Since 2025, the frontier talent flow runs through Meta — 12 of 31 moves land at Superintelligence Labs

Which AI researchers moved between frontier labs since 2025 — who left which lab, where they went, and when?

31 documented lab-to-lab moves by 27 named researchers across seven frontier labs, January 2025 through August 2026; each dot is one move event, placed in its reported month.

The June–July 2025 Meta hiring wave took ten researchers in two months, nine of them straight from OpenAI — including the o-series contributors Hongyu Ren, Jiahui Yu and Shengjia Zhao. btcnews.biz

June 2026 hit Google DeepMind hardest: five departures in one month, four to Anthropic — among them Nobel laureate John Jumper — plus Noam Shazeer to OpenAI. techtimes.com

Thinking Machines Lab lost five people back to OpenAI between December 2025 and July 2026, including co-founders Barret Zoph, Luke Metz and Lilian Weng. fortune.com

Barret Zoph moved three times in the window — OpenAI to Thinking Machines, back to OpenAI, then to Google DeepMind in August 2026. cryptopolitan.com

Month	Researcher	Left	Joined	Role / note	Sources

Curated list of publicly documented lab-to-lab moves: 31 rows, one per move event, January 2025 – August 2026, compiled from live web coverage as of 2026-08-30. "Frontier labs" means OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Meta Superintelligence Labs, xAI, Safe Superintelligence and Thinking Machines Lab; direct moves by hands-on researchers or technical research leaders only. Month is the reported announcement or effective month. The sources column counts corroborating public reports — a strength-of-documentation signal, not importance. Undisclosed personnel changes are not captured.

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