The AI Lab Founder Family Tree

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    - url: "https://reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1syyfay/list_of_people_at_bigtech_professors_researchers"
      title: List of people at big-tech / professors / researchers who've jumped shit to launch their own AI labs for something Frontier/Foundational/AGI/Superintelligence/WorldModel
      child_lab: Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI)
      founding_year: "2024"
      parent_lab: OpenAI
      founders: null
      relationship: "Ilya Sutskever, former OpenAI Chief Scientist, co-founded Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI)"
      child_lab_evidence[2]: Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI),"Founders:Ilya Sutskever (former OpenAI Chief Scientist), Daniel Gross, Daniel Levy"
      founding_year_evidence[1]: "Location & Founded:Palo Alto, USA & Tel Aviv, Israel | Founded: 2024"
      parent_lab_evidence[1]: "Founders:Ilya Sutskever (former OpenAI Chief Scientist), Daniel Gross, Daniel Levy"
      founders_evidence: null
      relationship_evidence[2]: Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI),"Founders:Ilya Sutskever (former OpenAI Chief Scientist), Daniel Gross, Daniel Levy"
    - url: "https://theairankings.com/thinking-machines"
      title: "Thinking Machines Lab in 2026: Inkling, Tinker & Mira Murati's Open-Weights Bet | The AI Rankings"
      child_lab: Thinking Machines Lab
      founding_year: "2025"
      parent_lab: OpenAI
      founders: null
      relationship: Founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati in February 2025
      child_lab_evidence[2]: # Thinking Machines Lab,Thinking Machines Lab is the San Francisco Bay Area AI lab founded in February 2025 by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati.
      founding_year_evidence[2]: # Thinking Machines Lab,Thinking Machines Lab is the San Francisco Bay Area AI lab founded in February 2025 by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati.
      parent_lab_evidence[2]: # Thinking Machines Lab,Thinking Machines Lab is the San Francisco Bay Area AI lab founded in February 2025 by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati.
      founders_evidence: null
      relationship_evidence[2]: # Thinking Machines Lab,Thinking Machines Lab is the San Francisco Bay Area AI lab founded in February 2025 by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati.
    - url: "https://medium.com/illumination/nvidia-just-bet-big-on-the-woman-who-helped-build-openai-37a67a8790b1"
      title: Nvidia Just Bet Big on the Woman Who Helped Build OpenAI
      child_lab: Thinking Machines Lab
      founding_year: "2025"
      parent_lab: OpenAI
      founders: null
      relationship: founded after leaving OpenAI
      child_lab_evidence[3]: # Nvidia Just Bet Big on the Woman Who Helped Build OpenAI,Nvidia invests in a new AI startup founded by former OpenAI CTO.,"Nvidia has announced a multi-year partnership with Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup Murati founded after leaving OpenAI, to build infrastructure for training and running... [truncated in preview]"
      founding_year_evidence[3]: # Nvidia Just Bet Big on the Woman Who Helped Build OpenAI,Nvidia invests in a new AI startup founded by former OpenAI CTO.,"She launched Thinking Machines in February 2025, turned down an acquisition offer from Mark Zuckerberg, and raised around $2 billion in seed funding at a... [truncated in preview]"
      parent_lab_evidence[3]: # Nvidia Just Bet Big on the Woman Who Helped Build OpenAI,Nvidia invests in a new AI startup founded by former OpenAI CTO.,"Nvidia has announced a multi-year partnership with Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup Murati founded after leaving OpenAI, to build infrastructure for training and running... [truncated in preview]"
      founders_evidence: null
      relationship_evidence[3]: # Nvidia Just Bet Big on the Woman Who Helped Build OpenAI,Nvidia invests in a new AI startup founded by former OpenAI CTO.,"Nvidia has announced a multi-year partnership with Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup Murati founded after leaving OpenAI, to build infrastructure for training and running... [truncated in preview]"
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  Thinking Machines Lab (TML),OpenAI,"2025",186,Mira Murati,"Mira Murati, former OpenAI CTO, co-founded Thinking Machine Labs","https://reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1syyfay/list_of_people_at_bigtech_professors_researchers"
  Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI Inc.),OpenAI,"2024",125,"Ilya Sutskever, Daniel Gross, Daniel Levy","Ilya Sutskever, former OpenAI Chief Scientist, co-founded Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI)","https://reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1syyfay/list_of_people_at_bigtech_professors_researchers"
  Black Forest Labs,Stability AI,"2024",125,"Robin Rombach, Andreas Blattmann, and Patrick Esser","Robin Rombach, Andreas Blattmann, and Patrick Esser, along with seven others, founded Black Forest Labs after working as former employees of Stability AI.","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flux_(text-to-image_model)"
  Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI) Labs,Meta,"2025",93,Yann LeCun,founded after LeCun stepped down as Meta’s chief AI scientist,"https://perplexityaimagazine.com/ai-news/ai-talent-exodus"
  Character.AI,Google,"2021",92,Noam Shazeer,Noam Shazeer resigned from Google to co-found Character.AI.,"https://officechai.com/uncorporate-jobs/these-ai-researchers-quit-to-launch-their-own-startups"
  Cohere,Google,null,88,Aidan Gomez,Aidan Gomez founded Cohere after previously working at Google.,"https://ciobulletin.com/artificial-intelligence/sakana-ai-released-open-source-ai-models"
  Sakana AI,Google,"2023",86,David Ha and Llion Jones,Llion Jones and David Ha founded Sakana AI after previously working as researchers at Google.,"https://ciobulletin.com/artificial-intelligence/sakana-ai-released-open-source-ai-models"
  Anthropic,OpenAI,"2021",63,"Dario Amodei, Daniela Amodei","Dario Amodei (former VP of Research, OpenAI), Daniela Amodei (former OpenAI exec)","https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kUC1LDJXLUDMuW3IuQ08764ao2pRuoRpuQvCBopwCw8/edit?usp=sharing"
  Ineffable Intelligence,Google DeepMind,"2026",54,null,founded by former Google DeepMind reinforcement learning lead David Silver,"https://perplexityaimagazine.com/ai-news/ai-talent-exodus"
  Mistral AI,Google DeepMind,"2023",40,Arthur Mensch,Arthur Mensch founded Mistral AI after working as an employee at Google DeepMind.,"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistral_AI"
  Discovery Loop,Google,"2026",34,null,"Jeff Dean left Google after 27 years to build a new AI startup, Discovery Loop.","https://moonshotcapital.substack.com/p/moonshot-weekly-europes-ai-factories"
  Ineffable Intelligence,DeepMind,"2025",33,David Silver,David Silver left DeepMind to found Ineffable Intelligence.,"https://dailyaibite.com/18-billion-ai-brain-drain-researchers-leaving-big-tech"
  Recursive Superintelligence,DeepMind,"2026",32,Tim Rocktäschel,Tim Rocktäschel co-founded Recursive Superintelligence after leaving DeepMind.,"https://dailyaibite.com/18-billion-ai-brain-drain-researchers-leaving-big-tech"
  Mistral AI,Meta,"2023",30,null,Guillaume Lample and Timothée Lacroix co-founded Mistral AI after working for Meta Platforms.,"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistral_AI"
  Mistral AI,DeepMind and Meta,"2023",25,"Mensch, Lample, Lacroix","Arthur Mensch, Guillaume Lample, and Timothée Lacroix worked at DeepMind and Meta before founding Mistral AI in 2023 in Paris.","https://aifundingtracker.com/top-ai-startups-in-europe"
  Eureka Labs,OpenAI,"2024",23,Andrej Karpathy,"Andrej Karpathy, former OpenAI co-founder, founded Eureka Labs","https://reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1syyfay/list_of_people_at_bigtech_professors_researchers"
  Mistral AI,DeepMind,"2023",22,null,Arthur Mensch (former DeepMind senior researcher),"https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kUC1LDJXLUDMuW3IuQ08764ao2pRuoRpuQvCBopwCw8/edit?usp=sharing"
  Perplexity AI,OpenAI,"2022",22,Aravind Srinivas,Aravind Srinivas (former OpenAI research scientist) – co-founder/CEO of this AI answer engine,"https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kUC1LDJXLUDMuW3IuQ08764ao2pRuoRpuQvCBopwCw8/edit?usp=sharing"
