career-move

Jenny Wen announces she has left Anthropic, had a baby, and joined Cursor AI as head of design.

Former OpenAI engineer Ryan Lopopolo joins Google Cloud as Chief Agent Engineer, bringing OpenAI's Agent engineering methodology to the cloud platform.

Xuandong Zhao announces transition from Berkeley AI postdoc to OpenAI researcher, focusing on AI models and agents toward AGI.

Eliza Bara announces she has joined FactoryAI as their founding product marketing hire, expressing excitement about the team and product philosophy.

Chad Jones announced he will be on leave from Stanford starting June 30 to join the Anthropic Institute, where he will continue research on AI and economic futures.

After 4.5 years at FAIR, a researcher joins AMI Labs to work on JEPA and World Models.

Michelle Lam announces she is leaving Stanford after 10+ years to join UT Austin's CS department as an assistant professor in fall 2027, and is recruiting PhD students interested in AI interaction.

Vincent Koc announces he has joined the OpenClaw Foundation as Chief Architect, focusing on advancing agentic computing, with upcoming announcements at Nvidia Computex and Microsoft Build.

Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic, joining the pretraining team led by Nick Joseph. Nick Joseph early realized that code training leads to recursive self-improvement, and co-founded Anthropic as a result. He now trains every generation of Claude.

Andrej Karpathy announces he has joined Anthropic, citing the importance of being at a frontier lab to stay at the cutting edge of LLM development.

Miles Brundage announces he has joined Anthropic and will continue to be based in San Francisco.

Andrej Karpathy has joined Anthropic to lead pretraining research, continuing his influential career in AI spanning OpenAI, Tesla, and Stanford.

Andrej Karpathy, co-founder of OpenAI and former Tesla AI lead, has joined Anthropic to work on pre-training and lead a team focused on using Claude to accelerate pre-training research.

Manalt Dan announces joining Anthropic's Public Policy team, focusing on model development, research, safety policy, and interpretability.

Tairan He announces joining OpenAI after completing a PhD in Robotics, with a focus on advancing AGI in the physical world.

In 1998 Tim Cook left a secure Compaq role for a $500k signing bonus and $400k salary at then-struggling Apple after a single call from Steve Jobs.