Updates
Notable moves, new people, and organizations. A curated record, not every change in AI.
Organization route
Inception Labs co-founders added
Aditya Grover and Volodymyr Kuleshov are now tracked alongside Stefano Ermon at Inception Labs.
InceptionDecagon founders added to the database
Jesse Zhang and Ashwin Sreenivas are building Decagon's AI customer-support agent platform.
DecagonMoritz Baier-Lentz added to the database
General Intuition founding team member and OpenAI senior advisor, with a background in gaming and venture investing.
General IntuitionKyle Vogt added to the database
The Bot Company co-founder, previously co-founder of Cruise and Twitch.
Cruise→
The Bot CompanyTal Broda added to the database
Former OpenAI VP of Compute, now part of the Applied Compute founding team.
OpenAIPatrick Pérez joins Google DeepMind
Kyutai’s co-founding CEO joined Google DeepMind in Paris as Research Director in June 2026.
Kyutai→
Google DeepMindLance Fuchia joins OpenAI
The former Cognition engineer has joined OpenAI’s Applied AI team to work on evaluations and startup-facing technical work.
Cognition→OpenAIThe team and investors behind Etched
Etched came out of stealth with frontier inference clusters, but the more revealing map is the network behind it: young founders, veteran chip operators, frontier-AI advisers, and a trading-heavy investor base.
EtchedRhythm Garg added to the database
Applied Compute co-founder and former OpenAI researcher.
OpenAI→
Applied ComputeYash Patil added to the database
Applied Compute co-founder and CEO, previously at OpenAI.
Applied Compute