  Periodic Labs,OpenAI,"2025",20,null,"Liam Fedus (former VP of Research (post-training), OpenAI)","https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kUC1LDJXLUDMuW3IuQ08764ao2pRuoRpuQvCBopwCw8/edit?usp=sharing"
  Adept AI Labs,OpenAI,"2021",18,David Luan,"David Luan (former VP of Engineering, OpenAI); co-founded with ex-Google Brain researchers Ashish Vaswani & Niki Parmar","https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kUC1LDJXLUDMuW3IuQ08764ao2pRuoRpuQvCBopwCw8/edit?usp=sharing"
  Sakana AI,Google Brain,"2023",17,null,"David Ha, former Google Brain Research Director, co-founded Sakana AI","https://reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1syyfay/list_of_people_at_bigtech_professors_researchers"
  Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI) Labs,Meta AI,"2025",17,Yann LeCun,Yann LeCun left Meta in late 2025 and AMI raised $1 billion within four months,"https://nextomoro.com/frontier-lab-exodus"
  Cresta,OpenAI,"2017",15,Tim Shi,Tim Shi (former OpenAI research engineer in 2017) – co-founder of Cresta (AI for contact centers),"https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kUC1LDJXLUDMuW3IuQ08764ao2pRuoRpuQvCBopwCw8/edit?usp=sharing"
  Core Automation,OpenAI,"2026",15,Jerry Tworek,Jerry Tworek left OpenAI after spending nearly seven years there to found Core Automation in late March 2026.,"https://aimidday.com/37-openai-and-anthropic-alumni-founded-startups-in-2026"
  Pilot,OpenAI,"2017",14,Jeff Arnold,"Jeff Arnold (former Head of Operations, OpenAI in 2016) – co-founder of Pilot (AI-powered accounting)","https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kUC1LDJXLUDMuW3IuQ08764ao2pRuoRpuQvCBopwCw8/edit?usp=sharing"
  Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI) Labs,FAIR,"2025",14,null,"Yann LeCun founded Advanced Machine Intelligence after departing Meta, where he previously founded Facebook AI Research.","https://republicworld.com/amp/tech/ex-meta-ai-chief-yann-lecun-s-ami-raises-103-billion-for-alternative-ai-approach"
  Mirendil,Anthropic,"2026",14,"Behnam Neyshabur, Harsh Mehta","They left in December 2025, and within weeks they had raised $200 million at a $1 billion valuation, led by Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins with NVIDIA participating, for a company with no product.","https://capitalandcompute.net/blog/ex-openai-anthropic-startups-funding"
  xAI,OpenAI,"2023",14,Kyle Kosic,"Team includes: Kyle Kosic (ex-OpenAI engineer, xAI co-founder & infra lead)","https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kUC1LDJXLUDMuW3IuQ08764ao2pRuoRpuQvCBopwCw8/edit?usp=sharing"
  Covariant,OpenAI,"2017",13,null,"Pieter Abbeel, Rocky Duan, Peter Chen (all ex-OpenAI research scientists, 2016–17)","https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kUC1LDJXLUDMuW3IuQ08764ao2pRuoRpuQvCBopwCw8/edit?usp=sharing"
  Living Carbon,OpenAI,"2019",13,Maddie Hall,Maddie Hall (ex-OpenAI “Special Projects” team) – co-founder/CEO of Living Carbon (bioengineering plants for carbon capture),"https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kUC1LDJXLUDMuW3IuQ08764ao2pRuoRpuQvCBopwCw8/edit?usp=sharing"
  Kindo,OpenAI,"2023",13,Margaret Jennings,"Margaret Jennings (former OpenAI product manager, 2022–23) – co-founder of Kindo (enterprise AI chatbot platform)","https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kUC1LDJXLUDMuW3IuQ08764ao2pRuoRpuQvCBopwCw8/edit?usp=sharing"
  Prosper Robotics,OpenAI,"2021",13,Sharick Hashme,Shariq Hashme (worked at OpenAI in 2017 on Dota bot) – co-founder of Prosper (London-based home robotics startup),"https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kUC1LDJXLUDMuW3IuQ08764ao2pRuoRpuQvCBopwCw8/edit?usp=sharing"
  Recursive Superintelligence,Meta,null,12,null,"Tian Yuandong, former research scientist director at Meta's FAIR team, launched Recursive Superintelligence alongside seven other co-founders.","https://scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3353576/ex-meta-chinese-star-researcher-joins-race-self-improving-ai-us46b-start"
  Daedalus,OpenAI,"2019",12,Jonas Snyder,Jonas Schneider (former OpenAI Robotics Engineering Lead) – co-founder of Daedalus (AI-driven precision manufacturing),"https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kUC1LDJXLUDMuW3IuQ08764ao2pRuoRpuQvCBopwCw8/edit?usp=sharing"
  Discovery Loop,Google DeepMind,null,12,null,Researchers Oriol Vinyals and Quoc Le left Google DeepMind to launch Discovery Loop.,"https://fortune.com/2026/08/27/google-deepmind-losing-talent-to-rival-ai-labs-startups-new-data-show"
  Applied Compute,OpenAI,"2025",12,"Rhythm Garg, Linden Li, Yash Patil","Rhythm Garg, Linden Li, Yash Patil (all ex-OpenAI engineers from the reinforcement learning team)","https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kUC1LDJXLUDMuW3IuQ08764ao2pRuoRpuQvCBopwCw8/edit?usp=sharing"
  Recursive Superintelligence,Anthropic,"2025",12,null,"co-founded by Anna Goldie, who previously worked at both Anthropic and DeepMind","https://newclawtimes.com/articles/big-tech-ai-talent-exodus-deepmind-meta-openai-startup-funding-2026"
  Mistral AI,Meta AI,"2023",12,null,Guillaume Lample and Timothée Lacroix departed Meta to co-found Mistral AI in Paris in April 2023.,"https://benched.ai/companies/meta-ai"
  Inflection AI,DeepMind,"2022",11,null,Mustafa Suleyman (DeepMind co-founder) and Karén Simonyan (ex-DeepMind Principal Research Scientist),"https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kUC1LDJXLUDMuW3IuQ08764ao2pRuoRpuQvCBopwCw8/edit?usp=sharing"
  Sampura Research,Google,null,11,null,"Former Google researchers founded a new nonprofit, Sampura Research","https://arcamax.com/business/businessnews/s-4284178"
  Periodic Labs,OpenAI and DeepMind,"2025",10,former OpenAI and DeepMind staff,founded by former OpenAI and DeepMind staff,"https://perplexityaimagazine.com/ai-news/ai-talent-exodus"
  Recursive Superintelligence,Google DeepMind,"2025",10,null,founded by former Google DeepMind researcher Tim Rocktäschel,"https://perplexityaimagazine.com/ai-news/ai-talent-exodus"
  Stem AI (Softmax),OpenAI,"2024",9,Emmett Shear,Emmett Shear (former interim CEO of OpenAI; ex-CEO of Twitch),"https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kUC1LDJXLUDMuW3IuQ08764ao2pRuoRpuQvCBopwCw8/edit?usp=sharing"
  Worktrace AI,OpenAI,"2025",9,Angela Jiang,Worktrace,"https://capitalandcompute.net/blog/ex-openai-anthropic-startups-funding"
  Reflection AI,Google DeepMind,"2024",9,null,Misha Laskin and Ioannis Antonoglou left DeepMind to found Reflection AI.,"https://fortune.com/2026/08/27/google-deepmind-losing-talent-to-rival-ai-labs-startups-new-data-show"
  EquiLibre Technologies,DeepMind,"2022",8,null,"Martin Schmid, Matej Moravčík, Rudolf Kadlec (ex-DeepMind research scientists)","https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kUC1LDJXLUDMuW3IuQ08764ao2pRuoRpuQvCBopwCw8/edit?usp=sharing"
  Inherent,DeepMind,"2026",8,"Tantum Collins, Edward Hughes, Louis Kirsch","Founders Tantum Collins, Edward Hughes, and Louis Kirsch previously worked at DeepMind before founding Inherent.","https://wordupnews.com/tech/ex-deepmind-researchers-raised-50m-to-build-ai-that-figures-out-which-scientific-questions-are-worth-asking"
  Isara,OpenAI,"2025",8,Eddie Zhang,"Eddie Zhang, a former OpenAI AI safety researcher, left OpenAI to start Isara in June 2025 alongside Henry Gasztowtt.","http://allusanewshub.com/2026/03/27/openai-backs-a-nine-month-old-startup-building-swarms-of-ai-agents-at-a-650-million-valuation"
  Reflection AI,DeepMind,"2024",7,null,"Misha Laskin and Ioannis Antonoglou, former DeepMind researchers/creators, co-founded Reflection AI","https://reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1syyfay/list_of_people_at_bigtech_professors_researchers"
  H Company,DeepMind,"2024",7,Charles Kantor,"Karl Tuyls, Laurent Sifre, Julien Perolat, Daan Wierstra (all ex-DeepMind research scientists)","https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kUC1LDJXLUDMuW3IuQ08764ao2pRuoRpuQvCBopwCw8/edit?usp=sharing"
  Inherent,Google DeepMind,"2026",7,null,founded by Google DeepMind alumni,"https://pulseofnations.lol/deepmind-alumni-startup"
  Humans&,Anthropic and xAI,"2026",7,former Anthropic and xAI employees,Former Anthropic and xAI employees launched Humans&.,"https://dailyaibite.com/18-billion-ai-brain-drain-researchers-leaving-big-tech"
