "**Humans&**: Launched by former Anthropic and xAI employees, raised $480 million in January for reinforcement learning-based AI systems."
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   "url": "https://capitalandcompute.net/blog/ex-openai-anthropic-startups-funding",
   "title": "Ex-OpenAI and Ex-Anthropic Startups: The Money",
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   "founding_year": "2024",
   "parent_lab": "OpenAI",
   "founders": "Ilya Sutskever, Daniel Gross, Daniel Levy",
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    "# Ex-OpenAI and Ex-Anthropic Startups: The Money",
    "Here is the 2026 cohort, meaning companies founded by OpenAI or Anthropic alumni whose rounds were reported from late 2024 onward.",
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    "| Safe Superintelligence | OpenAI | Ilya Sutskever, Daniel Gross, Daniel Levy | ~$6B (contested) | $32B | No |"
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   "parent_lab_evidence": [
    "# Ex-OpenAI and Ex-Anthropic Startups: The Money",
    "Here is the 2026 cohort, meaning companies founded by OpenAI or Anthropic alumni whose rounds were reported from late 2024 onward.",
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    "| Safe Superintelligence | OpenAI | Ilya Sutskever, Daniel Gross, Daniel Levy | ~$6B (contested) | $32B | No |"
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    "# Ex-OpenAI and Ex-Anthropic Startups: The Money",
    "Here is the 2026 cohort, meaning companies founded by OpenAI or Anthropic alumni whose rounds were reported from late 2024 onward.",
    "| Company | Came from | Founders named in coverage | Disclosed raise | Valuation | Product in market |",
    "| Safe Superintelligence | OpenAI | Ilya Sutskever, Daniel Gross, Daniel Levy | ~$6B (contested) | $32B | No |"
   ],
   "relationship_evidence": [
    "Safe Superintelligence shows the same ceiling from the other direction.",
    "Ilya Sutskever left OpenAI in May 2024 and founded SSI a month later."
   ]
  },
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   "url": "https://capitalandcompute.net/blog/ex-openai-anthropic-startups-funding",
   "title": "Ex-OpenAI and Ex-Anthropic Startups: The Money",
   "child_lab": "Thinking Machines Lab",
   "founding_year": "2025",
   "parent_lab": "OpenAI",
   "founders": "Mira Murati",
   "relationship": "In July 2025, Mira Murati raised $2 billion at a $12 billion valuation for Thinking Machines Lab on the strength of having been OpenAI\u2019s chief technology officer.",
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    "# Ex-OpenAI and Ex-Anthropic Startups: The Money",
    "Here is the 2026 cohort, meaning companies founded by OpenAI or Anthropic alumni whose rounds were reported from late 2024 onward.",
    "| Company | Came from | Founders named in coverage | Disclosed raise | Valuation | Product in market |",
    "| Thinking Machines Lab | OpenAI | Mira Murati | $2B | $12B | Yes |"
   ],
   "founding_year_evidence": [
    "Now the other half of the trade.",
    "In July 2025, Mira Murati raised $2 billion at a $12 billion valuation for Thinking Machines Lab on the strength of having been OpenAI\u2019s chief technology officer."
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   "parent_lab_evidence": [
    "# Ex-OpenAI and Ex-Anthropic Startups: The Money",
    "Here is the 2026 cohort, meaning companies founded by OpenAI or Anthropic alumni whose rounds were reported from late 2024 onward.",
    "| Company | Came from | Founders named in coverage | Disclosed raise | Valuation | Product in market |",
    "| Thinking Machines Lab | OpenAI | Mira Murati | $2B | $12B | Yes |"
   ],
   "founders_evidence": [
    "# Ex-OpenAI and Ex-Anthropic Startups: The Money",
    "Here is the 2026 cohort, meaning companies founded by OpenAI or Anthropic alumni whose rounds were reported from late 2024 onward.",
    "| Company | Came from | Founders named in coverage | Disclosed raise | Valuation | Product in market |",
    "| Thinking Machines Lab | OpenAI | Mira Murati | $2B | $12B | Yes |"
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   "relationship_evidence": [
    "Now the other half of the trade.",
    "In July 2025, Mira Murati raised $2 billion at a $12 billion valuation for Thinking Machines Lab on the strength of having been OpenAI\u2019s chief technology officer."
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  {
   "url": "https://capitalandcompute.net/blog/ex-openai-anthropic-startups-funding",
   "title": "Ex-OpenAI and Ex-Anthropic Startups: The Money",
   "child_lab": "Humans&",
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   "parent_lab": "Anthropic, xAI, Google",
   "founders": "Andi Peng, Georges Harik, Eric Zelikman, Yuchen He, Noah Goodman",
   "relationship": "Humans& is the sharper case.",
   "child_lab_evidence": [
    "# Ex-OpenAI and Ex-Anthropic Startups: The Money",
    "Here is the 2026 cohort, meaning companies founded by OpenAI or Anthropic alumni whose rounds were reported from late 2024 onward.",
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    "| Humans& | Anthropic, xAI, Google | Andi Peng, Georges Harik, Eric Zelikman, Yuchen He, Noah Goodman | $480M | $4.48B | No |"
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   "parent_lab_evidence": [
    "# Ex-OpenAI and Ex-Anthropic Startups: The Money",
    "Here is the 2026 cohort, meaning companies founded by OpenAI or Anthropic alumni whose rounds were reported from late 2024 onward.",
    "| Company | Came from | Founders named in coverage | Disclosed raise | Valuation | Product in market |",
    "| Humans& | Anthropic, xAI, Google | Andi Peng, Georges Harik, Eric Zelikman, Yuchen He, Noah Goodman | $480M | $4.48B | No |"
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   "founders_evidence": [
    "# Ex-OpenAI and Ex-Anthropic Startups: The Money",
    "Here is the 2026 cohort, meaning companies founded by OpenAI or Anthropic alumni whose rounds were reported from late 2024 onward.",
    "| Company | Came from | Founders named in coverage | Disclosed raise | Valuation | Product in market |",
    "| Humans& | Anthropic, xAI, Google | Andi Peng, Georges Harik, Eric Zelikman, Yuchen He, Noah Goodman | $480M | $4.48B | No |"
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   "relationship_evidence": [
    "The conventional read on these rounds is that investors are buying famous people.",
    "Humans& is the sharper case."
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   "url": "https://capitalandcompute.net/blog/ex-openai-anthropic-startups-funding",
   "title": "Ex-OpenAI and Ex-Anthropic Startups: The Money",
   "child_lab": "Periodic Labs",
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   "parent_lab": "OpenAI, DeepMind",
   "founders": "Liam Fedus, Ekin Dogus Cubuk",
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    "# Ex-OpenAI and Ex-Anthropic Startups: The Money",
    "Here is the 2026 cohort, meaning companies founded by OpenAI or Anthropic alumni whose rounds were reported from late 2024 onward.",
    "| Company | Came from | Founders named in coverage | Disclosed raise | Valuation | Product in market |",
    "| Periodic Labs | OpenAI, DeepMind | Liam Fedus, Ekin Dogus Cubuk | $300M | ~$1B | No |"
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    "# Ex-OpenAI and Ex-Anthropic Startups: The Money",
    "Here is the 2026 cohort, meaning companies founded by OpenAI or Anthropic alumni whose rounds were reported from late 2024 onward.",
    "| Company | Came from | Founders named in coverage | Disclosed raise | Valuation | Product in market |",
    "| Periodic Labs | OpenAI, DeepMind | Liam Fedus, Ekin Dogus Cubuk | $300M | ~$1B | No |"
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   "founders_evidence": [
    "# Ex-OpenAI and Ex-Anthropic Startups: The Money",
    "Here is the 2026 cohort, meaning companies founded by OpenAI or Anthropic alumni whose rounds were reported from late 2024 onward.",
    "| Company | Came from | Founders named in coverage | Disclosed raise | Valuation | Product in market |",
    "| Periodic Labs | OpenAI, DeepMind | Liam Fedus, Ekin Dogus Cubuk | $300M | ~$1B | No |"
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    "Mirendil\u2019s stated aim is systems that automate AI research itself, positioned as \u201cAI for AI for Science,\u201d with the goal of putting frontier research within reach of universities rather than only the largest labs.",
    "Periodic Labs, founded by [Liam Fedus, OpenAI\u2019s former VP of post-training research, and Ekin Dogus Cubuk, who led materials and chemistry work at Google Brain and DeepMind](https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/20/top-openai-google-brain-researchers-set-off-a-300m-vc-frenzy-for-their-startup-periodic-labs), raised a $300 million seed to build AI scientists and the automated laboratories to run their experiments, starting with superconductors and semiconductor materials."
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   "url": "https://capitalandcompute.net/blog/ex-openai-anthropic-startups-funding",
   "title": "Ex-OpenAI and Ex-Anthropic Startups: The Money",
   "child_lab": "Mirendil",
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   "parent_lab": "Anthropic",
   "founders": "Behnam Neyshabur, Harsh Mehta",
   "relationship": "They left in December 2025, and within weeks they had raised $200 million at a $1 billion valuation, led by Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins with NVIDIA participating, for a company with no product.",
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    "# Ex-OpenAI and Ex-Anthropic Startups: The Money",
    "Here is the 2026 cohort, meaning companies founded by OpenAI or Anthropic alumni whose rounds were reported from late 2024 onward.",
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    "| Mirendil | Anthropic | Behnam Neyshabur, Harsh Mehta | $200M | $1B | No |"
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   "founding_year_evidence": [
    "Two researchers spent about a year inside Anthropic.",
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   "parent_lab_evidence": [
    "# Ex-OpenAI and Ex-Anthropic Startups: The Money",
    "Here is the 2026 cohort, meaning companies founded by OpenAI or Anthropic alumni whose rounds were reported from late 2024 onward.",
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    "| Mirendil | Anthropic | Behnam Neyshabur, Harsh Mehta | $200M | $1B | No |"
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    "# Ex-OpenAI and Ex-Anthropic Startups: The Money",
    "Here is the 2026 cohort, meaning companies founded by OpenAI or Anthropic alumni whose rounds were reported from late 2024 onward.",
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    "| Mirendil | Anthropic | Behnam Neyshabur, Harsh Mehta | $200M | $1B | No |"
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   "relationship_evidence": [
    "Two researchers spent about a year inside Anthropic.",
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   "url": "https://capitalandcompute.net/blog/ex-openai-anthropic-startups-funding",
   "title": "Ex-OpenAI and Ex-Anthropic Startups: The Money",
   "child_lab": "Applied Compute",
   "founding_year": null,
   "parent_lab": "OpenAI",
   "founders": "Rhythm Garg, Linden Li, Yash Patil",
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   "child_lab_evidence": [
    "# Ex-OpenAI and Ex-Anthropic Startups: The Money",
    "Here is the 2026 cohort, meaning companies founded by OpenAI or Anthropic alumni whose rounds were reported from late 2024 onward.",
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    "| Applied Compute | OpenAI | Rhythm Garg, Linden Li, Yash Patil | $20M | $100M | Yes |"
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   "founding_year_evidence": null,
   "parent_lab_evidence": [
    "# Ex-OpenAI and Ex-Anthropic Startups: The Money",
    "Here is the 2026 cohort, meaning companies founded by OpenAI or Anthropic alumni whose rounds were reported from late 2024 onward.",
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    "| Applied Compute | OpenAI | Rhythm Garg, Linden Li, Yash Patil | $20M | $100M | Yes |"
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    "# Ex-OpenAI and Ex-Anthropic Startups: The Money",
    "Here is the 2026 cohort, meaning companies founded by OpenAI or Anthropic alumni whose rounds were reported from late 2024 onward.",
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    "| Applied Compute | OpenAI | Rhythm Garg, Linden Li, Yash Patil | $20M | $100M | Yes |"
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   "relationship_evidence": [
    "Do any of these companies have products?",
    "Applied Compute sells custom AI agents to enterprises."
