2023: people
Selekoa’s 46 people records dated 2023, in date order, of 356 in all topics.
Selective: what the records hold, not a history of the year.
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People 46 records
Dated to 2023 only
· interval begins · dated to the year
Andrej Karpathy describes returning to OpenAI in 2023–2024 to build a midtraining and synthetic-data team. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the year
Jiemian reported on 21 February 2025 that Google promoted Wu Yonghui in 2023 to Google Fellow and vice president of research at Google DeepMind. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the year
Jiemian reported on 21 February 2025 that Zhu Wenjia led the creation of ByteDance’s first large-model R&D team in 2023 and became its head. Evidence ↗· event · dated to the year
Essential AI's press release of 12 December 2023 names Niki Parmar as a co-founder of the company. Evidence ↗· event · dated to the year
Essential AI's press release of 12 December 2023 names Ashish Vaswani as a co-founder of the company. Evidence ↗
February 2023
· snapshot · dated to the day · announced
Fortune, republishing Bloomberg, reported on 27 February 2023, attributing the information to a Meta spokesperson, that Ahmad Al-Dahle would lead Meta's new generative AI product group. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
The first LLaMA paper, dated 27 February 2023, lists Timothée Lacroix under the Meta AI affiliation. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
The first LLaMA paper, dated 27 February 2023, lists Guillaume Lample under the Meta AI affiliation. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
The first LLaMA paper lists Hugo Touvron under the Meta AI affiliation. Evidence ↗
March 2023
April 2023
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Google announced that Jeff Dean would become Google’s Chief Scientist in April 2023. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Google’s combination announcement stated that Jeff Dean would serve as Chief Scientist to Google DeepMind. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Google’s combination announcement stated that Jeff Dean would serve as Chief Scientist to Google Research. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Demis Hassabis stated that he would lead the combined Google DeepMind unit. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
The April 2023 combination announcement identifies Demis Hassabis as DeepMind CEO. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day · announced
Demis Hassabis announced on 20 April 2023 that Eli Collins would join his leads team as VP of Product. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day · announced
Demis Hassabis announced on 20 April 2023 that Zoubin Ghahramani would join Google DeepMind's research leadership team, reporting to Koray Kavukcuoglu. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day · announced
Demis Hassabis announced on 20 April 2023 that a new Scientific Board for Google DeepMind would be led by Koray Kavukcuoglu. Evidence ↗
May 2023
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01.AI’s management-team page states that Kai-Fu Lee founded 01.AI in May 2023. Evidence ↗
June 2023
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Meta identified Yann LeCun as its Chief AI Scientist in the I-JEPA account. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
The Decoder reported at Reka’s emergence from stealth on 27 June 2023 that Cyprien de Masson d’Autume was its CTO. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
The Decoder reported at Reka’s emergence from stealth on 27 June 2023 that Yi Tay was its co-founder and Chief Scientist. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
The Decoder reported at Reka’s emergence from stealth on 27 June 2023 that Dani Yogatama was its CEO. Evidence ↗
July 2023
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OpenAI’s Superalignment announcement names Ilya Sutskever as a co-lead of the new team. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
OpenAI’s Superalignment announcement names Jan Leike as a co-lead of the new team. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Greg Yang appeared on xAI’s launch team roster in July 2023. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Guodong Zhang appeared on xAI’s July 2023 launch team roster. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Igor Babuschkin appeared on xAI’s launch team roster in July 2023. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Jimmy Ba appeared on xAI’s July 2023 launch team roster. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day · announced
Ars Technica reported on 12 July 2023 that xAI had announced that Dan Hendrycks, director of the Center for AI Safety, would be advising the team. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Ars Technica reported on 12 July 2023 that xAI's website listed Zihang Dai among the members of its team at launch. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Ars Technica reported on 12 July 2023 that xAI's website listed Kyle Kosic among the members of its team at launch. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Ars Technica reported on 12 July 2023 that xAI's website listed Manuel Kroiss among the members of its team at launch. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Ars Technica reported on 12 July 2023 that xAI's website listed Ross Nordeen among the members of its team at launch. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Ars Technica reported on 12 July 2023 that xAI's website listed Tony Wu among the members of its team at launch. Evidence ↗· event · dated to the day
Elon Musk publicly launched xAI on July 12, 2023. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Christian Szegedy appears on xAI’s launch-team roster. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Toby Pohlen appears on xAI’s launch-team roster. Evidence ↗
September 2023
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The spin-out announcement identifies Paul Christiano as head of ARC. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Jingren Zhou is named with Qwen Team / Alibaba Group affiliation in the 2023 report. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Junyang Lin is named with Qwen Team / Alibaba Group affiliation in the 2023 report. Evidence ↗
October 2023
November 2023
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Emmett Shear posted on X on 20 November 2023 that he had accepted the role of interim CEO of OpenAI. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day · announced
Sam Altman’s message of 29 November 2023, published by OpenAI, stated that Mira Murati would return to her role as CTO. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
The FAIR retrospective identifies Joelle Pineau as Meta VP of AI Research. Evidence ↗