OpenAI to Meta Superintelligence Labs was the biggest corridor: 11 of 35 reported moves

Asked:

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.

35 publicly reported lab-to-lab moves by 32 named researchers between frontier AI labs, February 2025 through August 2026, assembled from public news coverage. These are the moves found in public reporting, not an exhaustive record.

Where researchers left and where they landed

Moves by month — June 2025 was the peak

What the flow cannot say

June–July 2025 alone accounts for 17 of the 35 moves, driven by Meta's superintelligence hiring wave — srnnews.com

Barret Zoph made three moves in the period — OpenAI to Thinking Machines Lab, then to Meta, then back to OpenAI; Lilian Weng made two — futuresearch.ai

Google DeepMind was the largest net loser, with 12 departures across four destinations and 1 arrival — newsbytesapp.com

The five Thinking Machines Lab to OpenAI moves cluster in 2026, reversing part of the startup's 2025 founding cohort — futuresearch.ai

All 35 moves

Month	Researcher	Left	Joined	Context	Source

Publicly reported lab-to-lab moves of technical researchers between frontier AI labs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Meta Superintelligence Labs/Meta AI, Microsoft AI, xAI, Thinking Machines Lab and similar). 35 rows, one per move; month is the reported announcement or start month. Assembled from broad live-web searches, current through 2026-09-03; some rows rest on a single accessible source. This is a best-effort public record, not an exhaustive list of all moves.

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