Updates
Notable moves, new people, and organizations. A curated record, not every change in AI.
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Jade Leung becomes AISI Vice-Chair
Leung will leave her full-time AISI CTO and Prime Minister's AI-adviser roles at the end of September, remaining in government as AISI Vice-Chair and AI Taskforce security adviser.
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AI Security InstituteFaculty co-founder Marc Warner added
Warner built Faculty from a fellowship for scientists moving into industry and now leads the company while serving as Accenture's global CTO.
FacultyHandshake AI research lead Francisco “Paco” Guzmán added
Guzmán helped broaden machine translation to more languages at Meta and now leads AI research at Handshake.
HandshakeThree Snorkel AI co-founders added
Paroma Varma, Braden Hancock, and Henry Kiss Ehrenberg join Alex Ratner and Christopher Ré in Turing Tree's Snorkel AI coverage.
Snorkel AISnorkel AI co-founder Alex Ratner added
Ratner helped create Snorkel, a system for building training data with rules and expert knowledge instead of hand-labeling every example.
Snorkel AIGerred Dillon joins Arcee AI to lead compute and infrastructure
Dillon will build the model infrastructure for Arcee AI’s next generation of open models.
Arcee AIQwen head Dayiheng Liu added
Liu leads Alibaba's Qwen large-language-model project after years as a core researcher on the model family.
AlibabaIan Silber leaves OpenAI
OpenAI's former Head of Product Design said he has wrapped up after helping transition the design team; he has not announced a destination.
OpenAIFigure AI director Corey Lynch added
The robot-learning researcher helped develop systems that let robots learn from demonstrations and language.
FigureKarandeep Anand to join Disney as chief technology officer
The Character.AI CEO will become Disney's Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer on October 2, leading technology, data and AI across the company.
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