2025: people
Selekoa’s 79 people records dated 2025, in date order, of 772 in all topics.
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People 79 records
Dated to 2025 only
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H Company’s about page lists Gautier Cloix becoming CEO among its milestones for 2025. Evidence ↗
January 2025
February 2025
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TechCrunch reported on 6 February 2025, on the basis of multiple reports, that John Schulman had left Anthropic after five months. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the month
Anthropic announced in February 2025 a new Safeguards Research Team, then led by Mrinank Sharma. Evidence ↗· event · dated to the month
TechCrunch reported on 11 February 2026 that Christian Szegedy had left xAI in February 2025. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Jiemian reported on 21 February 2025, repeating its report of 17 February, that Wu Yonghui had joined ByteDance as head of foundational research of its large-model team Seed. Evidence ↗· event · dated to the day
Mira Murati announced on X on 18 February 2025 that she had started Thinking Machines Lab with a team of scientists, engineers and builders. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
TechCrunch reported at Thinking Machines Lab’s launch on 18 February 2025 that Barret Zoph was its CTO. Evidence ↗
March 2025
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Sequoia Capital’s announcement of 7 March 2025 refers to Misha Laskin as Reflection AI’s CEO. Evidence ↗· event · dated to the day
Liam Fedus posted on X on 17 March 2025 a message to his OpenAI colleagues saying that he had decided to leave OpenAI as an employee. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
OpenAI announced on 24 March 2025 that Mark Chen had stepped into an expanded role as Chief Research Officer. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
OpenAI announced on 24 March 2025 that Julia Villagra had assumed the role of Chief People Officer. Evidence ↗
April 2025
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CNBC reported on 1 April 2025 that Joelle Pineau, Meta's vice president of AI research, had announced in a LinkedIn post that she would leave Meta, with 30 May as her last day. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Google DeepMind's post of 2 April 2025 states that its Responsibility and Safety Council is co-chaired by its COO Lila Ibrahim and Senior Director of Responsibility Helen King. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Google DeepMind's post of 2 April 2025 states that its AGI Safety Council is led by Shane Legg, Co-Founder and Chief AGI Scientist at Google DeepMind. Evidence ↗· event · dated to the day
Obsolete reported on 15 April 2025 that Joaquin Quiñonero Candela had stepped down from leading OpenAI's Preparedness work some weeks earlier, according to an announcement he posted on LinkedIn the previous day. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
The Singapore Conference on AI's participant page for its conference of 26 April 2025 lists Johannes Heidecke as Head of Safety Systems, OpenAI. Evidence ↗
May 2025
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OpenAI published on 7 May 2025 Sam Altman’s message announcing that Fidji Simo would join as CEO of Applications, reporting directly to him. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day · announced
Mobile World Live reported on 9 May 2025 that Rob Fergus had announced he was taking on the leadership of FAIR at Meta, succeeding Joelle Pineau. Evidence ↗
June 2025
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Scale AI announced on 12 June 2025 that its board had appointed Chief Strategy Officer Jason Droege as Interim Chief Executive Officer. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day · announced
Scale AI announced on 12 June 2025 that its founder Alexandr Wang was joining Meta to work on Meta's AI efforts. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Joaquin Quiñonero Candela posted on X on 16 June 2025 that he was now the Head of Recruiting for all of OpenAI. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Character.AI announced on 20 June 2025 that Karandeep Anand had joined as Chief Executive Officer. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day · announced
Character.AI announced on 20 June 2025 that Dominic Perella would take on a new role as Chief Legal Officer & SVP of Global Affairs. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Mark Zuckerberg's memo of 30 June 2025, as published by CNBC, names Trapit Bansal, described as a co-creator of OpenAI's o-series models, among new MSL team members. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Mark Zuckerberg's memo of 30 June 2025, as published by CNBC, names Shuchao Bi, described as having led multimodal post-training at OpenAI, among new MSL team members. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Mark Zuckerberg's memo of 30 June 2025, as published by CNBC, names Huiwen Chang, described as a co-creator of GPT-4o's image generation and formerly at Google Research, among new MSL team members. