AI Talent

Two senior Google AI researchers, Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel, are leaving for Anthropic, continuing a high-profile talent exodus from Google DeepMind.

Barret Zoph has left OpenAI for the second time, just five months after rejoining from Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab startup.

Nobel laureate and Google DeepMind VP John Jumper announced his departure to join Anthropic, the latest in a wave of high-profile AI talent exits from Google.

Chinese AI lab DeepSeek closed its first external funding round at a $50B+ valuation and warned investors not to recruit its employees.

OpenAI is bringing on Noam Shazeer from Google DeepMind and former Trump AI policy adviser Dean Ball as it prepares for its public market debut.

Noam Shazeer, Google Gemini co-lead and transformer co-inventor, is leaving Google to join IPO-bound OpenAI less than two years after a reported $2.7B rehire.

U.S. AI firms including Anthropic and OpenAI are expanding in London to tap frontier AI talent and commercial growth.

CNBC reports Chinese firms are recruiting more US-based AI talent while pursuing a next-generation AI super-app strategy.

OpenAI cofounder and former Tesla AI leader Andrej Karpathy joined Anthropic, intensifying the frontier AI talent race.

Top enterprise software executives are leaving major firms for OpenAI, driven by AI disruption fears and larger compensation packages.

A Stanford study finds China has dramatically closed the AI performance gap with the US since 2023, while the flow of AI talent to America is slowing.

Three senior OpenAI Stargate infrastructure executives are set to join Meta Platforms to support its AI infrastructure projects and Meta Superintelligence Labs.

Max Schwarzer, OpenAI's VP of Research who led post-training for GPT-5 and o3, announced his departure to join Anthropic, citing trust in colleagues there and a desire to return to individual contributor research.

OpenAI's $1.5M average stock compensation is highest of any tech startup in history as AI talent war intensifies with $830B valuation.

Leading Canadian AI institutes are warning the government that the nation is at risk of losing its top researchers in a 'global war for AI talent,' as funding for a key national research chair program is set to expire.