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  {
   "url": "https://capitalandcompute.net/blog/ex-openai-anthropic-startups-funding",
   "title": "Ex-OpenAI and Ex-Anthropic Startups: The Money",
   "child_lab": "Eureka Labs",
   "founding_year": null,
   "parent_lab": "OpenAI",
   "founders": "Andrej Karpathy",
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   "child_lab_evidence": [
    "# Ex-OpenAI and Ex-Anthropic Startups: The Money",
    "Here is the 2026 cohort, meaning companies founded by OpenAI or Anthropic alumni whose rounds were reported from late 2024 onward.",
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    "| Eureka Labs | OpenAI | Andrej Karpathy | Undisclosed | Undisclosed | Not stated |"
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    "# Ex-OpenAI and Ex-Anthropic Startups: The Money",
    "Here is the 2026 cohort, meaning companies founded by OpenAI or Anthropic alumni whose rounds were reported from late 2024 onward.",
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    "| Eureka Labs | OpenAI | Andrej Karpathy | Undisclosed | Undisclosed | Not stated |"
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    "# Ex-OpenAI and Ex-Anthropic Startups: The Money",
    "Here is the 2026 cohort, meaning companies founded by OpenAI or Anthropic alumni whose rounds were reported from late 2024 onward.",
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    "| Eureka Labs | OpenAI | Andrej Karpathy | Undisclosed | Undisclosed | Not stated |"
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   "relationship_evidence": [
    "# Ex-OpenAI and Ex-Anthropic Startups: The Money",
    "Here is the 2026 cohort, meaning companies founded by OpenAI or Anthropic alumni whose rounds were reported from late 2024 onward.",
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    "| Eureka Labs | OpenAI | Andrej Karpathy | Undisclosed | Undisclosed | Not stated |"
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  {
   "url": "https://capitalandcompute.net/blog/ex-openai-anthropic-startups-funding",
   "title": "Ex-OpenAI and Ex-Anthropic Startups: The Money",
   "child_lab": "Worktrace",
   "founding_year": null,
   "parent_lab": "OpenAI",
   "founders": "Angela Jiang",
   "relationship": "Worktrace",
   "child_lab_evidence": [
    "# Ex-OpenAI and Ex-Anthropic Startups: The Money",
    "Here is the 2026 cohort, meaning companies founded by OpenAI or Anthropic alumni whose rounds were reported from late 2024 onward.",
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    "| Worktrace | OpenAI | Angela Jiang | Undisclosed | Undisclosed | Not stated |"
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   "founding_year_evidence": null,
   "parent_lab_evidence": [
    "# Ex-OpenAI and Ex-Anthropic Startups: The Money",
    "Here is the 2026 cohort, meaning companies founded by OpenAI or Anthropic alumni whose rounds were reported from late 2024 onward.",
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    "| Worktrace | OpenAI | Angela Jiang | Undisclosed | Undisclosed | Not stated |"
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   "founders_evidence": [
    "# Ex-OpenAI and Ex-Anthropic Startups: The Money",
    "Here is the 2026 cohort, meaning companies founded by OpenAI or Anthropic alumni whose rounds were reported from late 2024 onward.",
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    "| Worktrace | OpenAI | Angela Jiang | Undisclosed | Undisclosed | Not stated |"
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   "relationship_evidence": [
    "# Ex-OpenAI and Ex-Anthropic Startups: The Money",
    "Here is the 2026 cohort, meaning companies founded by OpenAI or Anthropic alumni whose rounds were reported from late 2024 onward.",
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    "| Worktrace | OpenAI | Angela Jiang | Undisclosed | Undisclosed | Not stated |"
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   "url": "https://capitalandcompute.net/blog/ex-openai-anthropic-startups-funding",
   "title": "Ex-OpenAI and Ex-Anthropic Startups: The Money",
   "child_lab": "Softmax",
   "founding_year": null,
   "parent_lab": "OpenAI",
   "founders": "Emmett Shear",
   "relationship": "Softmax",
   "child_lab_evidence": [
    "# Ex-OpenAI and Ex-Anthropic Startups: The Money",
    "Here is the 2026 cohort, meaning companies founded by OpenAI or Anthropic alumni whose rounds were reported from late 2024 onward.",
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    "| Softmax | OpenAI | Emmett Shear | Undisclosed | Undisclosed | Not stated |"
   ],
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   "parent_lab_evidence": [
    "# Ex-OpenAI and Ex-Anthropic Startups: The Money",
    "Here is the 2026 cohort, meaning companies founded by OpenAI or Anthropic alumni whose rounds were reported from late 2024 onward.",
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    "| Softmax | OpenAI | Emmett Shear | Undisclosed | Undisclosed | Not stated |"
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    "# Ex-OpenAI and Ex-Anthropic Startups: The Money",
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    "| Softmax | OpenAI | Emmett Shear | Undisclosed | Undisclosed | Not stated |"
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    "# Ex-OpenAI and Ex-Anthropic Startups: The Money",
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    "| Softmax | OpenAI | Emmett Shear | Undisclosed | Undisclosed | Not stated |"
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   "url": "https://frontierbeat.com/2026/04/29/big-tech-ai-researchers-leaving-billions-startups-2026?amp=1",
   "title": "Big Tech AI Researchers Are Leaving in Droves\u2014And Taking Billions With Them",
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   "founding_year": null,
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    "David Silver, the former DeepMind researcher behind AlphaGo and AlphaZero, [announced](https://frontierbeat.com/2026/04/28/david-silver-ineffable-intelligence-1-1-billion-seed-superlearner/?amp=1) a $1.1 billion seed round for Ineffable Intelligence on Monday\u2014the largest AI seed deal in European history."
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   "founding_year_evidence": null,
   "parent_lab_evidence": [
    "David Silver, the former DeepMind researcher behind AlphaGo and AlphaZero, [announced](https://frontierbeat.com/2026/04/28/david-silver-ineffable-intelligence-1-1-billion-seed-superlearner/?amp=1) a $1.1 billion seed round for Ineffable Intelligence on Monday\u2014the largest AI seed deal in European history."
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   "relationship_evidence": [
    "David Silver, the former DeepMind researcher behind AlphaGo and AlphaZero, [announced](https://frontierbeat.com/2026/04/28/david-silver-ineffable-intelligence-1-1-billion-seed-superlearner/?amp=1) a $1.1 billion seed round for Ineffable Intelligence on Monday\u2014the largest AI seed deal in European history."
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   "url": "https://frontierbeat.com/2026/04/29/big-tech-ai-researchers-leaving-billions-startups-2026?amp=1",
   "title": "Big Tech AI Researchers Are Leaving in Droves\u2014And Taking Billions With Them",
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    "Tim Rockt\u00e4schel, another DeepMind alumnus, is reportedly raising up to $1 billion for Recursive Superintelligence."
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    "Tim Rockt\u00e4schel, another DeepMind alumnus, is reportedly raising up to $1 billion for Recursive Superintelligence."
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   "relationship_evidence": [
    "Tim Rockt\u00e4schel, another DeepMind alumnus, is reportedly raising up to $1 billion for Recursive Superintelligence."
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  {
   "url": "https://frontierbeat.com/2026/04/29/big-tech-ai-researchers-leaving-billions-startups-2026?amp=1",
   "title": "Big Tech AI Researchers Are Leaving in Droves\u2014And Taking Billions With Them",
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    "Yann LeCun departed his role as Meta\u2019s AI chief and raised $1 billion for AMI Labs in March."
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   "url": "https://frontierbeat.com/2026/04/29/big-tech-ai-researchers-leaving-billions-startups-2026?amp=1",
   "title": "Big Tech AI Researchers Are Leaving in Droves\u2014And Taking Billions With Them",
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   "url": "https://frontierbeat.com/2026/04/29/big-tech-ai-researchers-leaving-billions-startups-2026?amp=1",
   "title": "Big Tech AI Researchers Are Leaving in Droves\u2014And Taking Billions With Them",
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   "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",
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    "# Thinking Machines Co-founder Barrett Zoph Leaves OpenAI To Join Google",
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   "relationship_evidence": [
    "# Thinking Machines Co-founder Barrett Zoph Leaves OpenAI To Join Google",
    "He left OpenAI in September 2024 alongside Mira Murati, when she stepped down as CTO, and became a co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at her new venture, [Thinking Machines Lab](https://officechai.com/ai/former-openai-cto-mira-murati-announces-new-startup-thinking-machines/)."
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   "url": "https://cryptopolitan.com/meta-openai-veteran-superintelligence-labs",
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    "Meta pulls OpenAI veteran into Superintelligence Labs talent war",
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   "url": "https://theoutpost.ai/news-story/barret-zoph-joins-google-deep-mind-as-vp-of-research-after-brief-open-ai-return-30222",
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    "Barret Zoph Joins Google DeepMind as VP of Research After Brief OpenAI Return",
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    "Barret Zoph Joins Google DeepMind as VP of Research After Brief OpenAI Return",
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   "url": "https://arcamax.com/knowledge/scienceandtech/technews/s-4284177?print=",
   "title": "Ex-Googlers are planning AI-human hybrid to prevent rogue models",
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   "relationship": "Former Google researchers founded the nonprofit Sampura Research.",
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   "parent_lab_evidence": [
    "## Ex-Googlers are planning AI-human hybrid to prevent rogue models",
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   "relationship_evidence": [
    "## Ex-Googlers are planning AI-human hybrid to prevent rogue models",
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   "url": "https://nexttechtoday.com/news/deepminds-alumni-are-building-the-next-wave-of-ai",
   "title": "DeepMind's Alumni Are Building the Next Wave of AI",
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   "parent_lab": "Google DeepMind",
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   "relationship": "launched a new U.K. artificial intelligence lab",
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    "The headline act came last month, when David Silver, one of DeepMind\u2019s most celebrated researchers, launched a new U.K. artificial intelligence lab, Ineffable Intelligence, which secured a striking $1.1 billion in seed funding.",
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   "parent_lab_evidence": [
    "The headline act came last month, when David Silver, one of DeepMind\u2019s most celebrated researchers, launched a new U.K. artificial intelligence lab, Ineffable Intelligence, which secured a striking $1.1 billion in seed funding.",
    "From a $1.1 billion seed round to stealth ventures across three continents, Google DeepMind\u2019s diaspora is quietly reshaping the global AI landscape."
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   "relationship_evidence": [
    "The headline act came last month, when David Silver, one of DeepMind\u2019s most celebrated researchers, launched a new U.K. artificial intelligence lab, Ineffable Intelligence, which secured a striking $1.1 billion in seed funding.",
    "From a $1.1 billion seed round to stealth ventures across three continents, Google DeepMind\u2019s diaspora is quietly reshaping the global AI landscape."
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  {
   "url": "https://nexttechtoday.com/news/deepminds-alumni-are-building-the-next-wave-of-ai",
   "title": "DeepMind's Alumni Are Building the Next Wave of AI",
   "child_lab": "Humans&",
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   "parent_lab": "Google DeepMind",
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   "relationship": "co-founder of U.S. AI startup Humans&",
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    "Noah Goodman, a former DeepMind scientist and Stanford professor of psychology and computer science, is a co-founder of U.S. AI startup Humans&, which aims to augment rather than replace human workers.",
    "From a $1.1 billion seed round to stealth ventures across three continents, Google DeepMind\u2019s diaspora is quietly reshaping the global AI landscape."
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   "parent_lab_evidence": [
    "Noah Goodman, a former DeepMind scientist and Stanford professor of psychology and computer science, is a co-founder of U.S. AI startup Humans&, which aims to augment rather than replace human workers.",
    "From a $1.1 billion seed round to stealth ventures across three continents, Google DeepMind\u2019s diaspora is quietly reshaping the global AI landscape."
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   "relationship_evidence": [
    "Noah Goodman, a former DeepMind scientist and Stanford professor of psychology and computer science, is a co-founder of U.S. AI startup Humans&, which aims to augment rather than replace human workers.",
    "From a $1.1 billion seed round to stealth ventures across three continents, Google DeepMind\u2019s diaspora is quietly reshaping the global AI landscape."
