Updates
Notable moves, new people, and organizations. A curated record, not every change in AI.
Organization route
Anders Grunnet-Jepsen added to Turing Tree
VP of Optical Systems at OLIX; former CTO of Intel’s RealSense Group.
OLIXJames Dacombe added to Turing Tree
Founder and CEO of OLIX and CoMind.
OLIXOLIX added to Turing Tree
Developing specialised chips and optical connections to make advanced AI models cheaper and faster to run.
OLIXDa Huang leaves Google DeepMind for Discovery Loop
Huang announced the move after ten years at Google, saying he will focus on AI systems that improve their own capabilities.
Google DeepMind→
Discovery LoopRohit Prasad joins Boston Dynamics as CEO
The former Amazon AI leader became chief executive on October 7, bringing experience building Alexa and the Nova model family to the robotics company.
Amazon→
Boston DynamicsSimon Batzner joins Anthropic from Google DeepMind
The NequIP and Allegro researcher joins Anthropic as a Member of Technical Staff.
Google DeepMind→
AnthropicStella Kaval to join Anthropic
The Meta software engineer announced her move on X. Her departure post gives an October 13 start date.
Meta→AnthropicKonstantin Mishchenko joins Mistral AI’s pretraining team
The researcher behind adaptive training methods joins Mistral after leaving Meta in August.
Meta→
Mistral AIJeffrey Wu leaves Anthropic
An October 5 interview identifies Wu as an independent researcher after working at OpenAI and Anthropic. His exact departure date is not specified.
AnthropicFlower co-creators Daniel J. Beutel and Taner Topal added
The Flower Labs co-founders helped build open-source tools for training AI together while keeping data distributed.
Flower Labs