Meta pulled in 11 researchers in 2025 — then the flow reversed toward OpenAI and Anthropic in 2026

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.

A live-web scan documented 25 researchers making 26 reported moves between frontier AI labs from January 2025 through September 1, 2026 — shown here as 25 distinct moves after merging one duplicate report. Each ribbon below is a lab-to-lab flow; width is the number of researchers.

Ribbon colour follows the destination lab. Hover a ribbon or lab for the researchers behind it. Left column: lab departed. Right column: lab joined.

Every move, in order

Month	Researcher	Left	Joined	Notability	Source

Documented from a live-web scan of news coverage: 26 source rows reduced to 25 distinct moves (Noam Shazeer's Google / Google DeepMind duplicate merged; Ruoming Pang appears twice for two sequential moves). announced_month is the month a move was announced or publicly reported, not necessarily a start date. Lab names normalized (Google → Google DeepMind; Meta / Meta AI → Meta AI / Superintelligence Labs; Thinking Machines → Thinking Machines Lab). The list is documented coverage, not guaranteed exhaustive. Scan window: January 2025 – September 1, 2026.

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