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  {
   "url": "https://nexttechtoday.com/news/deepminds-alumni-are-building-the-next-wave-of-ai",
   "title": "DeepMind's Alumni Are Building the Next Wave of AI",
   "child_lab": "Cursive",
   "founding_year": null,
   "parent_lab": "Google DeepMind",
   "founders": null,
   "relationship": "co-founder of Cursive",
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    "In the U.K., former DeepMind scientist Olivier Henaff is now a co-founder of Cursive, an AI foundation model startup that recently received backing from Sovereign AI, a government-backed venture capital fund.",
    "From a $1.1 billion seed round to stealth ventures across three continents, Google DeepMind\u2019s diaspora is quietly reshaping the global AI landscape.",
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   "parent_lab_evidence": [
    "In the U.K., former DeepMind scientist Olivier Henaff is now a co-founder of Cursive, an AI foundation model startup that recently received backing from Sovereign AI, a government-backed venture capital fund.",
    "From a $1.1 billion seed round to stealth ventures across three continents, Google DeepMind\u2019s diaspora is quietly reshaping the global AI landscape.",
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    "In the U.K., former DeepMind scientist Olivier Henaff is now a co-founder of Cursive, an AI foundation model startup that recently received backing from Sovereign AI, a government-backed venture capital fund.",
    "From a $1.1 billion seed round to stealth ventures across three continents, Google DeepMind\u2019s diaspora is quietly reshaping the global AI landscape.",
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   "url": "https://nexttechtoday.com/news/deepminds-alumni-are-building-the-next-wave-of-ai",
   "title": "DeepMind's Alumni Are Building the Next Wave of AI",
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    "From a $1.1 billion seed round to stealth ventures across three continents, Google DeepMind\u2019s diaspora is quietly reshaping the global AI landscape.",
    "### United Kingdom"
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    "A trio of former DeepMind interns have also launched their own companies.",
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    "From a $1.1 billion seed round to stealth ventures across three continents, Google DeepMind\u2019s diaspora is quietly reshaping the global AI landscape.",
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    "Guanming Wang has founded General Instinct, a vision-language-model AI startup; Arhaan Shaikh has co-founded Wizzaid, a healthcare data infrastructure company; and Abdul Raheem Nazir has co-founded Experiqlabs, a tech research startup.",
    "From a $1.1 billion seed round to stealth ventures across three continents, Google DeepMind\u2019s diaspora is quietly reshaping the global AI landscape.",
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  {
   "url": "https://nexttechtoday.com/news/deepminds-alumni-are-building-the-next-wave-of-ai",
   "title": "DeepMind's Alumni Are Building the Next Wave of AI",
   "child_lab": "Wizzaid",
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   "parent_lab": "Google DeepMind",
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    "From a $1.1 billion seed round to stealth ventures across three continents, Google DeepMind\u2019s diaspora is quietly reshaping the global AI landscape.",
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    "A trio of former DeepMind interns have also launched their own companies.",
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    "From a $1.1 billion seed round to stealth ventures across three continents, Google DeepMind\u2019s diaspora is quietly reshaping the global AI landscape.",
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    "Guanming Wang has founded General Instinct, a vision-language-model AI startup; Arhaan Shaikh has co-founded Wizzaid, a healthcare data infrastructure company; and Abdul Raheem Nazir has co-founded Experiqlabs, a tech research startup.",
    "From a $1.1 billion seed round to stealth ventures across three continents, Google DeepMind\u2019s diaspora is quietly reshaping the global AI landscape.",
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  {
   "url": "https://nexttechtoday.com/news/deepminds-alumni-are-building-the-next-wave-of-ai",
   "title": "DeepMind's Alumni Are Building the Next Wave of AI",
   "child_lab": "Experiqlabs",
   "founding_year": null,
   "parent_lab": "Google DeepMind",
   "founders": null,
   "relationship": "co-founded Experiqlabs, a tech research startup",
   "child_lab_evidence": [
    "Guanming Wang has founded General Instinct, a vision-language-model AI startup; Arhaan Shaikh has co-founded Wizzaid, a healthcare data infrastructure company; and Abdul Raheem Nazir has co-founded Experiqlabs, a tech research startup.",
    "From a $1.1 billion seed round to stealth ventures across three continents, Google DeepMind\u2019s diaspora is quietly reshaping the global AI landscape.",
    "### United Kingdom"
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    "A trio of former DeepMind interns have also launched their own companies.",
    "Guanming Wang has founded General Instinct, a vision-language-model AI startup; Arhaan Shaikh has co-founded Wizzaid, a healthcare data infrastructure company; and Abdul Raheem Nazir has co-founded Experiqlabs, a tech research startup.",
    "From a $1.1 billion seed round to stealth ventures across three continents, Google DeepMind\u2019s diaspora is quietly reshaping the global AI landscape.",
    "### United Kingdom"
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   "relationship_evidence": [
    "Guanming Wang has founded General Instinct, a vision-language-model AI startup; Arhaan Shaikh has co-founded Wizzaid, a healthcare data infrastructure company; and Abdul Raheem Nazir has co-founded Experiqlabs, a tech research startup.",
    "From a $1.1 billion seed round to stealth ventures across three continents, Google DeepMind\u2019s diaspora is quietly reshaping the global AI landscape.",
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   "url": "https://nexttechtoday.com/news/deepminds-alumni-are-building-the-next-wave-of-ai",
   "title": "DeepMind's Alumni Are Building the Next Wave of AI",
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   "founding_year": null,
   "parent_lab": "Google DeepMind",
   "founders": null,
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    "Across the continent, Alexander Taboriskiy, a former software engineering lead on Gemini at DeepMind, is the chief executive and co-founder of Mentiora, a Zurich-based startup building what it describes as a next-generation AI platform.",
    "From a $1.1 billion seed round to stealth ventures across three continents, Google DeepMind\u2019s diaspora is quietly reshaping the global AI landscape.",
    "### Europe"
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   "founding_year_evidence": null,
   "parent_lab_evidence": [
    "Across the continent, Alexander Taboriskiy, a former software engineering lead on Gemini at DeepMind, is the chief executive and co-founder of Mentiora, a Zurich-based startup building what it describes as a next-generation AI platform.",
    "From a $1.1 billion seed round to stealth ventures across three continents, Google DeepMind\u2019s diaspora is quietly reshaping the global AI landscape.",
    "### Europe"
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   "founders_evidence": null,
   "relationship_evidence": [
    "Across the continent, Alexander Taboriskiy, a former software engineering lead on Gemini at DeepMind, is the chief executive and co-founder of Mentiora, a Zurich-based startup building what it describes as a next-generation AI platform.",
    "From a $1.1 billion seed round to stealth ventures across three continents, Google DeepMind\u2019s diaspora is quietly reshaping the global AI landscape.",
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  {
   "url": "https://nexttechtoday.com/news/deepminds-alumni-are-building-the-next-wave-of-ai",
   "title": "DeepMind's Alumni Are Building the Next Wave of AI",
   "child_lab": "FormalistAI",
   "founding_year": null,
   "parent_lab": "Google DeepMind",
   "founders": null,
   "relationship": "founded FormalistAI, a Paris-based AI legal technology company",
   "child_lab_evidence": [
    "Former DeepMind consultant Angelos Chionis has founded FormalistAI, a Paris-based AI legal technology company.",
    "From a $1.1 billion seed round to stealth ventures across three continents, Google DeepMind\u2019s diaspora is quietly reshaping the global AI landscape.",
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   "founding_year_evidence": null,
   "parent_lab_evidence": [
    "Former DeepMind consultant Angelos Chionis has founded FormalistAI, a Paris-based AI legal technology company.",
    "From a $1.1 billion seed round to stealth ventures across three continents, Google DeepMind\u2019s diaspora is quietly reshaping the global AI landscape.",
    "### Europe"
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   "founders_evidence": null,
   "relationship_evidence": [
    "Former DeepMind consultant Angelos Chionis has founded FormalistAI, a Paris-based AI legal technology company.",
    "From a $1.1 billion seed round to stealth ventures across three continents, Google DeepMind\u2019s diaspora is quietly reshaping the global AI landscape.",
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  {
   "url": "https://nexttechtoday.com/news/deepminds-alumni-are-building-the-next-wave-of-ai",
   "title": "DeepMind's Alumni Are Building the Next Wave of AI",
   "child_lab": "Omnisent",
   "founding_year": null,
   "parent_lab": "Google DeepMind",
   "founders": null,
   "relationship": "co-founded Omnisent, a Munich-based defense technology startup",
   "child_lab_evidence": [
    "Ann-Kristin Balve, who received a scholarship from DeepMind, co-founded Omnisent, a Munich-based defense technology startup.",
    "From a $1.1 billion seed round to stealth ventures across three continents, Google DeepMind\u2019s diaspora is quietly reshaping the global AI landscape.",
    "### Europe"
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   "founding_year_evidence": null,
   "parent_lab_evidence": [
    "Ann-Kristin Balve, who received a scholarship from DeepMind, co-founded Omnisent, a Munich-based defense technology startup.",
    "From a $1.1 billion seed round to stealth ventures across three continents, Google DeepMind\u2019s diaspora is quietly reshaping the global AI landscape.",
    "### Europe"
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   "founders_evidence": null,
   "relationship_evidence": [
    "Ann-Kristin Balve, who received a scholarship from DeepMind, co-founded Omnisent, a Munich-based defense technology startup.",
    "From a $1.1 billion seed round to stealth ventures across three continents, Google DeepMind\u2019s diaspora is quietly reshaping the global AI landscape.",
    "### Europe"
   ]
  },
  {
   "url": "https://nexttechtoday.com/news/deepminds-alumni-are-building-the-next-wave-of-ai",
   "title": "DeepMind's Alumni Are Building the Next Wave of AI",
   "child_lab": "Kinro",
   "founding_year": null,
   "parent_lab": "Google DeepMind",
   "founders": null,
   "relationship": "co-founder of Kinro",
   "child_lab_evidence": [
    "In the United States, Pierre-Alexandre Kamienny, a former DeepMind scientist who worked on Gemini, is a co-founder of Kinro, which is building AI-powered sales agents.",
    "From a $1.1 billion seed round to stealth ventures across three continents, Google DeepMind\u2019s diaspora is quietly reshaping the global AI landscape.",
    "### United States"
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   "founding_year_evidence": null,
   "parent_lab_evidence": [
    "In the United States, Pierre-Alexandre Kamienny, a former DeepMind scientist who worked on Gemini, is a co-founder of Kinro, which is building AI-powered sales agents.",
    "From a $1.1 billion seed round to stealth ventures across three continents, Google DeepMind\u2019s diaspora is quietly reshaping the global AI landscape.",
    "### United States"
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   "founders_evidence": null,
   "relationship_evidence": [
    "In the United States, Pierre-Alexandre Kamienny, a former DeepMind scientist who worked on Gemini, is a co-founder of Kinro, which is building AI-powered sales agents.",
    "From a $1.1 billion seed round to stealth ventures across three continents, Google DeepMind\u2019s diaspora is quietly reshaping the global AI landscape.",
    "### United States"
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  {
   "url": "https://nexttechtoday.com/news/deepminds-alumni-are-building-the-next-wave-of-ai",
   "title": "DeepMind's Alumni Are Building the Next Wave of AI",
   "child_lab": "ROI-AI",
   "founding_year": null,
   "parent_lab": "Google DeepMind",
   "founders": null,
   "relationship": "founded ROI-AI, an AI agent platform",
   "child_lab_evidence": [
    "Pouya Samangouei, a former DeepMind search engineer, has founded ROI-AI, an AI agent platform.",
    "From a $1.1 billion seed round to stealth ventures across three continents, Google DeepMind\u2019s diaspora is quietly reshaping the global AI landscape.",
    "### United States"
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   "founding_year_evidence": null,
   "parent_lab_evidence": [
    "Pouya Samangouei, a former DeepMind search engineer, has founded ROI-AI, an AI agent platform.",
    "From a $1.1 billion seed round to stealth ventures across three continents, Google DeepMind\u2019s diaspora is quietly reshaping the global AI landscape.",
    "### United States"
   ],
   "founders_evidence": null,
   "relationship_evidence": [
    "Pouya Samangouei, a former DeepMind search engineer, has founded ROI-AI, an AI agent platform.",
    "From a $1.1 billion seed round to stealth ventures across three continents, Google DeepMind\u2019s diaspora is quietly reshaping the global AI landscape.",
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   "url": "https://techreadermagazine.com/2026/06/inside-mistral-paris-ai-lab-taking-on.html",
   "title": "Inside Mistral: The Paris AI Lab Taking on Silicon Valley",
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   "founding_year": "2023",
   "parent_lab": "Google DeepMind",
   "founders": null,
   "relationship": "Arthur Mensch worked at Google DeepMind before co-founding Mistral AI in April 2023.",
   "child_lab_evidence": [
    "Inside Mistral: The Paris AI Lab Taking on Silicon Valley",
    "In April 2023, three researchers who had helped build the models powering Big Tech walked away from their labs, flew home to Paris, and started a company with a wind-battered name and an outsized ambition: prove that Europe could compete at the frontier of AI.",
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    "## Key Takeaways",
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   "url": "https://presenc.ai/research/frontier-lab-tracker-thinking-machines-ssi-xai-2026",
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   "url": "https://presenc.ai/research/frontier-lab-tracker-thinking-machines-ssi-xai-2026",
   "title": "New Frontier Lab Tracker: Thinking Machines, SSI, xAI 2026",
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    "2. Safe Superintelligence Inc (SSI), co-founded by Ilya Sutskever in 2024, raised approximately $1 billion late 2024 with subsequent reported follow-on financing.",
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    "First, OpenAI alumni dominate new-lab founding: Mira Murati at Thinking Machines, Ilya Sutskever at SSI, Greg Brockman briefly at multiple positions, plus numerous research and engineering staff have moved from OpenAI to either new labs or competitor incumbents.",
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    "2. Safe Superintelligence Inc (SSI), co-founded by Ilya Sutskever in 2024, raised approximately $1 billion late 2024 with subsequent reported follow-on financing.",
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   "url": "https://aitechconnect.in/news/deepmind-alumni-112-startups-uk-talent-wave",
   "title": "112 DeepMind Alumni Startups: Inside the UK's AI Talent Wave",
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    "## The DeepMind alumni wave: by the numbers",
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   "title": "Former Google and Apple Researchers Launch a Startup to Build AI\u2019s Missing Feedback Loop",
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    "# Former Google and Apple Researchers Launch a Startup to Build AI\u2019s Missing Feedback Loop",
    "A group of AI researchers who previously worked at Google DeepMind, Apple, [OpenAI](https://www.wired.com/story/openai-chris-lehane-global-affairs-pr/), and [Meta Superintelligence Labs](https://www.wired.com/story/researchers-leave-meta-superintelligence-labs-openai/) announced on Wednesday they\u2019re launching a new startup called [Trajectory](https://trajectory.ai/), which aims to help companies regularly improve their AI products by training on real-world user interactions."