  Mistral AI,Google DeepMind and Meta,"2023",7,null,"Arthur Mench came from Google DeepMind, and Guom Lample and Timothy Lqua came from Meta where they worked on Llama to found Mistral.","https://youtu.be/bNcCatdErDw"
  Perceptron,Meta,"2024",7,null,Armen Aghajanyan and Akshat Shrivastava worked at Meta before co-founding Perceptron.,"https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/26/ex-meta-scientists-want-to-bring-visual-ai-to-the-factory-floor"
  Sakana AI,Stability AI,"2023",6,null,Founder David Ha previously led the research department at Stability AI before founding Sakana AI.,"https://eu.36kr.com/en/p/3518536972934277"
  Yutori,Meta,"2024",6,null,"Devi Parikh, Abhishek Das, and Dhruv Batra left Meta to launch and join Yutori.","https://inkl.com/news/exclusive-ex-meta-ai-leaders-debut-an-agent-that-scours-the-web-for-you-in-a-push-to-ultimately-give-users-their-own-digital-chief-of-staff"
  Trajectory,Windsurf,null,6,null,Ronak Malde was previously an AI researcher at Windsurf and later worked at Google DeepMind before cofounding Trajectory.,"https://dnyuz.com/2026/05/27/former-google-and-apple-researchers-launch-a-startup-to-build-ais-missing-feedback-loop"
  Noosphere Labs,Meta,"2025",6,null,"Kevin Carlberg left Meta, where he led a research team, and incorporated Noosphere Labs as founder and chief executive officer.","https://dealroom.co/news/144445-ex-meta-ai-director-raises-10-25m-seed-for-stealth-physical-ai-startup"
  Recursive Superintelligence,Anthropic and Google DeepMind,"2025",6,null,founded by former Anthropic and Google DeepMind researchers Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini,"https://perplexityaimagazine.com/ai-news/ai-talent-exodus"
  Humans&,Anthropic,"2025",6,null,Humans& was launched by former employees of Anthropic and xAI.,"https://is.gd/I3lWZH"
  Recursive Superintelligence,Anthropic and DeepMind,null,5,Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini,Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini founded Ricursive Intelligence after leaving Anthropic and DeepMind.,"https://dailyaibite.com/18-billion-ai-brain-drain-researchers-leaving-big-tech"
  Perceptron,FAIR,"2024",5,null,founded by former Meta research scientists Armen Aghajanyan and Akshat Shrivastava,"https://aichatdaily.com/ai-models/ex-meta-scientists-launch-perceptron-21m-factory-floor-vision-ai"
  Cohere,Google Brain,"2019",5,null,Aidan Gomez and Nick Frosst passed through Google Brain before co-founding Cohere.,"https://wpnews.pro/news/this-is-the-incredible-list-of-ai-founders-whod-worked-with-jeff-dean-the-loop"
  Reka AI,DeepMind,"2022",5,null,founded by former researchers,"https://nextomoro.com/reka-ai"
  Character.AI,Google Brain,"2021",4,null,Noam Shazeer left Google Brain to co-found Character.AI,"https://machinebrief.com/news/ai-talent-war-where-top-researchers-actually-went"
  Essential AI,Google Brain,"2023",4,null,"Ashish Vaswani and Niki Parmar, former Google Brain researchers, co-founded Essential AI","https://reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1syyfay/list_of_people_at_bigtech_professors_researchers"
  Humans&,xAI,"2025",4,null,Eric Zelikman and Yuchen He co-founded Humans& after working as researchers at xAI on the Grok large-language-model program.,"https://nextomoro.com/humans-and"
  H Company,Google DeepMind,"2024",4,null,"Karl Tuyls, Laurent Sifre, Julien Perolat, and Daan Wierstra were senior research scientists at Google DeepMind before co-founding H in Paris in May 2024.","https://nextomoro.com/h-company"
  Latent Labs,DeepMind,"2023",4,null,"Simon Kohl (ex-DeepMind, AlphaFold/AlphaDesign team lead) – CEO of Latent Labs (biotech AI for protein design)","https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kUC1LDJXLUDMuW3IuQ08764ao2pRuoRpuQvCBopwCw8/edit?usp=sharing"
  Mentiora.ai,Google DeepMind,null,3,null,chief executive and co-founder of Mentiora,"https://nexttechtoday.com/news/deepminds-alumni-are-building-the-next-wave-of-ai"
  Glyphic AI,DeepMind,"2022",3,null,Devang Agrawal & Adam Liska (ex-DeepMind research engineers),"https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kUC1LDJXLUDMuW3IuQ08764ao2pRuoRpuQvCBopwCw8/edit?usp=sharing"
  Recursive Superintelligence,Meta AI,"2026",3,null,"founded by former leaders from Meta AI, Google DeepMind, OpenAI, and Salesforce AI","http://allusanewshub.com/2026/05/14/a-four-month-old-startup-just-raised-650-million-to-build-ai-that-improves-itself"
  Elorian AI,Google DeepMind,"2025",3,null,founded Elorian after working as a former Google DeepMind and Apple research leader,"https://nextomoro.com/elorian"
  Inceptive,Google Brain,"2021",3,null,Jakob Uszkoreit co-founded Inceptive after working at Google Brain.,"https://digidai.github.io/2025/11/11/aidan-gomez-cohere-ceo-deep-analysis"
  Isomorphic Labs,Google DeepMind,"2022",3,null,founded in 2022 by Demis Hassabis,"https://newsintheworld.online/uk-and-europe-land-33-of-new-startups-founded-by-deepmind-alumni"
  Humans&,Google DeepMind,"2025",3,null,co-founder of U.S. AI startup Humans&,"https://nexttechtoday.com/news/deepminds-alumni-are-building-the-next-wave-of-ai"
  Vercept,Allen Institute for AI,"2024",3,null,Founders who were former researchers at the Allen Institute for AI founded Vercept in 2024.,"https://theoutpost.ai/news-story/anthropic-acquires-vercept-to-boost-ai-agents-capabilities-as-competition-intensifies-24116"
  Orbital Materials,DeepMind,"2022",3,null,Jonathan Godwin (ex-DeepMind senior researcher),"https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kUC1LDJXLUDMuW3IuQ08764ao2pRuoRpuQvCBopwCw8/edit?usp=sharing"
  Mistral AI,Meta FAIR,"2023",3,Guillaume Lample,Guillaume Lample and Timothée Lacroix previously worked at Meta FAIR before co-founding Mistral AI.,"https://gradually.ai/en/mistral-ai-statistics"
  Inductiva.AI,DeepMind,"2021",3,null,Hugo Penedones (ex-DeepMind research scientist),"https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kUC1LDJXLUDMuW3IuQ08764ao2pRuoRpuQvCBopwCw8/edit?usp=sharing"
  Omnisent,Google DeepMind,null,3,null,"co-founded Omnisent, a Munich-based defense technology startup","https://nexttechtoday.com/news/deepminds-alumni-are-building-the-next-wave-of-ai"
  Oak Lab,Keen Technologies,"2026",3,null,Richard Sutton and co-founder Khurram Javed left John Carmack's Keen Technologies to launch Oak Lab,"https://mlq.ai/news/turing-award-winner-rich-sutton-launches-oak-lab-to-build-continuously-learning-ai-agents"
  OpenAI,Google Brain,"2015",3,Ilya Sutskever,Sutskever left Google at the end of 2015 to become cofounder and chief scientist of OpenAI.,"https://marefa.org/%D8%A5%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7_%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B3%D9%83%D9%8A%DA%A4%D8%B1"
  Sakana AI,Google DeepMind,null,3,null,founded by former Google DeepMind scientists David Ha and Llion Jones,"https://turingpost.substack.com/p/fod100-new-ai-terms-you-should-definitely"
  Sakana AI,Google AI,"2023",2,null,Founder Llion Jones previously worked as a Google AI researcher before founding Sakana AI.,"https://eu.36kr.com/en/p/3518536972934277"
  Reliant AI,DeepMind,"2023",2,null,Karl Moritz Hermann (ex-DeepMind research scientist),"https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kUC1LDJXLUDMuW3IuQ08764ao2pRuoRpuQvCBopwCw8/edit?usp=sharing"
  AI21 Labs,Google,"2017",2,null,"Yoav Shoham, former Principal Scientist at Google, co-founded AI21 Labs.","https://grokipedia.com/page/AI21_Labs"
  Inherent,Microsoft,null,2,null,Kaloyan Aleksiev previously worked at Microsoft before joining Inherent.,"https://theweblist.net/go/b0d0pq"
  Essential AI,Google,"2023",2,null,founded Essential AI after working at Google and co-founding Adept AI,"https://fourweekmba.com/google-ai-talent-exodus-transformer-authors"
  FormalistAI,DeepMind,null,2,null,Former DeepMind consultant Angelos Chionis has founded Paris-based FormalistAI.,"https://tech.eu/2026/05/01/over"
  Elorian AI,Google Brain,"2024",2,null,Andrew Dai worked at Google Brain and DeepMind before co-founding Elorian AI.,"https://startupfortune.com/a-former-deepmind-researcher-just-raised-55-million-before-building-anything"
  Phare Health,DeepMind,"2023",2,null,Dr. Martin Seneviratne and Lee Kupferman (ex-DeepMind clinicians/researchers),"https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kUC1LDJXLUDMuW3IuQ08764ao2pRuoRpuQvCBopwCw8/edit?usp=sharing"
  ROI-AI,DeepMind,null,2,null,Former DeepMind search engineer Pouya Samangouei has founded ROI-AI.,"https://tech.eu/2026/05/01/over"
