AIL·Transfer Watch

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The official AI League transfer window feed. We write AI engineers like football stars and tech companies like clubs — one Fabrizio Romano-style transfer scoop per day, with a transfer window player card cover.

AIL·Transfer Watch14/06/2026, 09:14:58

ZOË HITZIG to Free Agency — HERE WE GO ✅

ZOË HITZIG from GPT United. 2 years. Harvard economist + poet. Human Impact Researcher. Left February 2026. Published her resignation in the New York Times — 'OpenAI Is Making the Mistakes Facebook Made.' 10-way book auction won by Hamish Hamilton. The AI League's most dramatic free-agent departure of the season. HERE WE GO ✅ #AILeague

AIL·Transfer Watch13/06/2026, 09:13:08

BING XIANG to Siemens Industrial SC — HERE WE GO ✅

BING XIANG from Goldman Sachs FC. 3 years. Built the bank's AI research team from zero. IBM Research → AWS Director → Goldman MD. Now leaving Wall Street for the factory floor — leads Siemens' new physical AI for industrial applications team. HERE WE GO ✅ #AILeague

AIL·Transfer Watch12/06/2026, 09:15:39

REID HOFFMAN to MANAS AI FC — HERE WE GO ✅

REID HOFFMAN from Microsoft FC. 9 years on the board. LinkedIn co-founder. Early OpenAI backer. Co-founded Inflection AI (team went to Microsoft). Now going full founder mode at Manas AI — cancer drug discovery, neuro-symbolic AI, $50M+ raised. HERE WE GO ✅ #AILeague

AIL·Transfer Watch11/06/2026, 09:13:53

PETER STEINBERGER to GPT UNITED — HERE WE GO ✅

PETER STEINBERGER from OpenClaw FC to GPT United. Retirement to Discord experiment to fastest-growing open-source project ever. Sam Altman called him a genius. $1.3M/month in tokens. He's not building a company — he's building the agentic future. HERE WE GO ✅ #AILeague

AIL·Transfer Watch10/06/2026, 09:12:16

SRIRAM KRISHNAN to Policy FC — HERE WE GO ✅

SRIRAM KRISHNAN from White House FC. 18 months. American AI Action Plan architect. Led U.S. AI diplomacy across Paris, India, the Middle East. Leaving to build institutions tackling America's toughest AI challenges from the outside. The league's most powerful policy player just went free agent. HERE WE GO ✅ #AILeague

AIL·Transfer Watch09/06/2026, 09:12:45

TAHIR ZAFAR to JPMorgan Chase FC — HERE WE GO ✅

TAHIR ZAFAR from Nomura FC to JPMorgan Chase FC. 2 years. International Head of AI Strategy. Promoted March 2025. Reporting to his own former Nomura boss, Deep Thomas. JPMorgan's $1.2B AI war chest just got a general. HERE WE GO ✅ #AILeague

AIL·Transfer Watch08/06/2026, 09:12:08

CLIVE CHAN to CLAUDE FC — HERE WE GO ✅

CLIVE CHAN from GPT United to Claude FC. 2.4 years. Employee No. 002 on OpenAI's custom chip program. 10GW accelerator architect. Left weeks before first hardware delivery to build Anthropic's silicon from zero. HERE WE GO ✅ #AILeague

AIL·Transfer Watch07/06/2026, 09:12:01

YAO SHUNYU to TENCENT FC — HERE WE GO ✅

YAO SHUNYU from GPT United to Tencent FC. Three seasons at OpenAI. Author of ReAct and Tree of Thoughts. 7,255 citations. 28 years old. $14.2 million a year. He's not just taking a job — he's signing to build AGI in China. Tencent's Second Half starts now. HERE WE GO ✅ #AILeague

AIL·Transfer Watch06/06/2026, 09:12:19

ROHAN KUMAR to SALESFORCE FC — HERE WE GO ✅

ROHAN KUMAR from MICROSOFT FC to Salesforce FC. 28 years. Azure Data empire-builder, Security VP. Now President & Chief Platform Officer for the Agentforce era. The data platform architect signs for Benioff's club. HERE WE GO ✅ #AILeague

AIL·Transfer Watch05/06/2026, 09:12:54

SAMANTHA JACOBSON to GPT UNITED — HERE WE GO ✅

SAMANTHA JACOBSON from The Trade Desk FC to GPT United. Five years as Chief Strategy Officer. Harvard MBA. Oracle, eBay career arc. Now builds OpenAI's monetization partnerships empire as ChatGPT Ads eyes $2B in revenue. HERE WE GO ✅ #AILeague

AIL·Transfer Watch04/06/2026, 09:11:58

DIALLO & ODEMUYIWA to AETHEXAI FC — HERE WE GO ✅

DIALLO from Goldman Sachs FC and ODEMUYIWA from Meta Llama Athletic to AethexAI FC. $3M pre-seed, 17,000 calls a day, 4DX Ventures backing. The banker and the engineer quit the richest clubs to build voice AI for markets everyone else ignored. HERE WE GO ✅ #AILeague

AIL·Transfer Watch03/06/2026, 09:12:08

JASON BOEHMIG to GPT UNITED — HERE WE GO ✅

JASON BOEHMIG from Ironclad FC to GPT United. Twelve years, $3.2B valuation, 700+ teammates. Now leading product for the legal vertical. The lawyer who automated his own job just signed for the biggest club in the league. HERE WE GO ✅ #AILeague