“Which AI researchers moved between frontier labs since 2025? For each move list the researcher, the lab they left, where they went and the month.”
This is a conservative scan of confirmed public moves found — not all moves. It covers 24 direct moves of technical AI researchers between frontier labs from January 2025 through September 5, 2026, drawn from single-sourced high-confidence public reporting across nine independent source hosts. Eleven of the 24 moves cluster in June–July 2025, Meta's recruitment surge; a second cluster of five comes in January 2026.
| Month | Researcher | Left | Joined | Source |
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Method: 24 confirmed direct moves of technical AI researchers or technical research leaders between frontier labs, January 2025 – September 5, 2026, from a high-confidence scan of established public technology and business reporting (nine independent hosts; no single URL supports more than 12.5% of rows). "Month" is the best-supported month the move was announced or reported, not payroll date. Lab names are normalized (e.g. Meta AI / Meta Platforms → Meta Superintelligence Labs). Quiet or unannounced moves and weakly sourced reports were excluded; this is confirmed public moves found, not all moves.