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Barret Zoph, a co-founder of the AI startup Thinking Machines who left the company earlier this year to rejoin OpenAI, has found yet another job. Zoph spent two years at OpenAI and left in October 2024 to co-found Thinking Machines with Mira Murati, who had left the AI lab the month prior. In January, Zoph and another Thinking Machines co-founder, Luke Metz, quite dramatically departed from the startup to return to OpenAI. His return didn't quite stick. Zoph spent only five months at OpenAI, where he was tasked with heading AI enterprise sales. He left the company in June. And now we know where he landed. Zoph has taken a position as vice president of research at Google (which happens to be another company where he previously worked). \"We look forward to Barret returning to Google and bringing his RL and post-training expertise to Gemini,\" a Google spokesperson told the Wall Street Journal. TechCrunch reached out to OpenAI and Google for more information. It's not always easy to divine why tech executives seem to be spending less time in their roles. The turnover rate in the AI industry is high, and it's been especially high at OpenAI -- a company that, despite readying itself for an IPO and being one of the most powerful presences in the tech world, has lost a lot of critical staff over the last eight months. High-level executives -- from the departure of its COO to the recent loss of one of its top data center execs -- has left onlookers scratching their heads.](https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/27/barret-zoph-the-thinking-machines-co-founder-who-defected-to-openai-is-now-at-google/)" ] }, { "url": "https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kUC1LDJXLUDMuW3IuQ08764ao2pRuoRpuQvCBopwCw8/edit?usp=sharing", "title": "Ai startups, founders and funding - ex OpenAi, DeepMind, Meta", "parent_lab": "OpenAI", "child_lab": null, "child_founded_year": null, "founders_from_parent": null, "source_quality_note": "another source", "parent_lab_evidence": [ "| Startup (Founded) | Founder(s) & Prior Role at OpenAI | Funding Raised (Year) |", "| Anthropic (2021) | Dario Amodei (former VP of Research, OpenAI), Daniela Amodei (former OpenAI exec), plus others. Focus on safe AI. John Schulman (OpenAI co-founder) joined in 2024. | $580 M in 2022 (led by FTX); >$6 B committed in 2023 (incl. $4 B from Amazon, $2 B from Google). Valued ~$61 B in 2025. |" ], "child_lab_evidence": null, "child_founded_year_evidence": null, "founders_from_parent_evidence": null, "source_quality_note_evidence": [ "| Startup (Founded) | Founder(s) & Prior Role at OpenAI | Funding Raised (Year) |", "| Anthropic (2021) | Dario Amodei (former VP of Research, OpenAI), Daniela Amodei (former OpenAI exec), plus others. Focus on safe AI. John Schulman (OpenAI co-founder) joined in 2024. | $580 M in 2022 (led by FTX); >$6 B committed in 2023 (incl. $4 B from Amazon, $2 B from Google). Valued ~$61 B in 2025. |" ] }, { "url": "https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kUC1LDJXLUDMuW3IuQ08764ao2pRuoRpuQvCBopwCw8/edit?usp=sharing", "title": "Ai startups, founders and funding - ex OpenAi, DeepMind, Meta", "parent_lab": "OpenAI", "child_lab": null, "child_founded_year": null, "founders_from_parent": null, "source_quality_note": "another source", "parent_lab_evidence": [ "| Startup (Founded) | Founder(s) & Prior Role at OpenAI | Funding Raised (Year) |", "| Safe Superintelligence (SSI, 2024) | Ilya Sutskever (OpenAI co-founder & Chief Scientist); co-founded with Daniel Gross (ex-Apple AI lead) and Daniel Levy (ex-OpenAI researcher). Aims to develop a \u201csafe superintelligence.\u201d | $1 B seed raised 2024 (valuation ~$5 B); reportedly $2 B total by 2025 (valuation ~$32 B). |" ], "child_lab_evidence": null, "child_founded_year_evidence": null, "founders_from_parent_evidence": null, "source_quality_note_evidence": [ "| Startup (Founded) | Founder(s) & Prior Role at OpenAI | Funding Raised (Year) |", "| Safe Superintelligence (SSI, 2024) | Ilya Sutskever (OpenAI co-founder & Chief Scientist); co-founded with Daniel Gross (ex-Apple AI lead) and Daniel Levy (ex-OpenAI researcher). Aims to develop a \u201csafe superintelligence.\u201d | $1 B seed raised 2024 (valuation ~$5 B); reportedly $2 B total by 2025 (valuation ~$32 B). |" ] }, { "url": "https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kUC1LDJXLUDMuW3IuQ08764ao2pRuoRpuQvCBopwCw8/edit?usp=sharing", "title": "Ai startups, founders and funding - ex OpenAi, DeepMind, Meta", "parent_lab": "OpenAI", "child_lab": null, "child_founded_year": null, "founders_from_parent": null, "source_quality_note": "another source", "parent_lab_evidence": [ "| Startup (Founded) | Founder(s) & Prior Role at OpenAI | Funding Raised (Year) |", "| 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). |" ], "child_lab_evidence": null, "child_founded_year_evidence": null, "founders_from_parent_evidence": null, "source_quality_note_evidence": [ "| Startup (Founded) | Founder(s) & Prior Role at OpenAI | Funding Raised (Year) |", "| 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). |" ] }, { "url": "https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kUC1LDJXLUDMuW3IuQ08764ao2pRuoRpuQvCBopwCw8/edit?usp=sharing", "title": "Ai startups, founders and funding - ex OpenAi, DeepMind, Meta", "parent_lab": "OpenAI", "child_lab": null, "child_founded_year": null, "founders_from_parent": null, "source_quality_note": "another source", "parent_lab_evidence": [ "| Startup (Founded) | Founder(s) & Prior Role at OpenAI | Funding Raised (Year) |", "| 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. |" ], "child_lab_evidence": null, "child_founded_year_evidence": null, "founders_from_parent_evidence": null, "source_quality_note_evidence": [ "| Startup (Founded) | Founder(s) & Prior Role at OpenAI | Funding Raised (Year) |", "| 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. |" ] }, { "url": "https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kUC1LDJXLUDMuW3IuQ08764ao2pRuoRpuQvCBopwCw8/edit?usp=sharing", "title": "Ai startups, founders and funding - ex OpenAi, DeepMind, Meta", "parent_lab": "OpenAI", "child_lab": null, "child_founded_year": null, "founders_from_parent": null, "source_quality_note": "another source", "parent_lab_evidence": [ "| Startup (Founded) | Founder(s) & Prior Role at OpenAI | Funding Raised (Year) |", "| xAI (2023) | Team includes: Kyle Kosic (ex-OpenAI engineer, xAI co-founder & infra lead). (Elon Musk is founder and CEO.) Focus on a ChatGPT competitor (\u201cGrok\u201d). | Backed primarily by Musk\u2019s capital (no public VC round). In 2024, xAI acquired Twitter (X) in an all-stock deal valuing the combined entity at $113 B. |" ], "child_lab_evidence": null, "child_founded_year_evidence": null, "founders_from_parent_evidence": null, "source_quality_note_evidence": [ "| Startup (Founded) | Founder(s) & Prior Role at OpenAI | Funding Raised (Year) |", "| xAI (2023) | Team includes: Kyle Kosic (ex-OpenAI engineer, xAI co-founder & infra lead). (Elon Musk is founder and CEO.) Focus on a ChatGPT competitor (\u201cGrok\u201d). | Backed primarily by Musk\u2019s capital (no public VC round). In 2024, xAI acquired Twitter (X) in an all-stock deal valuing the combined entity at $113 B. |" ] }, { "url": "https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kUC1LDJXLUDMuW3IuQ08764ao2pRuoRpuQvCBopwCw8/edit?usp=sharing", "title": "Ai startups, founders and funding - ex OpenAi, DeepMind, Meta", "parent_lab": "OpenAI", "child_lab": null, "child_founded_year": null, "founders_from_parent": null, "source_quality_note": "another source", "parent_lab_evidence": [ "| Startup (Founded) | Founder(s) & Prior Role at OpenAI | Funding Raised (Year) |", "| 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). |" ], "child_lab_evidence": null, "child_founded_year_evidence": null, "founders_from_parent_evidence": null, "source_quality_note_evidence": [ "| Startup (Founded) | Founder(s) & Prior Role at OpenAI | Funding Raised (Year) |", "| 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). |" ] }, { "url": "https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kUC1LDJXLUDMuW3IuQ08764ao2pRuoRpuQvCBopwCw8/edit?usp=sharing", "title": "Ai startups, founders and funding - ex OpenAi, DeepMind, Meta", "parent_lab": "OpenAI", "child_lab": null, "child_founded_year": null, "founders_from_parent": null, "source_quality_note": "another source", "parent_lab_evidence": [ "| Startup (Founded) | Founder(s) & Prior Role at OpenAI | Funding Raised (Year) |", "| 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). |" ], "child_lab_evidence": null, "child_founded_year_evidence": null, "founders_from_parent_evidence": null, "source_quality_note_evidence": [ "| Startup (Founded) | Founder(s) & Prior Role at OpenAI | Funding Raised (Year) |", "| 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). |" ] }, { "url": "https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kUC1LDJXLUDMuW3IuQ08764ao2pRuoRpuQvCBopwCw8/edit?usp=sharing", "title": "Ai startups, founders and funding - ex OpenAi, DeepMind, Meta", "parent_lab": "OpenAI", "child_lab": null, "child_founded_year": null, "founders_from_parent": null, "source_quality_note": "another source", "parent_lab_evidence": [ "| Startup (Founded) | Founder(s) & Prior Role at OpenAI | Funding Raised (Year) |", "| 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. |" ], "child_lab_evidence": null, "child_founded_year_evidence": null, "founders_from_parent_evidence": null, "source_quality_note_evidence": [ "| Startup (Founded) | Founder(s) & Prior Role at OpenAI | Funding Raised (Year) |", "| 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. |" ] }, { "url": "https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kUC1LDJXLUDMuW3IuQ08764ao2pRuoRpuQvCBopwCw8/edit?usp=sharing", "title": "Ai startups, founders and funding - ex OpenAi, DeepMind, Meta", "parent_lab": "OpenAI", "child_lab": null, "child_founded_year": null, "founders_from_parent": null, "source_quality_note": "another source", "parent_lab_evidence": [ "| Startup (Founded) | Founder(s) & Prior Role at OpenAI | Funding Raised (Year) |", "| Adept AI Labs (2021) | David Luan (former VP of Engineering, OpenAI); co-founded with ex-Google Brain researchers Ashish Vaswani & Niki Parmar. Builds AI \u201ccopilot\u201d tools for knowledge workers. | $350 M Series B in 2023 (valuation >$1 B). Note: Amazon later hired Adept\u2019s founders in 2024. |" ], "child_lab_evidence": null, "child_founded_year_evidence": null, "founders_from_parent_evidence": null, "source_quality_note_evidence": [ "| Startup (Founded) | Founder(s) & Prior Role at OpenAI | Funding Raised (Year) |", "| Adept AI Labs (2021) | David Luan (former VP of Engineering, OpenAI); co-founded with ex-Google Brain researchers Ashish Vaswani & Niki Parmar. Builds AI \u201ccopilot\u201d tools for knowledge workers. | $350 M Series B in 2023 (valuation >$1 B). Note: Amazon later hired Adept\u2019s founders in 2024. |" ] }, { "url": "https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kUC1LDJXLUDMuW3IuQ08764ao2pRuoRpuQvCBopwCw8/edit?usp=sharing", "title": "Ai startups, founders and funding - ex OpenAi, DeepMind, Meta", "parent_lab": "OpenAI", "child_lab": null, "child_founded_year": null, "founders_from_parent": null, "source_quality_note": "another source", "parent_lab_evidence": [ "| Startup (Founded) | Founder(s) & Prior Role at OpenAI | Funding Raised (Year) |", "| 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). |" ], "child_lab_evidence": null, "child_founded_year_evidence": null, "founders_from_parent_evidence": null, "source_quality_note_evidence": [ "| Startup (Founded) | Founder(s) & Prior Role at OpenAI | Funding Raised (Year) |", "| 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). |" ] }, { "url": "https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kUC1LDJXLUDMuW3IuQ08764ao2pRuoRpuQvCBopwCw8/edit?usp=sharing", "title": "Ai startups, founders and funding - ex OpenAi, DeepMind, Meta", "parent_lab": "OpenAI", "child_lab": null, "child_founded_year": null, "founders_from_parent": null, "source_quality_note": "another source", "parent_lab_evidence": [ "| Startup (Founded) | Founder(s) & Prior Role at OpenAI | Funding Raised (Year) |", "| Covariant (2017) | Pieter Abbeel, Rocky Duan, Peter Chen (all ex-OpenAI research scientists, 2016\u201317). Applied AI to robotics (warehouse automation). | Raised ~$70 M thru 2020; acqui-hired by Amazon in 2024 (Amazon hired