ml talent intelligence

THE ROSTER

The most valuable minds in AI. Who they work for, what they've built, and when they might move next.

VIEW RANKINGSCOMPANY POWER
ON THE ROSTER
97
COMPANIES
34
RECENT MOVES
17
TRANSFERS
Andrea ValloneOpenAI→AnthropicJan 2026·David SilverGoogle DeepMind→Ineffable IntelligenceJan 2026·Bob McGrewOpenAI→Thinking Machines LabApr 2025·Mira MuratiOpenAI→Thinking Machines LabFeb 2025·Barret ZophOpenAI→Thinking Machines LabFeb 2025·Lilian WengOpenAI→Thinking Machines LabFeb 2025·John SchulmanAnthropic→Thinking Machines LabFeb 2025·Nicholas CarliniGoogle DeepMind→Anthropic2025·Durk KingmaGoogle DeepMind→AnthropicOct 2024·Julian SchrittwieserGoogle DeepMind→AnthropicOct 2024·John SchulmanOpenAI→AnthropicAug 2024·Jan LeikeOpenAI→AnthropicMay 2024·Mustafa SuleymanInflection AI→MicrosoftMar 2024·Robin RombachStability AI→Black Forest LabsAug 2024·Ilya SutskeverOpenAI→SSIJun 2024·Noam ShazeerCharacter.AI→Google DeepMindAug 2023·Ian GoodfellowApple→Google DeepMindMar 2023·Andrea ValloneOpenAI→AnthropicJan 2026·David SilverGoogle DeepMind→Ineffable IntelligenceJan 2026·Bob McGrewOpenAI→Thinking Machines LabApr 2025·Mira MuratiOpenAI→Thinking Machines LabFeb 2025·Barret ZophOpenAI→Thinking Machines LabFeb 2025·Lilian WengOpenAI→Thinking Machines LabFeb 2025·John SchulmanAnthropic→Thinking Machines LabFeb 2025·Nicholas CarliniGoogle DeepMind→Anthropic2025·Durk KingmaGoogle DeepMind→AnthropicOct 2024·Julian SchrittwieserGoogle DeepMind→AnthropicOct 2024·John SchulmanOpenAI→AnthropicAug 2024·Jan LeikeOpenAI→AnthropicMay 2024·Mustafa SuleymanInflection AI→MicrosoftMar 2024·Robin RombachStability AI→Black Forest LabsAug 2024·Ilya SutskeverOpenAI→SSIJun 2024·Noam ShazeerCharacter.AI→Google DeepMindAug 2023·Ian GoodfellowApple→Google DeepMindMar 2023

