Sanja Fidler, former NVIDIA Vice President of AI Research and University of Toronto Associate Professor, announced today the launch of Veeda AI, which she co-founded with longtime collaborators Zan Gojcic and Huan Ling. The company’s sole mission is to build…
Jiahui Yu, Lead Multimodal at Meta’s Superintelligence Lab, announced Friday that he is leaving the company to start a new venture. In a post on X, Yu wrote: “I’m leaving Meta to start a new company. Building the TBD Lab…
John Jumper, Google DeepMind Director and co-creator of AlphaFold, announced on June 19, 2026, that he is leaving the company after nearly nine years to join Anthropic. He stated he will take time to recharge before starting the new role.…
Noam Shazeer, vice president of engineering at Google and co-lead of its Gemini AI models, announced on X that he is leaving Google to join OpenAI. In his post, Shazeer wrote: “I’m excited to share that I’ll be joining OpenAI…
Boston Consulting Group reports that while overall international mobility among highly skilled professionals has declined sharply, the competition for AI talent remains intense, with the United States losing market share in the category for the first time in recent years.…
Andrej Karpathy, a founding member of OpenAI and former Tesla AI lead, has joined Anthropic. Karpathy announced the move on X on May 19, 2026, and began work that week on Anthropic’s pre-training team. Announcement In his post, Karpathy wrote:…
Anthropic has added hardware talent from rival OpenAI, with Clive Chan joining as a Member of Technical Staff focused on custom silicon. Chan, who was widely reported as OpenAI’s second hardware hire on its in-house custom chip program, announced the…