Ten documented moves between frontier labs — and Google DeepMind supplied half of them

Ten publicly reported researcher moves between frontier AI labs — OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Meta AI / Superintelligence Labs and Microsoft AI — from January 2025 through the scan date of 28 August 2026. This is a documented public-reporting list, not an exhaustive personnel census: some appointments are private, or reported without a precise month.

move in 2025 move in 2026 arrow points to the destination lab · hover a move for role and sources

Google DeepMind lost five researchers over the period — including AlphaFold scientist John Jumper to Anthropic — against a single arrival, Barret Zoph returning from OpenAI as VP of research. reuters.com · cryptopolitan.com

June 2026 was the single busiest month, with five moves — four top Google AI researchers left for Anthropic and OpenAI in a single week. thedeveloperstory.com

Meta's $200M Superintelligence hire Ruoming Pang jumped to OpenAI after just seven months, in February 2026 — alongside world-models researcher Pengchuan Zhang. observer.com · biggo.com

Meta's own June 2025 raid on OpenAI brought in Shengjia Zhao as Superintelligence Lab chief scientist and reasoning researcher Trapit Bansal. ainvest.com · techcrunch.com

All ten moves

Researcher	Left	Joined	Month	Role / area	Source

Method: documented moves between frontier labs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Meta AI / Superintelligence Labs, Microsoft AI, with xAI and Mistral in scope but no reported rows), compiled from public reporting scanned on 28 August 2026. 10 moves after deduplicating John Jumper, Noam Shazeer and Ruoming Pang across sets, normalising "Google" to Google DeepMind and Meta variants to Meta AI / Superintelligence Labs, and excluding one row (Ethan Knight) as a false extraction from an article about Ruoming Pang. Month reflects the strongest available source; "2 reports" flags corroboration, and single-source rows are not thereby disproven. Not an exhaustive census — private or undated appointments are absent.

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