Updates
Notable moves, new people, and organizations. A curated record, not every change in AI.
Organization route
Rémi Cadene joins UMA from Tesla
Rémi Cadene, a former Tesla scientist who worked on the Optimus robot, unveiled plans as CEO and co-founder of Paris-based AI robotics startup UMA for its Northstar humanoid robot.
Tesla→
UMAJoshua Achiam announces departure from OpenAI
Achiam announced on X that he is leaving OpenAI after nine years. His final day will be July 24, and he did not name a next role.
OpenAIHarvey Lederman joins Anthropic
Lederman announced on X that he has joined Anthropic to work on alignment and character, while continuing to teach at NYU and remaining on leave from UT Austin.
The University of Texas at Austin→
AnthropicAram Markosyan joins NVIDIA
Markosyan announced on X that he has joined NVIDIA as a Principal Research Scientist working on the Nemotron team.
Axiom→
NVIDIANobel laureate Omar Yaghi joins Tsinghua University full-time
The materials scientist has left UC Berkeley to lead a new institute for AI-assisted chemistry and materials discovery in Beijing.
UC Berkeley→
Tsinghua UniversityMatt Steele joins OpenAI
Steele announced on X that he has joined OpenAI as a Member of Technical Staff after working on AI infrastructure at Microsoft.
Microsoft→OpenAISatnam Singh added
Harmonic software engineer Satnam Singh has been added.
HarmonicAndy Konwinski added
Perplexity and Databricks co-founder Andy Konwinski has been added.
PerplexityJustin Uberti added to the database
Creator of WebRTC and former Fixie co-founder, now leading realtime AI work at OpenAI.
OpenAIMichael Hassid moves from Meta AI FAIR to Meta Superintelligence Labs
Hassid moved from a Meta AI FAIR research-assistant role to research scientist at Meta Superintelligence Labs.
Meta