all three founders and ~25% of staff). |" ], "child_lab_evidence": null, "child_founded_year_evidence": null, "founders_from_parent_evidence": null, "source_quality_note_evidence": [ "| Startup (Founded) | Founder(s) & Prior Role at OpenAI | Funding Raised (Year) |", "| Covariant (2017) | Pieter Abbeel, Rocky Duan, Peter Chen (all ex-OpenAI research scientists, 2016\u201317). Applied AI to robotics (warehouse automation). | Raised ~$70 M thru 2020; acqui-hired by Amazon in 2024 (Amazon hired all three founders and ~25% of staff). |" ] }, { "url": "https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kUC1LDJXLUDMuW3IuQ08764ao2pRuoRpuQvCBopwCw8/edit?usp=sharing", "title": "Ai startups, founders and funding - ex OpenAi, DeepMind, Meta", "parent_lab": "OpenAI", "child_lab": null, "child_founded_year": null, "founders_from_parent": null, "source_quality_note": "another source", "parent_lab_evidence": [ "| Startup (Founded) | Founder(s) & Prior Role at OpenAI | Funding Raised (Year) |", "| Living Carbon (2019) | Maddie Hall (ex-OpenAI \u201cSpecial Projects\u201d team) \u2013 co-founder/CEO of Living Carbon (bioengineering plants for carbon capture). | $36 M total funding by 2023 (incl. $21 M Series A in 2023). |" ], "child_lab_evidence": null, "child_founded_year_evidence": null, "founders_from_parent_evidence": null, "source_quality_note_evidence": [ "| Startup (Founded) | Founder(s) & Prior Role at OpenAI | Funding Raised (Year) |", "| Living Carbon (2019) | Maddie Hall (ex-OpenAI \u201cSpecial Projects\u201d team) \u2013 co-founder/CEO of Living Carbon (bioengineering plants for carbon capture). | $36 M total funding by 2023 (incl. $21 M Series A in 2023). |" ] }, { "url": "https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kUC1LDJXLUDMuW3IuQ08764ao2pRuoRpuQvCBopwCw8/edit?usp=sharing", "title": "Ai startups, founders and funding - ex OpenAi, DeepMind, Meta", "parent_lab": "OpenAI", "child_lab": null, "child_founded_year": null, "founders_from_parent": null, "source_quality_note": "another source", "parent_lab_evidence": [ "| Startup (Founded) | Founder(s) & Prior Role at OpenAI | Funding Raised (Year) |", "| Prosper Robotics (2021) | Shariq Hashme (worked at OpenAI in 2017 on Dota bot) \u2013 co-founder of Prosper (London-based home robotics startup). | Minimal/undisclosed (seed-stage; building a robot butler). |" ], "child_lab_evidence": null, "child_founded_year_evidence": null, "founders_from_parent_evidence": null, "source_quality_note_evidence": [ "| Startup (Founded) | Founder(s) & Prior Role at OpenAI | Funding Raised (Year) |", "| Prosper Robotics (2021) | Shariq Hashme (worked at OpenAI in 2017 on Dota bot) \u2013 co-founder of Prosper (London-based home robotics startup). | Minimal/undisclosed (seed-stage; building a robot butler). |" ] }, { "url": "https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kUC1LDJXLUDMuW3IuQ08764ao2pRuoRpuQvCBopwCw8/edit?usp=sharing", "title": "Ai startups, founders and funding - ex OpenAi, DeepMind, Meta", "parent_lab": "OpenAI", "child_lab": null, "child_founded_year": null, "founders_from_parent": null, "source_quality_note": "another source", "parent_lab_evidence": [ "| Startup (Founded) | Founder(s) & Prior Role at OpenAI | Funding Raised (Year) |", "| Daedalus (2019) | Jonas Schneider (former OpenAI Robotics Engineering Lead) \u2013 co-founder of Daedalus (AI-driven precision manufacturing). | $21 M Series A in 2024 (Khosla Ventures led). |" ], "child_lab_evidence": null, "child_founded_year_evidence": null, "founders_from_parent_evidence": null, "source_quality_note_evidence": [ "| Startup (Founded) | Founder(s) & Prior Role at OpenAI | Funding Raised (Year) |", "| Daedalus (2019) | Jonas Schneider (former OpenAI Robotics Engineering Lead) \u2013 co-founder of Daedalus (AI-driven precision manufacturing). | $21 M Series A in 2024 (Khosla Ventures led). |" ] }, { "url": "https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kUC1LDJXLUDMuW3IuQ08764ao2pRuoRpuQvCBopwCw8/edit?usp=sharing", "title": "Ai startups, founders and funding - ex OpenAi, DeepMind, Meta", "parent_lab": "OpenAI", "child_lab": null, "child_founded_year": null, "founders_from_parent": null, "source_quality_note": "another source", "parent_lab_evidence": [ "| Startup (Founded) | Founder(s) & Prior Role at OpenAI | Funding Raised (Year) |", "| Kindo (2023) | Margaret Jennings (former OpenAI product manager, 2022\u201323) \u2013 co-founder of Kindo (enterprise AI chatbot platform). | $27 M total funding (raised $20.6 M Series A in 2024). (Jennings left in 2024 to join Mistral AI). |" ], "child_lab_evidence": null, "child_founded_year_evidence": null, "founders_from_parent_evidence": null, "source_quality_note_evidence": [ "| Startup (Founded) | Founder(s) & Prior Role at OpenAI | Funding Raised (Year) |", "| Kindo (2023) | Margaret Jennings (former OpenAI product manager, 2022\u201323) \u2013 co-founder of Kindo (enterprise AI chatbot platform). | $27 M total funding (raised $20.6 M Series A in 2024). (Jennings left in 2024 to join Mistral AI). |" ] }, { "url": "https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kUC1LDJXLUDMuW3IuQ08764ao2pRuoRpuQvCBopwCw8/edit?usp=sharing", "title": "Ai startups, founders and funding - ex OpenAi, DeepMind, Meta", "parent_lab": "OpenAI", "child_lab": null, "child_founded_year": null, "founders_from_parent": null, "source_quality_note": "another source", "parent_lab_evidence": [ "| Startup (Founded) | Founder(s) & Prior Role at OpenAI | Funding Raised (Year) |", "| Periodic Labs (2025) | Liam Fedus (former VP of Research (post-training), OpenAI) and Ekin Do\u011fu\u015f \u00c7ubuk (former Google DeepMind research scientist). Applying AI to material science (\u201cAI for discovery of new materials\u201d). | Seed-stage, in stealth (no public funding data yet). |" ], "child_lab_evidence": null, "child_founded_year_evidence": null, "founders_from_parent_evidence": null, "source_quality_note_evidence": [ "| Startup (Founded) | Founder(s) & Prior Role at OpenAI | Funding Raised (Year) |", "| Periodic Labs (2025) | Liam Fedus (former VP of Research (post-training), OpenAI) and Ekin Do\u011fu\u015f \u00c7ubuk (former Google DeepMind research scientist). Applying AI to material science (\u201cAI for discovery of new materials\u201d). | Seed-stage, in stealth (no public funding data yet). |" ] }, { "url": "https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kUC1LDJXLUDMuW3IuQ08764ao2pRuoRpuQvCBopwCw8/edit?usp=sharing", "title": "Ai startups, founders and funding - ex OpenAi, DeepMind, Meta", "parent_lab": "OpenAI", "child_lab": null, "child_founded_year": null, "founders_from_parent": null, "source_quality_note": "another source", "parent_lab_evidence": [ "| Startup (Founded) | Founder(s) & Prior Role at OpenAI | Funding Raised (Year) |", "| Applied Compute (2025) | Rhythm Garg, Linden Li, Yash Patil (all ex-OpenAI engineers from the reinforcement learning team). Developing large-scale RL-based AI systems (reasoning models). | $20 M raised 2025 (Benchmark-led seed; ~$100 M pre-money valuation). Additional investor interest at 5\u00d7 higher valuation post-round. |" ], "child_lab_evidence": null, "child_founded_year_evidence": null, "founders_from_parent_evidence": null, "source_quality_note_evidence": [ "| Startup (Founded) | Founder(s) & Prior Role at OpenAI | Funding Raised (Year) |", "| Applied Compute (2025) | Rhythm Garg, Linden Li, Yash Patil (all ex-OpenAI engineers from the reinforcement learning team). Developing large-scale RL-based AI systems (reasoning models). | $20 M raised 2025 (Benchmark-led seed; ~$100 M pre-money valuation). Additional investor interest at 5\u00d7 higher valuation post-round. |" ] }, { "url": "https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kUC1LDJXLUDMuW3IuQ08764ao2pRuoRpuQvCBopwCw8/edit?usp=sharing", "title": "Ai startups, founders and funding - ex OpenAi, DeepMind, Meta", "parent_lab": "DeepMind", "child_lab": null, "child_founded_year": null, "founders_from_parent": null, "source_quality_note": "another source", "parent_lab_evidence": [ "| Startup (Founded) | Founder(s) & Prior Role at DeepMind | Funding Raised (Year) |", "| Inflection AI (2022) | Mustafa Suleyman (DeepMind co-founder) and Kar\u00e9n Simonyan (ex-DeepMind Principal Research Scientist). Also co-founded by Reid Hoffman. Builds conversational AI (Inflection\u2019s chatbot Pi). | $1.3 B mega-round in June 2023 led by Microsoft & Nvidia. Earlier raised $225 M (2022). Valued around $4 B in 2023. |" ], "child_lab_evidence": null, "child_founded_year_evidence": null, "founders_from_parent_evidence": null, "source_quality_note_evidence": [ "| Startup (Founded) | Founder(s) & Prior Role at DeepMind | Funding Raised (Year) |", "| Inflection AI (2022) | Mustafa Suleyman (DeepMind co-founder) and Kar\u00e9n Simonyan (ex-DeepMind Principal Research Scientist). Also co-founded by Reid Hoffman. Builds conversational AI (Inflection\u2019s chatbot Pi). | $1.3 B mega-round in June 2023 led by Microsoft & Nvidia. Earlier raised $225 M (2022). Valued around $4 B in 2023. |" ] }, { "url": "https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kUC1LDJXLUDMuW3IuQ08764ao2pRuoRpuQvCBopwCw8/edit?usp=sharing", "title": "Ai startups, founders and funding - ex OpenAi, DeepMind, Meta", "parent_lab": "DeepMind", "child_lab": null, "child_founded_year": null, "founders_from_parent": null, "source_quality_note": "another source", "parent_lab_evidence": [ "| Startup (Founded) | Founder(s) & Prior Role at DeepMind | Funding Raised (Year) |", "| Mistral AI (2023) | Arthur Mensch (former DeepMind senior researcher); co-founders Guillaume Lample & Timoth\u00e9e Lacroix (both ex-Meta AI researchers). Paris-based, building open-source LLMs. | \u20ac105 M (~$113 M) seed in June 2023; \u20ac385 M Series A in Dec 2023; \u20ac600 M round in mid-2024 (valuation \u2248 \u20ac5.8 B). Valued >$2 B by late 2023. |" ], "child_lab_evidence": null, "child_founded_year_evidence": null, "founders_from_parent_evidence": null, "source_quality_note_evidence": [ "| Startup (Founded) | Founder(s) & Prior Role at DeepMind | Funding Raised (Year) |", "| Mistral AI (2023) | Arthur Mensch (former DeepMind senior researcher); co-founders Guillaume Lample & Timoth\u00e9e Lacroix (both ex-Meta AI researchers). Paris-based, building open-source LLMs. | \u20ac105 M (~$113 M) seed in June 2023; \u20ac385 M Series A in Dec 2023; \u20ac600 M round in mid-2024 (valuation \u2248 \u20ac5.8 B). Valued >$2 B by late 2023. |" ] }, { "url": "https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kUC1LDJXLUDMuW3IuQ08764ao2pRuoRpuQvCBopwCw8/edit?usp=sharing", "title": "Ai startups, founders and funding - ex OpenAi, DeepMind, Meta", "parent_lab": "DeepMind", "child_lab": null, "child_founded_year": null, "founders_from_parent": null, "source_quality_note": "another source", "parent_lab_evidence": [ "| Startup (Founded) | Founder(s) & Prior Role at DeepMind | Funding Raised (Year) |", "| H (2024) | Karl Tuyls, Laurent Sifre, Julien Perolat, Daan Wierstra (all ex-DeepMind research scientists). Based in Paris, building foundational AI models. | $220 M seed (2024) in equity + debt \u2013 one of Europe\u2019s largest seed rounds, led by Accel with Amazon participating. |" ], "child_lab_evidence": null, "child_founded_year_evidence": null, "founders_from_parent_evidence": null, "source_quality_note_evidence": [ "| Startup (Founded) | Founder(s) & Prior Role at DeepMind | Funding Raised (Year) |", "| H (2024) | Karl Tuyls, Laurent Sifre, Julien Perolat, Daan Wierstra (all ex-DeepMind research scientists). Based in Paris, building foundational AI models. | $220 M seed (2024) in equity + debt \u2013 one of Europe\u2019s largest seed rounds, led by Accel with Amazon participating. |" ] }, { "url": "https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kUC1LDJXLUDMuW3IuQ08764ao2pRuoRpuQvCBopwCw8/edit?usp=sharing", "title": "Ai startups, founders and funding - ex OpenAi, DeepMind, Meta", "parent_lab": "DeepMind", "child_lab": null, "child_founded_year": null, "founders_from_parent": null, "source_quality_note": "another source", "parent_lab_evidence": [ "| Startup (Founded) | Founder(s) & Prior Role at DeepMind | Funding Raised (Year) |", "| EquiLibre (2022) | Martin Schmid, Matej Morav\u010d\u00edk, Rudolf Kadlec (ex-DeepMind research scientists). Developing AI for algorithmic trading. HQ in Prague. | $17 M seed funding (2022); partnership with Tower Research Capital in trading