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   "url": "https://nextomoro.com/humans-and",
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    "Andi Peng joined the founding team after working on the post-training of [Claude](https://www.anthropic.com/claude?ref=nextomoro.com) versions 3.5 through 4.5 at Anthropic, where she focused on reinforcement learning."
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   "url": "https://nextomoro.com/humans-and",
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    "##### Big Tech AI Researchers Leaving: The Meta Story",
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    "##### Big Tech AI Researchers Leaving: The Meta Story",
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    "##### Big Tech AI Researchers Leaving: The Meta Story",
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   "url": "https://nextomoro.com/mirendil",
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   "url": "https://ai-bossblog.com/blog/2026-05-01-ai-talent-exodus-record-seed-rounds",
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   "url": "https://news.cocoloop.cn/en/2026/04/big-tech-ai-talent-exodus-188b",
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   "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/20/the-openai-mafia-15-of-the-most-notable-startups-founded-by-alumni",
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   "title": "The OpenAI mafia: 18 startups founded by alumni",
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   "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/20/the-openai-mafia-15-of-the-most-notable-startups-founded-by-alumni",
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    "Kicking off Germany's AI scene with a roar, Black Forest Labs\u2014founded by former Stability AI employees just months ago\u2014raises a $31 million oversubscribed seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), with participation from Khosla Ventures, Paradigm, Thrive Capital, and others, valuing the startup at $100 million (a 10x annual run rate multiple) and making it the year's largest German AI seed, as funding scales $10 million+ for model training (on TPU v5p clusters), hires talent (20% allocated), and supports expansion, while a $100M+ Series A in late 2024 and a 5% stock boost for similar firms add momentum; co-founders Robin Rombach (CEO, Heidelberg PhD) and Andreas Blattmann (CTO, ex-Stability research lead), along with Patrick Esser and Maximilian Seichter, retain majority control over a 15-member team (80% AI/ML PhDs from top European unis, 10 ex-Stability, 7+ generative AI years, 30% women in tech, 0% turnover), with 5 OpenAI/DeepMind advisors, a safety team, and a remote-first Heidelberg hub (aided by German tax incentives), extending 18-month runway at $2M monthly burn; the API hit $1M Q3 revenue, with 10K+ users, 10M+ images in its first month, and 30% market share gain, while Flux.1 Pro\u2014released August 2024, with 12B parameters, Flow Matching, and sub-2s latency\u2014beats Midjourney v6 by 15% on average, scores 84.1 on PartiPrompts and 84.6 on GenEval, and Flux.1 Schnell generates 1 GPU second images at 4:1 ratios, all via Apache 2.0 licenses; Flux.1 Dev (500K Hugging Face downloads week 1) and upcoming Flux.1.1 (video generation) are backed by Replicate, Grok, and ComfyUI partnerships, used by 100+ startups (5 Fortune 500, 200+ indie devs), 15% of Midjourney Discord users, and 40% of Automatic1111 installs, with 500% Twitter mention spikes, 95% API uptime, and $5M 2024 revenue projections.",
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   "url": "https://newsintheworld.online/uk-and-europe-land-33-of-new-startups-founded-by-deepmind-alumni",
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    "[\"Comment un cofondateur de Mistral AI a pirat\u00e9 des millions de livres quand il travaillait chez Meta\"](https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/economie-et-social/221225/comment-un-cofondateur-de-mistral-ai-pirate-des-millions-de-livres-quand-il-travaillait-chez-m)."
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    "## References"
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    "## References"
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    "## References"
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   "title": "neolabs.fyi | Black Forest Labs information",
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    "## Founders",
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   "title": "OpenAI Alumni Forge New AI Empire in Silicon Valley",
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   "title": "OpenAI Alumni Forge New AI Empire in Silicon Valley",
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   "title": "OpenAI Alumni Forge New AI Empire in Silicon Valley",
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   "title": "OpenAI Alumni Forge New AI Empire in Silicon Valley",
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   "title": "OpenAI Alumni Forge New AI Empire in Silicon Valley",
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   "title": "OpenAI Alumni Forge New AI Empire in Silicon Valley",
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   "url": "https://therealpreneur.com/startup-news/openai-alumni-forge-new-ai-empire-in-silicon-valley",
   "title": "OpenAI Alumni Forge New AI Empire in Silicon Valley",
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   "title": "OpenAI Alumni Forge New AI Empire in Silicon Valley",
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   "url": "https://therealpreneur.com/startup-news/openai-alumni-forge-new-ai-empire-in-silicon-valley",
   "title": "OpenAI Alumni Forge New AI Empire in Silicon Valley",
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   "url": "https://therealpreneur.com/startup-news/openai-alumni-forge-new-ai-empire-in-silicon-valley",
   "title": "OpenAI Alumni Forge New AI Empire in Silicon Valley",
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   "url": "https://therealpreneur.com/startup-news/openai-alumni-forge-new-ai-empire-in-silicon-valley",
   "title": "OpenAI Alumni Forge New AI Empire in Silicon Valley",
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   "url": "https://therealpreneur.com/startup-news/openai-alumni-forge-new-ai-empire-in-silicon-valley",
   "title": "OpenAI Alumni Forge New AI Empire in Silicon Valley",
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   "url": "https://therealpreneur.com/startup-news/openai-alumni-forge-new-ai-empire-in-silicon-valley",
   "title": "OpenAI Alumni Forge New AI Empire in Silicon Valley",
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   "url": "https://therealpreneur.com/startup-news/openai-alumni-forge-new-ai-empire-in-silicon-valley",
   "title": "OpenAI Alumni Forge New AI Empire in Silicon Valley",
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   "url": "https://geekwire.com/2026/ex-meta-ai-research-director-raises-10-25m-from-trilogy-and-madrona-for-stealth-physical-ai-startup",
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    "## These Are The Top 10 Best AI Research Labs In Europe 2026:",
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    "Jack Kelly was inspired to use AI to combat climate change while working at DeepMind.",
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    "Jack Kelly was inspired to use AI to combat climate change while working at DeepMind."
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   "url": "https://mk.co.kr/en/it/11245069",
   "title": "Mira Murati, former chief technology officer (CTO) of OpenAI, has established a new artificial intel.. - MK",
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    "# detail",
    "Prior to Murati, OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutzkeber also founded Safe Super Intelligence (SSI), and key people who left the company are continuing their independent steps in the AI market."
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   "parent_lab_evidence": [
    "# detail",
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   "relationship_evidence": [
    "# detail",
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   "url": "https://mk.co.kr/en/it/11245069",
   "title": "Mira Murati, former chief technology officer (CTO) of OpenAI, has established a new artificial intel.. - MK",
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    "# detail",
    "According to the Financial Times (FT) on the 18th (local time), Murati founded AI startup 'Sinking Machine Lab (TML)."
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   "parent_lab_evidence": [
    "# detail",
    "Mira Murati, former chief technology officer (CTO) of OpenAI, has established a new artificial intelligence (AI) startup."
