Updates
Notable moves, new people, and organizations. A curated record, not every change in AI.
Organization route
Wajo founder Shivani Poddar added
Poddar founded Wajo after leading engineering and research at Google DeepMind; the company is building AI agents for real-world tasks.
Wajo AIAMD agrees to acquire World Labs
AMD has agreed to acquire Fei-Fei Li's spatial-intelligence AI lab in an all-stock transaction valued at about $8.2 billion.
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AMDRyan Greenblatt joins METR
The AI-control researcher and former Redwood Research chief scientist has joined METR as a Member of Technical Staff.
Redwood Research→
METRAaron Defazio joins OpenAI from Meta
The researcher behind Schedule-Free learning joins OpenAI as a Member of Technical Staff.
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OpenAIIneffable Intelligence co-founder Chris Apps added
The former Google DeepMind program and product leader worked across AlphaStar, climate applications and Gemini agents before joining the startup’s founding team.
Ineffable IntelligenceGoogle TPU program founder Amir Salek added
Salek, now working on compute at Anthropic, founded Google’s custom-silicon organization and previously led system-on-chip engineering at NVIDIA.
AnthropicAIUC co-founder Rajiv Dattani added
Dattani co-founded the AI auditing and insurance company after serving as METR’s COO and spending a decade at McKinsey.
Artificial Intelligence Underwriting CompanyArchitect Labs founders added
Co-founders Ebrahim Hussain and Aaditya Subedi are now tracked alongside the company’s work on AI-assisted custom chip design.
Former OpenAI data center chief Chris Malone joins NVIDIA
Malone has joined NVIDIA as vice president of its DSX Platform, which brings data-center design, simulation and operations into one system.
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NVIDIAJürgen Schmidhuber joins Sakana AI as chief scientific advisor
The LSTM co-creator will advise Sakana AI and help guide its new Recursive Self-Improvement Lab while retaining his existing positions.
Sakana AI