domain. |" ], "child_lab_evidence": null, "child_founded_year_evidence": null, "founders_from_parent_evidence": null, "source_quality_note_evidence": [ "| Startup (Founded) | Founder(s) & Prior Role at DeepMind | Funding Raised (Year) |", "| EquiLibre (2022) | Martin Schmid, Matej Morav\u010d\u00edk, Rudolf Kadlec (ex-DeepMind research scientists). Developing AI for algorithmic trading. HQ in Prague. | $17 M seed funding (2022); partnership with Tower Research Capital in trading domain. |" ] }, { "url": "https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kUC1LDJXLUDMuW3IuQ08764ao2pRuoRpuQvCBopwCw8/edit?usp=sharing", "title": "Ai startups, founders and funding - ex OpenAi, DeepMind, Meta", "parent_lab": "DeepMind", "child_lab": null, "child_founded_year": null, "founders_from_parent": null, "source_quality_note": "another source", "parent_lab_evidence": [ "| Startup (Founded) | Founder(s) & Prior Role at DeepMind | Funding Raised (Year) |", "| Orbital Materials (2022) | Jonathan Godwin (ex-DeepMind senior researcher); co-founders Daniel Miodovnik and James Gin\u2010Pollock. Applying generative AI to discover new materials (e.g. for energy, carbon capture). London-based. | $4.8 M seed round in 2022 (Fly Ventures, etc.). Building AI models for material design. |" ], "child_lab_evidence": null, "child_founded_year_evidence": null, "founders_from_parent_evidence": null, "source_quality_note_evidence": [ "| Startup (Founded) | Founder(s) & Prior Role at DeepMind | Funding Raised (Year) |", "| Orbital Materials (2022) | Jonathan Godwin (ex-DeepMind senior researcher); co-founders Daniel Miodovnik and James Gin\u2010Pollock. Applying generative AI to discover new materials (e.g. for energy, carbon capture). London-based. | $4.8 M seed round in 2022 (Fly Ventures, etc.). Building AI models for material design. |" ] }, { "url": "https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kUC1LDJXLUDMuW3IuQ08764ao2pRuoRpuQvCBopwCw8/edit?usp=sharing", "title": "Ai startups, founders and funding - ex OpenAi, DeepMind, Meta", "parent_lab": "DeepMind", "child_lab": null, "child_founded_year": null, "founders_from_parent": null, "source_quality_note": "another source", "parent_lab_evidence": [ "| Startup (Founded) | Founder(s) & Prior Role at DeepMind | Funding Raised (Year) |", "| Latent Labs (2023) | Simon Kohl (ex-DeepMind, AlphaFold/AlphaDesign team lead) \u2013 CEO of Latent Labs (biotech AI for protein design). | $40 M Series A (2023) to design novel proteins with generative AI. Focused on AI-driven protein engineering (a \u201claser-focused\u201d approach vs. broader efforts). |" ], "child_lab_evidence": null, "child_founded_year_evidence": null, "founders_from_parent_evidence": null, "source_quality_note_evidence": [ "| Startup (Founded) | Founder(s) & Prior Role at DeepMind | Funding Raised (Year) |", "| Latent Labs (2023) | Simon Kohl (ex-DeepMind, AlphaFold/AlphaDesign team lead) \u2013 CEO of Latent Labs (biotech AI for protein design). | $40 M Series A (2023) to design novel proteins with generative AI. Focused on AI-driven protein engineering (a \u201claser-focused\u201d approach vs. broader efforts). |" ] }, { "url": "https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kUC1LDJXLUDMuW3IuQ08764ao2pRuoRpuQvCBopwCw8/edit?usp=sharing", "title": "Ai startups, founders and funding - ex OpenAi, DeepMind, Meta", "parent_lab": "DeepMind", "child_lab": null, "child_founded_year": null, "founders_from_parent": null, "source_quality_note": "another source", "parent_lab_evidence": [ "| Startup (Founded) | Founder(s) & Prior Role at DeepMind | Funding Raised (Year) |", "| 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. |" ], "child_lab_evidence": null, "child_founded_year_evidence": null, "founders_from_parent_evidence": null, "source_quality_note_evidence": [ "| Startup (Founded) | Founder(s) & Prior Role at DeepMind | Funding Raised (Year) |", "| 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. |" ] }, { "url": "https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kUC1LDJXLUDMuW3IuQ08764ao2pRuoRpuQvCBopwCw8/edit?usp=sharing", "title": "Ai startups, founders and funding - ex OpenAi, DeepMind, Meta", "parent_lab": "DeepMind", "child_lab": null, "child_founded_year": null, "founders_from_parent": null, "source_quality_note": "another source", "parent_lab_evidence": [ "| Startup (Founded) | Founder(s) & Prior Role at DeepMind | Funding Raised (Year) |", "| Iconic AI (2023) | Piotr Trochim (ex-DeepMind software engineer). A London-based video game studio using AI for immersive storytelling. | $4 M seed (2023) to build its first AI-driven narrative game. |" ], "child_lab_evidence": null, "child_founded_year_evidence": null, "founders_from_parent_evidence": null, "source_quality_note_evidence": [ "| Startup (Founded) | Founder(s) & Prior Role at DeepMind | Funding Raised (Year) |", "| Iconic AI (2023) | Piotr Trochim (ex-DeepMind software engineer). A London-based video game studio using AI for immersive storytelling. | $4 M seed (2023) to build its first AI-driven narrative game. |" ] }, { "url": "https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kUC1LDJXLUDMuW3IuQ08764ao2pRuoRpuQvCBopwCw8/edit?usp=sharing", "title": "Ai startups, founders and funding - ex OpenAi, DeepMind, Meta", "parent_lab": "DeepMind", "child_lab": null, "child_founded_year": null, "founders_from_parent": null, "source_quality_note": "another source", "parent_lab_evidence": [ "| Startup (Founded) | Founder(s) & Prior Role at DeepMind | Funding Raised (Year) |", "| Human Native AI (2024) | James Smith (former DeepMind product manager). London startup creating a licensed data marketplace for AI model training. | \u00a32.8 M (~$3.5 M) seed in 2024 (led by LAUNCHub). Product in beta with pilot customers. |" ], "child_lab_evidence": null, "child_founded_year_evidence": null, "founders_from_parent_evidence": null, "source_quality_note_evidence": [ "| Startup (Founded) | Founder(s) & Prior Role at DeepMind | Funding Raised (Year) |", "| Human Native AI (2024) | James Smith (former DeepMind product manager). London startup creating a licensed data marketplace for AI model training. | \u00a32.8 M (~$3.5 M) seed in 2024 (led by LAUNCHub). Product in beta with pilot customers. |" ] }, { "url": "https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kUC1LDJXLUDMuW3IuQ08764ao2pRuoRpuQvCBopwCw8/edit?usp=sharing", "title": "Ai startups, founders and funding - ex OpenAi, DeepMind, Meta", "parent_lab": "DeepMind", "child_lab": null, "child_founded_year": null, "founders_from_parent": null, "source_quality_note": "another source", "parent_lab_evidence": [ "| Startup (Founded) | Founder(s) & Prior Role at DeepMind | Funding Raised (Year) |", "| Phare Health (2023) | Dr. Martin Seneviratne and Lee Kupferman (ex-DeepMind clinicians/researchers). London-based, applying AI to hospital back-office operations (e.g. medical coding automation). | \u00a32.5 M (~$3.1 M) seed in 2023 (General Catalyst led). Already working with multiple hospitals in US and UK. |" ], "child_lab_evidence": null, "child_founded_year_evidence": null, "founders_from_parent_evidence": null, "source_quality_note_evidence": [ "| Startup (Founded) | Founder(s) & Prior Role at DeepMind | Funding Raised (Year) |", "| Phare Health (2023) | Dr. Martin Seneviratne and Lee Kupferman (ex-DeepMind clinicians/researchers). London-based, applying AI to hospital back-office operations (e.g. medical coding automation). | \u00a32.5 M (~$3.1 M) seed in 2023 (General Catalyst led). Already working with multiple hospitals in US and UK. |" ] }, { "url": "https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kUC1LDJXLUDMuW3IuQ08764ao2pRuoRpuQvCBopwCw8/edit?usp=sharing", "title": "Ai startups, founders and funding - ex OpenAi, DeepMind, Meta", "parent_lab": "DeepMind", "child_lab": null, "child_founded_year": null, "founders_from_parent": null, "source_quality_note": "another source", "parent_lab_evidence": [ "| Startup (Founded) | Founder(s) & Prior Role at DeepMind | Funding Raised (Year) |", "| Inductiva AI (2021) | Hugo Penedones (ex-DeepMind research scientist). Based in Porto, building AI tools to simulate and optimize physical processes (for scientists and engineers). | \u20ac2.3 M (~$2.5 M) seed funding (2021) (from VC Indico Capital, etc.). |" ], "child_lab_evidence": null, "child_founded_year_evidence": null, "founders_from_parent_evidence": null, "source_quality_note_evidence": [ "| Startup (Founded) | Founder(s) & Prior Role at DeepMind | Funding Raised (Year) |", "| Inductiva AI (2021) | Hugo Penedones (ex-DeepMind research scientist). Based in Porto, building AI tools to simulate and optimize physical processes (for scientists and engineers). | \u20ac2.3 M (~$2.5 M) seed funding (2021) (from VC Indico Capital, etc.). |" ] }, { "url": "https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kUC1LDJXLUDMuW3IuQ08764ao2pRuoRpuQvCBopwCw8/edit?usp=sharing", "title": "Ai startups, founders and funding - ex OpenAi, DeepMind, Meta", "parent_lab": "DeepMind", "child_lab": null, "child_founded_year": null, "founders_from_parent": null, "source_quality_note": "another source", "parent_lab_evidence": [ "| Startup (Founded) | Founder(s) & Prior Role at DeepMind | Funding Raised (Year) |", "| Finister AI (2023) | Siddhant Jayakumar (ex-DeepMind research engineer, 7-year veteran). London startup using AI to streamline investment banking workflows. | $1.8 M pre-seed (Dec 2023) (Hoxton Ventures and others). Has ~10 employees and early pilot customers in finance. |" ], "child_lab_evidence": null, "child_founded_year_evidence": null, "founders_from_parent_evidence": null, "source_quality_note_evidence": [ "| Startup (Founded) | Founder(s) & Prior Role at DeepMind | Funding Raised (Year) |", "| Finister AI (2023) | Siddhant Jayakumar (ex-DeepMind research engineer, 7-year veteran). London startup using AI to streamline investment banking workflows. | $1.8 M pre-seed (Dec 2023) (Hoxton Ventures and others). Has ~10 employees and early pilot customers in finance. |" ] }, { "url": "https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kUC1LDJXLUDMuW3IuQ08764ao2pRuoRpuQvCBopwCw8/edit?usp=sharing", "title": "Ai startups, founders and funding - ex OpenAi, DeepMind, Meta", "parent_lab": "DeepMind", "child_lab": null, "child_founded_year": null, "founders_from_parent": null, "source_quality_note": "another source", "parent_lab_evidence": [ "| Startup (Founded) | Founder(s) & Prior Role at DeepMind | Funding Raised (Year) |", "| Adia Thermal (2023) | Sam Duke (former DeepMind engineer). Developing smart home hardware \u2013 an AI-driven heat pump installer/controller for efficient heating. | ~\u00a31 M in initial funding (2023). Currently raising a larger seed round; first units in production in 2024. |" ], "child_lab_evidence": null, "child_founded_year_evidence": null, "founders_from_parent_evidence": null, "source_quality_note_evidence": [ "| Startup (Founded) | Founder(s) & Prior Role at DeepMind | Funding Raised (Year) |", "| Adia Thermal (2023) | Sam Duke (former DeepMind engineer). Developing smart home hardware \u2013 an AI-driven heat pump installer/controller for efficient heating. | ~\u00a31 M in initial funding (2023). Currently raising a larger seed round; first units in production in 2024. |" ] }, { "url": "https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kUC1LDJXLUDMuW3IuQ08764ao2pRuoRpuQvCBopwCw8/edit?usp=sharing", "title": "Ai startups, founders and funding - ex OpenAi, DeepMind, Meta", "parent_lab": "DeepMind", "child_lab": null, "child_founded_year": null, "founders_from_parent": null, "source_quality_note": "another source", "parent_lab_evidence": [ "| Startup (Founded) | Founder(s) & Prior Role at DeepMind | Funding Raised (Year) |", "| Elefant AI (2024) | Jonathan Hunt (ex-DeepMind research scientist). Building game-playing AI agents (first demo: an AI that plays Minecraft autonomously). Offices in US & UK. | Undisclosed seed (2024) \u2013 raised funding (investors include Adverb, RTP Global, SquarePeg) but not publicly announced. Developing AI for gaming applications. |" ], "child_lab_evidence": null, "child_founded_year_evidence": null, "founders_from_parent_evidence": null, "source_quality_note_evidence": [ "| Startup (Founded) | Founder(s) & Prior Role at DeepMind | Funding Raised (Year) |", "| Elefant AI (2024) | Jonathan Hunt (ex-DeepMind research scientist). Building game-playing AI agents (first demo: an AI that plays Minecraft autonomously). Offices in US & UK. | Undisclosed seed (2024) \u2013 raised funding (investors include Adverb, RTP Global, SquarePeg) but not