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    "# detail",
    "Mira Murati, former chief technology officer (CTO) of OpenAI, has established a new artificial intelligence (AI) startup.",
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   "url": "https://mk.co.kr/en/it/11245069",
   "title": "Mira Murati, former chief technology officer (CTO) of OpenAI, has established a new artificial intel.. - MK",
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    "# detail",
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    "# detail",
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   "relationship_evidence": [
    "# detail",
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   "url": "https://mk.co.kr/en/it/11245069",
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    "# detail",
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   "url": "https://aifunding.me/insights/european-ai-startups-global-race-2026",
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    "Black Forest Labs was founded by former employees of Stability AI.",
    "## Black Forest Labs",
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    "Black Forest Labs (BFL) was founded in 2024 by Robin Rombach, Andreas Blattmann, and Patrick Esser, former employees of Stability AI.",
    "## Black Forest Labs"
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    "Black Forest Labs was founded by former employees of Stability AI.",
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    "Black Forest Labs (BFL) was founded in 2024 by Robin Rombach, Andreas Blattmann, and Patrick Esser, former employees of Stability AI.",
    "## Black Forest Labs"
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   "url": "https://aifundingtracker.com",
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    "# AI Startup Funding Tracker",
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   "url": "https://conui.co/mira-murati-openai-thinking-machines-lab",
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   "title": "Seven Unicorn Companies Founded by Former OpenAI Employees",
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    "IT Juzi will focus on introducing the situations of 7 of these unicorn companies:",
    "1. Thinking Machines Lab, which became a unicorn just after its establishment this year",
    "The founder of **Thinking Machines Lab** is Mira Murati, the former Chief Technology Officer of OpenAI.",
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   "title": "Seven Unicorn Companies Founded by Former OpenAI Employees",
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    "# Former employees who left OpenAI have already founded seven unicorn companies.",
    "IT Juzi will focus on introducing the situations of 7 of these unicorn companies:",
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    "IT Juzi will focus on introducing the situations of 7 of these unicorn companies:",
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    "IT Juzi will focus on introducing the situations of 7 of these unicorn companies:",
    "2. Anthropic, the company with the highest valuation and in direct competition with OpenAI",
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   "title": "Seven Unicorn Companies Founded by Former OpenAI Employees",
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    "3. Safe Superintelligence (SSI), which has no product yet but is in the limelight",
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    "IT Juzi will focus on introducing the situations of 7 of these unicorn companies:",
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    "# Former employees who left OpenAI have already founded seven unicorn companies.",
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   "title": "Seven Unicorn Companies Founded by Former OpenAI Employees",
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    "IT Juzi will focus on introducing the situations of 7 of these unicorn companies:",
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    "IT Juzi will focus on introducing the situations of 7 of these unicorn companies:",
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   "title": "Seven Unicorn Companies Founded by Former OpenAI Employees",
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    "6. Adept AI Labs, the Agent unicorn that experienced the departure of its founding team",
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    "IT Juzi will focus on introducing the situations of 7 of these unicorn companies:",
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    "IT Juzi will focus on introducing the situations of 7 of these unicorn companies:",
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   "title": "Seven Unicorn Companies Founded by Former OpenAI Employees",
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    "# Former employees who left OpenAI have already founded seven unicorn companies.",
    "IT Juzi will focus on introducing the situations of 7 of these unicorn companies:",
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    "# Former employees who left OpenAI have already founded seven unicorn companies.",
    "IT Juzi will focus on introducing the situations of 7 of these unicorn companies:",
    "7. Cresta, jointly founded by Chinese entrepreneurs",
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    "# Former employees who left OpenAI have already founded seven unicorn companies.",
    "IT Juzi will focus on introducing the situations of 7 of these unicorn companies:",
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    "Meta, Google, OpenAI among Big Tech firms seeing top staff leaving to launch AI startups",
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    "Meta, Google, OpenAI among Big Tech firms seeing top staff leaving to launch AI startups",
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    "Meta, Google, OpenAI among Big Tech firms seeing top staff leaving to launch AI startups",
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   "url": "https://eu.36kr.com/de/p/3412422888738184",
   "title": "Ex-Angestellte von OpenAI haben bereits sieben Unicorn-Unternehmen gegr\u00fcndet",
   "child_lab": "Thinking Machines Lab",
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    "# Die ehemaligen Angestellten, die OpenAI verlassen haben, haben bereits sieben Unicorn-Unternehmen geschaffen.",
    "IT Juzi will introduce the situation of 7 of these unicorn companies as follows:",
    "1. Thinking Machines Lab, which became a unicorn in the year of its founding",
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    "# Die ehemaligen Angestellten, die OpenAI verlassen haben, haben bereits sieben Unicorn-Unternehmen geschaffen.",
    "IT Juzi will introduce the situation of 7 of these unicorn companies as follows:",
    "1. Thinking Machines Lab, which became a unicorn in the year of its founding",
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   "parent_lab_evidence": [
    "# Die ehemaligen Angestellten, die OpenAI verlassen haben, haben bereits sieben Unicorn-Unternehmen geschaffen.",
    "IT Juzi will introduce the situation of 7 of these unicorn companies as follows:",
    "1. Thinking Machines Lab, which became a unicorn in the year of its founding",
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    "IT Juzi will introduce the situation of 7 of these unicorn companies as follows:",
    "1. Thinking Machines Lab, which became a unicorn in the year of its founding",
    "The founder of **Thinking Machines Lab** is the former Chief Technology Officer of OpenAI, Mira Murati.",
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   "url": "https://eu.36kr.com/de/p/3412422888738184",
   "title": "Ex-Angestellte von OpenAI haben bereits sieben Unicorn-Unternehmen gegr\u00fcndet",
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   "child_lab_evidence": [
    "# Die ehemaligen Angestellten, die OpenAI verlassen haben, haben bereits sieben Unicorn-Unternehmen geschaffen.",
    "IT Juzi will introduce the situation of 7 of these unicorn companies as follows:",
    "2. Anthropic, which has the highest company value and directly competes with OpenAI",
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    "# Die ehemaligen Angestellten, die OpenAI verlassen haben, haben bereits sieben Unicorn-Unternehmen geschaffen.",
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    "2. Anthropic, which has the highest company value and directly competes with OpenAI",
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    "# Die ehemaligen Angestellten, die OpenAI verlassen haben, haben bereits sieben Unicorn-Unternehmen geschaffen.",
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    "2. Anthropic, which has the highest company value and directly competes with OpenAI",
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   "url": "https://eu.36kr.com/de/p/3412422888738184",
   "title": "Ex-Angestellte von OpenAI haben bereits sieben Unicorn-Unternehmen gegr\u00fcndet",
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    "# Die ehemaligen Angestellten, die OpenAI verlassen haben, haben bereits sieben Unicorn-Unternehmen geschaffen.",
    "IT Juzi will introduce the situation of 7 of these unicorn companies as follows:",
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    "# Die ehemaligen Angestellten, die OpenAI verlassen haben, haben bereits sieben Unicorn-Unternehmen geschaffen.",
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    "# Die ehemaligen Angestellten, die OpenAI verlassen haben, haben bereits sieben Unicorn-Unternehmen geschaffen.",
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   "url": "https://eu.36kr.com/de/p/3412422888738184",
   "title": "Ex-Angestellte von OpenAI haben bereits sieben Unicorn-Unternehmen gegr\u00fcndet",
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    "# Die ehemaligen Angestellten, die OpenAI verlassen haben, haben bereits sieben Unicorn-Unternehmen geschaffen.",
    "IT Juzi will introduce the situation of 7 of these unicorn companies as follows:",
    "4. Elon Musk and his founded xAI, which is active in politics and business",
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    "4. Elon Musk and his founded xAI, which is active in politics and business",
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   "url": "https://eu.36kr.com/de/p/3412422888738184",
   "title": "Ex-Angestellte von OpenAI haben bereits sieben Unicorn-Unternehmen gegr\u00fcndet",
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    "5. Perplexity, a unicorn in the AI search industry",
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    "5. Perplexity, a unicorn in the AI search industry",
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    "6. Adept AI Labs, a unicorn in the agent industry that has lost its core team",
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   "url": "https://eu.36kr.com/de/p/3412422888738184",
   "title": "Ex-Angestellte von OpenAI haben bereits sieben Unicorn-Unternehmen gegr\u00fcndet",
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    "# Die ehemaligen Angestellten, die OpenAI verlassen haben, haben bereits sieben Unicorn-Unternehmen geschaffen.",
    "IT Juzi will introduce the situation of 7 of these unicorn companies as follows:",
    "7. Cresta, founded by Chinese entrepreneurs",
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    "# Die ehemaligen Angestellten, die OpenAI verlassen haben, haben bereits sieben Unicorn-Unternehmen geschaffen.",
    "IT Juzi will introduce the situation of 7 of these unicorn companies as follows:",
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    "7. Cresta, founded by Chinese entrepreneurs",
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   "url": "https://fusionchat.ai/news/the-billiondollar-impact-of-openai-alumni-in-ai-industry",
   "title": "The Billion-Dollar Impact of OpenAI Alumni in AI Industry",
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   "url": "https://hi99.com/2023/08/17/top-ex-google-brain-researchers-start-ai-research-company-in-tokyo",
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   "url": "https://740thefan.com/2023/08/17/top-ex-google-brain-researchers-start-ai-research-company-in-tokyo",
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   "url": "https://740thefan.com/2023/08/17/top-ex-google-brain-researchers-start-ai-research-company-in-tokyo",
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   "title": "The Acqui-Hire Map: How Big Tech Is Swallowing AI Startups Without Acquiring Them",
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    "| Aug 2024 | **Character.AI** | Google | $2.7B | Non-exclusive license + founders return | Noam Shazeer \u2192 Google DeepMind |",
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   "url": "https://goldfinchcafe.substack.com/p/the-ham-and-the-algorithm",
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   "url": "https://euronews.com/business/2026/05/21/ai-bidding-wars-the-talent-making-a-fortune-as-big-tech-firms-fight-it-out",
   "title": "Million-dollar salaries, billion-dollar stakes: Top AI talent every tech giant is fighting over",
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   "url": "https://euronews.com/business/2026/05/21/ai-bidding-wars-the-talent-making-a-fortune-as-big-tech-firms-fight-it-out",
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    "Adept is an American AI research lab founded in 2022 by a cohort of former [OpenAI](https://nextomoro.com/openai/) and [Google](https://nextomoro.com/google-deepmind/) researchers, including three of the eight co-authors of the original transformer paper, that built agentic-AI models for software workflow automation before its senior leadership was acqui-hired by [Amazon](https://nextomoro.com/amazon-agi/) in June 2024."
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   "parent_lab_evidence": [
    "# Adept",
    "Adept is an American AI lab founded in 2022 by transformer co-authors that pivoted to enterprise agent automation and was acqui-hired by Amazon in June 2024.",
    "Adept is an American AI research lab founded in 2022 by a cohort of former [OpenAI](https://nextomoro.com/openai/) and [Google](https://nextomoro.com/google-deepmind/) researchers, including three of the eight co-authors of the original transformer paper, that built agentic-AI models for software workflow automation before its senior leadership was acqui-hired by [Amazon](https://nextomoro.com/amazon-agi/) in June 2024."
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   "founders_evidence": [
    "# Adept",
    "Adept is an American AI lab founded in 2022 by transformer co-authors that pivoted to enterprise agent automation and was acqui-hired by Amazon in June 2024.",
    "- **Founded:** April 2022 by [David Luan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-luan-08a48b95/?ref=nextomoro.com), [Ashish Vaswani](https://nextomoro.com/ashish-vaswani/), [Niki Parmar](https://nextomoro.com/niki-parmar/), Augustus Odena, Maxwell Nye, Erich Elsen, Kelsey Szot, Anmol Gulati, Kelvin Guu, and Fred Bertsch."
   ],
   "relationship_evidence": [
    "# Adept",
    "Adept is an American AI lab founded in 2022 by transformer co-authors that pivoted to enterprise agent automation and was acqui-hired by Amazon in June 2024.",
    "Adept is an American AI research lab founded in 2022 by a cohort of former [OpenAI](https://nextomoro.com/openai/) and [Google](https://nextomoro.com/google-deepmind/) researchers, including three of the eight co-authors of the original transformer paper, that built agentic-AI models for software workflow automation before its senior leadership was acqui-hired by [Amazon](https://nextomoro.com/amazon-agi/) in June 2024.",
    "The remaining co-founders included [David Luan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-luan-08a48b95/?ref=nextomoro.com) (former vice president of engineering at [OpenAI](https://nextomoro.com/openai/) and former Google director), Augustus Odena (former Google Brain research scientist), Maxwell Nye (former OpenAI researcher), Erich Elsen (former DeepMind and Google Brain researcher), Kelsey Szot (former Google Brain), Kelvin Guu (former Google), and Fred Bertsch (former Google)."
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   "url": "https://nextomoro.com/adept",
   "title": "Adept",
   "child_lab": "Essential AI",
   "founding_year": "2023",
   "parent_lab": "Adept",
   "founders": "Ashish Vaswani, Niki Parmar",
   "relationship": "Ashish Vaswani and Niki Parmar departed Adept in 2022 and founded Essential AI in 2023.",
   "child_lab_evidence": [
    "# Adept",
    "Ashish Vaswani and Niki Parmar departed Adept in 2022, before the company's first major release cycle, to pursue a separate research-and-foundation-model thesis.",
    "The two founded [Essential AI](https://nextomoro.com/essential-ai/) in 2023."
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   "founding_year_evidence": [
    "# Adept",
    "Ashish Vaswani and Niki Parmar departed Adept in 2022, before the company's first major release cycle, to pursue a separate research-and-foundation-model thesis.",
    "The two founded [Essential AI](https://nextomoro.com/essential-ai/) in 2023."
