2026: people
Selekoa’s 80 people records dated 2026, in date order, of 580 in all topics.
Selective: what the records hold, not a history of the year.
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People 80 records
Dated to 2026 only
January 2026
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Mark Zuckerberg announced on 12 January 2026 that the new Meta Compute initiative would be led by Santosh Janardhan and Daniel Gross. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day · announced
Anthropic announced on 13 January 2026 that Mike Krieger was joining Labs to build alongside Ben Mann. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day · announced
Anthropic announced on 13 January 2026 that Ami Vora, who joined the company at the end of 2025, would lead its Product organization. Evidence ↗· event · dated to the day
Ahmad Al-Dahle posted on X on 14 January 2026 that he was joining Airbnb as CTO. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day · announced
Mira Murati announced on X on 14 January 2026 that Soumith Chintala would be the new CTO of Thinking Machines Lab. Evidence ↗· event · dated to the day
Mira Murati announced on X on 14 January 2026 that Thinking Machines Lab had parted ways with Barret Zoph. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day · announced
Fidji Simo posted on X on 15 January 2026 (UTC) that Luke Metz was rejoining OpenAI and would report to Barret Zoph. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day · announced
Fidji Simo posted on X on 15 January 2026 (UTC) that Barret Zoph was rejoining OpenAI and would report to her. Evidence ↗· event · dated to the day
Greg Yang posted on X on 20 January 2026 that he was stepping back from xAI into an informal advisory role. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
36Kr, republishing a QbitAI report, identified Jiang Daxin on 27 January 2026 as StepFun’s CEO. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
36Kr, republishing a QbitAI report, reported on 27 January 2026 that Yin Qi had formally joined StepFun’s core decision-making group as chairman. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
36Kr, republishing a QbitAI report, identified Zhang Xiangyu on 27 January 2026 as StepFun’s chief scientist. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
36Kr, republishing a QbitAI report, identified Zhu Yibo on 27 January 2026 as StepFun’s CTO. Evidence ↗
February 2026
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Sam Altman and Dylan Scandinaro each posted on X on 3 February 2026 that Scandinaro was joining OpenAI as its Head of Preparedness. Evidence ↗· publication · dated to the day
Haifeng Wang heads the list in the Contributors section of the ERNIE 5.0 Technical Report (arXiv version 1, 4 February 2026). Evidence ↗· event · dated to the day
Mrinank Sharma posted on X on 9 February 2026 that it was his last day at Anthropic and that he had resigned. Evidence ↗· event · dated to the day
Yuhuai (Tony) Wu posted on 10 February 2026 that he had resigned from xAI that day. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
OpenAI's Global Affairs newsletter of 11 February 2026 carries a note in which Josh Achiam writes that he is stepping into a new role as OpenAI's Chief Futurist. Evidence ↗· event · dated to the day
Jimmy Ba posted on 11 February 2026 (UTC) that it was his last day at xAI. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day · announced
OpenAI announced on 24 February 2026 that Arvind KC was joining as its Chief People Officer. Evidence ↗· event · dated to the day
Toby Pohlen posted on 27 February 2026 (UTC) that it had been his last day at xAI. Evidence ↗
March 2026
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Junyang Lin posted on X on 3 March 2026 (UTC; 4 March in Beijing) that he was stepping down from Qwen; Caixin Global reported on 4 March 2026 that he had resigned as a technical leader of Alibaba’s Qwen model team. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Jiemian reported on 5 March 2026 that Alibaba CEO Wu Yongming’s internal e-mail, which approved Junyang Lin’s resignation, stated that Zhou Jingren would continue to lead Tongyi Lab. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Thinking Machines Lab’s announcement of 10 March 2026 identifies Mira Murati as CEO. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day · announced
Anthropic announced on 11 March 2026 that its co-founder Jack Clark would assume a new role as Anthropic's Head of Public Benefit. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Anthropic announced on 11 March 2026 that The Anthropic Institute is led by its co-founder Jack Clark. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day · announced
Anthropic announced on 11 March 2026 that Sarah Heck, who joined it as Head of External Affairs, would lead its Public Policy team as Head of Public Policy. Evidence ↗· event · dated to the day
Guodong Zhang posted on 13 March 2026 (UTC) that it was his last day at xAI. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day · announced
OpenAI announced on 24 March 2026 that Anna Makanju would join the OpenAI Foundation in mid-April as Head of AI for Civil Society and Philanthropy. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day · announced
OpenAI announced on 24 March 2026 that Wojciech Zaremba, a co-founder of OpenAI, was joining the OpenAI Foundation as Head of AI Resilience. Evidence ↗· event · dated to the day
Business Insider reported on 25 March 2026 that xAI cofounder Manuel Kroiss had told people he was leaving the company. Evidence ↗· event · dated to the day
Business Insider reported on 28 March 2026 that Ross Nordeen had left xAI that week, according to people with knowledge of his departure. Evidence ↗
April 2026
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Caixin Global reported on 8 April 2026 that Alibaba CEO Eddie Wu had announced a reshuffle that named a new chief technology officer for the cloud computing unit and tapped Li Feifei to lead cloud technology and AI infrastructure. Evidence ↗· event · dated to the day
Kevin Weil posted on X on 17 April 2026 that it was his last day at OpenAI; he stated that OpenAI for Science was being decentralized into other research teams. Evidence ↗
May 2026
June 2026
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Inceptive's announcement of 3 June 2026 identifies Jakob Uszkoreit as its CEO. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day · announced
The Paper reported on 14 June 2026 that, according to its information (据了解), the reorganisation its reporter had learned of on 8 June included Zhou Jingren becoming Alibaba’s Chief Scientist and leading the establishment of an Alibaba AI Future Research Institute. Evidence ↗· event · dated to the day
Noam Shazeer posted on X on 18 June 2026 (UTC) that he was moving on from the team at Google to join OpenAI. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day · announced
Noam Shazeer posted on X on 18 June 2026 (UTC) that he would be joining OpenAI. Evidence ↗
July 2026
