Meta names OpenAI’s Shengjia Zhao as scientist of AI Superintelligence Lab

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Friday stated Shengjia Zhao, the co-creator of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, will lend because the scientist of Meta Superintelligence Labs.

Zuckerberg has been on a multibillion-dollar synthetic judgement hiring blitz in contemporary weeks, highlighted via a $14 billion funding in Scale AI. In June, Zuckerberg introduced a untouched group referred to as Meta Superintelligence Labs that’s made up of manage AI researchers and engineers. 

Zhao’s title was once indexed amongst alternative untouched hires within the June memo, however Zuckerberg stated Friday that Zhao co-founded the lab and “has been our lead scientist from day one.” Zhao will paintings at once with Zuckerberg and Alexandr Wang, the previous CEO of Scale AI who’s appearing as Meta’s AI officer.

“Shengjia has already pioneered several breakthroughs including a new scaling paradigm and distinguished himself as a leader in the field,” Zuckerberg wrote in a social media post. “I’m looking forward to working closely with him to advance his scientific vision.”

Along with co-creating ChatGPT, Zhao helped manufacture OpenAI’s GPT-4, miniature fashions, 4.1 and o3, and he in the past led artificial information at OpenAI, consistent with Zuckerberg’s June memo.

Meta Superintelligence Labs shall be the place workers paintings on bedrock fashions such because the open-source Llama public of AI fashions, merchandise and Basic Synthetic Understanding Analysis initiatives.

The social media corporate will make investments “hundreds of billions of dollars” into AI compute infrastructure, Zuckerberg stated previous this while.

“The next few years are going to be very exciting!” Zuckerberg wrote Friday.

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