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   "parent_lab_evidence": [
    "# Adept",
    "Ashish Vaswani and Niki Parmar departed Adept in 2022, before the company's first major release cycle, to pursue a separate research-and-foundation-model thesis.",
    "The two founded [Essential AI](https://nextomoro.com/essential-ai/) in 2023."
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   "founders_evidence": [
    "# Adept",
    "Ashish Vaswani and Niki Parmar departed Adept in 2022, before the company's first major release cycle, to pursue a separate research-and-foundation-model thesis.",
    "The two founded [Essential AI](https://nextomoro.com/essential-ai/) in 2023."
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   "relationship_evidence": [
    "# Adept",
    "Ashish Vaswani and Niki Parmar departed Adept in 2022, before the company's first major release cycle, to pursue a separate research-and-foundation-model thesis.",
    "The two founded [Essential AI](https://nextomoro.com/essential-ai/) in 2023."
   ]
  },
  {
   "url": "https://theglobeandmail.com/business/article-former-openai-tech-chief-mira-muratis-ai-startup-hires-20-researches",
   "title": "Former OpenAI tech chief Mira Murati\u2019s AI startup hires 20 researchers, engineers from ChatGPT maker",
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   "parent_lab": "OpenAI",
   "founders": null,
   "relationship": "Mira Murati, former OpenAI chief technology officer, launched the AI startup Thinking Machines Lab.",
   "child_lab_evidence": [
    "# Former OpenAI tech chief Mira Murati\u2019s AI startup hires 20 researchers, engineers from ChatGPT maker",
    "Former OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati launched an AI startup called Thinking Machines Lab on Tuesday, with a team of about 30 leading researchers and engineers from competitors including OpenAI, Meta [META-Q](https://www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/markets/stocks/META-Q/) and Mistral."
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   "founding_year_evidence": null,
   "parent_lab_evidence": [
    "# Former OpenAI tech chief Mira Murati\u2019s AI startup hires 20 researchers, engineers from ChatGPT maker",
    "Former OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati launched an AI startup called Thinking Machines Lab on Tuesday, with a team of about 30 leading researchers and engineers from competitors including OpenAI, Meta [META-Q](https://www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/markets/stocks/META-Q/) and Mistral."
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   "founders_evidence": null,
   "relationship_evidence": [
    "# Former OpenAI tech chief Mira Murati\u2019s AI startup hires 20 researchers, engineers from ChatGPT maker",
    "Former OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati launched an AI startup called Thinking Machines Lab on Tuesday, with a team of about 30 leading researchers and engineers from competitors including OpenAI, Meta [META-Q](https://www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/markets/stocks/META-Q/) and Mistral."
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  },
  {
   "url": "https://963jackfm.com/2023/08/17/top-ex-google-brain-researchers-start-ai-research-company-in-tokyo",
   "title": "Top ex-Google Brain researchers start AI research company in Tokyo",
   "child_lab": "Sakana AI",
   "founding_year": null,
   "parent_lab": "Google",
   "founders": null,
   "relationship": "Founded by former Google researchers David Ha and Llion Jones",
   "child_lab_evidence": [
    "# Top ex-Google Brain researchers start AI research company in Tokyo",
    "Sakana AI, founded by David Ha and Llion Jones, declined to disclose funding details."
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   "founding_year_evidence": null,
   "parent_lab_evidence": [
    "# Top ex-Google Brain researchers start AI research company in Tokyo",
    "All the authors on the \u201cAttention Is All You Need\u201d paper have now left Google."
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   "founders_evidence": null,
   "relationship_evidence": [
    "# Top ex-Google Brain researchers start AI research company in Tokyo",
    "(Reuters) \u2013 Two prominent former Google researchers, one of whom was a co-inventor of the \u201ctransformer\u201d artificial intelligence architecture that paved the way for the generative AI boom, announced on Thursday they had started a new AI company based in Tokyo.",
    "Sakana AI, founded by David Ha and Llion Jones, declined to disclose funding details."
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  },
  {
   "url": "https://963jackfm.com/2023/08/17/top-ex-google-brain-researchers-start-ai-research-company-in-tokyo",
   "title": "Top ex-Google Brain researchers start AI research company in Tokyo",
   "child_lab": "Character.AI",
   "founding_year": null,
   "parent_lab": "Google",
   "founders": null,
   "relationship": "Run by Noam Shazeer after leaving Google",
   "child_lab_evidence": [
    "# Top ex-Google Brain researchers start AI research company in Tokyo",
    "The authors\u2019 new ventures have attracted millions in funding from venture investors, including Noam Shazeer, who is running AI chatbot startup Character.AI, and Aidan Gomez, who founded large language model startup Cohere."
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   "founding_year_evidence": null,
   "parent_lab_evidence": [
    "# Top ex-Google Brain researchers start AI research company in Tokyo",
    "All the authors on the \u201cAttention Is All You Need\u201d paper have now left Google."
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   "founders_evidence": null,
   "relationship_evidence": [
    "# Top ex-Google Brain researchers start AI research company in Tokyo",
    "All the authors on the \u201cAttention Is All You Need\u201d paper have now left Google.",
    "The authors\u2019 new ventures have attracted millions in funding from venture investors, including Noam Shazeer, who is running AI chatbot startup Character.AI, and Aidan Gomez, who founded large language model startup Cohere."
   ]
  },
  {
   "url": "https://963jackfm.com/2023/08/17/top-ex-google-brain-researchers-start-ai-research-company-in-tokyo",
   "title": "Top ex-Google Brain researchers start AI research company in Tokyo",
   "child_lab": "Cohere",
   "founding_year": null,
   "parent_lab": "Google",
   "founders": null,
   "relationship": "Founded by Aidan Gomez after leaving Google",
   "child_lab_evidence": [
    "# Top ex-Google Brain researchers start AI research company in Tokyo",
    "The authors\u2019 new ventures have attracted millions in funding from venture investors, including Noam Shazeer, who is running AI chatbot startup Character.AI, and Aidan Gomez, who founded large language model startup Cohere."
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   "founding_year_evidence": null,
   "parent_lab_evidence": [
    "# Top ex-Google Brain researchers start AI research company in Tokyo",
    "All the authors on the \u201cAttention Is All You Need\u201d paper have now left Google."
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   "founders_evidence": null,
   "relationship_evidence": [
    "# Top ex-Google Brain researchers start AI research company in Tokyo",
    "All the authors on the \u201cAttention Is All You Need\u201d paper have now left Google.",
    "The authors\u2019 new ventures have attracted millions in funding from venture investors, including Noam Shazeer, who is running AI chatbot startup Character.AI, and Aidan Gomez, who founded large language model startup Cohere."
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  {
   "url": "https://theaicronicle.com/en/news/companies/demis-hassabis-godfather-ai-startups-deepmind-anthropic",
   "title": "Demis Hassabis: The Godfather of the AI Startup Renaissance and the DeepMind Empire",
   "child_lab": "Anthropic",
   "founding_year": null,
   "parent_lab": "OpenAI",
   "founders": null,
   "relationship": "founded by former OpenAI executives",
   "child_lab_evidence": [
    "# Demis Hassabis: The Godfather of the AI Startup Renaissance and the DeepMind Empire",
    "Anthropic was founded by former OpenAI executives, siblings Dario and Daniela Amodei, with a core focus on 'AI safety.'"
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   "founding_year_evidence": null,
   "parent_lab_evidence": [
    "# Demis Hassabis: The Godfather of the AI Startup Renaissance and the DeepMind Empire",
    "Anthropic was founded by former OpenAI executives, siblings Dario and Daniela Amodei, with a core focus on 'AI safety.'"
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   "founders_evidence": null,
   "relationship_evidence": [
    "# Demis Hassabis: The Godfather of the AI Startup Renaissance and the DeepMind Empire",
    "Anthropic was founded by former OpenAI executives, siblings Dario and Daniela Amodei, with a core focus on 'AI safety.'"
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  {
   "url": "https://elsewhere.news/en/elsewhere/ai4s",
   "title": "How Are There Such Bizarre AI4S Founders",
   "child_lab": "Valhalla Technology",
   "founding_year": "2026",
   "parent_lab": "Baker Lab",
   "founders": null,
   "relationship": "Kejun Ying and Jiaqi Wang both come from Baker Lab to co-found Valhalla Technology with Odin.",
   "child_lab_evidence": [
    "# How Are There Such Bizarre AI4S Founders",
    "A new issue of elselier \u2014 a story so bizarre it's hard to know where to begin.",
    "He's a 26-year-old guy named Odin (Zhang Haotian).",
    "A few months ago, he founded Valhalla Technology in Hangzhou."
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   "founding_year_evidence": [
    "# How Are There Such Bizarre AI4S Founders",
    "[elsewhere\u522b\u5904\u53d1\u751f](/en/elsewhere)\u00b7May 20, 2026",
    "A new issue of elselier \u2014 a story so bizarre it's hard to know where to begin.",
    "He's a 26-year-old guy named Odin (Zhang Haotian).",
    "A few months ago, he founded Valhalla Technology in Hangzhou."
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   "parent_lab_evidence": [
    "# How Are There Such Bizarre AI4S Founders",
    "A new issue of elselier \u2014 a story so bizarre it's hard to know where to begin.",
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   "founders_evidence": null,
   "relationship_evidence": [
    "# How Are There Such Bizarre AI4S Founders",
    "A new issue of elselier \u2014 a story so bizarre it's hard to know where to begin.",
    "In the core team, CTO Kejun Ying and co-founder Jiaqi Wang both come from Baker Lab."
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  {
   "url": "https://online.thedailystar.net/tech-startup/news/former-openai-leaders-join-ex-cto-mira-muratis-ai-startup-3868051",
   "title": "Former OpenAI leaders join ex-CTO Mira Murati's AI startup",
   "child_lab": "Thinking Machines Lab",
   "founding_year": null,
   "parent_lab": "OpenAI",
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   "relationship": "Launched by ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati",
   "child_lab_evidence": [
    "# Former OpenAI leaders join ex-CTO Mira Murati's AI startup",
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   "founding_year_evidence": null,
   "parent_lab_evidence": [
    "# Former OpenAI leaders join ex-CTO Mira Murati's AI startup",
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   "founders_evidence": null,
   "relationship_evidence": [
    "# Former OpenAI leaders join ex-CTO Mira Murati's AI startup",
    "Two former OpenAI researchers have joined Thinking Machines Lab, the new artificial intelligence venture launched by ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati."
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  {
   "url": "https://933thedrive.com/2023/08/17/top-ex-google-brain-researchers-start-ai-research-company-in-tokyo",
   "title": "Top ex-Google Brain researchers start AI research company in Tokyo",
   "child_lab": "Sakana AI",
   "founding_year": null,
   "parent_lab": "Google",
   "founders": null,
   "relationship": "David Ha and Llion Jones left Google to found Sakana AI in Tokyo.",
   "child_lab_evidence": [
    "Sakana AI, founded by David Ha and Llion Jones, declined to disclose funding details."
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   "founding_year_evidence": null,
   "parent_lab_evidence": [
    "Two prominent former Google researchers, one of whom was a co-inventor of the \u201ctransformer\u201d artificial intelligence architecture that paved the way for the generative AI boom, announced on Thursday they had started a new AI company based in Tokyo.",
    "Sakana AI, founded by David Ha and Llion Jones, declined to disclose funding details."
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   "founders_evidence": null,
   "relationship_evidence": [
    "Two prominent former Google researchers, one of whom was a co-inventor of the \u201ctransformer\u201d artificial intelligence architecture that paved the way for the generative AI boom, announced on Thursday they had started a new AI company based in Tokyo.",
    "Sakana AI, founded by David Ha and Llion Jones, declined to disclose funding details."