  Adia Thermal,DeepMind,"2023",2,null,Sam Duke (former DeepMind engineer),"https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kUC1LDJXLUDMuW3IuQ08764ao2pRuoRpuQvCBopwCw8/edit?usp=sharing"
  Recursive Superintelligence,Meta FAIR,null,2,null,"Tian Yuandong, former research scientist director at Meta's FAIR team, launched Recursive Superintelligence alongside seven other co-founders.","https://buzzwordnews.com/ex-meta-chinese-star-researcher-joins-race-for-self-improving-ai-with-us46b-start-up"
  Mistral AI,Meta/DeepMind,"2023",2,null,founded by ex-Meta/DeepMind researchers,"http://economistdiary.com/1993/10/yann-lecun-or-which-academic-can-15.html"
  Sooth Labs,Meta,null,2,null,founded by former Meta researchers including Yaser Sheikh who previously served as a vice president at Meta,"https://edgen.pre.edgen.tech/news/post/meta-alumnis-ai-lab-sooth-raises-50-million-for-event-prediction-engine"
  Kinro,DeepMind,null,2,null,Former DeepMind scientist Pierre-Alexandre Kamienny is the co-founder of Kinro.,"https://tech.eu/2026/05/01/over"
  FormalistAI,Google DeepMind,null,2,null,"founded FormalistAI, a Paris-based AI legal technology company","https://nexttechtoday.com/news/deepminds-alumni-are-building-the-next-wave-of-ai"
  Variable State,DeepMind,"2014",2,null,Jonathan Burroughs (ex-DeepMind senior designer),"https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kUC1LDJXLUDMuW3IuQ08764ao2pRuoRpuQvCBopwCw8/edit?usp=sharing"
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      move_detail: null
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rows[80,]{child_lab,parent_lab,founded_year,founders_from_parent,move_detail,independent_pages,source_url,source_title}:
  Thinking Machines Lab,OpenAI,"2025",Barret Zoph,Barret Zoph left OpenAI to co-found Thinking Machines Lab as CTO before returning to OpenAI.,78,"https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/15/thinking-machines-amps-up-its-bet-against-one-size-fits-all-ai-with-its-first-open-model-inkling","Thinking Machines amps up its bet against one-size-fits-all AI with its first open model, Inkling"
  Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI),OpenAI,"2024",Ilya Sutskever,"OpenAI co-founder and chief scientist Ilya Sutskever resigned from OpenAI and started his own AI company, Safe Superintelligence Inc.",55,"https://businessinsider.com/ai-labs-fragmenting-ego-clashes-new-startups-openai-2024-10","AI labs are fragmenting due to ego clashes, driving a wave of startups"
  Anthropic,OpenAI,"2021",Dario Amodei,2021 年从 OpenAI 出走联合创办 Anthropic,45,"https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/20/the-openai-mafia-15-of-the-most-notable-startups-founded-by-alumni","The OpenAI mafia: 18 startups founded by alumni"
  Ineffable Intelligence,DeepMind,"2025",null,null,21,"https://rwatimes.io/articles/cnbc-meta-google-open-ai-among-big-tech-firms-seeing-top-staff-leaving-to-launch-ai-startups-263027782","Meta, Google, OpenAI among Big Tech firms seeing top staff leaving to launch AI startups"
  Periodic Labs,OpenAI,"2025",null,null,17,"https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/20/the-openai-mafia-15-of-the-most-notable-startups-founded-by-alumni","The OpenAI mafia: 18 startups founded by alumni"
  Ricursive Intelligence,Anthropic,"2025",null,null,14,"https://rwatimes.io/articles/cnbc-meta-google-open-ai-among-big-tech-firms-seeing-top-staff-leaving-to-launch-ai-startups-263027782","Meta, Google, OpenAI among Big Tech firms seeing top staff leaving to launch AI startups"
  Character.AI,Google,"2021",null,null,13,"https://businessinsider.com/google-ai-talent-wars-anthropic-jumper-shazeer-karpathy-openai-2026-6",The AI talent wars just heated up again — and Google is losing out
  Inflection AI,DeepMind,"2022",null,null,12,"https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kUC1LDJXLUDMuW3IuQ08764ao2pRuoRpuQvCBopwCw8/edit?usp=sharing","Ai startups, founders and funding - ex OpenAi, DeepMind, Meta"
  Recursive Superintelligence,DeepMind,"2025",null,null,12,"https://rwatimes.io/articles/cnbc-meta-google-open-ai-among-big-tech-firms-seeing-top-staff-leaving-to-launch-ai-startups-263027782","Meta, Google, OpenAI among Big Tech firms seeing top staff leaving to launch AI startups"
  Ineffable Intelligence,Google DeepMind,"2025",null,null,12,"https://fortune.com/2026/08/27/google-deepmind-losing-talent-to-rival-ai-labs-startups-new-data-show","Google DeepMind is losing its grip on elite AI talent, new data shows"
  Humans&,Anthropic,"2025",null,null,11,"https://rwatimes.io/articles/cnbc-meta-google-open-ai-among-big-tech-firms-seeing-top-staff-leaving-to-launch-ai-startups-263027782","Meta, Google, OpenAI among Big Tech firms seeing top staff leaving to launch AI startups"
  Periodic Labs,DeepMind,null,null,null,8,"https://rwatimes.io/articles/cnbc-meta-google-open-ai-among-big-tech-firms-seeing-top-staff-leaving-to-launch-ai-startups-263027782","Meta, Google, OpenAI among Big Tech firms seeing top staff leaving to launch AI startups"
  Cohere,Google Brain,"2019","Aidan Gomez, Ivan Zhang, Nick Frosst","Aidan Gomez, along with colleagues Ivan Zhang and Nick Frosst, left Google Brain to co-found Cohere",8,"https://forbes.com/companies/cohere?list=canadas-best-startup-employers",Cohere | Company Overview & News
  Ricursive Intelligence,DeepMind,"2025",null,null,7,"https://is.gd/I3lWZH","Meta, Google, OpenAI among Big Tech firms seeing top staff leaving to launch AI startups"
  Mistral AI,Meta AI,"2023",Guillaume Lample,Guillaume Lample and Timothée Lacroix departed Meta to co-found Mistral AI,5,"https://phychai.wordpress.com/tag/meta-ai",meta-ai – phychai
  Eureka Labs,OpenAI,"2024",null,null,5,"https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/20/the-openai-mafia-15-of-the-most-notable-startups-founded-by-alumni","The OpenAI mafia: 18 startups founded by alumni"
  Mistral AI,DeepMind,"2023",null,null,5,"https://reuters.com/world/europe/asml-becomes-mistral-ais-top-shareholder-after-leading-latest-funding-round-2025-09-07","Exclusive: ASML becomes Mistral AI’s top shareholder after leading latest funding round, sources say"
  Mistral AI,Google DeepMind,"2023",Arthur Mensch,Arthur Mensch left Google DeepMind to co-found Mistral AI in 2023.,4,"https://phychai.wordpress.com/tag/meta-ai",meta-ai – phychai
  Adept AI Labs,Google Brain,"2022",null,null,4,"https://ft.com/content/37bb01af-ee46-4483-982f-ef3921436a50?accessToken=zwAGASoZXEbgkc83uwGv7kZEg9OYL-85IUNqUA.MEUCIGAX418D_QPFvxq-QLYReJE4g1m7wcZRXGk6pf1HqVQQAiEAn53oHV1zcVD3MYxeTbCWsSf_BIiSf_E_JcvZfhzlScw&sharetype=gift&token=4178b09d-f17c-4285-a18c-446dce2bdb54","Transformers: the Google scientists who pioneered an AI revolution"
  Mistral AI,Meta,"2023",null,null,4,"https://phychai.wordpress.com/2026/06",June 2026 – phychai
  Elorian,Google DeepMind,"2026",null,null,4,"https://metaintro.com/blog/former-deepmind-researcher-elorian-ai-startup-2026",Former Google DeepMind Researcher Launches AI Startup in 2026 as Big Tech Brain Drain Grows
  Reflection AI,DeepMind,"2024",null,null,4,"https://reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1syyfay/list_of_people_at_bigtech_professors_researchers",List of people at big-tech / professors / researchers who've jumped shit to launch their own AI labs for something Frontier/Foundational/AGI/Superintelligence/WorldModel
  Humans&,DeepMind,null,null,null,4,"http://forbes.com/sites/sofiachierchio/2026/04/16/the-ai-50-brink-list",The AI 50 Brink List
  Adept AI Labs,OpenAI,"2021",null,null,4,"https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/20/the-openai-mafia-15-of-the-most-notable-startups-founded-by-alumni","The OpenAI mafia: 18 startups founded by alumni"
  Humans&,OpenAI,"2026",null,null,3,"http://forbes.com/sites/sofiachierchio/2026/04/16/the-ai-50-brink-list",The AI 50 Brink List
  Periodic Labs,Google Brain,"2025",null,null,3,"https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/20/the-openai-mafia-15-of-the-most-notable-startups-founded-by-alumni","The OpenAI mafia: 18 startups founded by alumni"
  Essential AI,Google Brain,"2022",null,null,3,"https://reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1syyfay/list_of_people_at_bigtech_professors_researchers",List of people at big-tech / professors / researchers who've jumped shit to launch their own AI labs for something Frontier/Foundational/AGI/Superintelligence/WorldModel
  Perplexity AI,OpenAI,"2022",null,null,3,"https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/20/the-openai-mafia-15-of-the-most-notable-startups-founded-by-alumni","The OpenAI mafia: 18 startups founded by alumni"