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WIRED reported on 10 July 2026 that OpenAI's head of safety systems, Johannes Heidecke, had told staff that week that he was leaving the company. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Guancha reported on 1 July 2026 that Sun Tianxiang had recently joined Baidu as head of its Foundation Model R&D Department (BMU). Evidence ↗· event · dated to the day
WIRED reported on 7 July 2026 that OpenAI's chief futurist, Joshua Achiam, had notified colleagues that day that he would leave the company later that month. Evidence ↗· event · dated to the day
Fidji Simo posted on X on 9 July 2026 that she had decided to leave her full-time role at OpenAI and transition to being a part-time advisor. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
WIRED reported on 10 July 2026 that, according to a memo by OpenAI's chief research officer Mark Chen, OpenAI's safety teams would report to Mia Glaese, whom WIRED identifies as the company's VP of research and head of alignment. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day · announced
WIRED reported on 10 July 2026 that, according to a memo by Mark Chen, OpenAI's safety teams would report to Mia Glaese, who would take on an expanded role as VP of research and safety. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day · announced
WIRED reported on 10 July 2026 that Saachi Jain, who had previously led safety teams at OpenAI, would become the company's interim head of safety systems, reporting to Mia Glaese. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Inflection AI's press release of 21 July 2026 identified Sean White as CEO of Inflection AI. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily (科创板日报) reported on 24 July 2026 that Tencent had announced the merger of its Hunyuan multimodal-model and large-language-model departments into a Foundation Model Department managed by Yao Shunyu. Evidence ↗· event · dated to the day
TechCrunch reported on 29 July 2026 that Lilian Weng, co-founder of Thinking Machines, had announced that week that she would step down from her role. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day · announced
TechCrunch reported on 29 July 2026 that OpenAI said Lilian Weng would rejoin the company to lead a top-level team focused on accelerating OpenAI’s internal research. Evidence ↗
August 2026
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Anthropic announced on 4 August 2026 that Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar would join it as its first Chief Global Affairs Officer. Evidence ↗· event · dated to the day Inferred
Sundar Pichai announced on 5 August 2026 that, after a 27-year run, Jeff Dean and Google Senior Fellow Sanjay Ghemawat were launching an independent public benefit corporation. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day · announced
Sundar Pichai announced on 5 August 2026 that Demis Hassabis would become Chief Scientist of Alphabet. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day · announced
Sundar Pichai announced on 5 August 2026 that Koray Kavukcuoglu would become SVP of Google DeepMind, reporting to him. Evidence ↗· event · dated to the day
OpenAI announced on 13 August 2026 that Denise Dresser would leave OpenAI following a transition period. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day · announced
OpenAI announced on 13 August 2026 that Dali Rajic would be joining as Chief Revenue Officer. Evidence ↗
September 2026
October 2026
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Anthropic's Leadership page, as retrieved on 15 October 2026, lists Tom Brown as Co-Founder and Chief Compute Officer. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Anthropic's Leadership page, as retrieved on 15 October 2026, lists Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar as Chief Global Affairs Officer. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Anthropic's Leadership page, as retrieved on 15 October 2026, lists Dario Amodei as Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Anthropic's Leadership page, as retrieved on 15 October 2026, lists Sasha de Marigny as Chief Brand and Communications Officer. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Anthropic's Leadership page, as retrieved on 15 October 2026, lists Brian Israel as Chief Legal Officer. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Anthropic's Leadership page, as retrieved on 15 October 2026, lists Chris Olah as Co-Founder and Interpretability Research Lead. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Anthropic's Leadership page, as retrieved on 15 October 2026, lists Hannah Pritchett as Chief People Officer. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Anthropic's Leadership page, as retrieved on 15 October 2026, lists Paul Smith as Chief Commercial Officer. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Anthropic's Leadership page, as retrieved on 15 October 2026, lists Ami Vora as Chief Product Officer. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
01.AI’s management-team page, as retrieved on 15 October 2026, identifies Kai-Fu Lee as founder and CEO. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Yuxin Wu’s personal website, retrieved on 15 October 2026, states that he is building foundation models at Moonshot AI (Kimi). Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Anca Dragan's homepage, as retrieved on 15 October 2026, states that she is on leave from UC Berkeley to head AI Safety and Alignment at Google DeepMind. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
The Royal Academy of Engineering's page on its new Fellows for 2026, as retrieved on 15 October 2026, describes Lila Ibrahim as Chief AI Readiness Officer, Google DeepMind. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Rohin Shah's homepage, as retrieved on 15 October 2026, states that he leads the AGI Safety & Alignment team at Google DeepMind. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Cohere’s company page, as retrieved on 15 October 2026, identifies Phil Blunsom as Chief Technology Officer. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Cohere’s company page, as retrieved on 15 October 2026, identifies Aidan Gomez as CEO. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
AI21 Labs’ company page, as retrieved on 15 October 2026, identifies Ori Goshen as CEO. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Sakana AI’s corporate information page, as retrieved on 15 October 2026, identifies David Ha as CEO. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Sakana AI’s corporate information page, as retrieved on 15 October 2026, identifies Llion Jones as CTO. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Mistral AI’s company page, as retrieved on 15 October 2026, identifies Timothée Lacroix as CTO. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Mistral AI’s company page, as retrieved on 15 October 2026, identifies Guillaume Lample as Chief Science Officer. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
Mistral AI’s company page, as retrieved on 15 October 2026, identifies Arthur Mensch as CEO. Evidence ↗