Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Friday that former OpenAI researcher Shengjia Zhao will lead research efforts at the company's new AI unit, Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL). Zhao contributed to several of OpenAI's largest breakthroughs, including ChatGPT, GPT-4, and the company's first AI reasoning model, o1. 'I'm excited to share that Shengjia Zhao will be the Chief Scientist of Meta Superintelligence Labs,' Zuckerberg said in a post on Threads Friday. 'Shengjia co-founded the new lab and has been our lead scientist from day one. Now that our recruiting is going well and our team is coming together, we have decided to formalize his leadership role.' We are excited to announce that @shengjia_zhao will be the Chief Scientist of Meta Superintelligence Labs!Shengjia is a brilliant scientist who most recently pioneered a new scaling paradigm in his research. He will lead our scientific direction for our team.Let's go ' pic.twitter.com/D93KQWIvFl Wang, who does not have a research...
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