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  {
   "url": "https://933thedrive.com/2023/08/17/top-ex-google-brain-researchers-start-ai-research-company-in-tokyo",
   "title": "Top ex-Google Brain researchers start AI research company in Tokyo",
   "child_lab": "Character.AI",
   "founding_year": null,
   "parent_lab": "Google",
   "founders": null,
   "relationship": "Noam Shazeer, an author of the Attention Is All You Need paper at Google, left Google and is running AI chatbot startup Character.AI.",
   "child_lab_evidence": [
    "The authors\u2019 new ventures have attracted millions in funding from venture investors, including Noam Shazeer, who is running AI chatbot startup Character.AI, and Aidan Gomez, who founded large language model startup Cohere."
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   "founding_year_evidence": null,
   "parent_lab_evidence": [
    "All the authors on the \u201cAttention Is All You Need\u201d paper have now left Google.",
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   "founders_evidence": null,
   "relationship_evidence": [
    "All the authors on the \u201cAttention Is All You Need\u201d paper have now left Google.",
    "The authors\u2019 new ventures have attracted millions in funding from venture investors, including Noam Shazeer, who is running AI chatbot startup Character.AI, and Aidan Gomez, who founded large language model startup Cohere."
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  {
   "url": "https://933thedrive.com/2023/08/17/top-ex-google-brain-researchers-start-ai-research-company-in-tokyo",
   "title": "Top ex-Google Brain researchers start AI research company in Tokyo",
   "child_lab": "Cohere",
   "founding_year": null,
   "parent_lab": "Google",
   "founders": null,
   "relationship": "Aidan Gomez, an author of the Attention Is All You Need paper at Google, left Google and founded large language model startup Cohere.",
   "child_lab_evidence": [
    "The authors\u2019 new ventures have attracted millions in funding from venture investors, including Noam Shazeer, who is running AI chatbot startup Character.AI, and Aidan Gomez, who founded large language model startup Cohere."
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   "founding_year_evidence": null,
   "parent_lab_evidence": [
    "All the authors on the \u201cAttention Is All You Need\u201d paper have now left Google.",
    "The authors\u2019 new ventures have attracted millions in funding from venture investors, including Noam Shazeer, who is running AI chatbot startup Character.AI, and Aidan Gomez, who founded large language model startup Cohere."
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   "founders_evidence": null,
   "relationship_evidence": [
    "All the authors on the \u201cAttention Is All You Need\u201d paper have now left Google.",
    "The authors\u2019 new ventures have attracted millions in funding from venture investors, including Noam Shazeer, who is running AI chatbot startup Character.AI, and Aidan Gomez, who founded large language model startup Cohere."
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  {
   "url": "https://tipranks.com/news/former-meta-ai-godfather-lecun-raises-1b-to-power-new-common-sense-robots",
   "title": "Former Meta AI Godfather LeCun Raises $1B to Power New \u2018Common Sense\u2019 Robots",
   "child_lab": "Advanced Machine Intelligence",
   "founding_year": null,
   "parent_lab": "Meta",
   "founders": null,
   "relationship": "Founded by former Meta AI chief Yann LeCun after leaving the company at the end of 2025.",
   "child_lab_evidence": [
    "Advanced Machine Intelligence said it had raised $1.03 billion based on a $3.5 billion pre-money valuation.",
    "Human-Like AI",
    "The [AI](https://www.tipranks.com/compare-stocks/artificial-intelligence) startup founded by former Meta Platforms [(META)](https://www.tipranks.com/stocks/meta) chief AI \u2018Godfather\u2019 Yann LeCun has raised just over $1 billion to drive forward its aim of creating language models and robots with human-like \u201ccommon sense.\u201d"
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   "founding_year_evidence": null,
   "parent_lab_evidence": [
    "The [AI](https://www.tipranks.com/compare-stocks/artificial-intelligence) startup founded by former Meta Platforms [(META)](https://www.tipranks.com/stocks/meta) chief AI \u2018Godfather\u2019 Yann LeCun has raised just over $1 billion to drive forward its aim of creating language models and robots with human-like \u201ccommon sense.\u201d",
    "Human-Like AI",
    "LeCun joined Meta in 2013 to found Facebook AI Research, later known as FAIR, and became one of the company\u2019s most prominent AI \u200bleaders [before leaving at the end of 2025.](https://www.tipranks.com/news/meta-stock-drops-as-ai-pioneer-lecun-gets-set-to-quit-ahead-of-100b-tech-spend)"
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   "founders_evidence": null,
   "relationship_evidence": [
    "The [AI](https://www.tipranks.com/compare-stocks/artificial-intelligence) startup founded by former Meta Platforms [(META)](https://www.tipranks.com/stocks/meta) chief AI \u2018Godfather\u2019 Yann LeCun has raised just over $1 billion to drive forward its aim of creating language models and robots with human-like \u201ccommon sense.\u201d",
    "Human-Like AI",
    "LeCun joined Meta in 2013 to found Facebook AI Research, later known as FAIR, and became one of the company\u2019s most prominent AI \u200bleaders [before leaving at the end of 2025.](https://www.tipranks.com/news/meta-stock-drops-as-ai-pioneer-lecun-gets-set-to-quit-ahead-of-100b-tech-spend)"
   ]
  },
  {
   "url": "https://nextomoro.com/arthur-mensch",
   "title": "Arthur Mensch",
   "child_lab": "Mistral AI",
   "founding_year": "2023",
   "parent_lab": "Google DeepMind",
   "founders": "Arthur Mensch",
   "relationship": "Arthur Mensch left Google DeepMind to co-found Mistral AI.",
   "child_lab_evidence": [
    "# Arthur Mensch",
    "He is the co-founder and chief executive officer of [Mistral AI](https://nextomoro.com/mistral-ai/), the Paris-headquartered foundation-model company he established in April 2023 with [Guillaume Lample](https://nextomoro.com/guillaume-lample/) and [Timoth\u00e9e Lacroix](https://nextomoro.com/timothee-lacroix/), and a co-author on the March 2022 Google DeepMind paper [Training Compute-Optimal Large Language Models](https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.15556?ref=nextomoro.com), which introduced the Chinchilla scaling law."
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   "founding_year_evidence": [
    "# Arthur Mensch",
    "He is the co-founder and chief executive officer of [Mistral AI](https://nextomoro.com/mistral-ai/), the Paris-headquartered foundation-model company he established in April 2023 with [Guillaume Lample](https://nextomoro.com/guillaume-lample/) and [Timoth\u00e9e Lacroix](https://nextomoro.com/timothee-lacroix/), and a co-author on the March 2022 Google DeepMind paper [Training Compute-Optimal Large Language Models](https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.15556?ref=nextomoro.com), which introduced the Chinchilla scaling law."
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   "parent_lab_evidence": [
    "# Arthur Mensch",
    "Mensch joined [Google DeepMind](https://nextomoro.com/google-deepmind/) in late 2020 at the laboratory's Paris office, working on large-language models, multimodal systems, and retrieval-augmented architectures."
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   "founders_evidence": [
    "# Arthur Mensch",
    "He is the co-founder and chief executive officer of [Mistral AI](https://nextomoro.com/mistral-ai/), the Paris-headquartered foundation-model company he established in April 2023 with [Guillaume Lample](https://nextomoro.com/guillaume-lample/) and [Timoth\u00e9e Lacroix](https://nextomoro.com/timothee-lacroix/), and a co-author on the March 2022 Google DeepMind paper [Training Compute-Optimal Large Language Models](https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.15556?ref=nextomoro.com), which introduced the Chinchilla scaling law."
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   "relationship_evidence": [
    "# Arthur Mensch",
    "Mensch left DeepMind in May 2023 to co-found [Mistral AI](https://nextomoro.com/mistral-ai/) in Paris with [Guillaume Lample](https://nextomoro.com/guillaume-lample/) and [Timoth\u00e9e Lacroix](https://nextomoro.com/timothee-lacroix/), two former [Meta AI](https://nextomoro.com/meta-ai-fair/) FAIR Paris researchers who had contributed to the LLaMA series."
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  {
   "url": "https://ainvest.com/es/news/black-forest-labs-strategic-investment-ai-hardware-innovation-european-ai-ascendancy-2510",
   "title": "Black Forest Labs: A Strategic Investment in AI Hardware Innovation and European AI Ascendancy",
   "child_lab": "Black Forest Labs",
   "founding_year": "2024",
   "parent_lab": "Stability AI",
   "founders": null,
   "relationship": "Former Stability AI researchers Robin Rombach, Andreas Blattmann, and Patrick Esser founded Black Forest Labs.",
   "child_lab_evidence": [
    "# Black Forest Labs: A Strategic Investment in AI Hardware Innovation and European AI Ascendancy",
    "Amid this backdrop, Black Forest Labs-a German AI startup founded in 2024-has emerged as a standout player, securing unicorn status with a $4 billion valuation and positioning itself at the intersection of cutting-edge AI research and strategic infrastructure partnerships."
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   "founding_year_evidence": [
    "# Black Forest Labs: A Strategic Investment in AI Hardware Innovation and European AI Ascendancy",
    "Amid this backdrop, Black Forest Labs-a German AI startup founded in 2024-has emerged as a standout player, securing unicorn status with a $4 billion valuation and positioning itself at the intersection of cutting-edge AI research and strategic infrastructure partnerships."
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   "parent_lab_evidence": [
    "# Black Forest Labs: A Strategic Investment in AI Hardware Innovation and European AI Ascendancy",
    "The startup, founded by former Stability AI researchers Robin Rombach, Andreas Blattmann, and Patrick Esser, has already secured key partnerships with [Meta](https://chart.ainvest.com/NASDAQ-META/)[META--](//www.ainvest.com/stocks/NASDAQ-META/), [Adobe](https://chart.ainvest.com/NASDAQ-ADBE/)[ADBE--](//www.ainvest.com/stocks/NASDAQ-ADBE/), and [xAI](https://chart.ainvest.com/XAIUSDT/?exchange=BINANCE)[XAI--](https://chart.ainvest.com/XAIUSDT/?exchange=BINANCE), integrating its Flux series of image-generation and editing models into these platforms, according to an [Observer report](https://observer.com/2025/09/german-ai-startup-black-forest-labs-4b-valuation/)."
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   "url": "https://itiger.com/news/1199192651",
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   "title": "12 Immigrant Founders Behind Today\u2019s Top A.I. Companies",
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    "### **Elon Musk,**** founder of** **xAI;**** co-founder of** **OpenAI**** and** **Neuralink**",
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   "url": "https://observer.com/2026/07/immigrant-ai-founders-multibillion-dollar-startup",
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   "url": "https://observer.com/2026/07/immigrant-ai-founders-multibillion-dollar-startup",
   "title": "12 Immigrant Founders Behind Today\u2019s Top A.I. Companies",
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    "## The Builders Behind Big Tech AI Are Now Building Their Own",
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    "- In another fallout, AMI Labs had raised $1 billion in March, months after Meta\u2019s chief AI scientist Yann LeCun stepped down as founder.",
    "## The Builders Behind Big Tech AI Are Now Building Their Own",
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   "url": "https://inspirepreneurmagazine.com/business/meta-google-and-openais-top-staff-are-leaving-to-launch-ai-startups",
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    "- In months, ex-Anthropic and DeepMind staff scored $335 million for chip design AI startup Ricursive Intelligence.",
    "## What This Means for the AI Industry",
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    "- In months, ex-Anthropic and DeepMind staff scored $335 million for chip design AI startup Ricursive Intelligence.",
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    "- In months, ex-Anthropic and DeepMind staff scored $335 million for chip design AI startup Ricursive Intelligence.",
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   "url": "https://inspirepreneurmagazine.com/business/meta-google-and-openais-top-staff-are-leaving-to-launch-ai-startups",
   "title": "Meta, Google, and OpenAI\u2019s top staff are leaving to launch AI startups",
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   "relationship": "Former employees of Anthropic and xAI founded Humans&",
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    "*Tech is losing the biggest names in AI research as they move straight into billion-dollar funding rounds at Big Tech. This race for AI dominance is opening up new space for smaller, faster startups that are rushing to fill, and investors aren\u2019t able to write the cheques fast enough.*",
    "## What This Means for the AI Industry",
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    "## What This Means for the AI Industry",
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   "url": "https://fourweekmba.com/deepmind-mafia",
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   "url": "http://economistdiary.com/1993/10",
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    "# Black Forest Labs",
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    "- **Gr\u00fcndung**: 2024",
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   "title": "Meet Thinking Machines Lab: The Mysterious AI Startup Already Worth Billions",
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   "url": "https://wncy.com/2023/08/17/top-ex-google-brain-researchers-start-ai-research-company-in-tokyo",
   "title": "Top ex-Google Brain researchers start AI research company in Tokyo",
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   "url": "https://cryptorank.io/news/feed/426ec-inside-the-great-ai-talent-war-draining-startups-powering-big-techs-ambitions",
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   "url": "https://nextomoro.com/karl-tuyls",
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   "founding_year": "2023",
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    "# Karl Tuyls",
    "The Meta Paris director role positions Tuyls in the same Paris AI research environment that produced [Mistral AI](https://nextomoro.com/mistral-ai/) (founded by Meta FAIR Paris alumni [Guillaume Lample](https://nextomoro.com/guillaume-lample/) and [Timoth\u00e9e Lacroix](https://nextomoro.com/timothee-lacroix/) with [Arthur Mensch](https://nextomoro.com/arthur-mensch/)) and that hosts much of the European frontier-AI research workforce."
