1,023 AI researchers · 22 labs + 10 universities · Updated May 2026

AI Talent Atlas

Browse public affiliation updates, publication signals, and research networks across OpenAI, DeepMind, Anthropic, Meta FAIR, and more.

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Sample: AI Researcher Profiles

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Name Organization Role / Team Research Area Publication Signal Recent Signal Profile
Jeff Dean Google DeepMind Chief Scientist Systems, ML Infra Citation profile available — 🔒
Yann LeCun Meta FAIR VP & Chief AI Scientist Deep Learning, CV Citation profile available — 🔒
Tri Dao Princeton / Together AI Asst. Professor / Co-founder Efficient Attention, FlashAttention Publication signal Profile Change 🔒
Noam Shazeer Google DeepMind Researcher Transformers, Attention Citation profile available Affiliation Update 🔒
Ilya Sutskever Safe Superintelligence Co-founder Alignment, Scaling Citation profile available Public Update 🔒
Percy Liang Stanford HAI Assoc. Professor / Director CRFM NLP, LLM Evaluation Publication signal — 🔒
Research Scientist OpenAI Alignment Team RLHF, Safety Publication signal Affiliation Update 🔒
Senior Researcher Anthropic Interpretability Team Mechanistic Interp. Publication signal Public Update 🔒
ML Engineer xAI Infrastructure Distributed Training — Affiliation Update 🔒
Research Lead Apple MLR On-device ML Efficient Models Citation profile available — 🔒
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Organizations
14 AI Organizations Mapped

Each card shows researcher count, top teams, and recent public updates.

Google DeepMind
81
researchers
AGI Safety Gemini Research
3 public updates · Chief Scientist · Senior Researcher · Research Scientist
OpenAI
77
researchers
Safety Research GPT
4 public updates · CTO · VP Research · Research Scientist
Meta FAIR
72
researchers
GenAI NLP CV
2 public updates · Chief AI Scientist · Research Lead · Research Scientist
Anthropic
56
researchers
Safety Alignment Research
2 public updates · CEO · Research Scientist · Engineer
Microsoft Research
52
researchers
AI Systems NLP
1 public update · Principal Researcher · Partner · Senior Researcher
xAI
48
researchers
Research Infra
3 public updates · Research Scientist · Engineer · Lead
Mistral AI
41
researchers
Research Engineering
1 public update · Co-founder · Research Scientist · Engineer
Apple MLR
38
researchers
ML Siri Vision
2 public updates · Director · Senior Researcher · ML Engineer
Amazon AGI
35
researchers
Alexa Science AGI
1 public update · Applied Scientist · Principal · Research Manager
DeepSeek
33
researchers
Research Reasoning
0 public updates · Research Lead · Scientist · Engineer
Cohere
29
researchers
NLP Enterprise
1 public update · Co-founder · Research Scientist · Engineer
AI2 (Allen Institute)
27
researchers
NLP Vision Science
0 public updates · Research Scientist · Predoctoral · Director
Stability AI
22
researchers
GenAI Diffusion
2 public updates · Research Lead · Engineer · Scientist
Inflection AI
12
researchers
Research Product
1 public update · Co-founder · Research Scientist · Engineer
Signals
Recent Public Updates

Affiliation changes and profile updates across AI labs — past 90 days.

Co-author Signal
Noam Shazeer — 12 cross-org co-author pairs detected (Google DeepMind ↔ OpenAI)
Public Update
Ilya Sutskever — new company announced: Safe Superintelligence (public press)
Publication
Tri Dao — FlashAttention-3 paper, 4 co-authors from 3 orgs (Princeton / Together AI)
Affiliation Update
Senior Researcher — profile updated: new affiliation listed (Apple MLR → startup)
Team Signal
Alignment Team — 3 new publications in Q1 2026, cross-org co-authors (Anthropic)
Public Update
Research Lead — public bio updated, new role title (xAI)
Co-author Signal
ML Engineer — 8 cross-org co-author pairs (Meta FAIR ↔ Google DeepMind)
Department
On-device ML Team — 5 researchers, 2 affiliation updates in 90 days (Apple MLR)
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Methodology
Built from public sources

All data in the Atlas is gathered from publicly accessible information.

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Public Profiles
LinkedIn, Google Scholar, personal websites — public profile data and self-reported affiliations.
695 profiles indexed
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Publications
Semantic Scholar + DBLP — citation data, h-index computation, co-author graph extraction.
Citation data & h-index
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Press & Announcements
Public announcements, press coverage, blog posts, and official company communications.
Press & blog monitoring
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Affiliation Records
Public role, title, and organization changes documented from profiles and announcements.
148 changes tracked
May 2026 Highlights
AI Talent Movement This Month

Notable public career changes and research milestones across top AI labs — sourced from press, profiles, and publications.

Affiliation
Noam Shazeer
12 cross-org co-author pairs detected between Google DeepMind and external labs
Source: Semantic Scholar · May 2026
Company Launch
Ilya Sutskever
Safe Superintelligence (SSI) announced publicly, first team hires confirmed
Source: Press coverage · May 2026
Publication
Tri Dao
FlashAttention-3 paper released, 4 co-authors from Princeton and Together AI
Source: Semantic Scholar · May 2026
Affiliation
Senior Researcher 🔒
Profile updated with new organization — Apple MLR to stealth startup
Source: Public profile · May 2026
Team Signal
Anthropic Interpretability
3 new publications in Q1-Q2 2026 with cross-org co-authors from Stanford and MIT
Source: DBLP + Scholar · May 2026
Affiliation
Research Lead 🔒
New role title detected at xAI — previously listed at different organization
Source: Public profile · May 2026
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