publicly announced. Developing AI for gaming applications. |" ] }, { "url": "https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kUC1LDJXLUDMuW3IuQ08764ao2pRuoRpuQvCBopwCw8/edit?usp=sharing", "title": "Ai startups, founders and funding - ex OpenAi, DeepMind, Meta", "parent_lab": "DeepMind", "child_lab": null, "child_founded_year": null, "founders_from_parent": null, "source_quality_note": "another source", "parent_lab_evidence": [ "| Startup (Founded) | Founder(s) & Prior Role at DeepMind | Funding Raised (Year) |", "| Reliant AI (2023) | Karl Moritz Hermann (ex-DeepMind research scientist). Offices in Berlin and Montreal. Working on AI software for business intelligence. | Undisclosed funding (2023) \u2013 stealth/early-stage. Hermann left DeepMind in 2020 to pursue this venture. |" ], "child_lab_evidence": null, "child_founded_year_evidence": null, "founders_from_parent_evidence": null, "source_quality_note_evidence": [ "| Startup (Founded) | Founder(s) & Prior Role at DeepMind | Funding Raised (Year) |", "| Reliant AI (2023) | Karl Moritz Hermann (ex-DeepMind research scientist). Offices in Berlin and Montreal. Working on AI software for business intelligence. | Undisclosed funding (2023) \u2013 stealth/early-stage. Hermann left DeepMind in 2020 to pursue this venture. |" ] }, { "url": "https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kUC1LDJXLUDMuW3IuQ08764ao2pRuoRpuQvCBopwCw8/edit?usp=sharing", "title": "Ai startups, founders and funding - ex OpenAi, DeepMind, Meta", "parent_lab": "DeepMind", "child_lab": null, "child_founded_year": null, "founders_from_parent": null, "source_quality_note": "another source", "parent_lab_evidence": [ "| Startup (Founded) | Founder(s) & Prior Role at DeepMind | Funding Raised (Year) |", "| Variable State (2014) | Jonathan Burroughs (ex-DeepMind senior designer). An independent game studio known for narrative video games (Virginia, Last Stop). | No VC funding (self-funded/undisclosed). A rare early spin-out (founded 2014) from a DeepMind alumnus. |" ], "child_lab_evidence": null, "child_founded_year_evidence": null, "founders_from_parent_evidence": null, "source_quality_note_evidence": [ "| Startup (Founded) | Founder(s) & Prior Role at DeepMind | Funding Raised (Year) |", "| Variable State (2014) | Jonathan Burroughs (ex-DeepMind senior designer). An independent game studio known for narrative video games (Virginia, Last Stop). | No VC funding (self-funded/undisclosed). A rare early spin-out (founded 2014) from a DeepMind alumnus. |" ] }, { "url": "https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kUC1LDJXLUDMuW3IuQ08764ao2pRuoRpuQvCBopwCw8/edit?usp=sharing", "title": "Ai startups, founders and funding - ex OpenAi, DeepMind, Meta", "parent_lab": "DeepMind", "child_lab": null, "child_founded_year": null, "founders_from_parent": null, "source_quality_note": "another source", "parent_lab_evidence": [ "| Startup (Founded) | Founder(s) & Prior Role at DeepMind | Funding Raised (Year) |", "| Harvey (2022) | Gabriel Pereyra (ex-DeepMind research scientist) and Winston Weinberg (former lawyer). AI co-pilot for legal work (answers legal questions, drafts documents). | $5 M seed in 2022 (OpenAI Startup Fund) and $15 M Series A in 2023. Recently $300 M Series D in Feb 2025, valuing Harvey at ~$5 B. Now deployed at major law firms. |" ], "child_lab_evidence": null, "child_founded_year_evidence": null, "founders_from_parent_evidence": null, "source_quality_note_evidence": [ "| Startup (Founded) | Founder(s) & Prior Role at DeepMind | Funding Raised (Year) |", "| Harvey (2022) | Gabriel Pereyra (ex-DeepMind research scientist) and Winston Weinberg (former lawyer). AI co-pilot for legal work (answers legal questions, drafts documents). | $5 M seed in 2022 (OpenAI Startup Fund) and $15 M Series A in 2023. Recently $300 M Series D in Feb 2025, valuing Harvey at ~$5 B. Now deployed at major law firms. |" ] }, { "url": "https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kUC1LDJXLUDMuW3IuQ08764ao2pRuoRpuQvCBopwCw8/edit?usp=sharing", "title": "Ai startups, founders and funding - ex OpenAi, DeepMind, Meta", "parent_lab": "Meta AI", "child_lab": null, "child_founded_year": null, "founders_from_parent": null, "source_quality_note": "another source", "parent_lab_evidence": [ "| Startup (Founded) | Founder(s) & Prior Role at Meta AI | Funding Raised (Year) |", "| Contextual AI (2023) | Douwe Kiela (former Facebook AI Research scientist; ex-Hugging Face Head of Research) and Amanpreet Singh (ex-FAIR researcher). Building enterprise-ready foundation models (focus on knowledge retrieval and attribution). | $20 M seed in 2023 (led by Bain Capital Ventures). 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Transformer Inventors", "| Relation / Role | Name | Previous Experience / Role |", "| Founder & CEO | [Aidan Gomez](https://eboona.com/ai-startup-founder/) | Google Brain (Transformer co-author, age 20), Oxford CS (dropped out), youngest \u201cAttention Is All You Need\u201d author, 8+ AI papers |" ], "child_lab_evidence": null, "child_founded_year_evidence": null, "founders_from_parent_evidence": null, "source_quality_note_evidence": [ "## QUICK INFO BOX", "This article explores Cohere\u2019s journey from academic research lab to enterprise AI standard, and whether they become the \u201centerprise OpenAI\u201d or get outmaneuvered by hyperscaler AI offerings (Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, Google Vertex AI)." ] }, { "url": "https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/adept_ai", "title": "Adept AI", "parent_lab": "Adept AI", "child_lab": null, "child_founded_year": null, "founders_from_parent": null, "source_quality_note": "another source", "parent_lab_evidence": [ "# Adept AI", "### Co-Founder Departures and 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in the room: AI startups building promising foundational models can still open doors, and checkbooks.", "H in Paris, a generative AI startup started by DeepMind alums, [raised $220 million](https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/21/french-ai-startup-h-raises-220-million-seed-round/) in May of this year." ], "child_lab_evidence": null, "child_founded_year_evidence": null, "founders_from_parent_evidence": null, "source_quality_note_evidence": [ "While OpenAI pursues yet another [monster fundraise](https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/11/openai-reportedly-in-talks-to-raise-at-150b-valuation/), it is not stealing all the oxygen in the room: AI startups building promising foundational models can still open doors, and checkbooks." ] }, { "url": "https://presenc.ai/research/frontier-lab-tracker-thinking-machines-ssi-xai-2026", "title": "New Frontier Lab Tracker: Thinking Machines, SSI, xAI 2026", "parent_lab": "OpenAI", "child_lab": null, "child_founded_year": null, "founders_from_parent": null, 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registered a company called Mistral AI in Paris." ] }, { "url": "https://digidai.github.io/2025/11/11/arthur-mensch-mistral-ai-ceo-deep-analysis", "title": "Arthur Mensch: Mistral AI", "parent_lab": "Meta's AI Research lab", "child_lab": null, "child_founded_year": null, "founders_from_parent": null, "source_quality_note": "another source", "parent_lab_evidence": [ "# Arthur Mensch: Mistral AI", "On April 15, 2023, three French AI researchers\u2014Arthur Mensch, Guillaume Lample, and Timoth\u00e9e Lacroix\u2014quietly registered a company called Mistral AI in Paris.", "Mensch from Google DeepMind, Lample and Lacroix from Meta's AI Research lab where they had co-authored the original LLaMA paper." ], "child_lab_evidence": null, "child_founded_year_evidence": null, "founders_from_parent_evidence": null, "source_quality_note_evidence": [ "# Arthur Mensch: Mistral AI", "On April 15, 2023, three French AI researchers\u2014Arthur Mensch, Guillaume Lample, and Timoth\u00e9e Lacroix\u2014quietly registered a company called Mistral AI in Paris." ] }, { "url": "https://turingpost.com/p/inflectionai", "title": "$4B Valuation, Pi Chatbot & Microsoft Pivot", "parent_lab": "DeepMind", "child_lab": null, "child_founded_year": null, "founders_from_parent": null, "source_quality_note": "another source", "parent_lab_evidence": [ "More than a decade ago 2022 was about a time when Mustafa Suleyman (along with Demis Hassabis and Shane Legg) co-founded DeepMind, one of the first AI research labs.", "## How Inflection AI Was Founded: Mustafa Suleyman, Reid Hoffman, and Kar\u00e9n Simonyan" ], "child_lab_evidence": null, "child_founded_year_evidence": null, "founders_from_parent_evidence": null, "source_quality_note_evidence": [ "So we have to oblige, and after covering two Gen AI leaders [OpenAI ](https://www.turingpost.com/p/openaichronicle)and [Anthropic](https://www.turingpost.com/p/anthropic), we dive into the precocious startup, Inflection AI." ] }, { "url": "https://techfundingnews.com/black-forest-labs-300m-series-b-flux-image-ai", "title": "Europe\u2019s hottest AI image startup Black Forest Labs bags $300M from a16z, NVIDIA and Salesforce Ventures", "parent_lab": "Stability AI", "child_lab": null, "child_founded_year": null, "founders_from_parent": null, "source_quality_note": "another source", "parent_lab_evidence": [ "Founded in 2024 by Robin Rombach, [Andreas Blattmann](https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreas-blattmann-479038186?miniProfileUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afs_miniProfile%3AACoAACvJi50Bp0iEZ8fkITlBt5Xn3JqKQ2f_rd4&lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_search_srp_all%3BMtFKRgo3TViCc4rKUXZlLw%3D%3D), Patrick Esser, and Dominik Lorenz, Black Forest Labs aims to reclaim independence, building open frontier systems that make imagination tangible for artists and enterprises alike.", "Co-founders developed latent diffusion models at Heidelberg and LMU Munich, contributing to Stability AI\u2019s Stable Diffusion amid GPU shortages that exposed Big Tech\u2019s dominance." ], "child_lab_evidence": null, "child_founded_year_evidence": null, "founders_from_parent_evidence": null, "source_quality_note_evidence": [ "Founded in 2024 by Robin Rombach, [Andreas Blattmann](https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreas-blattmann-479038186?miniProfileUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afs_miniProfile%3AACoAACvJi50Bp0iEZ8fkITlBt5Xn3JqKQ2f_rd4&lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_search_srp_all%3BMtFKRgo3TViCc4rKUXZlLw%3D%3D), Patrick Esser, and Dominik Lorenz, Black Forest Labs aims to reclaim independence, building open frontier systems that make imagination tangible for artists and enterprises alike." ] }, { "url": "https://claudedigest.com/anthropic-history", "title": "Claude Digest", "parent_lab": "OpenAI", "child_lab": null, "child_founded_year": null, "founders_from_parent": null, "source_quality_note": "company site", "parent_lab_evidence": [ "![The history of Anthropic, told honestly](/history/claude-history.png)", "The seven who *left.*", "In early 2021, a group of 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May 9, 2026", "By Grove, an AI agent at ChatForest", "*ChatForest is an AI-native content site. 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left Google in 2021 to co-found [Adept AI](https://www.adept.ai/?ref=nextomoro.com) with [Ashish Vaswani](https://nextomoro.com/ashish-vaswani/) and [David Luan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Luan?ref=nextomoro.com), the former vice president of engineering at [OpenAI](https://nextomoro.com/openai/) and a former Google director." ], "child_lab_evidence": null, "child_founded_year_evidence": null, "founders_from_parent_evidence": null, "source_quality_note_evidence": [ "# Niki Parmar", "Niki Parmar is an Indian computer scientist, a co-author of the 2017 Google Brain transformer paper, a co-founder of Adept AI and Essential AI" ] }, { "url": "https://businessoutreach.in/mistral-ai-success-story", "title": "Mistral AI Success Story: How Europe\u2019s AI Unicorn Is Challenging OpenAI", "parent_lab": "Google DeepMind", "child_lab": null, "child_founded_year": null, "founders_from_parent": null, "source_quality_note": "another source", "parent_lab_evidence": [ "Mistral AI Success 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"source_quality_note_evidence": [ "Cohere Inc. is a Canadian multinational technology company focused on artificial intelligence." ] }, { "url": "https://eboona.com/ai-unicorn/adept-ai", "title": "Adept AI CEO, Founders, Valuation & Careers", "parent_lab": "OpenAI", "child_lab": null, "child_founded_year": null, "founders_from_parent": null, "source_quality_note": "another source", "parent_lab_evidence": [ "# Adept AI CEO, Founders, Valuation & Careers", "Founded in **2022** by **David Luan** (CEO, ex-VP of Engineering at OpenAI), **Ashish Vaswani** (co-creator of Transformers, ex-Google Brain), and **Niki Parmar** (Transformers co-creator, ex-Google Brain), Adept develops **ACT-1** (Action Transformer)\u2014foundation model trained to interact with computers, browsers, and enterprise software through natural language commands." ], "child_lab_evidence": null, "child_founded_year_evidence": null, "founders_from_parent_evidence": null, "source_quality_note_evidence": [ "# Adept AI CEO, 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Instead of working at the company right away , he worked in diplomatic affairs at [the Ministry of Foreign Affairs](/w/%EC%99%B8%EB%AC%B4%EB%B6%80) and [the World Bank](/w/%EC%84%B8%EA%B3%84%EC%9D%80%ED%96%89) from 2005 to 2015 . From 2015 to 2020, he served as the head of the European branch of [Merukari, a](/w/%EB%A9%94%EB%A3%A8%EC%B9%B4%EB%A6%AC) Japanese second-hand trading platform , and in 2022, he served as head of the European branch of [Stability AI,](/w/Stability%20AI) a British company.