PeopleofSuperintelligence

9 of OpenAI's 32 former staff in the directory now work at Anthropic

Data as of

Worked at OpenAI
45
Work there now
13
Moves into OpenAI
35
Of these, from companies
20
Of these, from universities
14
Former staff
32
Former staff now at Anthropic
9

45 people in the directory have worked at OpenAI. 13 work there now: Adam Lerer, Greg Brockman, Ilge Akkaya, Jakub Pachocki, Jason Liu, Mark Chen, Noam Brown, Paul Christiano, Peter Steinberger, Sam Altman, Sébastien Bubeck, Thibault “Tibo” Sottiaux and Wojciech Zaremba.

Where OpenAI hires from

The career data records 35 moves into OpenAI by 33 people. This section counts moves, so a person who joined OpenAI twice counts twice. 20 of the 35 moves came from companies, 14 from universities and 1 from other kinds of organization. The largest source by moves is Google, with 8 moves.

  1. Google8Barret Zoph, Chris Olah, Geoffrey Irving, Ian Goodfellow, Ilya Sutskever, Jan Leike, Jason Wei and Thibault “Tibo” Sottiaux
  2. University of California, Berkeley4Aravind Srinivas, Ilge Akkaya, John Schulman and Paul Christiano
  3. Meta3Adam Lerer, Anna Makanju and Noam Brown
  4. Stanford University2Andrej Karpathy and Bob McGrew
  5. Tesla2Andrej Karpathy and Elon Musk
  6. 567 Studios1Jason Liu
  7. Adelard LLP1Heidy Khlaaf
  8. Columbia University1Leopold Aschenbrenner
  9. Georgetown University1Helen Toner
  10. Indiana University1Lilian Weng
  11. Instacart1Fidji Simo
  12. Johns Hopkins University1Jared Kaplan
  13. Microsoft1Sébastien Bubeck
  14. NIST1Paul Christiano
  15. New York University1Wojciech Zaremba
  16. University of Oxford1Jade Leung
  17. Princeton University1Dario Amodei
  18. PSPDFKit GmbH1Peter Steinberger
  19. Stripe1Greg Brockman
  20. University of Amsterdam1Diederik P. Kingma
  21. Y Combinator1Sam Altman

Where former OpenAI staff work now

32 people left OpenAI. 29 of them have a known current organization. The most common current organization is Anthropic, with 9 people. This section counts people, once for each organization where they work now.

  1. Anthropic9Amanda Askell, Andrej Karpathy, Chris Olah, Daniela Amodei, Dario Amodei, Diederik P. Kingma, Jack Clark, Jan Leike and Jared Kaplan
  2. Thinking Machines Lab4Barret Zoph, John Schulman, Lilian Weng and Mira Murati
  3. AI Futures Project1Daniel Kokotajlo
  4. AI Now Institute1Heidy Khlaaf
  5. AI Taskforce1Jade Leung
  6. Amazon1Peter Chen
  7. Covariant1Peter Chen
  8. Georgetown University1Helen Toner
  9. Google1Logan Kilpatrick
  10. Inception1Aditya Grover
  11. Johns Hopkins University1Jared Kaplan
  12. Meta1Jason Wei
  13. METR1Beth Barnes
  14. Nscale1Fidji Simo
  15. OpenAI Foundation1Anna Makanju
  16. Perplexity1Aravind Srinivas
  17. Resolution1Geoffrey Irving
  18. Safe Superintelligence1Ilya Sutskever
  19. Situational Awareness LP1Leopold Aschenbrenner
  20. University of California, Los Angeles1Aditya Grover
  21. UK AI Security Institute1Jade Leung
  22. xAI1Elon Musk

Career data comes from the biographies on this site and from OpenAlex author records, as of 14 October 2026. People whose OpenAlex record may be incomplete or mixed are left out of citation figures.