Artificial Atlas

Who is betting on what in AI, and against whom.

Who moved whereMovement is the most interesting signal in this dataset.

Two views: the dated moves recorded in the data itself, and the edit history of the data files.

Recorded moves

Andrej Karpathy
  1. May 2026 – now Anthropic, Pretraining research
  2. Jul 2024 – May 2026 Eureka Labs, Founder (paused)
Ashish Vaswani
  1. Jun 2026 – now NVIDIA, Nemotron open models
  2. 2023 – Jun 2026 Essential AI, Co-founder and CEO
David Silver
  1. Jan 2026 – now Ineffable Intelligence, Founder
  2. 2013 – Jan 2026 Google DeepMind, VP of reinforcement learning
Ekin Dogus Cubuk
  1. 2025 – now Periodic Labs, Co-founder
  2. … – 2025 Google DeepMind, Materials discovery (GNoME)
Ilya Sutskever
  1. Jun 2024 – now Safe Superintelligence, Co-founder and chief scientist
  2. Dec 2015 – May 2024 OpenAI, Co-founder and chief scientist
Joëlle Pineau
  1. Aug 2025 – now Cohere, Chief AI officer
  2. … – May 2025 Meta, VP of AI research, FAIR
John Jumper
  1. Jun 2026 – now Anthropic, AI for science
  2. Oct 2017 – Jun 2026 Google DeepMind, VP and engineering fellow; AlphaFold lead
John Schulman
  1. Feb 2025 – now Thinking Machines Lab, Chief scientist
  2. Dec 2015 – Aug 2024 OpenAI, Co-founder; RLHF lead
Kenneth Stanley
  1. Mar 2025 – now Lila Sciences, SVP of open-endedness
  2. … – 2022 OpenAI, Led open-endedness team
Khurram Javed
  1. Jul 2026 – now Oak Lab, Co-founder
  2. … – Jul 2026 Keen Technologies, Research scientist
Liam Fedus
  1. 2025 – now Periodic Labs, Co-founder and CEO
  2. … – 2025 OpenAI, VP of research, post-training
Michael Bowling
  1. dates not recorded Amii / University of Alberta, Professor, University of Alberta; Amii fellow
  2. … – 2023 Google DeepMind, Research scientist, DeepMind Alberta
Mira Murati
  1. Feb 2025 – now Thinking Machines Lab, Founder and CEO
  2. May 2022 – Sep 2024 OpenAI, Chief technology officer
Pieter Abbeel
  1. Aug 2024 – now Amazon AGI Lab, Fulfillment technologies and robotics (via Covariant hire)
  2. dates not recorded UC Berkeley, Professor
  3. 2017 – Aug 2024 Covariant, Co-founder
Richard Sutton
  1. Jul 2026 – now Oak Lab, Co-founder
  2. 2003 – now Amii / University of Alberta, Professor, University of Alberta; chief scientific advisor, Amii
  3. Sep 2023 – Jul 2026 Keen Technologies, Research scientist
  4. Jul 2017 – Jan 2023 Google DeepMind, Distinguished research scientist, DeepMind Alberta
Sara Hooker
  1. 2025 – now Adaption Labs, Co-founder and CEO
  2. … – 2025 Cohere, VP of research; head of Cohere For AI
Yann LeCun
  1. Jan 2026 – now AMI Labs, Founder and executive chairman; JEPA
  2. Dec 2013 – Dec 2025 Meta, Chief AI scientist, FAIR
Covariant
  1. … – Aug 2024 Physical AI: Robot foundation models for warehouse picking; team hired by Amazon, August 2024.
Essential AI
  1. … – Jun 2026 LLM scaling: Open models from transformer co-authors; acquihired by Nvidia, June 2026.
EvolutionaryScale
  1. … – Nov 2025 Physics AI: ESM3 protein language model; acquired by CZ Biohub, November 2025.
Meta
  1. Dec 2013 – Dec 2025 World models: FAIR under LeCun: JEPA and V-JEPA as the road to autonomous machine intelligence.
  2. Jun 2025 – now LLM scaling: Meta Superintelligence Labs (TBD Lab under Wang) went all-in on frontier LLMs after LeCun left. Muse models are hosted, not open.
  3. Dec 2025 – now World models: FAIR still does V-JEPA under Rob Fergus.

Edit history of data/

  1. 2026-09-05 1ba085b
    Review pass: anonymous About, portrait audit, kinds, stances, strands, reading lists, layers, Start page
  2. 2026-09-05 1fe1764
    Weekly watch pipeline: news leads, dead-source check, fetcher report
  3. 2026-09-05 4848c9e
    Add a research-index roster of 87 senior authors, grouped by camp
  4. 2026-09-05 8a13b46
    Add people with no camp and the other side of the trade
  5. 2026-09-05 71e8ab3
    Preview image: camps in a row; add Pillow to requirements so Vercel builds it