[1] He held the position of COO for one year. And in 2023, he will serve as co-founder and COO of Sakana AI." ], "child_lab_evidence": null, "child_founded_year_evidence": null, "founders_from_parent_evidence": null, "source_quality_note_evidence": [ "This document is available under [CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 KR](//creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/kr/). (except for some documents and illustrations where licenses are specified)" ] }, { "url": "https://technology.org/2025/10/10/former-google-deepmind-stars-secure-2b-to-challenge-deepseek-as-an-open-source-ai-lab", "title": "Reflection AI Raises $2B to Build America's Open AI Answer - Technology Org", "parent_lab": "Google DeepMind", "child_lab": null, "child_founded_year": null, "founders_from_parent": null, "source_quality_note": "another source", "parent_lab_evidence": [ "Two ex-Google DeepMind scientists have pulled off one of 2025\u2019s most dramatic funding rounds.", "Misha Laskin and Ioannis Antonoglou launched the venture in March 2024." ], "child_lab_evidence": null, "child_founded_year_evidence": null, "founders_from_parent_evidence": null, "source_quality_note_evidence": [ "Written by [Alius Noreika](https://www.technology.org/author/alius/)" ] }, { "url": "https://aiineurope.co/startups/black-forest-labs-european-open-source-image-generation-flux", "title": "Black Forest 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"founders_from_parent": null, "source_quality_note": "major news outlet", "parent_lab_evidence": [ "Barret Zoph, the Thinking Machines co-founder ousted before joining OpenAI, is now at Google", "Zoph spent two years at OpenAI and left in October 2024 to co-found Thinking Machines with Mira Murati, who had left the AI lab the month prior." ], "child_lab_evidence": null, "child_founded_year_evidence": null, "founders_from_parent_evidence": null, "source_quality_note_evidence": [ "Barret Zoph, the Thinking Machines co-founder ousted before joining OpenAI, is now at Google", "[ ![TechCrunch](https://s.yimg.com/lo/mysterio/api/85a0eba5203aa5e323ed76340c802d0c80892d54ec0ffbba38dc335dabb7e784/lightyear_networkapi/resizefill_h48%3Bquality_100%3Bformat_webp/https%3A%2F%2Fs.yimg.com%2Fos%2Fcreatr-uploaded-images%2F2021-03%2F8fafa780-9273-11eb-bde7-ba860fc23b66) ](https://techcrunch.com/)" ] }, { "url": "https://contextjamming.com/book/02-openai-schism", "title": "The OpenAI Schism \u2014 The Anthropic Book", "parent_lab": "OpenAI", "child_lab": null, "child_founded_year": null, "founders_from_parent": null, "source_quality_note": "another source", "parent_lab_evidence": [ "# The OpenAI Schism", "The standard account treats the 2021 departure of Dario Amodei, Daniela Amodei, and nine colleagues from OpenAI as a falling-out \u2014 interpersonal friction, competing visions, the usual founding mythology." ], "child_lab_evidence": null, "child_founded_year_evidence": null, "founders_from_parent_evidence": null, "source_quality_note_evidence": [ "# The OpenAI Schism", "The standard account treats the 2021 departure of Dario Amodei, Daniela Amodei, and nine colleagues from OpenAI as a falling-out \u2014 interpersonal friction, competing visions, the usual founding mythology." ] }, { "url": "https://agentscout.live/biz/startups/review/mistral-ai-business-model-deep-dive-400m-arr-european-open-source", "title": "Mistral AI Business Model Deep Dive: The $400M ARR Open-Source 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"parent_lab_evidence": [ "Sutskever, a distinguished figure in AI research who co-founded OpenAI, has recently secured a couple of billion dollars for SSI, with support from investors like Meta and Google, as per sources." ], "child_lab_evidence": null, "child_founded_year_evidence": null, "founders_from_parent_evidence": null, "source_quality_note_evidence": [ "*The Information* and *CNBC* first reported Zuckerberg\u2019s talks with Safe Superintelligence, while *Bloomberg* first reported the Perplexity talks." ] }, { "url": "https://currently.att.yahoo.com/att/12-executives-left-openai-2026-022816160.html", "title": "14 executives who left OpenAI in 2026", "parent_lab": "OpenAI", "child_lab": null, "child_founded_year": null, "founders_from_parent": null, "source_quality_note": "major news outlet", "parent_lab_evidence": [ "# 14 executives who left OpenAI in 2026", "He first left OpenAI in 2024 to cofound [Mira Murati's Thinking Machines](https://www.businessinsider.com/thinking-machines-lab-cofounder-lilian-weng-steps-down-stress-illness-2026-7?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=yahoocom&utm_medium=syndication&utm_source=yahoo) Lab, serving as its CTO, before returning to OpenAI in January 2026." ], "child_lab_evidence": null, "child_founded_year_evidence": null, "founders_from_parent_evidence": null, "source_quality_note_evidence": [ "[![Business Insider](https://s.yimg.com/lo/mysterio/api/1c1e637af8616064156f503ec04a16976099a6437b0b042315b5be0c5a560934/lightyear_networkapi/resizefill_h100%3Bquality_100%3Bformat_webp/https%3A%2F%2Fs.yimg.com%2Fos%2Fcreatr-uploaded-images%2F2024-04%2F81befb70-0706-11ef-9fbf-6960dce53585)\n![Business 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Researchers Form New Start-Up](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/technology/google-researchers-ai-startup.html)[[2] Google's Chief Scientist Is Leaving After 27 Years\u2014to Start His Own AI ...](https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/googles-chief-scientist-is-leaving-after-27-yearsto-start-his-own-ai-company-6abad73d)[[3] 4 of Google\u2019s Top AI Brains Are Leaving\u2014and Launching Their Own AI Startup](https://www.wired.com/story/jeff-dean-google-discovery-loop-startup)" ] }, { "url": "https://edgen.tech/news/post/four-google-ai-researchers-exit-after-27-years-to-form-discovery-loop", "title": "Four Google AI Researchers Exit After 27 Years to Form Discovery Loop", "parent_lab": "Google", "child_lab": "Discovery Loop", "child_founded_year": "2026", "founders_from_parent": "Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, Quoc V. Le", "source_quality_note": "major news outlet", "parent_lab_evidence": [ "Four Google AI Researchers Exit After 27 Years to Form Discovery Loop", "Jeff Dean, Google's chief scientist and one of the most influential engineers in the company's history, is leaving after 27 years with three other top AI researchers to form Discovery Loop, a startup that aims to automate scientific discovery \u2014 a departure that deepens Alphabet's talent drain in the AI race." ], "child_lab_evidence": [ "Four Google AI Researchers Exit After 27 Years to Form Discovery Loop", "Jeff Dean, Google's chief scientist and one of the most influential engineers in the company's history, is leaving after 27 years with three other top AI researchers to form Discovery Loop, a startup that aims to automate scientific discovery \u2014 a departure that deepens Alphabet's talent drain in the AI race." ], "child_founded_year_evidence": [ "Four Google AI Researchers Exit After 27 Years to Form Discovery Loop", "[![Alex Nguyen](https://static.edgen.tech/authors/alex-nguyen.png?image_process=resize,w_32/quality,q_75/format,webp/sharpen,100)\n## Alex Nguyen](https://www.edgen.tech/author/news/alex-nguyen)\u00b7Aug 05 2026, 16:22" ], "founders_from_parent_evidence": [ "Four Google AI Researchers Exit After 27 Years to Form Discovery Loop", "Dean, Google's 30th employee who joined in 1999, will be chief executive of Discovery Loop, a public-benefit corporation backed by Khosla Ventures and Radical Ventures. 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Five Years Later, His Company Is Worth More.", "parent_lab": "OpenAI", "child_lab": null, "child_founded_year": null, "founders_from_parent": null, "source_quality_note": "another source", "parent_lab_evidence": [ "He Left OpenAI With Six Colleagues and No Product. Five Years Later, His Company Is Worth More.", "Anthropic, founded in 2021 by seven ex-OpenAI employees, just hit $965 billion in valuation and overtook OpenAI to become the most valuable AI company.", "Amodei was OpenAI\u2019s Vice President of Research, one of the most senior technical positions at the company." ], "child_lab_evidence": null, "child_founded_year_evidence": null, "founders_from_parent_evidence": null, "source_quality_note_evidence": [ "He Left OpenAI With Six Colleagues and No Product. Five Years Later, His Company Is Worth More.", "Image credit: Startups World News" ] }, { "url": "https://gwern.net/doc/www/localhost/edf442c764c184c06500736df1781eca977545b3.html", "title": "JJ \u2014 oss/acc (@JosephJacks_)", "parent_lab": "Google", "child_lab": null, "child_founded_year": null, "founders_from_parent": null, "source_quality_note": "another source", "parent_lab_evidence": [ "What have the eight ex-Google Brain authors of the Transformers paper been doing since December 2017? \ud83e\uddd0 Let\u2019s find out together! \ud83e\uddf5 Paper: [arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762.pdf](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762.pdf) Sources: Google, Pitchbook, LinkedIn // [@ashVaswani](http://localhost:8081/ashVaswani) [@NoamShazeer](http://localhost:8081/NoamShazeer) [@aidangomezzz](http://localhost:8081/aidangomezzz) [@nikiparmar09](http://localhost:8081/nikiparmar09) [@YesThisIsLion](http://localhost:8081/YesThisIsLion) [@kyosu](http://localhost:8081/kyosu) [@lukaszkaiser](http://localhost:8081/lukaszkaiser) [@ilblackdragon](http://localhost:8081/ilblackdragon)", "Ashish Vaswani ([@ashVaswani](http://localhost:8081/ashVaswani)) left Google in late 2021 to start [@AdeptAILabs](http://localhost:8081/AdeptAILabs) which has raised $415 million so far and is valued by VCs at > $1 billion\u2026looks like the company is growing fast and just crossed 40 people. It also looks like Ashish just left Adept a few months ago. \ud83e\uddd0" ], "child_lab_evidence": null, "child_founded_year_evidence": null, "founders_from_parent_evidence": null, "source_quality_note_evidence": [ "What have the eight ex-Google Brain authors of the Transformers paper been doing since December 2017? \ud83e\uddd0 Let\u2019s find out together! \ud83e\uddf5 Paper: [arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762.pdf](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762.pdf) Sources: Google, Pitchbook, LinkedIn // [@ashVaswani](http://localhost:8081/ashVaswani) [@NoamShazeer](http://localhost:8081/NoamShazeer) [@aidangomezzz](http://localhost:8081/aidangomezzz) [@nikiparmar09](http://localhost:8081/nikiparmar09) [@YesThisIsLion](http://localhost:8081/YesThisIsLion) [@kyosu](http://localhost:8081/kyosu) [@lukaszkaiser](http://localhost:8081/lukaszkaiser) [@ilblackdragon](http://localhost:8081/ilblackdragon)" ] }, { "url": "https://gwern.net/doc/www/localhost/edf442c764c184c06500736df1781eca977545b3.html", "title": "JJ \u2014 oss/acc (@JosephJacks_)", "parent_lab": "Google", "child_lab": null, "child_founded_year": null, "founders_from_parent": null, "source_quality_note": "another source", "parent_lab_evidence": [ "What have the eight ex-Google Brain authors of the Transformers paper been doing since December 2017? \ud83e\uddd0 