  Core Automation,OpenAI,"2026",null,null,3,"https://africa.businessinsider.com/news/new-ai-lab-core-automation-nerdsniped-researchers-from-anthropic-google-deepmind/wb61k0m","New AI lab Core Automation 'nerdsniped' researchers from Anthropic, Google DeepMind"
  Ricursive Intelligence,Google DeepMind,"2025",null,null,2,"https://autogpt.net/big-techs-best-are-quitting-their-jobs-to-form-startups",Big Tech’s Best Are Quitting Their Jobs to Form Startups
  Kinro,DeepMind,null,null,null,2,"https://tech.eu/2026/05/01/over","DeepMind alumni start dozens of European startups in last 18 months, new data shows"
  Inflection AI,Google DeepMind,null,null,null,2,"https://businessinsider.com/executives-and-researchers-who-left-google-in-2025-2026-1",Executives and researchers who left Google in 2025
  Adept AI Labs,Google,"2021",null,null,2,"https://theinformation.com/briefings/two-co-founders-of-adept-an-openai-rival-suddenly-left-to-start-another-company?rc=c48ukx","Two Co-Founders of Adept, an OpenAI Rival, Suddenly Left to Start Another Company"
  Discovery Loop,Google DeepMind,null,null,null,2,"https://drmhse.com/posts/tech-newsletter-2026-08-06",Google Reshuffles AI Leadership as Dean Departs and Hassabis Becomes Chair
  Adaption Labs,Cohere,null,null,null,2,"https://fortune.com/2026/02/04/adaption-labs-50-million-seed-funding-emergence-captial-sara-hooker-sudip-roy-ai-models-that-learn-on-the-fly",Adaption Labs secures $50 million seed round to build AI models that can change on the fly
  Mentiora,DeepMind,null,null,null,2,"https://tech.eu/2026/05/01/over","DeepMind alumni start dozens of European startups in last 18 months, new data shows"
  Wizzaid,DeepMind,null,null,null,2,"https://tech.eu/2026/05/01/over","DeepMind alumni start dozens of European startups in last 18 months, new data shows"
  Sakana AI,Google Brain,"2023",null,null,2,"https://reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1syyfay/list_of_people_at_bigtech_professors_researchers",List of people at big-tech / professors / researchers who've jumped shit to launch their own AI labs for something Frontier/Foundational/AGI/Superintelligence/WorldModel
  Cursive,DeepMind,null,null,null,2,"https://tech.eu/2026/05/01/over","DeepMind alumni start dozens of European startups in last 18 months, new data shows"
  Trajectory,DeepMind,null,null,null,2,"https://mediapost.com/publications/article/415412/former-apple-google-researchers-discover-ais-lea.html?edition=142809","Performance Marketing Insider: Former Apple, Google Researchers Discover AI's Learning Loop"
  General Instinct,DeepMind,null,null,null,2,"https://tech.eu/2026/05/01/over","DeepMind alumni start dozens of European startups in last 18 months, new data shows"
  Synthefy,OpenAI,null,null,null,2,"https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/06/openai-alums-have-been-quietly-investing-from-a-new-potentially-100m-fund","OpenAI alums have been quietly investing from a new, potentially $100M fund"
  Nova Intelligence,Google DeepMind,null,null,null,2,"https://fortune.com/2026/05/05/exclusive-nova-intelligence-ai-sap-chemistry-emma-qian?rand=8593","Exclusive: Nova Intelligence raises $31.5 million to bring agentic AI to SAP’s $89 billion migration wave"
  OpenAI,Google Brain,"2015",null,null,2,"https://fortune.com/europe/2023/04/28/the-google-brain-deepmind-merger-alphabet-pichai-risks-eye-on-a-i",The logic of Alphabet's Google Brain-DeepMind merger
  Character.AI,Google DeepMind,"2021",null,null,2,"https://forbes.com/sites/rashishrivastava/2026/07/20/ai-startups-are-pivoting-from-flashy-demos-to-tech-that-pays-the-bills",AI Startups Are Pivoting From Flashy Demos To Tech That Pays The Bills
  FormalistAI,DeepMind,null,null,null,2,"https://tech.eu/2026/05/01/over","DeepMind alumni start dozens of European startups in last 18 months, new data shows"
  Reflection AI,Google DeepMind,"2024",null,null,2,"https://fortune.com/2026/08/27/google-deepmind-losing-talent-to-rival-ai-labs-startups-new-data-show","Google DeepMind is losing its grip on elite AI talent, new data shows"
  ROI-AI,DeepMind,null,null,null,2,"https://tech.eu/2026/05/01/over","DeepMind alumni start dozens of European startups in last 18 months, new data shows"
  Periodic Labs,Google DeepMind,null,null,null,2,"https://businessinsider.com/weil-valuation-750-million-for-ai-science-startup-2026-8",Kevin Weil is raising a new round of funding for an AI science startup
  Experiqlabs,DeepMind,null,null,null,2,"https://tech.eu/2026/05/01/over","DeepMind alumni start dozens of European startups in last 18 months, new data shows"
  Mirendil,Anthropic,"2026",null,null,2,"https://nextomoro.com/mirendil",Mirendil
  Interdimensional,OpenAI,null,null,null,2,"https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/06/openai-alums-have-been-quietly-investing-from-a-new-potentially-100m-fund","OpenAI alums have been quietly investing from a new, potentially $100M fund"
  Living Carbon,OpenAI,null,null,null,1,"https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/20/the-openai-mafia-15-of-the-most-notable-startups-founded-by-alumni","The OpenAI mafia: 18 startups founded by alumni"
  his own robotics start-up in Shenzhen,OpenAI,null,Roger Jiang,Roger Jiang left OpenAI to found his own robotics start-up in Shenzhen,1,"https://ft.com/content/b167c6d3-b982-482a-98c3-5303a7b80c6a?syn-25a6b1a6=1",China lures home its top AI talent from Silicon Valley
  Recursive Superintelligence,Google DeepMind,null,null,null,1,"https://digg.com/u/x/laurentsifre",Laurent Sifre (@laurentsifre)
  Latent Labs,Google DeepMind,"2022",null,null,1,"https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/12/founded-by-deepmind-alumnus-latent-labs-launches-with-50m-to-make-biology-programmable","Founded by DeepMind alumnus, Latent Labs launches with $50M to make biology programmable"
  Hiverge,DeepMind,null,null,null,1,"https://fortune.com/2025/09/16/hiverge-google-deepmind-researchers-5-million-seed-round-for-ai-algorithm-design-company","Exclusive: Former Google DeepMind researchers secure $5 million seed round for new company to bring algorithm-designing AI to the masses"
  FormalistAI,Google DeepMind,null,null,null,1,"https://nexttechtoday.com/news/deepminds-alumni-are-building-the-next-wave-of-ai",DeepMind's Alumni Are Building the Next Wave of AI
  Discovery Loop,Google Brain,null,null,null,1,"https://drmhse.com/posts/tech-newsletter-2026-08-06",Google Reshuffles AI Leadership as Dean Departs and Hassabis Becomes Chair
  Discovery Loop,Google,null,null,null,1,"https://fortune.com/2026/08/05/demis-hassabis-steps-down-google-deepmind-ai-shakeup",Demis Hassabis steps down from Google DeepMind CEO role amid a major AI leadership shake-up
  Applied Compute,OpenAI,null,null,null,1,"https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/20/the-openai-mafia-15-of-the-most-notable-startups-founded-by-alumni","The OpenAI mafia: 18 startups founded by alumni"
  Orbital Industries,Google DeepMind,"2022",null,null,1,"https://fortune.com/2026/05/28/exclusive-orbital-industries-raises-50-million-series-b-funding-round-ai-to-discover-exotic-new-materials","Exclusive: Orbital Industries, startup using AI to discover exotic new materials, raises $50 million Series B funding round"
  Kindo,OpenAI,null,null,null,1,"https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/20/the-openai-mafia-15-of-the-most-notable-startups-founded-by-alumni","The OpenAI mafia: 18 startups founded by alumni"
  Pondering Machines Lab,OpenAI,null,null,null,1,"https://urallnews.com/meta-hires-five-thinking-machines-lab-founders-including-a-reported-1-5-billion-engineer",Meta hires 5 Pondering Machines Lab founders together with a reported $1.5 billion engineer - URALLNEWS
  Cresta,OpenAI,null,null,null,1,"https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/20/the-openai-mafia-15-of-the-most-notable-startups-founded-by-alumni","The OpenAI mafia: 18 startups founded by alumni"
  Harvey AI,Google DeepMind,"2022",null,null,1,"https://fortune.com/2026/03/26/harvey-ceo-winston-weinberg-reearn-roles-career-advice-ai-tech-innovation-eleven-billion-dollar-startup-sam-altman-openai-backed",30-year-old CEO of $11 billion Harvey earned the backing of OpenAI and Sam Altman. He says you have to ‘re-earn’ your role every 6 months
  Inherent,Google DeepMind,null,null,null,1,"https://techflowpost.com/en-US/newsletter/133088","Former DeepMind Employee Founded Inherent, AI Agent Research Reproduction Outperforms Claude and GPT-5.5"
