Show HN: Exodus – we tracked 240 moves across companies to map the AI talent war
TL;DR
Hey HN, Exodus tracks who's leaving the big AI companies, where they're going, and what they're building.
Key Points
- 240+ moves, 80+ companies, every entry sourced.
- I used AI to track these after noticing the same pattern every week: someone leaves OpenAI, someone leaves Anthropic, a new startup appears, they get funded week later.
- There's a Sankey diagram and a brain drain chart.
- Every entry is checked against published sources.
Nauti's Take
With Exodus logging 240 moves, the AI talent pool is clearly a food chain, not a static batch. Anyone building infrastructure or product should treat every OpenAI/Anthropic/xAI departure as a trigger and pressure-test their founder and retention machinery before the boat sails again.
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