OpenAI and Google DeepMind supply the frontier talent flow — 8 researchers went to Meta's new lab in one 2025 wave

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“who moved between frontier labs, list who went where”

39 publicly reported direct lab-to-lab moves involving 38 people, across 11 frontier-model organizations, from May 2024 through 26 September 2026. Every move was corroborated on at least two independent web hosts; John Schulman appears twice because he moved twice (OpenAI → Anthropic, then Anthropic → Thinking Machines Lab).

Where the 39 moves went

Ribbon width = people moved along that corridor. Hover a ribbon for the names behind it, or a lab for its ins and outs. Departures on the left, destinations on the right; a lab may appear on both sides.

OpenAI is the largest origin: 19 of the 39 moves left it, including the 8-person wave to Meta Superintelligence Labs reported over six days in June 2025. wired.com
Meta Superintelligence Labs is the biggest destination with 14 arrivals, drawn from five different labs — OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, Safe Superintelligence and Thinking Machines Lab. reuters.com
Google DeepMind lost 11 people, including Nobel laureate John Jumper to Anthropic in June 2026 and Noam Shazeer to OpenAI. bloomberg.com
Flow runs both ways: Thinking Machines Lab, itself built on ex-OpenAI staff, lost two co-founders back to OpenAI in January 2026. techcrunch.com

Every reported move

PersonFromToReportedRole at destinationHostsSource

Hosts = independent web hosts corroborating the move. Blank date or role means unresolved in the structured source record, not absent in reality.

Method: 39 publicly reported direct lab-to-lab movement records (38 people; one moved twice), May 2024 – 26 Sep 2026, drawn from 10 independent source hosts; the most-used single URL supports 6 of 39 rows. Each move corroborated on ≥2 hosts. Dates are earliest usable public report dates and may mark departure rather than formal arrival. Advisers, internal reorganizations, and non-frontier roles excluded. Best-effort public-record list; undisclosed moves are absent.

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