  Pilot,OpenAI,"2017",null,null,1,"https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/20/the-openai-mafia-15-of-the-most-notable-startups-founded-by-alumni","The OpenAI mafia: 18 startups founded by alumni"
  "Infinity",Google Brain,null,null,null,1,"https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/20/inference-startup-infinity-raises-15m-from-touring-capital-openai-and-athropic-researchers","Inference startup Infinity raises $15M from Touring Capital, OpenAI and Anthropic researchers"
  Character.AI,Google Brain,"2021",null,null,1,"https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kUC1LDJXLUDMuW3IuQ08764ao2pRuoRpuQvCBopwCw8/edit?usp=sharing","Ai startups, founders and funding - ex OpenAi, DeepMind, Meta"
  AMI Labs,Meta AI,null,null,null,1,"https://newclawtimes.com/articles/big-tech-ai-talent-exodus-deepmind-meta-openai-startup-funding-2026","Big Tech AI Researchers Are Leaving to Launch Billion-Dollar Labs, and VCs Are Writing the Checks"
  Kinro,Google DeepMind,null,null,null,1,"https://nexttechtoday.com/news/deepminds-alumni-are-building-the-next-wave-of-ai",DeepMind's Alumni Are Building the Next Wave of AI
  Groq,Google Brain,"2016",null,null,1,"https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kUC1LDJXLUDMuW3IuQ08764ao2pRuoRpuQvCBopwCw8/edit?usp=sharing","Ai startups, founders and funding - ex OpenAi, DeepMind, Meta"
  Physical Intelligence,Google DeepMind,null,null,null,1,"https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/11/the-most-interesting-startups-showcased-at-google-cloud-next",The most interesting startups showcased at Google Cloud Next
  Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI),Google Brain,null,null,null,1,"https://mungomash.com/orgs/openai/leadership","OpenAI Leadership Timeline — Founders, Departures, Board Episodes, and Governance"
  Cartwheel,OpenAI,"2023",null,null,1,"https://forbes.com/sites/charliefink/2025/05/15/ai-startup-cartwheel-led-by-openai-and-google-veterans-raises-10-million-to-simplify-3d-animation","AI Startup Cartwheel, Led By OpenAI And Google Veterans, Raises $10 Million To Simplify 3D Animation"
  Character.AI,OpenAI,null,null,null,1,"https://digg.com/u/x/laurentsifre",Laurent Sifre (@laurentsifre)
  Humans&,xAI,null,null,null,1,"https://reuters.com/business/ai-startup-humans-raises-480-million-45-billion-valuation-seed-round-2026-01-20",AI startup Humans& raises $480 million at $4.5 billion valuation in seed round
  Recursive Superintelligence,OpenAI,null,null,null,1,"https://techtimes.com/articles/317947/20260607/self-improving-ai-draws-650-million-ex-meta-scientist-tian-bets-models-build-models.htm","Self-Improving AI Draws $650 Million: Ex-Meta Scientist Tian Bets Models Build Models"
  ROI-AI,Google DeepMind,null,null,null,1,"https://nexttechtoday.com/news/deepminds-alumni-are-building-the-next-wave-of-ai",DeepMind's Alumni Are Building the Next Wave of AI
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      parent_lab: OpenAI
      child_lab: null
      child_founded_year: null
      founders_from_parent: null
      source_quality_note: another source
      parent_lab_evidence[2]: Google DeepMind hires Thinking Machines co-founder in $12B talent war,He previously served as vice president of research at OpenAI before co-founding Thinking Machines Lab in 2024.
      child_lab_evidence: null
      child_founded_year_evidence: null
      founders_from_parent_evidence: null
      source_quality_note_evidence[2]: Google DeepMind hires Thinking Machines co-founder in $12B talent war,"[AI & ML](/news/tech-ai/ai-ml)"
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      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
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      child_lab_evidence: null
      child_founded_year_evidence: null
      founders_from_parent_evidence: null
      source_quality_note_evidence[1]: "# Biomimicry Breakthrough: Sakana AI Unveils Tokyo-Based Generative AI Startup"
    - url: "https://frontiernews.ai/news/article/thinking-machines-lab-loses-fourth-cofounder-as-li-08114527"
      title: Thinking Machines Lab Loses Fourth Cofounder as Lilian Weng Steps Down for Health
      parent_lab: OpenAI
      child_lab: null
      child_founded_year: null
      founders_from_parent: null
      source_quality_note: null
      parent_lab_evidence[2]: # Thinking Machines Lab Loses Fourth Cofounder as Lilian Weng Steps Down for Health,"Mira Murati, Thinking Machines' founder and former OpenAI CTO, responded with public grace, saying the experience of cofounding the company had been \"precious\" and that... [truncated in preview]"
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      founder_names: null
      move_summary: null
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      founder_names_evidence: null
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    - url: "https://news.yahoo.com/black-forest-labs-company-powers-195634512.html"
      title: "Grok’s image generator, Black Forest Labs, is raising $100M at a $1B valuation, say sources"
      parent_lab: null
      child_lab: null
      founded_year: null
      founder_names: "Andreas Blattmann, Patrick Esser, Dominik Lorenz, Robin Rombach"
      move_summary: null
      parent_lab_evidence: null
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      founded_year_evidence: null
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      move_summary_evidence: null
    - url: "https://prism.liabooks.com/en/posts/ricursive-intelligence-raised-valuation-months-mlphjwuc"
      title: When AI Designs Its Own Brain Chips
      parent_lab: Google Brain
      child_lab: null
      founded_year: null
      founder_names: null
      move_summary: null
      parent_lab_evidence[3]: # When AI Designs Its Own Brain Chips,Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini have synchronized careers down to the day.,Same day joining Google Brain.
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      founder_names_evidence: null
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  Adept AI,Essential AI,2022,Ashish Vaswani and Niki Parmar,Ashish Vaswani and Niki Parmar left Adept AI and founded Essential AI.,3,"https://vuink.com/post/erhgref-d-dpbz/technology/top-ex-google-ai-researchers-raise-funding-thrive-capital-sources-2023-05-04"
  Anthropic,Humans&,2025,null,Humans& was launched by former employees of Anthropic and xAI.,2,"https://is.gd/I3lWZH"
  Cohere,Adaption Labs,2026,Sara Hooker,Former Cohere executives Sara Hooker and Sudip Roy founded Adaption Labs.,17,"https://fortune.com/2026/02/04/adaption-labs-50-million-seed-funding-emergence-captial-sara-hooker-sudip-roy-ai-models-that-learn-on-the-fly"
  Google Brain / Google AI,OpenAI,2015,Ilya Sutskever,Sutskever left Google at the end of 2015 to become cofounder and chief scientist of OpenAI.,2,"https://fortune.com/europe/2023/04/28/the-google-brain-deepmind-merger-alphabet-pichai-risks-eye-on-a-i"
  Google Brain / Google AI,Cohere.ai,2019,Aidan Gomez,Aidan Gomez founded Cohere after previously working at Google.,14,"https://forbes.com/companies/cohere?list=canadas-best-startup-employers"
  Google Brain / Google AI,Adept AI Labs,2021,"Ashish Vaswani, Niki Parmar, and David Luan",Google researchers Ashish Vaswani and Niki Parmar co-founded Adept AI in 2021 with David Luan.,5,"https://ft.com/content/37bb01af-ee46-4483-982f-ef3921436a50?accessToken=zwAGASoZXEbgkc83uwGv7kZEg9OYL-85IUNqUA.MEUCIGAX418D_QPFvxq-QLYReJE4g1m7wcZRXGk6pf1HqVQQAiEAn53oHV1zcVD3MYxeTbCWsSf_BIiSf_E_JcvZfhzlScw&sharetype=gift&token=4178b09d-f17c-4285-a18c-446dce2bdb54"
  Google Brain / Google AI,Character.AI,2021,Noam Shazeer,Noam Shazeer resigned from Google to co-found Character.AI.,15,"https://businessinsider.com/google-ai-talent-wars-anthropic-jumper-shazeer-karpathy-openai-2026-6"
  Google Brain / Google AI,Essential AI,2023,Ashish Vaswani and Niki Parmar,"Ashish Vaswani and Niki Parmar, former Google Brain researchers, co-founded Essential AI",14,"https://fourweekmba.com/google-ai-talent-exodus-transformer-authors"
  Google Brain / Google AI,Sakana AI,2023,David Ha and Llion Jones,Llion Jones and David Ha founded Sakana AI after previously working as researchers at Google.,4,"https://ciobulletin.com/artificial-intelligence/sakana-ai-released-open-source-ai-models"
