Frontier Minds: what changed

Update, 26 September 2026

Sat, 26 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Lab pages now list the main models and products each lab built; corrections to affiliation labels, the Pentagon designation date and Anthropic's Series F; direct citations and top-of-profile position summaries.

Ilya Sutskever: OpenAI and the University of Toronto now list Sutskever as a former member rather than under people there now. Read more
Dario Amodei: Anthropic says it received the formal Pentagon supply chain risk designation letter on 4 March 2026, rather than 5 March. Read more
Full profiles now lead with three sourced positions and a central disagreement; key biography passages in the Altman, Sutskever and Amodei profiles have direct source links. Read more
Each lab's "What it built" section now lists its main models and products, from GPT-2 to Claude Opus 5.5, with a source for each, instead of only the milestones the lab was involved in. Labs is now in the main navigation. Read more
Anthropic's 183 billion dollar Series F is now dated September 2025, matching its announcement, and a duplicate 2012 Google Brain event was removed from the Google DeepMind timeline. Read more
Brief profiles for Greg Brockman, Jakub Pachocki and Alec Radford now list OpenAI Five and GPT-2 among their main work, and Jeff Dean, Noam Shazeer and Alexandr Wang have sourced positions. Read more

Update, 25 September 2026

Fri, 25 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Six more lab pages (Meta, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Thinking Machines Lab, Safe Superintelligence and Mistral AI) with 22 new brief profiles, and three corrections.

New lab pages for Meta, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Thinking Machines Lab, Safe Superintelligence and Mistral AI, each with its history, a sourced timeline, its own stated positions and where its people went. The alumni map now covers all nine labs. Read more
Twenty-two new brief profiles, including Mark Zuckerberg, Alexandr Wang, Satya Nadella, Bill Dally, Arthur Mensch, Lilian Weng and Daniel Levy. Read more
Ilya Sutskever: Meta's attempt to buy SSI is now described as reported in June 2025, rather than dated to that month. Read more
Jensen Huang: Added that NVIDIA booked 4.5 billion dollars in H20 charges, after warning in April 2025 of up to 5.5 billion. Read more
Removed Reid Hoffman from the list of people who left Google DeepMind to found Inflection AI; he co-founded it but never worked at DeepMind. Read more

Update, 24 September 2026

Thu, 24 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Lab pages for OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind with 20 brief profiles and an alumni map; five new full profiles, a prediction tracker with 44 checked forecasts, milestones in the history of AI, a glossary, and month-by-month timelines.

New lab pages for OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind, each with its history, a sourced timeline, the models it built, its own stated positions, and the organizations its people went on to found. Read more
Twenty brief profiles of people key to those labs, from Greg Brockman and Mira Murati to Chris Olah, Jeff Dean and John Jumper, with an alumni map of who left which lab to found what. Read more
Dario Amodei: Corrected the Pentagon dispute timeline. Anthropic's models were approved for classified work in late 2024 and Claude Gov followed in June 2025; Anthropic says it received the formal supply chain risk designation letter on 4 March 2026, after the 27 February announcement. A Wired summary of the founders' view is no longer presented as Amodei's own words. Read more
Sam Altman: Added that Microsoft and OpenAI removed the AGI clause from their agreement on 27 April 2026, so an AGI declaration no longer affects Microsoft's license. Read more
Demis Hassabis: Attributed the report that Hassabis was not pushed out to Semafor, which TIME repeated, rather than to both outlets independently. Read more
Ilya Sutskever: New profile of Ilya Sutskever, co-founder and CEO of Safe Superintelligence, including the November 2023 OpenAI board episode from both sides. Read more
Gary Marcus: New profile of Gary Marcus, the cognitive scientist and most-cited critic of the scaling approach. Read more
Jensen Huang: New profile of Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. Read more
Mustafa Suleyman: New profile of Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of DeepMind and CEO of Microsoft AI. Read more
Emily M. Bender: New profile of Emily M. Bender, the linguist who co-wrote "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots". Read more
Launched the prediction tracker, with 44 dated forecasts by 12 people, each resolved against the record with evidence. Read more
Added 25 milestones in the history of AI, from GANs in 2014 to DeepSeek-R1 in 2025, each tied to the debates it changed, and a glossary of 27 terms. Read more
Dario Amodei: Corrected three details. Amodei was one of 24 students at the 2000 US Physics Team camp, not on the five-member Olympiad team; "Concrete Problems in AI Safety" was written at Google Brain; the Hertz Thesis Prize was the 2012 award. Read more
Yann LeCun: Corrected the founding date of NYU's Center for Data Science to January 2013. Read more