Updates
Notable moves, new people, and organizations. A curated record, not every change in AI.
Organization route
Calvin Zhang joins OpenAI to work on evals
Zhang said he joined OpenAI as a Research Program Manager working on evals after time at Scale AI.
Scale AI→
OpenAITaylor Sorensen joins Anthropic
Sorensen joined Anthropic's Societal Impacts team after working at Humans&.
Humans&→
AnthropicJohn Jumper says he will leave Google DeepMind and join Anthropic
John Jumper announced that he is leaving Google DeepMind after nearly nine years and will join Anthropic after taking time to recharge.
Google DeepMind→AnthropicBarret Zoph leaves OpenAI again
Zoph has departed OpenAI five months after rejoining from Thinking Machines Lab to lead enterprise AI sales.
OpenAIAdrian Hsu joins Architect Labs after xAI
Hsu said he has joined Architect Labs after a roughly five-year chapter across Twitter, X, and xAI.
SpaceXAIDean Ball to join OpenAI as Strategic Futures lead
Ball said he will join OpenAI on July 6 to lead a new Strategic Futures team focused on frontier AI policy.
Foundation for American Innovation→OpenAIJulia Kempe joins AMI Labs as Director of Research
Julia Kempe joined AMI Labs in Paris as Director of Research while continuing as Silver Professor at NYU Courant and CDS.
Meta→
AMI LabsDustin Tran joins Elorian from xAI
Dustin Tran announced joining Elorian as Chief Reasoning Architect, leaving xAI.
SpaceXAI→
ElorianNoam Shazeer joins OpenAI from Google
Shazeer is leaving Google, where he was a VP of engineering and Gemini co-lead, to join OpenAI.
Google→OpenAIArmin Thomas added to the database
Co-founder & CTO of Radical Numerics; Stanford / Liquid AI alumnus bridging neuroscience and ML.
Radical Numerics