Group 1 - Meta's Super Intelligence Lab was established with significant investment, aiming to attract top AI talent from competitors like OpenAI, xAI, Google, and Anthropic, offering salaries in the nine-figure range [4][11] - Despite recruiting over 50 core members, including 13 Google AI experts and 3 Apple engineers, the lab has faced internal turmoil with several researchers leaving shortly after joining [4][11] - High-profile departures include Ethan Knight, Rishabh Agarwal, and Avi Verma, who returned to OpenAI after brief tenures at Meta, raising questions about the internal environment and appeal of Meta's new lab [5][9][11] Group 2 - Danqi Chen, a leading figure in NLP from Princeton University, is suspected to have joined Thinking Machines Lab, founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, indicating a trend of talent moving towards new AI ventures [14][16] - Thinking Machines Lab has rapidly attracted a significant number of former OpenAI employees, with two-thirds of its members coming from OpenAI, enhancing its industry influence [16][17] - The movement of talent from OpenAI to various startups, including Anthropic and Thinking Machines Lab, highlights the growing impact of the "OpenAI network" in the AI sector [17]