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Mark Zuckerberg's memo of 30 June 2025, as published by CNBC, states that Nat Friedman had joined Meta to lead MSL with Alexandr Wang, heading AI products and applied research. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Mark Zuckerberg's memo of 30 June 2025, as published by CNBC, names Ji Lin, described as having helped build OpenAI models including o3/o4-mini and GPT-4o, among new MSL team members. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Mark Zuckerberg's memo of 30 June 2025, as published by CNBC, names Joel Pobar, described as having worked on inference at Anthropic and earlier at Meta, among new MSL team members. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Mark Zuckerberg's memo of 30 June 2025, as published by CNBC, names Jack Rae, described as pre-training tech lead for Gemini and leader of Gopher and Chinchilla at DeepMind, among new MSL team members. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Mark Zuckerberg's memo of 30 June 2025, as published by CNBC, names Hongyu Ren, described as having led a post-training group at OpenAI, among new MSL team members. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Mark Zuckerberg's memo of 30 June 2025, as published by CNBC, names Johan Schalkwyk, described as a former Google Fellow and early contributor to Sesame, among new MSL team members. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Mark Zuckerberg's memo of 30 June 2025, as published by CNBC, names Pei Sun, described as having worked on Gemini post-training, coding and reasoning at Google DeepMind, among new MSL team members. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Mark Zuckerberg's memo of 30 June 2025, as published by CNBC, states that Alexandr Wang had joined Meta as Chief AI Officer to lead Meta Superintelligence Labs. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Mark Zuckerberg's memo of 30 June 2025, as published by CNBC, names Jiahui Yu, described as having led the perception team at OpenAI and co-led multimodal at Gemini, among new MSL team members. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Mark Zuckerberg's memo of 30 June 2025, as published by CNBC, names Shengjia Zhao, described as having led synthetic data at OpenAI, among new team members who had joined or were joining MSL. Evidence ↗
July 2025
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SSI announced Daniel Gross’s departure on July 3, 2025, stating that he was no longer part of SSI as of June 29. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
SSI’s July 2025 update identifies Daniel Levy as President. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
SSI’s July 2025 signed update identifies Ilya Sutskever as CEO. Evidence ↗· event · dated to the day
TechCrunch reported on 7 July 2025, relaying a Bloomberg report, that Apple’s head of AI models, Ruoming Pang, was leaving the company to work at Meta. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
OpenAI stated on 9 July 2025 that Jony Ive and LoveFrom remained independent and had assumed deep design and creative responsibilities across OpenAI. Evidence ↗· event · dated to the day
Windsurf announced on 11 July 2025 that, as part of an agreement with Google, Douglas Chen and some members of its R&D team would join Google. Evidence ↗· event · dated to the day
Windsurf announced on 11 July 2025 that, as part of an agreement with Google, Varun Mohan and some members of its R&D team would join Google. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Windsurf announced on 11 July 2025 that Graham Moreno, its VP of Global Sales, had stepped into the role of President. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Windsurf announced on 11 July 2025 that Jeff Wang, its Head of Business, had stepped into the role of interim CEO, effective immediately. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Demis Hassabis posted on X on 11 July 2025 that Google DeepMind was welcoming Windsurf founder Douglas Chen, with some of Windsurf's engineering team. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Demis Hassabis posted on X on 11 July 2025 that Google DeepMind was welcoming Windsurf founder Varun Mohan, with some of Windsurf's engineering team. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day · announced
Anthropic announced on 15 July 2025 that it would appoint Paul Smith as its first Chief Commercial Officer, to assume the role later that year. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Mark Zuckerberg posted on Threads on 25 July 2025 that there was no change in Yann LeCun's role and that he would continue as Chief Scientist for FAIR. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day · announced
Alexandr Wang posted on X on 25 July 2025 that Shengjia Zhao would be Chief Scientist of Meta Superintelligence Labs, and Zhao posted the same day that he was taking up the role. Evidence ↗
August 2025
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Reuters reported Igor Babuschkin’s announcement that he had left xAI. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Cohere announced that Joelle Pineau would join as Chief AI Officer. Evidence ↗
