Anthropic’s top 10 hires of 2026 as it lures talent from OpenAI, Google, xAI and Microsoft  — TFN

As Big Tech companies and AI labs are battling it out for top talent.

Anthropic has the highest employee retention rate among frontier AI labs, according to SignalFire’s 2025 State of Talent Report.

As of May 2026, the company has lured top talent from major tech companies including OpenAI, xAI, Microsoft, Google, and Apple, including OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy and Microsoft Azure AI president Eric Boyd.

When Meta began luring researchers from frontier AI labs such as Anthropic and OpenAI nine-figure salaries to leave their jobs and join its new superintelligence lab, Dario Amodei didn’t seem to be bothered.

Rather than matching the offers, the founder and CEO of Anthropic said that his team was “not willing to compromise our compensation principles.”