  Google Brain / Google AI,Ricursive Intelligence,2025,"Anna Goldie, Azalia Mirhoseini",Ex-Google researchers Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini founded Ricursive Intelligence in 2025.,18,"https://caproasia.com/2026/04/21/uk-ai-lab-startup-ricursive-intelligence-raised-500-million-in-series-a-funding-at-4-billion-valuation-announced-300-million-raised-in-series-a-funding-in-2026-january-founded-in-2025-by-ex-googl"
  Google DeepMind,Inflection AI,2022,null,Mustafa Suleyman (DeepMind co-founder) and Karén Simonyan (ex-DeepMind Principal Research Scientist),2,"https://businessinsider.com/executives-and-researchers-who-left-google-in-2025-2026-1"
  Google DeepMind,Reka AI,2022,"Dani Yogatama, Cyprien de Masson d'Autume",founded by former researchers,4,"https://nextomoro.com/reka-ai"
  Google DeepMind,Latent Labs,2023,null,"Simon Kohl (ex-DeepMind, AlphaFold/AlphaDesign team lead) – CEO of Latent Labs (biotech AI for protein design)",2,"https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/12/founded-by-deepmind-alumnus-latent-labs-launches-with-50m-to-make-biology-programmable"
  Google DeepMind,Mistral AI,2023,Arthur Mensch,Arthur Mensch founded Mistral AI after working as an employee at Google DeepMind.,7,"https://reuters.com/world/europe/asml-becomes-mistral-ais-top-shareholder-after-leading-latest-funding-round-2025-09-07"
  Google DeepMind,H Company,2024,Charles Kantor,"Karl Tuyls, Laurent Sifre, Julien Perolat, Daan Wierstra (all ex-DeepMind research scientists)",4,"https://nextomoro.com/h-company"
  Google DeepMind,Reflection AI,2024,"Misha Laskin, Ioannis Antonoglou",Misha Laskin and Ioannis Antonoglou left DeepMind to found Reflection AI.,35,"https://fortune.com/2026/08/27/google-deepmind-losing-talent-to-rival-ai-labs-startups-new-data-show"
  Google DeepMind,Humans&,2025,null,co-founder of U.S. AI startup Humans&,2,"http://forbes.com/sites/sofiachierchio/2026/04/16/the-ai-50-brink-list"
  Google DeepMind,Periodic Labs,2025,former OpenAI and DeepMind staff,founded by former OpenAI and DeepMind staff,3,"https://businessinsider.com/weil-valuation-750-million-for-ai-science-startup-2026-8"
  Google DeepMind,Ricursive Intelligence,2025,"Anna Goldie, Azalia Mirhoseini",Google DeepMind researchers Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini founded Ricursive Intelligence in 2025.,8,"https://is.gd/I3lWZH"
  Google DeepMind,Ineffable Intelligence,2026,David Silver,founded by former Google DeepMind reinforcement learning lead David Silver,8,"https://fortune.com/2026/08/27/google-deepmind-losing-talent-to-rival-ai-labs-startups-new-data-show"
  Google and Cohere,Adaption Labs,null,Sara Hooker,Sara Hooker worked at Google and Cohere as an AI researcher for nearly a decade before founding Adaption.,2,"https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/indias-engineering-talent-becoming-ai-talent/printarticle/128521970.cms"
  Meta AI / FAIR,Mistral AI,2023,Guillaume Lample,Guillaume Lample and Timothée Lacroix co-founded Mistral AI after working for Meta Platforms.,5,"https://benched.ai/companies/meta-ai"
  Meta AI / FAIR,Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs,2025,Yann LeCun,founded after LeCun stepped down as Meta’s chief AI scientist,32,"https://perplexityaimagazine.com/ai-news/ai-talent-exodus"
  Nabla,Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs,2025,Alexandre LeBrun,Alexandre LeBrun previously founded and ran Nabla and then became chief executive of Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs.,2,"https://thenextweb.com/news/yann-lecun-ami-labs-world-models-billion"
  OpenAI,Adept AI Labs,2021,David Luan,"David Luan (former VP of Engineering, OpenAI); co-founded with ex-Google Brain researchers Ashish Vaswani & Niki Parmar",2,"https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/20/the-openai-mafia-15-of-the-most-notable-startups-founded-by-alumni"
  OpenAI,Anthropic,2021,"Dario Amodei, Daniela Amodei","Dario Amodei (former VP of Research, OpenAI), Daniela Amodei (former OpenAI exec)",2,"https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/20/the-openai-mafia-15-of-the-most-notable-startups-founded-by-alumni"
  OpenAI,Perplexity AI,2022,Aravind Srinivas,Aravind Srinivas (former OpenAI research scientist) – co-founder/CEO of this AI answer engine,2,"https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/20/the-openai-mafia-15-of-the-most-notable-startups-founded-by-alumni"
  OpenAI,Eureka Labs,2024,Andrej Karpathy,"Andrej Karpathy, former OpenAI co-founder, founded Eureka Labs",2,"https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/20/the-openai-mafia-15-of-the-most-notable-startups-founded-by-alumni"
  OpenAI,Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI),2024,"Ilya Sutskever, Daniel Gross, Daniel Levy","Ilya Sutskever, former OpenAI Chief Scientist, co-founded Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI)",2,"https://businessinsider.com/ai-labs-fragmenting-ego-clashes-new-startups-openai-2024-10"
  OpenAI,Periodic Labs,2025,null,"Liam Fedus (former VP of Research (post-training), OpenAI)",2,"https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/20/the-openai-mafia-15-of-the-most-notable-startups-founded-by-alumni"
  OpenAI,Thinking Machines Lab (TML),2025,Mira Murati,"Mira Murati, former OpenAI CTO, co-founded Thinking Machine Labs",3,"https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/15/thinking-machines-amps-up-its-bet-against-one-size-fits-all-ai-with-its-first-open-model-inkling"
  OpenAI,Core Automation,2026,Jerry Tworek,Jerry Tworek left OpenAI after spending nearly seven years there to found Core Automation in late March 2026.,4,"https://africa.businessinsider.com/news/new-ai-lab-core-automation-nerdsniped-researchers-from-anthropic-google-deepmind/wb61k0m"
  Stability AI,Black Forest Labs,2024,"Robin Rombach, Andreas Blattmann, Patrick Esser","Robin Rombach, Andreas Blattmann, and Patrick Esser, along with seven others, founded Black Forest Labs after working as former employees of Stability AI.",30,"https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-researcher-to-founder-journey-and-the/id1740178076?i=1000665678592"
  xAI,Humans&,2025,null,Eric Zelikman and Yuchen He co-founded Humans& after working as researchers at xAI on the Grok large-language-model program.,2,"https://reuters.com/business/ai-startup-humans-raises-480-million-45-billion-valuation-seed-round-2026-01-20"
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  Google DeepMind,Inflection AI,2022,Mustafa Suleyman; Karén Simonyan,Mustafa Suleyman (DeepMind co-founder) and Karén Simonyan (ex-DeepMind Principal Research Scientist),1,11,33,27,2,"https://businessinsider.com/executives-and-researchers-who-left-google-in-2025-2026-1"
  Google DeepMind,Reka AI,2022,"Dani Yogatama, Cyprien de Masson d'Autume",founded by former researchers,1,11,33,27,4,"https://nextomoro.com/reka-ai"
  Google DeepMind,Latent Labs,2023,Simon Kohl,"Simon Kohl (ex-DeepMind, AlphaFold/AlphaDesign team lead) – CEO of Latent Labs (biotech AI for protein design)",1,11,33,27,2,"https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/12/founded-by-deepmind-alumnus-latent-labs-launches-with-50m-to-make-biology-programmable"
  Google DeepMind,Mistral AI,2023,Arthur Mensch,Arthur Mensch founded Mistral AI after working as an employee at Google DeepMind.,1,11,33,27,7,"https://reuters.com/world/europe/asml-becomes-mistral-ais-top-shareholder-after-leading-latest-funding-round-2025-09-07"
  Google DeepMind,H Company,2024,Charles Kantor,"Karl Tuyls, Laurent Sifre, Julien Perolat, Daan Wierstra (all ex-DeepMind research scientists)",1,11,33,27,4,"https://nextomoro.com/h-company"
  Google DeepMind,Reflection AI,2024,"Misha Laskin, Ioannis Antonoglou",Misha Laskin and Ioannis Antonoglou left DeepMind to found Reflection AI.,1,11,33,27,35,"https://fortune.com/2026/08/27/google-deepmind-losing-talent-to-rival-ai-labs-startups-new-data-show"
  Google DeepMind,Humans&,2025,null,co-founder of U.S. AI startup Humans&,1,11,33,27,2,"http://forbes.com/sites/sofiachierchio/2026/04/16/the-ai-50-brink-list"
  Google DeepMind,Periodic Labs,2025,former OpenAI and DeepMind staff,founded by former OpenAI and DeepMind staff,1,11,33,27,3,"https://businessinsider.com/weil-valuation-750-million-for-ai-science-startup-2026-8"
  Google DeepMind,Ricursive Intelligence,2025,"Anna Goldie, Azalia Mirhoseini",Google DeepMind researchers Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini founded Ricursive Intelligence in 2025.,1,11,33,27,8,"https://is.gd/I3lWZH"
