OpenAI to Meta is the biggest pipeline in the frontier-lab talent war

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.”

44 corroborated direct moves between seven frontier labs — OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Meta Superintelligence Labs, xAI, Safe Superintelligence and Thinking Machines Lab — from January 2025 through September 2026. Every move was reported by at least two independent web hosts; because no official roster of frontier-lab staff exists, this is a corroborated public-record list, not a provably complete one.

Every move, in order

Month	Researcher	Left	Joined	Role	Source

Corroborated public-record list of 44 direct researcher moves between frontier foundation-model labs, Jan 2025 – Sep 2026, compiled from news coverage across 24 sample-URL hosts; each move backed by at least two independent hosts. Month is the reported joining or announcement month. Lab names normalized (Google → Google DeepMind, Meta → Meta Superintelligence Labs). Non-research executives and non-frontier employers excluded. One representative source link shown per move.

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