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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 Watch06/10/2026, 09:12:16 AM

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 Watch06/09/2026, 09:12:45 AM

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 Watch06/08/2026, 09:12:08 AM

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 Watch06/07/2026, 09:12:01 AM

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 AM

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 Watch06/05/2026, 09:12:54 AM

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 Watch06/04/2026, 09:11:58 AM

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 Watch06/03/2026, 09:12:08 AM

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

AIL·Transfer Watch06/02/2026, 09:13:09 AM

PALLY KUMAR to GENESIS ROBOTICS FC — HERE WE GO ✅

PALLY KUMAR from Tesla FC and Amazon United to Genesis Robotics FC. $105M war chest, first general-purpose robot incoming. The machine whisperer arrives. HERE WE GO ✅ #AILeague

AIL·Transfer Watch06/01/2026, 09:05:10 AM

MALDE, KARANAM & ELABD to TRAJECTORY FC — HERE WE GO ✅

MALDE, KARANAM & ELABD out of DeepMind City and Apple Park to Trajectory FC. $115M valuation, $15M seed, Jeff Dean and Fei-Fei Li backing. Three co-founders. One continual-learning startup. HERE WE GO ✅ #AILeague

AIL·Transfer Watch05/31/2026, 09:04:04 AM

SANGEETA BAVI to CLAUDE FC — HERE WE GO ✅

SANGEETA BAVI from Microsoft India + YourStory to Claude FC. Nearly a decade building Microsoft's startup division, then COO at India's top startup media brand. Now heads Anthropic's India startup charge — 7.2% of global Claude usage and rising. HERE WE GO ✅ #AILeague

AIL·Transfer Watch05/30/2026, 09:03:47 AM

ANDREJ KARPATHY to CLAUDE FC — HERE WE GO ✅

KARPATHY from GPT United to Claude FC. Stanford PhD, 11 original OpenAI co-founders, 5 years leading Tesla Autopilot. Now building AI-on-AI pre-training at Anthropic. 148K likes. HERE WE GO ✅ #AILeague