  Google DeepMind,Ineffable Intelligence,2026,David Silver,founded by former Google DeepMind reinforcement learning lead David Silver,1,11,33,27,8,"https://fortune.com/2026/08/27/google-deepmind-losing-talent-to-rival-ai-labs-startups-new-data-show"
  Google DeepMind,Inherent,2026,"Tantum Collins, Edward Hughes, Louis Kirsch","Founders Tantum Collins, Edward Hughes, and Louis Kirsch previously worked at DeepMind before founding Inherent.",1,11,33,27,8,"https://wordupnews.com/tech/ex-deepmind-researchers-raised-50m-to-build-ai-that-figures-out-which-scientific-questions-are-worth-asking"
  OpenAI,Anthropic,2021,"Dario Amodei, Daniela Amodei","Dario Amodei (former VP of Research, OpenAI), Daniela Amodei (former OpenAI exec)",1,8,33,27,2,"https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/20/the-openai-mafia-15-of-the-most-notable-startups-founded-by-alumni"
  OpenAI,Adept,2022,David Luan,"David Luan (former VP of Engineering, OpenAI); co-founded with ex-Google Brain researchers Ashish Vaswani & Niki Parmar",1,8,33,27,2,"https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/20/the-openai-mafia-15-of-the-most-notable-startups-founded-by-alumni"
  OpenAI,Perplexity AI,2022,Aravind Srinivas,Aravind Srinivas (former OpenAI research scientist) – co-founder/CEO of this AI answer engine,1,8,33,27,2,"https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/20/the-openai-mafia-15-of-the-most-notable-startups-founded-by-alumni"
  OpenAI,Eureka Labs,2024,Andrej Karpathy,"Andrej Karpathy, former OpenAI co-founder, founded Eureka Labs",1,8,33,27,2,"https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/20/the-openai-mafia-15-of-the-most-notable-startups-founded-by-alumni"
  OpenAI,Safe Superintelligence (SSI),2024,"Ilya Sutskever, Daniel Gross, Daniel Levy","Ilya Sutskever, former OpenAI Chief Scientist, co-founded Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI)",1,8,33,27,2,"https://businessinsider.com/ai-labs-fragmenting-ego-clashes-new-startups-openai-2024-10"
  OpenAI,Periodic Labs,2025,Liam Fedus,"Liam Fedus (former VP of Research (post-training), OpenAI)",1,8,33,27,2,"https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/20/the-openai-mafia-15-of-the-most-notable-startups-founded-by-alumni"
  OpenAI,Thinking Machines Lab,2025,Mira Murati,"Mira Murati, former OpenAI CTO, co-founded Thinking Machine Labs",1,8,33,27,3,"https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/15/thinking-machines-amps-up-its-bet-against-one-size-fits-all-ai-with-its-first-open-model-inkling"
  OpenAI,Core Automation,2026,Jerry Tworek,Jerry Tworek left OpenAI after spending nearly seven years there to found Core Automation in late March 2026.,1,8,33,27,4,"https://africa.businessinsider.com/news/new-ai-lab-core-automation-nerdsniped-researchers-from-anthropic-google-deepmind/wb61k0m"
  Google Brain / Google AI,OpenAI,2015,Ilya Sutskever,Sutskever left Google at the end of 2015 to become cofounder and chief scientist of OpenAI.,1,5,33,27,2,"https://fortune.com/europe/2023/04/28/the-google-brain-deepmind-merger-alphabet-pichai-risks-eye-on-a-i"
  Google Brain / Google AI,Cohere,2019,Aidan Gomez,Aidan Gomez founded Cohere after previously working at Google.,1,5,33,27,14,"https://forbes.com/companies/cohere?list=canadas-best-startup-employers"
  Google Brain / Google AI,Character.AI,2021,Noam Shazeer,Noam Shazeer resigned from Google to co-found Character.AI.,1,5,33,27,15,"https://businessinsider.com/google-ai-talent-wars-anthropic-jumper-shazeer-karpathy-openai-2026-6"
  Google Brain / Google AI,Adept,2022,"Ashish Vaswani, Niki Parmar, and David Luan",Google researchers Ashish Vaswani and Niki Parmar co-founded Adept AI in 2021 with David Luan.,1,5,33,27,5,"https://ft.com/content/37bb01af-ee46-4483-982f-ef3921436a50?accessToken=zwAGASoZXEbgkc83uwGv7kZEg9OYL-85IUNqUA.MEUCIGAX418D_QPFvxq-QLYReJE4g1m7wcZRXGk6pf1HqVQQAiEAn53oHV1zcVD3MYxeTbCWsSf_BIiSf_E_JcvZfhzlScw&sharetype=gift&token=4178b09d-f17c-4285-a18c-446dce2bdb54"
  Google Brain / Google AI,Sakana AI,2023,David Ha and Llion Jones,Llion Jones and David Ha founded Sakana AI after previously working as researchers at Google.,1,5,33,27,4,"https://ciobulletin.com/artificial-intelligence/sakana-ai-released-open-source-ai-models"
  Anthropic,Humans&,2025,null,Humans& was launched by former employees of Anthropic and xAI.,1,3,33,27,2,"https://is.gd/I3lWZH"
  Anthropic,Ricursive Intelligence,2025,null,null,1,3,33,27,14,"https://rwatimes.io/articles/cnbc-meta-google-open-ai-among-big-tech-firms-seeing-top-staff-leaving-to-launch-ai-startups-263027782"
  Anthropic,Mirendil,2026,"Behnam Neyshabur, Harsh Mehta","They left in December 2025, and within weeks they had raised $200 million at a $1 billion valuation, led by Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins with NVIDIA participating, for a company with no product.",1,3,33,27,14,"https://capitalandcompute.net/blog/ex-openai-anthropic-startups-funding"
  Meta AI / FAIR,Mistral AI,2023,Guillaume Lample,Guillaume Lample and Timothée Lacroix co-founded Mistral AI after working for Meta Platforms.,1,2,33,27,5,"https://benched.ai/companies/meta-ai"
  Meta AI / FAIR,Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI) Labs,2025,Yann LeCun,founded after LeCun stepped down as Meta’s chief AI scientist,1,2,33,27,32,"https://perplexityaimagazine.com/ai-news/ai-talent-exodus"
  Adept AI,Essential AI,2023,Ashish Vaswani and Niki Parmar,Ashish Vaswani and Niki Parmar left Adept AI and founded Essential AI.,1,1,33,27,3,"https://vuink.com/post/erhgref-d-dpbz/technology/top-ex-google-ai-researchers-raise-funding-thrive-capital-sources-2023-05-04"
  Cohere,Adaption Labs,2026,Sara Hooker,Former Cohere executives Sara Hooker and Sudip Roy founded Adaption Labs.,1,1,33,27,17,"https://fortune.com/2026/02/04/adaption-labs-50-million-seed-funding-emergence-captial-sara-hooker-sudip-roy-ai-models-that-learn-on-the-fly"
  Stability AI,Black Forest Labs,2024,"Robin Rombach, Andreas Blattmann, Patrick Esser","Robin Rombach, Andreas Blattmann, and Patrick Esser, along with seven others, founded Black Forest Labs after working as former employees of Stability AI.",1,1,33,27,30,"https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-researcher-to-founder-journey-and-the/id1740178076?i=1000665678592"
  xAI,Humans&,2025,null,Eric Zelikman and Yuchen He co-founded Humans& after working as researchers at xAI on the Grok large-language-model program.,1,1,33,27,2,"https://reuters.com/business/ai-startup-humans-raises-480-million-45-billion-valuation-seed-round-2026-01-20"
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columns[7]: child_labs,distinct_labs_spawned,earliest_child_year,labs_spawned,latest_child_year,parent_lab,source_url
rows[9,]{parent_lab,labs_spawned,distinct_labs_spawned,earliest_child_year,latest_child_year,child_labs,source_url}:
  Google DeepMind,11,11,2022,2026,"Inflection AI, Reka AI, Latent Labs, Mistral AI, H Company, Reflection AI, Humans&, Periodic Labs, Ricursive Intelligence, Ineffable Intelligence, Inherent","https://businessinsider.com/executives-and-researchers-who-left-google-in-2025-2026-1"
  OpenAI,8,8,2021,2026,"Anthropic, Adept, Perplexity AI, Eureka Labs, Safe Superintelligence (SSI), Periodic Labs, Thinking Machines Lab, Core Automation","https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/20/the-openai-mafia-15-of-the-most-notable-startups-founded-by-alumni"
  Google Brain / Google AI,5,5,2015,2023,"OpenAI, Cohere, Character.AI, Adept, Sakana AI","https://fortune.com/europe/2023/04/28/the-google-brain-deepmind-merger-alphabet-pichai-risks-eye-on-a-i"
  Anthropic,3,3,2025,2026,"Humans&, Ricursive Intelligence, Mirendil","https://is.gd/I3lWZH"
  Meta AI / FAIR,2,2,2023,2025,"Mistral AI, Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI) Labs","https://benched.ai/companies/meta-ai"
  Adept AI,1,1,2023,2023,Essential AI,"https://vuink.com/post/erhgref-d-dpbz/technology/top-ex-google-ai-researchers-raise-funding-thrive-capital-sources-2023-05-04"
  Cohere,1,1,2026,2026,Adaption Labs,"https://fortune.com/2026/02/04/adaption-labs-50-million-seed-funding-emergence-captial-sara-hooker-sudip-roy-ai-models-that-learn-on-the-fly"
  Stability AI,1,1,2024,2024,Black Forest Labs,"https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-researcher-to-founder-journey-and-the/id1740178076?i=1000665678592"
  xAI,1,1,2025,2025,Humans&,"https://reuters.com/business/ai-startup-humans-raises-480-million-45-billion-valuation-seed-round-2026-01-20"
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