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    "# Karl Tuyls",
    "The Meta Paris director role positions Tuyls in the same Paris AI research environment that produced [Mistral AI](https://nextomoro.com/mistral-ai/) (founded by Meta FAIR Paris alumni [Guillaume Lample](https://nextomoro.com/guillaume-lample/) and [Timoth\u00e9e Lacroix](https://nextomoro.com/timothee-lacroix/) with [Arthur Mensch](https://nextomoro.com/arthur-mensch/)) and that hosts much of the European frontier-AI research workforce."
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    "# Karl Tuyls",
    "The Meta Paris director role positions Tuyls in the same Paris AI research environment that produced [Mistral AI](https://nextomoro.com/mistral-ai/) (founded by Meta FAIR Paris alumni [Guillaume Lample](https://nextomoro.com/guillaume-lample/) and [Timoth\u00e9e Lacroix](https://nextomoro.com/timothee-lacroix/) with [Arthur Mensch](https://nextomoro.com/arthur-mensch/)) and that hosts much of the European frontier-AI research workforce."
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   "url": "https://bookingagentinfo.com/news/martin-scorsese-partners-with-ai-firm-black-forest-labs-for-new-creative-initiative",
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   "url": "https://beta.venus.pp.ua/p/a%3A8223165403799%3Aai-lab-core-automation-nerdsniped-042608880",
   "title": "New AI lab Core Automation 'nerdsniped' researchers from Anthropic, Google DeepMind",
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    "New AI lab Core Automation 'nerdsniped' researchers from Anthropic, Google DeepMindLee Chong Ming,",
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   "url": "https://htx.com/es-la/news/tian-yuandong-announces-startup-venture-after-leaving-meta-LhviDjXG",
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   "url": "https://freeemailchecker.net/the-openai-mafia-15-of-the-most-notable-startups-founded-by-alumni",
   "title": "The OpenAI mafia: 15 of the most notable startups founded by alumni",
   "child_lab": "Anthropic",
   "founding_year": "2021",
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   "founders": "Dario Amodei, Daniela Amodei",
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    "Ilya Sutskever's [Safe Superintelligence](https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/12/openai-co-founder-ilya-sutskevers-safe-superintelligence-reportedly-valued-at-32b/?ref=implicator.ai) raised $2 billion at a $32 billion valuation in April 2025.",
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    "# Arthur Mensch",
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   "url": "https://itiger.com/hans/news/1199192651",
   "title": "AI Talent Exodus from Tech Giants Accelerates in Silicon Valley, Fueling Startup Boom",
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   "url": "https://itiger.com/hans/news/1199192651",
   "title": "AI Talent Exodus from Tech Giants Accelerates in Silicon Valley, Fueling Startup Boom",
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   "url": "https://itiger.com/hans/news/1199192651",
   "title": "AI Talent Exodus from Tech Giants Accelerates in Silicon Valley, Fueling Startup Boom",
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   "url": "https://itiger.com/hans/news/1199192651",
   "title": "AI Talent Exodus from Tech Giants Accelerates in Silicon Valley, Fueling Startup Boom",
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   "url": "https://itiger.com/hans/news/1199192651",
   "title": "AI Talent Exodus from Tech Giants Accelerates in Silicon Valley, Fueling Startup Boom",
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    "- [Chris Olah](/knowledge-base/people/chris-olah/) - [Anthropic](/knowledge-base/organizations/anthropic/)LabAnthropicComprehensive profile of Anthropic, founded in 2021 by seven former OpenAI researchers (Dario and Daniela Amodei, Chris Olah, Tom Brown, Jack Clark, Jared Kaplan, Sam McCandlish) with early funding...Quality: 51/100, interpretability pioneer"
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    "- [Chris Olah](/knowledge-base/people/chris-olah/) - [Anthropic](/knowledge-base/organizations/anthropic/)LabAnthropicComprehensive profile of Anthropic, founded in 2021 by seven former OpenAI researchers (Dario and Daniela Amodei, Chris Olah, Tom Brown, Jack Clark, Jared Kaplan, Sam McCandlish) with early funding...Quality: 51/100, interpretability pioneer"
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   "url": "https://bitget.com/news/detail/12560605549015",
   "title": "NVIDIA Invests in OpenAI's Co-Founders' New AI Lab, Providing Large-Scale GPU Compute Support",
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   "url": "https://europesays.com/us/967150",
   "title": "This AI startup has roughly 50 employees, no product and has never published a word of research. It's worth $32 billion - United States",
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    "## People",
    "- **[Max Welling](/people/max-welling)** [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=8200InoAAAAJ) \u2014 Professor of Machine Learning; AMLab founder (formerly Co-Founder, CuspAI (2024, primarily engaged there; retains UvA chair))"
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    "## People",
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    "## People",
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    "## People",
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   "url": "https://ai.miraheze.org/wiki/Vercept",
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    "# Vercept",
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    "# Vercept",
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    "# Vercept",
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    "# Vercept",
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  {
   "url": "https://dev.ua/en/news/top-developers-at-meta-google-and-openai-are-leaving-en-masse-for-their-own-ai-startups",
   "title": "Top developers at Meta, Google, and OpenAI are leaving en masse for their own AI startups",
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   "relationship": "David Silver, a former DeepMind researcher, launched the startup Ineffable Intelligence.",
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    "Top developers at Meta, Google, and OpenAI are leaving en masse for their own AI startups",
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    "Top developers at Meta, Google, and OpenAI are leaving en masse for their own AI startups",
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    "Top developers at Meta, Google, and OpenAI are leaving en masse for their own AI startups",
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   "url": "https://dev.ua/en/news/top-developers-at-meta-google-and-openai-are-leaving-en-masse-for-their-own-ai-startups",
   "title": "Top developers at Meta, Google, and OpenAI are leaving en masse for their own AI startups",
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   "child_lab_evidence": [
    "Top developers at Meta, Google, and OpenAI are leaving en masse for their own AI startups",
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    "Top developers at Meta, Google, and OpenAI are leaving en masse for their own AI startups",
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    "Top developers at Meta, Google, and OpenAI are leaving en masse for their own AI startups",
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   "url": "https://silicon.co.uk/cloud/ai/mira-murati-ai-startup-launches-with-some-familiar-faces-600453",
   "title": "Mira Murati AI Startup Launches With Some Familiar Faces",
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   "relationship": "Created by OpenAI's former Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati after her departure from OpenAI.",
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    "# Mira Murati AI Startup Launches With Some Familiar Faces",
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    "## Thinking Machines Lab",
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   "url": "https://synthszr.com/en/posts/japan-launches-fable-alternative-eu-blocks-it",
   "title": "Japan Launches Fable Alternative \u2014 EU Blocks It",
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    "Japan Launches Fable Alternative \u2014 EU Blocks It",
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    "Sakana, the increasingly enterprise-focused AI startup from ex-Google Brain\u2019s David Ha, launched Fugu last night: a multi-[agent](/en/glossary/agent-ki-agent) [orchestration](/en/glossary/orchestrierung) system that delivers frontier performance through a single, OpenAI-compatible API."
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    "Japan Launches Fable Alternative \u2014 EU Blocks It",
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    "Sakana, the increasingly enterprise-focused AI startup from ex-Google Brain\u2019s David Ha, launched Fugu last night: a multi-[agent](/en/glossary/agent-ki-agent) [orchestration](/en/glossary/orchestrierung) system that delivers frontier performance through a single, OpenAI-compatible API."
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   "url": "https://finance.yahoo.com/news/black-forest-labs-company-powers-195634220.html",
   "title": "Grok\u2019s image generator, Black Forest Labs, is raising $100M at a $1B valuation, say sources",
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   "child_lab_evidence": [
    "Grok\u2019s image generator, Black Forest Labs, is raising $100M at a $1B valuation, say sources",
    "Multiple sources tell us that [Black Forest Labs](https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/14/meet-black-forest-labs-the-startup-powering-elon-musks-unhinged-ai-image-generator/) \u2014 a startup that's building generative AI image models and came out of stealth two months ago with[ $31 million in funding](https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/14/meet-black-forest-labs-the-startup-powering-elon-musks-unhinged-ai-image-generator/) \u2014 is closing new funding."
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   "founding_year_evidence": null,
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    "Black Forest is not just any AI startup: The company was co-founded by the engineers who built the technology behind Stability AI.",
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    "Black Forest is not just any AI startup: The company was co-founded by the engineers who built the technology behind Stability AI.",
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   "url": "https://kunalganglani.com/blog/yann-lecun-kyutai-ai-lab-paris-open-science",
   "title": "Yann LeCun Didn't Raise $1 Billion \u2014 Here's the Real AI Story [2026]",
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    "# No, Yann LeCun Didn't Just Raise $1 Billion. The Real Story Is More Interesting.",
    "## What Is H, and Why Did It Raise $220 Million at Seed?",
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    "What is the AI startup H and what do they do?",
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    "# No, Yann LeCun Didn't Just Raise $1 Billion. The Real Story Is More Interesting.",
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    "# No, Yann LeCun Didn't Just Raise $1 Billion. The Real Story Is More Interesting.",
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    "# No, Yann LeCun Didn't Just Raise $1 Billion. The Real Story Is More Interesting.",
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   "url": "https://phychai.wordpress.com",
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   "url": "https://coinex.com/en/feed/news/6a6758978cdb784d9f47d61c",
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   "url": "https://coinex.com/en/feed/news/6a6758978cdb784d9f47d61c",
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   "url": "https://theaiinsider.tech/2024/01/16/former-leading-google-brain-scientists-launch-new-ai-research-company-in-tokyo-raise-30m",
   "title": "Former Leading Google Brain Scientists Launch New AI Research Company in Tokyo, Raise $30M",
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    "Japan\u2019s AI landscape is witnessing significant developments, with funding and innovation in the sector growing rapidly.",
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    "Japan\u2019s AI landscape is witnessing significant developments, with funding and innovation in the sector growing rapidly.",
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   "url": "https://theaiinsider.tech/2024/01/16/former-leading-google-brain-scientists-launch-new-ai-research-company-in-tokyo-raise-30m",
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   "url": "https://theaiinsider.tech/2024/01/16/former-leading-google-brain-scientists-launch-new-ai-research-company-in-tokyo-raise-30m",
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    "Ha previously served as a research scientist at Google Brain in Japan, where he led projects on [neural network](/wiki/Neural_network) architectures and evolutionary algorithms, before becoming Head of Research at [Stability AI](/wiki/Stability_AI) from 2022 to 2023."
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