Let\u2019s find out together! \ud83e\uddf5 Paper: [arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762.pdf](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762.pdf) Sources: Google, Pitchbook, LinkedIn // [@ashVaswani](http://localhost:8081/ashVaswani) [@NoamShazeer](http://localhost:8081/NoamShazeer) [@aidangomezzz](http://localhost:8081/aidangomezzz) [@nikiparmar09](http://localhost:8081/nikiparmar09) [@YesThisIsLion](http://localhost:8081/YesThisIsLion) [@kyosu](http://localhost:8081/kyosu) [@lukaszkaiser](http://localhost:8081/lukaszkaiser) [@ilblackdragon](http://localhost:8081/ilblackdragon)", "After TWO DECADES at Google, Noam Shazeer ([@NoamShazeer](http://localhost:8081/NoamShazeer)) left G in late 2021 and founded [@character_ai](http://localhost:8081/character_ai) with his friend [@dan_defr](http://localhost:8081/dan_defr)\u2026 they\u2019ve raised nearly $200 million so far and are ALMOST a unicorn... and pretty damn capital efficient so far with only 20 ~ employees. \ud83e\udd84 \ud83d\ude05" ], "child_lab_evidence": null, "child_founded_year_evidence": null, "founders_from_parent_evidence": null, "source_quality_note_evidence": [ "What have the eight ex-Google Brain authors of the Transformers paper been doing since December 2017? \ud83e\uddd0 Let\u2019s find out together! \ud83e\uddf5 Paper: [arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762.pdf](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762.pdf) Sources: Google, Pitchbook, LinkedIn // [@ashVaswani](http://localhost:8081/ashVaswani) [@NoamShazeer](http://localhost:8081/NoamShazeer) [@aidangomezzz](http://localhost:8081/aidangomezzz) [@nikiparmar09](http://localhost:8081/nikiparmar09) [@YesThisIsLion](http://localhost:8081/YesThisIsLion) [@kyosu](http://localhost:8081/kyosu) [@lukaszkaiser](http://localhost:8081/lukaszkaiser) [@ilblackdragon](http://localhost:8081/ilblackdragon)" ] }, { "url": "https://gwern.net/doc/www/localhost/edf442c764c184c06500736df1781eca977545b3.html", "title": "JJ \u2014 oss/acc (@JosephJacks_)", "parent_lab": "Google", "child_lab": null, "child_founded_year": null, "founders_from_parent": null, "source_quality_note": "another source", "parent_lab_evidence": [ "What have the eight ex-Google Brain authors of the Transformers paper been doing since December 2017? \ud83e\uddd0 Let\u2019s find out together! \ud83e\uddf5 Paper: [arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762.pdf](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762.pdf) Sources: Google, Pitchbook, LinkedIn // [@ashVaswani](http://localhost:8081/ashVaswani) [@NoamShazeer](http://localhost:8081/NoamShazeer) [@aidangomezzz](http://localhost:8081/aidangomezzz) [@nikiparmar09](http://localhost:8081/nikiparmar09) [@YesThisIsLion](http://localhost:8081/YesThisIsLion) [@kyosu](http://localhost:8081/kyosu) [@lukaszkaiser](http://localhost:8081/lukaszkaiser) [@ilblackdragon](http://localhost:8081/ilblackdragon)", "Niki Parmar ([@nikiparmar09](http://localhost:8081/nikiparmar09)) is the only woman author on the Transformers paper. She left G in late 2021 and co-founded [@AdeptAILabs](http://localhost:8081/AdeptAILabs). Niki left Adept a few months ago as well. \ud83d\ude0e" ], "child_lab_evidence": null, "child_founded_year_evidence": null, "founders_from_parent_evidence": null, "source_quality_note_evidence": [ "What have the eight ex-Google Brain authors of the Transformers paper been doing since December 2017? \ud83e\uddd0 Let\u2019s find out together! \ud83e\uddf5 Paper: [arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762.pdf](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762.pdf) Sources: Google, Pitchbook, LinkedIn // [@ashVaswani](http://localhost:8081/ashVaswani) [@NoamShazeer](http://localhost:8081/NoamShazeer) [@aidangomezzz](http://localhost:8081/aidangomezzz) [@nikiparmar09](http://localhost:8081/nikiparmar09) [@YesThisIsLion](http://localhost:8081/YesThisIsLion) [@kyosu](http://localhost:8081/kyosu) [@lukaszkaiser](http://localhost:8081/lukaszkaiser) [@ilblackdragon](http://localhost:8081/ilblackdragon)" ] }, { "url": "https://gwern.net/doc/www/localhost/edf442c764c184c06500736df1781eca977545b3.html", "title": "JJ \u2014 oss/acc (@JosephJacks_)", "parent_lab": "Google", "child_lab": null, "child_founded_year": null, "founders_from_parent": null, "source_quality_note": "another source", "parent_lab_evidence": [ "What have the eight ex-Google Brain authors of the Transformers paper been doing since December 2017? \ud83e\uddd0 Let\u2019s find out together! \ud83e\uddf5 Paper: [arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762.pdf](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762.pdf) Sources: Google, Pitchbook, LinkedIn // [@ashVaswani](http://localhost:8081/ashVaswani) [@NoamShazeer](http://localhost:8081/NoamShazeer) [@aidangomezzz](http://localhost:8081/aidangomezzz) [@nikiparmar09](http://localhost:8081/nikiparmar09) [@YesThisIsLion](http://localhost:8081/YesThisIsLion) [@kyosu](http://localhost:8081/kyosu) [@lukaszkaiser](http://localhost:8081/lukaszkaiser) [@ilblackdragon](http://localhost:8081/ilblackdragon)", "Jakob Uszkoreit ([@kyosu](http://localhost:8081/kyosu)) \u2014 cited by many as the main brain behind discovering / inventing the Transformer architecture \u2014 left G in mid 2021 and co-founded [@Inceptive_labs](http://localhost:8081/Inceptive_labs).. designing mRNAs with neural nets. \ud83e\uddec \ud83e\udd2f They\u2019ve raised $20M so far and just crossed 20 people. \ud83d\udd25" ], "child_lab_evidence": null, "child_founded_year_evidence": null, "founders_from_parent_evidence": null, "source_quality_note_evidence": [ "What have the eight ex-Google Brain authors of the Transformers paper been doing since December 2017? \ud83e\uddd0 Let\u2019s find out together! \ud83e\uddf5 Paper: [arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762.pdf](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762.pdf) Sources: Google, Pitchbook, LinkedIn // [@ashVaswani](http://localhost:8081/ashVaswani) [@NoamShazeer](http://localhost:8081/NoamShazeer) [@aidangomezzz](http://localhost:8081/aidangomezzz) [@nikiparmar09](http://localhost:8081/nikiparmar09) [@YesThisIsLion](http://localhost:8081/YesThisIsLion) [@kyosu](http://localhost:8081/kyosu) [@lukaszkaiser](http://localhost:8081/lukaszkaiser) [@ilblackdragon](http://localhost:8081/ilblackdragon)" ] }, { "url": "https://gwern.net/doc/www/localhost/edf442c764c184c06500736df1781eca977545b3.html", "title": "JJ \u2014 oss/acc (@JosephJacks_)", "parent_lab": "Google Brain", "child_lab": null, "child_founded_year": null, "founders_from_parent": null, "source_quality_note": "another source", "parent_lab_evidence": [ "What have the eight ex-Google Brain authors of the Transformers paper been doing since December 2017? \ud83e\uddd0 Let\u2019s find out together! \ud83e\uddf5 Paper: [arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762.pdf](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762.pdf) Sources: Google, Pitchbook, LinkedIn // [@ashVaswani](http://localhost:8081/ashVaswani) [@NoamShazeer](http://localhost:8081/NoamShazeer) [@aidangomezzz](http://localhost:8081/aidangomezzz) [@nikiparmar09](http://localhost:8081/nikiparmar09) [@YesThisIsLion](http://localhost:8081/YesThisIsLion) [@kyosu](http://localhost:8081/kyosu) [@lukaszkaiser](http://localhost:8081/lukaszkaiser) [@ilblackdragon](http://localhost:8081/ilblackdragon)", "Aidan Gomez ([@aidangomezzz](http://localhost:8081/aidangomezzz)) left Google Brain in September 2019 to found [@CohereAI](http://localhost:8081/cohereai) \u2014 they\u2019ve raised (looks like) nearly $400 million. Cohere also recently crossed 180+ employees and is clearly scaling after 3 years going strong. \ud83d\ude80" ], "child_lab_evidence": null, "child_founded_year_evidence": null, "founders_from_parent_evidence": null, "source_quality_note_evidence": [ "What have the eight ex-Google Brain authors of the Transformers paper been doing since December 2017? \ud83e\uddd0 Let\u2019s find out together! \ud83e\uddf5 Paper: [arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762.pdf](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762.pdf) Sources: Google, Pitchbook, LinkedIn // [@ashVaswani](http://localhost:8081/ashVaswani) [@NoamShazeer](http://localhost:8081/NoamShazeer) [@aidangomezzz](http://localhost:8081/aidangomezzz) [@nikiparmar09](http://localhost:8081/nikiparmar09) [@YesThisIsLion](http://localhost:8081/YesThisIsLion) [@kyosu](http://localhost:8081/kyosu) [@lukaszkaiser](http://localhost:8081/lukaszkaiser) [@ilblackdragon](http://localhost:8081/ilblackdragon)" ] }, { "url": "https://gwern.net/doc/www/localhost/edf442c764c184c06500736df1781eca977545b3.html", "title": "JJ \u2014 oss/acc (@JosephJacks_)", "parent_lab": "Google", "child_lab": null, "child_founded_year": null, "founders_from_parent": null, "source_quality_note": "another source", "parent_lab_evidence": [ "What have the eight ex-Google Brain authors of the Transformers paper been doing since December 2017? \ud83e\uddd0 Let\u2019s find out together! \ud83e\uddf5 Paper: [arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762.pdf](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762.pdf) Sources: Google, Pitchbook, LinkedIn // [@ashVaswani](http://localhost:8081/ashVaswani) [@NoamShazeer](http://localhost:8081/NoamShazeer) [@aidangomezzz](http://localhost:8081/aidangomezzz) [@nikiparmar09](http://localhost:8081/nikiparmar09) [@YesThisIsLion](http://localhost:8081/YesThisIsLion) [@kyosu](http://localhost:8081/kyosu) [@lukaszkaiser](http://localhost:8081/lukaszkaiser) [@ilblackdragon](http://localhost:8081/ilblackdragon)", "Illia Polosukhin ([@ilblackdragon](http://localhost:8081/ilblackdragon)) left G in Feb 2017 \ud83e\uddd0 \u2026 he founded [@NEARProtocol](http://localhost:8081/NEARProtocol) (competitor to Ethereum / Solana) in June 2017. NEAR is currently valued at $2 billion ~. Looks like they have raised $375 million ~ and done lots of secondary rounds. \ud83d\ude2e" ], "child_lab_evidence": null, "child_founded_year_evidence": null, "founders_from_parent_evidence": null, "source_quality_note_evidence": [ "What have the eight ex-Google Brain authors of the Transformers paper been doing since December 2017? \ud83e\uddd0 Let\u2019s find out together! \ud83e\uddf5 Paper: [arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762.pdf](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762.pdf) Sources: Google, Pitchbook, LinkedIn // [@ashVaswani](http://localhost:8081/ashVaswani) [@NoamShazeer](http://localhost:8081/NoamShazeer) [@aidangomezzz](http://localhost:8081/aidangomezzz) [@nikiparmar09](http://localhost:8081/nikiparmar09) [@YesThisIsLion](http://localhost:8081/YesThisIsLion) [@kyosu](http://localhost:8081/kyosu) [@lukaszkaiser](http://localhost:8081/lukaszkaiser) [@ilblackdragon](http://localhost:8081/ilblackdragon)" ] }, { "url": "https://benched.ai/companies/mistral", "title": "Mistral AI | Benched.ai", "parent_lab": "Google DeepMind", "child_lab": null, "child_founded_year": null, "founders_from_parent": null, "source_quality_note": "another source", "parent_lab_evidence": [ "# Mistral AI", "The company is run by three French AI researchers who collectively embody the deepest pedigree in European AI: CEO **Arthur Mensch**, who contributed to landmark research at Google DeepMind including the Retro and Chinchilla projects; Chief Science Officer **Guillaume Lample**, one of Europe's most-cited AI researchers and a co-author of the original LLaMA paper during nearly a decade at [Meta AI](/assistants/meta-ai); and CTO **Timoth\u00e9e Lacroix**, a specialist in efficient transformer architectures and LLaMA training optimization, also from Meta AI." ], "child_lab_evidence": null, "child_founded_year_evidence": null, "founders_from_parent_evidence": null, "source_quality_note_evidence": [ "# Mistral AI" ] }, { "url": "https://benched.ai/companies/mistral", "title": "Mistral AI | Benched.ai", "parent_lab": "Meta AI", "child_lab": null, "child_founded_year": null, "founders_from_parent": null, "source_quality_note": "another source", "parent_lab_evidence": [ "# Mistral AI", "The company is run by three French AI researchers who collectively embody the deepest pedigree in European AI: CEO **Arthur Mensch**, who contributed to landmark research at Google DeepMind including the Retro and Chinchilla projects; Chief Science Officer **Guillaume Lample**, one of Europe's most-cited AI researchers and a co-author of the original LLaMA paper