2024: people
Selekoa’s 67 people records dated 2024, in date order, of 407 in all topics.
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People 67 records
Dated to 2024 only
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Reuters identifies Daniel Gross as a co-founder of Safe Superintelligence in its June 2024 launch report. Evidence ↗· event · dated to the year
Reuters identifies Daniel Levy as a co-founder of Safe Superintelligence in its June 2024 launch report. Evidence ↗· event · dated to the year
Reuters identifies Ilya Sutskever as a co-founder of Safe Superintelligence in its June 2024 launch report. Evidence ↗· interval ends · dated to the year
Andrej Karpathy describes returning to OpenAI in 2023–2024 to build a midtraining and synthetic-data team. Evidence ↗· interval begins · dated to the year
Durk Kingma’s biography dates the start of his large-scale machine-learning research at Anthropic to 2024. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the year
Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily (科创板日报) reported on 17 December 2025 that Yao Shunyu joined OpenAI in 2024; his undated personal website describes him as a researcher at OpenAI. Evidence ↗· event · dated to the year
TechCrunch reported on 11 February 2026 that infrastructure lead Kyle Kosic had left xAI for OpenAI in mid-2024. Evidence ↗· interval ends · dated to the year
John Schulman’s biography dates his OpenAI post-training co-lead role to 2022–2024. Evidence ↗
February 2024
March 2024
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Microsoft's 19 March 2024 announcement described Karén Simonyan as a co-founder and Chief Scientist of Inflection. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day · announced
Microsoft announced on 19 March 2024 that Karén Simonyan was joining Microsoft AI as Chief Scientist, reporting to Mustafa Suleyman. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day · announced
Microsoft announced on 19 March 2024 that Mustafa Suleyman would be EVP and CEO, Microsoft AI, reporting to Satya Nadella. Evidence ↗
April 2024
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Zhou Bowen’s Tsinghua University faculty page, retrieved on 15 October 2026, lists him as director and chief scientist of Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory from April 2024. Evidence ↗· event · dated to the month
Business Insider reported on 9 May 2024 that Daniel Kokotajlo, who worked on OpenAI's governance team, had left the company the previous month; Kokotajlo's LessWrong profile states that he quit OpenAI due to losing confidence that it would behave responsibly around the time of AGI. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
NIST’s announcement of 16 April 2024 says Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo named Paul Christiano head of AI safety at the U.S. AI Safety Institute. Evidence ↗
May 2024
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OpenAI announced Jakub Pachocki as its new Chief Scientist in May 2024. Evidence ↗· announcement · dated to the day
OpenAI announced that Ilya Sutskever and the company were going to part ways. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Anthropic announced on 15 May 2024 that Mike Krieger had joined it as Chief Product Officer. Evidence ↗· event · dated to the day
Jan Leike posted on X on 17 May 2024 that the previous day had been his last day at OpenAI as head of alignment, superalignment lead and executive; he stated that he had been disagreeing with OpenAI leadership about the company’s core priorities for quite some time, until a breaking point was reached. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Inflection's CEO Sean White announced on 20 May 2024 that Vibhu Mittal had joined Inflection as Chief Technology Officer. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Sean White wrote in a post on Inflection AI's blog on 20 May 2024 that he was the new CEO of Inflection. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Anthropic announced on 21 May 2024 that Krishna Rao had joined it as Chief Financial Officer. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day · announced
Jan Leike posted on X on 28 May 2024 that he was joining Anthropic and that his new team would work on scalable oversight, weak-to-strong generalization and automated alignment research. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
OpenAI’s announcement of 28 May 2024 identifies John Schulman as Head of Alignment Science. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
OpenAI’s announcement of 28 May 2024 identifies Lilian Weng as Head of Safety Systems. Evidence ↗
June 2024
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OpenAI announced on 10 June 2024 that Sarah Friar was joining as Chief Financial Officer. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day · announced
OpenAI announced on 10 June 2024 that Kevin Weil was joining as Chief Product Officer. Evidence ↗· event · dated to the day
Ilya Sutskever announced on X on 19 June 2024 that he was starting a new company, quoting SSI’s post introducing Safe Superintelligence. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day · announced
Adept announced on 28 June 2024 that Zach Brock, its Head of Engineering, would be taking over as CEO. Evidence ↗
July 2024
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Engadget reported on 27 December 2025 that Sam Altman had said in July 2024, when Aleksander Madry was reassigned, that the Head of Preparedness role would be taken over by Joaquin Quiñonero Candela and Lilian Weng. This record is Joaquin Quiñonero Candela’s part of that statement. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the month · announced
Engadget reported on 27 December 2025 that Sam Altman had said in July 2024, when Aleksander Madry was reassigned, that the Head of Preparedness role would be taken over by Joaquin Quiñonero Candela and Lilian Weng. This record is Lilian Weng’s part of that statement. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
CNBC reported on 23 July 2024 that OpenAI had, the previous week, removed Aleksander Madry, one of its top safety executives, from his role and reassigned him to a job focused on AI reasoning. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