September 2025
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OpenAI announced on 2 September 2025 that Vijaye Raji would step into a new role as CTO of Applications. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
OpenAI’s announcement of 2 September 2025 attributes a statement to Fidji Simo as CEO of Applications, OpenAI. Evidence ↗
October 2025
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Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily (科创板日报) reported on 5 March 2026 that from October 2025 Wu Yonghui became the lead of ByteDance’s large-model team. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Anthropic announced on 7 October 2025 that Rahul Patil had joined it as Chief Technology Officer. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Anthropic’s October 2025 CTO announcement identifies Sam McCandlish’s new role as Chief Architect. Evidence ↗· event · dated to the day
Reuters reported on 11 October 2025, relaying a Wall Street Journal report, that Andrew Tulloch had left Thinking Machines Lab to join Meta Platforms. Evidence ↗
November 2025
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Google's Gemini 3 announcement of 18 November 2025 identifies Demis Hassabis as CEO of Google DeepMind. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Google's Gemini 3 announcement of 18 November 2025 identifies Koray Kavukcuoglu as Chief AI Architect, Google. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Google's Gemini 3 announcement of 18 November 2025 identifies Koray Kavukcuoglu as CTO of Google DeepMind. Evidence ↗· event · dated to the day
The Associated Press reported that Yann LeCun said on 19 November 2025 that he would be leaving his job as Meta's chief AI scientist at the end of the year. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
The Paper reported on 25 November 2025 that its reporter had learned that day of a Baidu announcement creating a new Application Model R&D Department headed by Jia Lei. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
The Paper reported on 25 November 2025 that its reporter had learned that day of a Baidu announcement creating two model R&D departments, and that Wang Haifeng continued as Baidu’s CTO, chair of its TSC and head of Baidu Research. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
The Paper reported on 25 November 2025 that its reporter had learned that day of a Baidu announcement creating a new Foundation Model R&D Department, responsible for general-purpose large models, headed by Wu Tian. Evidence ↗
December 2025
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Apple announced on 1 December 2025 that John Giannandrea, its senior vice president for Machine Learning and AI Strategy, was stepping down from his position. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Apple announced on 1 December 2025 that Amar Subramanya had joined Apple as vice president of AI, reporting to Craig Federighi. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day · announced
OpenAI announced on 9 December 2025 that Denise Dresser was joining as Chief Revenue Officer. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily (科创板日报) reported on 17 December 2025 that Tencent had announced a reorganisation of its large-model R&D under which Yao Shunyu became Chief AI Scientist in the “CEO/President’s Office”, reporting to President Martin Lau. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily (科创板日报) reported on 17 December 2025 that Yao Shunyu also became head of Tencent’s AI Infra Department and Large Language Model Department. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day · announced
TechCrunch reported on 19 December 2025 that Yann LeCun had written, in a post of 18 December 2025, that Alex LeBrun was transitioning from CEO of Nabla to CEO of AMI Labs. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
TechCrunch reported on 19 December 2025 that Yann LeCun had confirmed, in a post of 18 December 2025, that AMI Labs was his new startup and that he was its Executive Chairman. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Zhipu’s Hong Kong prospectus of 30 December 2025 identifies Liu Debing as executive Director and chairman of the Board. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Zhipu’s Hong Kong prospectus of 30 December 2025 identifies Wang Shaolan as deputy general manager. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Zhipu’s Hong Kong prospectus of 30 December 2025 identifies Zhang Bo, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, as the company’s chief scientist. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Zhipu’s Hong Kong prospectus of 30 December 2025 identifies Zhang Peng as executive Director, chief executive officer and general manager. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
MiniMax’s Hong Kong prospectus of 31 December 2025 identifies Yan Junjie as chairman of the board, chief executive officer and chief technology officer. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
MiniMax’s Hong Kong prospectus of 31 December 2025 identifies Yun Yeyi as executive Director and chief operating officer. Evidence ↗