Public career signals, cross-org collaborations, and research milestones detected this month.
Affiliation Signal
Noam Shazeer
12 cross-org co-author pairs detected between Google DeepMind and external research labs. Shazeer's collaboration network now spans 4 organizations.
Source: Semantic Scholar co-author graph · May 2026
Company Launch
Ilya Sutskever
Safe Superintelligence (SSI) announced publicly with founding team confirmed. First hires from Anthropic and Google DeepMind reported in press.
Source: Press coverage (Reuters, The Information) · May 2026
Publication
Tri Dao
FlashAttention-3 paper released with 4 co-authors from Princeton University and Together AI. Introduces new attention mechanism for 100K+ context.
Source: Semantic Scholar / arXiv · May 2026
Affiliation Change
Apple MLR → Stealth Startup
Senior ML researcher updated public profile with new stealth startup affiliation after 4 years at Apple's Machine Learning Research division.
Source: Public profile update · May 2026
Research Milestone
Anthropic Interpretability Team
3 new publications in Q1-Q2 2026 with cross-org co-authors from Stanford HAI and MIT CSAIL. Team size grew to 18 researchers.
Source: DBLP + Google Scholar · May 2026
Affiliation Change
xAI Senior Hire
Research Lead role detected at xAI. Previous affiliation: major cloud AI lab. Profile bio updated with new title.
Source: Public profile update · May 2026
Cross-org Signal
Meta FAIR ↔ Google DeepMind
8 new cross-org co-author pairs detected between Meta FAIR and Google DeepMind in vision-language research.
Source: Semantic Scholar · May 2026