The strategy essay identifies Zuckerberg as Meta founder and CEO. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
AXRP introduces Beth Barnes as METR’s head of research. Evidence ↗
August 2024
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TechCrunch reported on 2 August 2024 that Character.AI co-founder Daniel De Freitas was joining Google with some other employees of the startup. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day · announced
TechCrunch reported on 2 August 2024 that Character.AI's general counsel Dominic Perella was becoming interim CEO. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
TechCrunch reported on 2 August 2024 that Noam Shazeer was co-founder and CEO of Character.AI. Evidence ↗· event · dated to the day
TechCrunch reported on 2 August 2024 that Character.AI co-founder and CEO Noam Shazeer was returning to Google. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day · announced
TechCrunch reported on 2 August 2024 a Google statement that Noam Shazeer was joining Google DeepMind's research team. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day · announced
TechCrunch reported on 5 August 2024 that John Schulman had written, in a note posted on X, that he had decided to pursue his alignment work at Anthropic. Evidence ↗· event · dated to the day
John Schulman posted on X on 6 August 2024 (UTC; 5 August in US Pacific time) a note saying that he had decided to leave OpenAI; he stated that the choice stemmed from his wish to deepen his focus on AI alignment and to return to hands-on technical work. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
The South China Morning Post identified Yang Zhilin on 7 August 2024 as Moonshot AI’s chief executive. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
The same ceremony report identifies Tang Jie as a Tsinghua computer-science professor. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Zhang Peng is identified as Zhipu CEO at an August 2024 ceremony. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
A post of 20 August 2024 by members of Google DeepMind's AGI Safety & Alignment team states that the team is part of an AI Safety and Alignment organisation led by Anca Dragan. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
A post of 20 August 2024 by members of Google DeepMind's AGI Safety & Alignment team lists Rohin Shah in the team's leadership team, with Anca Dragan, Allan Dafoe and Dave Orr. Evidence ↗· event · dated to the day
Sifted reported on 24 August 2024 that Julien Perolat, a co-founder of H Company, was leaving the company. Evidence ↗· event · dated to the day
Sifted reported on 24 August 2024 that Karl Tuyls, a co-founder of H Company, was leaving the company. Evidence ↗· event · dated to the day
Sifted reported on 24 August 2024 that Daan Wierstra, a co-founder of H Company, was leaving the company. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
TechCrunch described Varun Mohan on 29 August 2024 as Codeium's co-founder and CEO. Evidence ↗
September 2024
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TechCrunch reported on 25 September 2024 that Josh Achiam, a research scientist, would take on a new role at OpenAI as head of mission alignment. Evidence ↗· event · dated to the day
TechCrunch reported on 25 September 2024 that OpenAI’s chief research officer, Bob McGrew, had left the company, according to a post on X by Sam Altman. Evidence ↗· event · dated to the day
TechCrunch reported on 25 September 2024 that OpenAI’s CTO Mira Murati had posted on X that she was leaving the company. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day · announced
Mark Chen posted on X on 26 September 2024 (UTC) that he would lead research at OpenAI alongside the account @merettm; TechCrunch reported on 25 September 2024 that Sam Altman had said Chen was being promoted to SVP of research and would lead the research organisation in partnership with Jakub Pachocki. Evidence ↗· event · dated to the day
Barret Zoph posted on X on 26 September 2024 (UTC) a note to OpenAI saying that he had decided to leave the company. Evidence ↗
October 2024
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Google DeepMind identified John Jumper as a Director in its October 2024 announcement. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Anthropic’s October 2024 RSP announcement identifies Jared Kaplan as Chief Science Officer. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Anthropic announced that Jared Kaplan would serve as Responsible Scaling Officer. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Anthropic’s October 2024 RSP announcement identifies Sam McCandlish as Chief Technology Officer. Evidence ↗· event · dated to the day
Miles Brundage wrote on 23 October 2024 that he was leaving OpenAI, where he was Senior Advisor for AGI Readiness; he stated that he wanted to impact and influence AI's development from outside the industry. Evidence ↗
November 2024
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Lilian Weng posted on X on 8 November 2024 that she had decided to leave OpenAI after almost seven years. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Yi Tay wrote on 25 November 2024 that he was returning to Google DeepMind as a senior staff research scientist. Evidence ↗· event · dated to the day
Yi Tay announced on his blog on 25 November 2024 that he was returning to Google DeepMind after his time at Reka. Evidence ↗
December 2024
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Rosie Campbell wrote on 1 December 2024 that it had been her last week at OpenAI; she stated that, after Miles Brundage's departure and the dissolution of the AGI Readiness team, she believed she could pursue the mission of ensuring safe and beneficial AGI more effectively externally. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Character.AI announced on 5 December 2024 that Sunita Verma was its new Chief Technology Officer. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Amazon Science identified David Luan on 9 December 2024 as VP of Autonomy and head of Amazon's AGI SF Lab. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
A Meta newsroom post of 19 December 2024 bylines Ahmad Al-Dahle as Meta's VP and Head of Generative AI. Evidence ↗