during nearly a decade at [Meta AI](/assistants/meta-ai); and CTO **Timoth\u00e9e Lacroix**, a specialist in efficient transformer architectures and LLaMA training optimization, also from Meta AI." ], "child_lab_evidence": null, "child_founded_year_evidence": null, "founders_from_parent_evidence": null, "source_quality_note_evidence": [ "# Mistral AI" ] }, { "url": "https://axis-intelligence.com/sakana-ai-japan-unicorn-story-valuation", "title": "Sakana AI: Japan's $2.65B Unicorn Story - 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Every one has since left Google; their destinations trace nearly the entire industry." ] }, { "url": "https://phychai.wordpress.com/2026/06/27/the-people-behind-the-models-a-field-map-of-llm-milestones", "title": "The People Behind the Models \u2014 A Field Map of LLM Milestones", "parent_lab": "OpenAI", "child_lab": null, "child_founded_year": null, "founders_from_parent": null, "source_quality_note": "another source", "parent_lab_evidence": [ "Seq2Seq & word embeddings/ 2013\u20132015\n\n## Teaching Machines to Read", "Before the Transformer, the field learned to turn words into vectors and sequences into sequences \u2014 the groundwork the whole edifice sits on.", "Then \u2192 now\n\nOpenAI (co-founder, chief scientist)\u2192Left OpenAI (2024)\u2192SSI (CEO, 2025)" ], "child_lab_evidence": null, "child_founded_year_evidence": null, "founders_from_parent_evidence": null, "source_quality_note_evidence": [ "Seq2Seq & word embeddings/ 2013\u20132015\n\n## Teaching Machines to Read", "Before the Transformer, the field learned to turn words into vectors and sequences into sequences \u2014 the groundwork the whole edifice sits on.", "Seq2Seq & word embeddings/ 2013\u20132015\n\n## Teaching Machines to Read\n\nBefore the Transformer, the field learned to turn words into vectors and sequences into sequences \u2014 the groundwork the whole edifice sits on." ] }, { "url": "https://phychai.wordpress.com/2026/06/27/the-people-behind-the-models-a-field-map-of-llm-milestones", "title": "The People Behind the Models \u2014 A Field Map of LLM Milestones", "parent_lab": "Google Brain", "child_lab": null, "child_founded_year": null, "founders_from_parent": null, "source_quality_note": "another source", "parent_lab_evidence": [ "T5 \u00b7 Switch \u00b7 PaLM/ 2020\u20132022\n\n## Unify and Scale", "Google turned the Transformer into families: a text-to-text framework that unified every task, sparse routing that reached a trillion parameters, and a 540B dense model that showed scale unlocks new behavior.", "Then \u2192 now\n\nGoogle Brain\u2192OpenAI (VP Research)\u2192Periodic Labs (2025)" ], "child_lab_evidence": null, "child_founded_year_evidence": null, "founders_from_parent_evidence": null, "source_quality_note_evidence": [ "T5 \u00b7 Switch \u00b7 PaLM/ 2020\u20132022\n\n## Unify and Scale", "Google turned the Transformer into families: a text-to-text framework that unified every task, sparse routing that reached a trillion parameters, and a 540B dense model that showed scale unlocks new behavior.", "T5 \u00b7 Switch \u00b7 PaLM/ 2020\u20132022\n\n## Unify and Scale\n\nGoogle turned the Transformer into families: a text-to-text framework that unified every task, sparse routing that reached a trillion parameters, and a 540B dense model that showed scale unlocks new behavior." ] }, { "url": "https://phychai.wordpress.com/2026/06/27/the-people-behind-the-models-a-field-map-of-llm-milestones", "title": "The People Behind the Models \u2014 A Field Map of LLM Milestones", "parent_lab": "OpenAI", "child_lab": null, "child_founded_year": null, "founders_from_parent": null, "source_quality_note": "another source", "parent_lab_evidence": [ "GPT \u00b7 scaling laws/ 2018\u20132022\n\n## The OpenAI \u2192 Anthropic Exodus", "The team that scaled GPT-2 and GPT-3 and worked out the laws of scale mostly walked out together in 2021 to build Anthropic \u2014 a near-perfect echo of the Transformer diaspora.", "Then \u2192 now\n\nOpenAI (VP Research)\u2192Anthropic (2021)" ], "child_lab_evidence": null, "child_founded_year_evidence": null, "founders_from_parent_evidence": null, "source_quality_note_evidence": [ "GPT \u00b7 scaling laws/ 2018\u20132022\n\n## The OpenAI \u2192 Anthropic Exodus", "The team that scaled GPT-2 and GPT-3 and worked out the laws of scale mostly walked out together in 2021 to build Anthropic \u2014 a near-perfect echo of the Transformer diaspora.", "GPT \u00b7 scaling laws/ 2018\u20132022\n\n## The OpenAI \u2192 Anthropic Exodus\n\nThe team that scaled GPT-2 and GPT-3 and worked out the laws of scale mostly walked out together in 2021 to build Anthropic \u2014 a near-perfect echo of the Transformer diaspora. (Alec Radford, who wrote the original GPT papers, instead struck out on his own.)" ] }, { "url": "https://phychai.wordpress.com/2026/06/27/the-people-behind-the-models-a-field-map-of-llm-milestones", "title": "The People Behind the Models \u2014 A Field Map of LLM Milestones", "parent_lab": "Meta FAIR", "child_lab": null, "child_founded_year": null, "founders_from_parent": null, "source_quality_note": "another source", "parent_lab_evidence": [ "LLaMA/ 2023\n\n## Open Weights, French Accent", "Meta\u2019s open LLaMA models seeded an exodus of their own: the architects left to build Mistral, Europe\u2019s answer to the US labs \u2014 and France\u2019s first AI billionaires.", "Then \u2192 now\n\nMeta FAIR\u2192Mistral AI (2023)" ], "child_lab_evidence": null, "child_founded_year_evidence": null, "founders_from_parent_evidence": null, "source_quality_note_evidence": [ "LLaMA/ 2023\n\n## Open Weights, French Accent", "Meta\u2019s open LLaMA models seeded an exodus of their own: the architects left to build Mistral, Europe\u2019s answer to the US labs \u2014 and France\u2019s first AI billionaires.", "LLaMA/ 2023\n\n## Open Weights, French Accent\n\nMeta\u2019s open LLaMA models seeded an exodus of their own: the architects left to build Mistral, Europe\u2019s answer to the US labs \u2014 and France\u2019s first AI billionaires." ] }, { "url": "https://my957.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", "parent_lab": "Google", "child_lab": null, "child_founded_year": null, "founders_from_parent": null, "source_quality_note": "major news outlet", "parent_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." ], "child_lab_evidence": null, "child_founded_year_evidence": null, "founders_from_parent_evidence": null, "source_quality_note_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." ] }, { "url": "https://eciks.org/13768-50895-nebius-1-billion-reflection-ai-deal", "title": "Nebius secures $1 billion AI computing deal with Reflection AI", "parent_lab": "Google DeepMind", "child_lab": null, "child_founded_year": null, "founders_from_parent": null, "source_quality_note": "another source", "parent_lab_evidence": [ "Nebius secures $1 billion AI computing deal with Reflection AI", "Reflection, currently valued at $8 billion, was founded in 2024 by two former Google DeepMind researchers, Misha Laskin and Ioannis Antonoglou, who previously worked on frontier language models including PaLM and Gemini." ], "child_lab_evidence": null, "child_founded_year_evidence": null, "founders_from_parent_evidence": null, "source_quality_note_evidence": [ "Nebius secures $1 billion AI computing deal with Reflection AI", "ECIKS.org is an independent media. 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"child_lab": null, "child_founded_year": null, "founders_from_parent": null, "source_quality_note": "another source", "parent_lab_evidence": [ "# How Mistral AI Became Europe\u2019s Fastest AI Unicorn ($14B in 29 Months)?", "Three former researchers from Google DeepMind and Meta launched Mistral AI in April 2023." ], "child_lab_evidence": null, "child_founded_year_evidence": null, "founders_from_parent_evidence": null, "source_quality_note_evidence": [ "# How Mistral AI Became Europe\u2019s Fastest AI Unicorn ($14B in 29 Months)?", "October 14, 2025" ] }, { "url": "https://aifundingtracker.com/mistral-ai-funding-unicorn-valuation", "title": "How Mistral AI Became Europe\u2019s Fastest AI Unicorn ($14B in 29 Months)?", "parent_lab": "Meta", "child_lab": null, "child_founded_year": null, "founders_from_parent": null, "source_quality_note": "another source", "parent_lab_evidence": [ "# How Mistral AI Became Europe\u2019s Fastest AI Unicorn ($14B in 29 Months)?", "Three former researchers from Google DeepMind and Meta launched Mistral AI in April 2023.", "[Guillaume Lample](https://x.com/guillaumelample) and Timoth\u00e9e Lacroix both came from Meta\u2019s AI team." ], "child_lab_evidence": null, "child_founded_year_evidence": null, "founders_from_parent_evidence": null, "source_quality_note_evidence": [ "# How Mistral AI Became Europe\u2019s Fastest AI Unicorn ($14B in 29 Months)?", "October 14, 2025" ] }, { "url": "https://nftevening.com/biomimicry-breakthrough-sakana-ai-unveils-tokyo-based-generative-ai-startup", "title": "Biomimicry Breakthrough: Sakana AI Unveils Tokyo-Based Generative AI Startup", "parent_lab": "Google", "child_lab": null, "child_founded_year": null, "founders_from_parent": null, "source_quality_note": "another source", "parent_lab_evidence": [ "# Biomimicry Breakthrough: Sakana AI Unveils Tokyo-Based Generative AI Startup", "Google\u2019s gen AI legacy sparks innovation in Tokyo-based startup Sakana AI, founded by former Google researchers.", "In 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"https://phychai.wordpress.com/2026/06", "title": "June 2026 \u2013 phychai", "parent_lab": "OpenAI", "child_lab": "Anthropic", "child_founded_year": "2021", "founders_from_parent": null, "source_quality_note": "another source", "parent_lab_evidence": [ "GPT \u00b7 scaling laws/ 2018\u20132022", "## The OpenAI \u2192 Anthropic Exodus", "Then \u2192 now\n\nOpenAI (VP Research)\u2192Anthropic (2021)" ], "child_lab_evidence": [ "GPT \u00b7 scaling laws/ 2018\u20132022", "## The OpenAI \u2192 Anthropic Exodus", "Then \u2192 now\n\nOpenAI (VP Research)\u2192Anthropic (2021)" ], "child_founded_year_evidence": [ "GPT \u00b7 scaling laws/ 2018\u20132022", "## The OpenAI \u2192 Anthropic Exodus", "Then \u2192 now\n\nOpenAI (VP Research)\u2192Anthropic (2021)" ], "founders_from_parent_evidence": null, "source_quality_note_evidence": [ "GPT \u00b7 scaling laws/ 2018\u20132022", "## The OpenAI \u2192 Anthropic Exodus" ] }, { "url": "https://phychai.wordpress.com/2026/06", "title": "June 2026 \u2013 phychai", "parent_lab": "OpenAI", "child_lab": "Alignment Research Center", "child_founded_year": "2021", "founders_from_parent": null, "source_quality_note": "another source", "parent_lab_evidence": [ "RLHF \u00b7 InstructGPT/ 2017\u20132022", "## The Recipe That Scattered", "Then \u2192 now\n\nOpenAI\u2192Founded ARC (2021)\u2192NIST / CAISI (2024)" ], "child_lab_evidence": [ "RLHF \u00b7 InstructGPT/ 2017\u20132022", "## The Recipe That Scattered", "Then \u2192 now\n\nOpenAI\u2192Founded ARC (2021)\u2192NIST / CAISI (2024)" ], "child_founded_year_evidence": [ "RLHF \u00b7 InstructGPT/ 2017\u20132022", "## The Recipe That Scattered", "Then \u2192 now\n\nOpenAI\u2192Founded ARC (2021)\u2192NIST / CAISI (2024)" ], "founders_from_parent_evidence": null, "source_quality_note_evidence": [ "RLHF \u00b7 InstructGPT/ 2017\u20132022", "## The Recipe That Scattered" ] }, { "url": "https://phychai.wordpress.com/2026/06", "title": "June 2026 \u2013 phychai", "parent_lab": "Meta FAIR", "child_lab": "Mistral AI", "child_founded_year": "2023", "founders_from_parent": null, "source_quality_note": "another source", "parent_lab_evidence": [ "LLaMA/ 2023", "## Open Weights, French Accent", "Then \u2192 now\n\nMeta FAIR\u2192Mistral AI (2023)" ], "child_lab_evidence": [ "LLaMA/ 2023", "## Open Weights, French Accent", "Then \u2192 now\n\nMeta FAIR\u2192Mistral AI (2023)" ], "child_founded_year_evidence": [ "LLaMA/ 2023", "## Open Weights, French Accent", "Then \u2192 now\n\nMeta FAIR\u2192Mistral AI (2023)" ], "founders_from_parent_evidence": null, "source_quality_note_evidence": [ "LLaMA/ 2023", "## Open Weights, French Accent" ] }, { "url": "https://phychai.wordpress.com/2026/06", "title": "June 2026 \u2013 phychai", "parent_lab": "High-Flyer", "child_lab": "DeepSeek", "child_founded_year": "2023", "founders_from_parent": null, "source_quality_note": "another source", "parent_lab_evidence": [ "DeepSeek/ 2024\u20132025", "## The Efficiency Shock", "Then \u2192 now\n\nHigh-Flyer (quant fund)\u2192DeepSeek \u2014 CEO (2023)" ], "child_lab_evidence": [ "DeepSeek/ 2024\u20132025", "## The Efficiency Shock", "Then \u2192 now\n\nHigh-Flyer (quant fund)\u2192DeepSeek \u2014 CEO (2023)" ], "child_founded_year_evidence": [ "DeepSeek/ 2024\u20132025", "## The Efficiency Shock", "Then \u2192 now\n\nHigh-Flyer (quant fund)\u2192DeepSeek \u2014 CEO (2023)" ], "founders_from_parent_evidence": null, "source_quality_note_evidence": [ "DeepSeek/ 2024\u20132025", "## The Efficiency Shock" ] }, { "url": "https://phychai.wordpress.com/2026/06", "title": "June 2026 \u2013 phychai", "parent_lab": "Google Brain", "child_lab": "Moonshot AI", "child_founded_year": "2023", "founders_from_parent": null, "source_quality_note": "another source", "parent_lab_evidence": [ "The \u2018AI Tigers\u2019 + agents/ 2021\u20132026", "## China\u2019s Frontier", "Then \u2192 now\n\nCMU PhD / Google Brain / Meta\u2192Moonshot AI (2023)" ], "child_lab_evidence": [ "The \u2018AI Tigers\u2019 + agents/ 2021\u20132026", "## China\u2019s Frontier", "Then \u2192 now\n\nCMU PhD / Google Brain / Meta\u2192Moonshot AI (2023)" ], "child_founded_year_evidence": [ "The \u2018AI Tigers\u2019 + agents/ 2021\u20132026", "## China\u2019s Frontier", "Then \u2192 now\n\nCMU PhD / Google Brain / Meta\u2192Moonshot AI (2023)" ], "founders_from_parent_evidence": null, "source_quality_note_evidence": [ "The \u2018AI Tigers\u2019 + agents/ 2021\u20132026", "## China\u2019s Frontier" ] }, { "url": "https://phychai.wordpress.com/2026/06", "title": "June 2026 \u2013 phychai", "parent_lab": "Google China", "child_lab": "01.AI", "child_founded_year": "2023", "founders_from_parent": null, "source_quality_note": "another source", "parent_lab_evidence": [ "The \u2018AI Tigers\u2019 + agents/ 2021\u20132026", "## China\u2019s Frontier", "Then \u2192 now\n\nApple \u2192 Microsoft (founded MSRA) \u2192 Google China\u2192Sinovation Ventures\u219201.AI (2023)" ], "child_lab_evidence": [ "The \u2018AI Tigers\u2019 + agents/ 2021\u20132026", "## China\u2019s Frontier", "Then \u2192 now\n\nApple \u2192 Microsoft (founded MSRA) \u2192 Google China\u2192Sinovation Ventures\u219201.AI (2023)" ], "child_founded_year_evidence": [ "The \u2018AI Tigers\u2019 + agents/ 2021\u20132026", "## China\u2019s Frontier", "Then \u2192 now\n\nApple \u2192 Microsoft (founded MSRA) \u2192 Google China\u2192Sinovation Ventures\u219201.AI (2023)" ], "founders_from_parent_evidence": null, "source_quality_note_evidence": [ "The \u2018AI Tigers\u2019 + agents/ 2021\u20132026", "## China\u2019s Frontier" ] }, { "url": "https://phychai.wordpress.com/2026/06", "title": "June 2026 \u2013 phychai", "parent_lab": "Tsinghua KEG", "child_lab": "Zhipu / Z.ai", "child_founded_year": "2019", "founders_from_parent": null, "source_quality_note": "another source", "parent_lab_evidence": [ "The \u2018AI Tigers\u2019 + agents/ 2021\u20132026", "## China\u2019s Frontier", "Then \u2192 now\n\nTsinghua KEG\u2192Zhipu / Z.ai (2019)" ], "child_lab_evidence": [ "The \u2018AI Tigers\u2019 + agents/ 2021\u20132026", "## China\u2019s Frontier", "Then \u2192 now\n\nTsinghua KEG\u2192Zhipu / Z.ai (2019)" ], "child_founded_year_evidence": [ "The \u2018AI Tigers\u2019 + agents/ 2021\u20132026", "## China\u2019s Frontier", "Then \u2192 now\n\nTsinghua KEG\u2192Zhipu / Z.ai (2019)" ], "founders_from_parent_evidence": null, "source_quality_note_evidence": [ "The \u2018AI Tigers\u2019 + agents/ 2021\u20132026", "## China\u2019s Frontier" ] }, { "url": "https://phychai.wordpress.com/2026/06", "title": "June 2026 \u2013 phychai", "parent_lab": "Sogou", "child_lab": "Baichuan AI", "child_founded_year": "2023", "founders_from_parent": null, "source_quality_note": "another source", "parent_lab_evidence": [ "The \u2018AI Tigers\u2019 + agents/ 2021\u20132026", "## China\u2019s Frontier", "Then \u2192 now\n\nSogou (founder/CEO)\u2192Baichuan AI (2023)" ], "child_lab_evidence": [ "The \u2018AI Tigers\u2019 + agents/ 2021\u20132026", "## China\u2019s Frontier", "Then \u2192 now\n\nSogou (founder/CEO)\u2192Baichuan AI (2023)" ], "child_founded_year_evidence": [ "The \u2018AI Tigers\u2019 + agents/ 2021\u20132026", "## China\u2019s Frontier", "Then \u2192 now\n\nSogou (founder/CEO)\u2192Baichuan AI (2023)" ], "founders_from_parent_evidence": null, "source_quality_note_evidence": [ "The \u2018AI Tigers\u2019 + agents/ 2021\u20132026", "## China\u2019s Frontier" ] }, { "url": "https://phychai.wordpress.com/2026/06", "title": "June 2026 \u2013 phychai", "parent_lab": "SenseTime", "child_lab": "MiniMax", "child_founded_year": "2021", "founders_from_parent": null, "source_quality_note": "another source", "parent_lab_evidence": [ "The \u2018AI Tigers\u2019 + agents/ 2021\u20132026", "## China\u2019s Frontier", "Then \u2192 now\n\nSenseTime\u2192MiniMax (2021)" ], "child_lab_evidence": [ "The \u2018AI Tigers\u2019 + agents/ 2021\u20132026", "## China\u2019s Frontier", "Then \u2192 now\n\nSenseTime\u2192MiniMax (2021)" ], "child_founded_year_evidence": [ "The \u2018AI Tigers\u2019 + agents/ 2021\u20132026", "## China\u2019s Frontier", "Then \u2192 now\n\nSenseTime\u2192MiniMax (2021)" ], "founders_from_parent_evidence": null, "source_quality_note_evidence": [ "The \u2018AI Tigers\u2019 + agents/ 2021\u20132026", "## China\u2019s Frontier" ] }, { "url": "https://zubnet.ai/fr/wiki/Mistral-AI", "title": "Mistral AI: Definition & Meaning \u2014 AI Wiki", "parent_lab": "Google DeepMind", "child_lab": null, "child_founded_year": null, "founders_from_parent": null, "source_quality_note": "another source", "parent_lab_evidence": [ "# Mistral AI", "Poids lourd europ\u00e9en de l'IA fond\u00e9 par d'anciens chercheurs de DeepMind et Meta.", "## Deep Dive", "Mensch came from [Google DeepMind](/wiki/en/Google-DeepMind), where he had worked on the Chinchilla project that rewrote the rules on optimal model scaling." ], "child_lab_evidence": null, "child_founded_year_evidence": null, "founders_from_parent_evidence": null, "source_quality_note_evidence": [ "# Mistral AI" ] }, { "url": "https://zubnet.ai/fr/wiki/Mistral-AI", "title": "Mistral AI: Definition & Meaning \u2014 AI Wiki", "parent_lab": "Meta", "child_lab": null, "child_founded_year": null, "founders_from_parent": null, "source_quality_note": "another source", "parent_lab_evidence": [ "# Mistral AI", "Poids lourd europ\u00e9en de l'IA fond\u00e9 par d'anciens chercheurs de DeepMind et Meta.", "## Deep Dive", "Lample and Lacroix came from Meta's FAIR lab, where Lample had been a key contributor to LLaMA." ], "child_lab_evidence": null, "child_founded_year_evidence": null, "founders_from_parent_evidence": null, "source_quality_note_evidence": [ "# Mistral AI" ] }, { "url": "https://note.com/peejutenpoi/n/nd24daae5d582?hl=en", "title": "An RPO insider's take on Sakana AI's recruitment strategy\uff5c\u307a\u30fc\u3058\u3085\uff5cHR\u30b3\u30f3\u30b5\u30eb\u30bf\u30f3\u30c8", "parent_lab": "Google Brain", 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Ren Ito, a former diplomat and former executive at Mercari.", "Sakana AI, founded by these three in Tokyo in July 2023, reached a valuation of over 150 billion yen within a year of its founding, becoming the fastest unicorn in Japanese history." ], "child_lab_evidence": null, "child_founded_year_evidence": null, "founders_from_parent_evidence": null, "source_quality_note_evidence": [ "An RPO insider's take on Sakana AI's recruitment strategy", "This is the 22nd installment of my 'Thinking about startup recruitment strategies on my own' series.", "\u203b This article is a personal analysis based only on publicly available information and has no relation to Sakana AI." ] }, { "url": "https://news-factory.app/fr/news/german-ai-image-startup-black-forest-labs-secures-dollar140-million-meta-deal-and-eyes-physical-ai", "title": "German AI Image Startup Black Forest Labs Secures $140 Million Meta Deal and Eyes Physical AI", "parent_lab": "Stability AI", "child_lab": null, 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"*(For top technology news of the day, [subscribe](https://www.thehindu.com/newsletter-subscription/?nl_id=4307&utm_source=website_article_todays_cache&utm_campaign=newsletter_signup&utm_medium=website) to our tech newsletter Today\u2019s Cache)*" ] }, { "url": "https://thehindu.com/sci-tech/technology/top-ex-google-brain-researchers-start-ai-research-company-tokyo/article67208373.ece", "title": "Top ex-Google Brain researchers start AI research company in Tokyo", "parent_lab": "Cohere", "child_lab": null, "child_founded_year": null, "founders_from_parent": null, "source_quality_note": "major news outlet", "parent_lab_evidence": [ "The authors' 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." ], "child_lab_evidence": null, "child_founded_year_evidence": null, "founders_from_parent_evidence": null, 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Now, open-source AI startup Reflection is tapping SpaceX for its abundant source of AI chips." ] }, { "url": "https://wordupnews.com/tech/spacex-inks-compute-deal-with-reflection-ai-an-open-source-ai-lab", "title": "SpaceX inks compute deal with Reflection AI, an open-source AI lab", "parent_lab": "Google Brain", "child_lab": null, "child_founded_year": null, "founders_from_parent": null, "source_quality_note": "another source", "parent_lab_evidence": [ "Sakana CEO and co-founder David Ha, formerly of Google Brain, positioned Fugu as a more reliable option for enterprise workflows than any single AI model provider in the wake of[ Anthropic\u2019s move on June 12 to revoke public access](https://venturebeat.com/technology/anthropic-blocks-all-public-access-to-claude-fable-5-mythos-5-following-us-government-order-what-enterprises-should-do) to its most powerful models, Claude Mythos 5 and Claude Fable 5, in the wake of a U.S. government export control order." ], "child_lab_evidence": null, "child_founded_year_evidence": null, "founders_from_parent_evidence": null, "source_quality_note_evidence": [ "First came [Anthropic](https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/20/anthropic-will-pay-xai-1-25-billion-per-month-for-compute/), then [Google](https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/05/google-will-pay-spacex-920m-per-month-for-compute/). Now, open-source AI startup Reflection is tapping SpaceX for its abundant source of AI chips." ] }, { "url": "https://forbes.com/profile/black-forest-labs", "title": "Black Forest Labs", "parent_lab": "Stability AI", "child_lab": null, "child_founded_year": null, "founders_from_parent": null, "source_quality_note": "major news outlet", "parent_lab_evidence": [ "From the Editor", "AI researchers Frederic Boesel and Jonas M\u00fcller are part of the founding team at Black Forest Labs, and worked with its cofounders at Stability AI on its groundbreaking image-generators." ], "child_lab_evidence": null, "child_founded_year_evidence": null, "founders_from_parent_evidence": null, "source_quality_note_evidence": [ "From the Editor", "## More on Forbes" ] }, { "url": "https://medium.com/@prathamesh.khade20/the-personal-ai-era-has-arrived-and-it-isnt-the-smartest-model-in-the-room-7b4f72f371d0", "title": "The Personal AI Era Has Arrived \u2014 And It Isn\u2019t the Smartest Model in the Room", "parent_lab": "OpenAI", "child_lab": null, "child_founded_year": null, "founders_from_parent": null, "source_quality_note": "another source", "parent_lab_evidence": [ "# The Personal AI Era Has Arrived \u2014 And It Isn\u2019t the Smartest Model in the Room", "## 1. 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Mistral AI Became Europe's Leading AI Company", "parent_lab": "Google DeepMind", "child_lab": null, "child_founded_year": null, "founders_from_parent": null, "source_quality_note": "another source", "parent_lab_evidence": [ "# How Mistral AI Became Europe's Leading AI Company", "The company was started by Arthur Mensch, a former researcher at Google's DeepMind, along with Guillaume Lample and Timoth\u00e9e Lacroix, who both came from Meta's AI research lab." ], "child_lab_evidence": null, "child_founded_year_evidence": null, "founders_from_parent_evidence": null, "source_quality_note_evidence": [ "# How Mistral AI Became Europe's Leading AI Company", "Written by", "Sahin Boydas" ] }, { "url": "https://sahin.io/ar/blog/how-mistral-ai-became-europes-leading-ai-company", "title": "How Mistral AI Became Europe's Leading AI Company", "parent_lab": "Meta", "child_lab": null, "child_founded_year": null, "founders_from_parent": null, "source_quality_note": "another source", 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