RANKINGS

Sorted by influence

1
Yoshua Bengio
Founder & Scientific Director
S
Mila33y 2mo
h: 190cit: 800kprev: MIT/AT&T Bell Labs
2
Geoffrey Hinton
Professor Emeritus
S
UofToronto39y 2mo
h: 170cit: 900kprev: Google Brain
3
Yann LeCun
Chief AI Scientist
S
Meta12y 3mo
h: 150cit: 500kprev: NYU
4
Jeff Dean
Chief Scientist, Google
S
Google DeepMind26y 7mo
h: 130cit: 350kprev: DEC/Compaq
5
Andrew Ng
Founder
S
DeepLearning.AI8y 9mo
h: 120cit: 300kprev: Baidu
6
Fei-Fei Li
Professor & Co-Director HAI
S
Stanford16y 6mo
h: 110cit: 400kprev: Princeton
7
Christopher Manning
Professor
A
Stanford26y 6mo
h: 120cit: 250kprev: Sydney/CMU
8
Ilya Sutskever
Co-founder & Chief Scientist
S
SSI1y 9mo
h: 90cit: 400kprev: OpenAI
9
Alex Smola
CEO & Co-founder
A
Boson AI2y 9mo
h: 100cit: 150kprev: Amazon AWS
10
Demis Hassabis
CEO, Google DeepMind
S
Google DeepMind15y 4mo
h: 78cit: 130kprev: Founded DeepMind
11
David Silver
Founder
S
Ineffable Intelligence2mo
h: 75cit: 100kprev: Google DeepMind
12
Quoc Le
Research Scientist
A
Google DeepMind13y 2mo
h: 85cit: 180kprev: Stanford PhD
13
Sergey Levine
Professor
A
UC Berkeley9y 6mo
h: 80cit: 80kprev: Google Brain
14
Jason Weston
Research Scientist
A
Meta11y 2mo
h: 80cit: 80kprev: Google
15
Oriol Vinyals
VP Research
A
Google DeepMind11y 6mo
h: 75cit: 150kprev: Google Brain
16
Pieter Abbeel
Professor & Co-founder
A
UC Berkeley17y 8mo
h: 75cit: 60kprev: Stanford PhD
17
Ian Goodfellow
Research Scientist
A
Google DeepMind3y
h: 70cit: 250kprev: Apple
18
Noam Shazeer
Research
S
Google DeepMind2y 7mo
h: 55cit: 200kprev: Character.AI
19
Ruslan Salakhutdinov
VP AI Research
A
Apple9y 5mo
h: 70cit: 60kprev: CMU
20
Luke Zettlemoyer
Research Director
A
Meta8y 2mo
h: 70cit: 60kprev: U Washington
21
Ali Farhadi
CEO
A
AI27y 6mo
h: 65cit: 60kprev: U Washington
22
Samy Bengio
Senior Director ML
A
Apple4y 11mo
h: 65cit: 55kprev: Google Brain
23
Percy Liang
Co-founder & Chief Scientist
A
Together AI3y 9mo
h: 65cit: 40kprev: Stanford
24
Pushmeet Kohli
VP Research
A
Google DeepMind9y 2mo
h: 65cit: 30kprev: Microsoft Research
25
Sanjeev Arora
Professor
A
Princeton25y 2mo
h: 65cit: 30kprev: IAS Princeton
26
Anima Anandkumar
Bren Professor of Computing
A
Caltech2y 2mo
h: 60cit: 30kprev: NVIDIA
27
Andrej Karpathy
Independent Researcher & Educator
S
Independent2y 1mo
h: 40cit: 100kprev: OpenAI
28
Chelsea Finn
Assistant Professor
A
Stanford6y 6mo
h: 55cit: 60kprev: UC Berkeley PhD
29
Joelle Pineau
VP AI Research
A
Meta8y 5mo
h: 55cit: 25kprev: McGill University
30
Dario Amodei
CEO
S
Anthropic5y 2mo
h: 35cit: 45kprev: OpenAI
31
Christian Szegedy
Research
A
xAI2y 9mo
h: 45cit: 200kprev: Google Brain
32
Koray Kavukcuoglu
VP Research
A
Google DeepMind13y
h: 45cit: 60kprev: NEC Labs
33
Sébastien Bubeck
VP GenAI
A
Microsoft11y 6mo
h: 45cit: 25kprev: Princeton
34
John Schulman
Chief Scientist
A
Thinking Machines Lab1y 1mo
h: 40cit: 90kprev: Anthropic
35
Nicholas Carlini
Research Scientist
B
Anthropic1y 2mo
h: 55cit: 35kprev: Google DeepMind
36
Raia Hadsell
VP Research
A
Google DeepMind11y 9mo
h: 40cit: 35kprev: SRI International
37
Ashish Vaswani
Co-founder & CEO
A
Essential AI3y 9mo
h: 35cit: 180kprev: Google Brain
38
Shane Legg
Co-founder & Chief AGI Scientist
S
Google DeepMind15y 4mo
h: 25cit: 15kprev: Founded DeepMind
39
Durk Kingma
Research Scientist
A
Anthropic1y 5mo
h: 35cit: 120kprev: Google DeepMind
40
Jared Kaplan
Co-founder
A
Anthropic5y 2mo
h: 35cit: 30kprev: Johns Hopkins
41
Alec Radford
Research Scientist
A
OpenAI9y 9mo
h: 30cit: 120kprev: Indico Data
42
Hanna Hajishirzi
Research Director
B
AI28y 2mo
h: 45cit: 25kprev: U Washington
43
Chris Olah
Co-founder
A
Anthropic5y 2mo
h: 30cit: 40kprev: OpenAI
44
Guillaume Lample
Co-founder & Chief Scientist
A
Mistral2y 11mo
h: 30cit: 25kprev: Meta FAIR
45
Mike Lewis
Research Scientist
B
Meta9y 2mo
h: 40cit: 30kprev: PhD Cambridge
46
Dan Hendrycks
Executive Director
B
Center for AI Safety4y 2mo
h: 40cit: 30kprev: UC Berkeley PhD
47
Sasha Rush
Professor
B
Cornell5y 8mo
h: 40cit: 20kprev: Harvard
48
David Duvenaud
Research Scientist
B
Anthropic2y 2mo
h: 38cit: 25kprev: UofToronto
49
Jimmy Ba
Research
B
xAI3y
h: 35cit: 80kprev: UofToronto
50
Jakob Uszkoreit
Co-founder & CEO
A
Inceptive5y 2mo
h: 22cit: 95kprev: Google Brain

NOTABLE WORKS

Breakthrough papers and projects from the roster.

Sam Altman
OpenAI
S
OpenAI co-founderGPT-4 launch
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
S
Anthropic founderClaude seriesScaling laws
Demis Hassabis
Google DeepMind
S
AlphaGoAlphaFoldNobel Prize 2024
Jeff Dean
Google DeepMind
S
MapReduceTensorFlowTransformer team lead
Shane Legg
Google DeepMind
S
DeepMind co-founderAGI research
Noam Shazeer
Google DeepMind
S
Transformer co-authorAttention Is All You NeedCharacter.AI founder
Yann LeCun
Meta
S
Convolutional networks pioneerTuring Award 2018FAIR founder
Andrej Karpathy
Independent
S
Tesla Autopilot leadOpenAI foundingnanoGPTautoresearch
Ilya Sutskever
SSI
S
GPT series architectAlexNet co-authorSSI founder

COMPANY POWER

Who's winning the talent war. Based on roster count, research output, and net talent flow.

Anthropic
#1 POWER RANK
13
on roster
25
avg h
407k
total cit
+5
net flow
Google DeepMind
#2 POWER RANK
12
on roster
60
avg h
1.4M
total cit
-2
net flow
OpenAI
#3 POWER RANK
9
on roster
20
avg h
217k
total cit
-8
net flow
Meta
#4 POWER RANK
9
on roster
52
avg h
749k
total cit
0
net flow
Thinking Machines Lab
#5 POWER RANK
5
on roster
18
avg h
132k
total cit
+5
net flow
xAI
#6 POWER RANK
4
on roster
28
avg h
289k
total cit
0
net flow
Microsoft
#7 POWER RANK
4
on roster
18
avg h
37k
total cit
+1
net flow
Mistral
#8 POWER RANK
3
on roster
20
avg h
38k
total cit
0
net flow
Apple
#9 POWER RANK
3
on roster
49
avg h
118k
total cit
-1
net flow
Stanford
#10 POWER RANK
3
on roster
95
avg h
710k
total cit
0
net flow