Updates
Notable moves, new people, and organizations. A curated record, not every change in AI.
Organization route
Walden Yan added to Turing Tree
Co-founder and CPO of Cognition.
CognitionRussell Kaplan added to Turing Tree
President at Cognition.
CognitionAndrew He added to Turing Tree
Cognition engineer and elite competitive programmer.
CognitionRuiqi Gao joins Anthropic from Google DeepMind
Gao announced on X that she has left Google Brain/DeepMind after seven years and is joining Anthropic to help build Claude.
Google DeepMind→
AnthropicMadhu Gurumurthy joins Meta to build AI products
The former Google Gemini product leader has joined Meta as Senior Director of Product for AI Products.
Google→
MetaFidji Simo transitions from OpenAI executive to part-time advisor
Simo said she is leaving her full-time role leading OpenAI's product and business organization and will remain as a part-time advisor after a medical leave.
OpenAIYilin Yang joins Thinking Machines Lab from OpenAI
Yang announced on X that they have joined Thinking Machines Lab to help build its next generation of voice models after working on speech post-training at OpenAI.
OpenAI→
Thinking Machines LabNoam Elata joins NVIDIA’s Cosmos Lab
After two years at Apple, Elata moved to NVIDIA’s Cosmos Lab to work on generative AI and world models.
Apple→
NVIDIAMarkus Wulfmeier joins Nomagic from Google DeepMind
Former Google DeepMind robotics researcher Markus Wulfmeier joins Nomagic as chief scientist to lead its new AI research lab focused on vision-language-action models for warehouse robots.
Google DeepMind→
NomagicTeresa Carlson joins Anthropic from General Catalyst Institute
Teresa Carlson, a veteran leader from Microsoft and AWS, has joined Anthropic to lead its public sector strategy as global head of public sector.
Anthropic