Updates
Notable moves, new people, and organizations. A curated record, not every change in AI.
Organization route
Shayne Longpre joins Anthropic as Member of Technical Staff
The MIT PhD is working across pretraining and societal impacts after moving to San Francisco.
MIT→
AnthropicLilian Weng leaves Thinking Machines Lab
The co-founder said she was stepping away after concluding that the pace and workload were not sustainable for her health.
Thinking Machines LabNaomi Bashkansky leaves OpenAI for Conduit Intelligence
The former OpenAI alignment researcher joined Conduit as a founding researcher working on non-invasive thought-to-text models.
OpenAI→
Conduit IntelligenceJacob Tsimerman announces plans to join OpenAI
Tsimerman initially planned to join OpenAI; in October he clarified he would instead work full-time at MAISI.
Sotirios Stasinopoulos added to the database
Humanoid's Chief Product Officer brings experience spanning humanoid products, autonomous systems, and robotics company-building.
HumanoidChris Fall leaves CAISI
Fall resigned after roughly three months leading the U.S. government's federal AI testing institute.
CFCenter for AI Standards and InnovationYanhong Li joins Thinking Machines Lab
The former Ai2 predoctoral researcher has joined Thinking Machines Lab to work on pretraining.
Ai2→Thinking Machines LabVincent Moens joins Ineffable Intelligence
The TorchRL and TensorDict maintainer has moved from Periodic Labs to Ineffable Intelligence as a member of technical staff.
Periodic Labs→
Ineffable IntelligenceArena added to the database
Formerly LMArena, the Berkeley-born company measures frontier AI through community-powered, real-world evaluation.
ArenaMoonlake AI added to the database
The San Francisco company builds multimodal world models and simulation infrastructure for physical AI.
Moonlake AI