Meta Names ChatGPT Co-Creator Shengjia Zhao As Chief Scientist Of Superintelligence Lab

Meta Platforms has appointed Shengjia Zhao, co-creator of ChatGPT, as chief scientist of its Superintelligence Lab, CEO Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged on Friday, as the company accelerates its push into superior AI.

“On this operate, Shengjia will set the evaluation agenda and scientific course for our new lab working instantly with me and Alex,” Zuckerberg wrote in a Threads publish, referring to Meta’s Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang, who Zuckerberg employed from startup Scale AI when Meta took an unlimited stake in it.

Zhao, a former evaluation scientist at OpenAI, co-created ChatGPT, GPT-4 and a number of other different of OpenAI’s mini fashions, along with 4.1 and o3.

He’s amongst quite a few researchers who’ve moved from OpenAI to Meta in present weeks, part of a broader experience arms race as Zuckerberg aggressively hires from rivals to close the outlet in superior AI. Meta has been offering a couple of of Silicon Valley’s most worthwhile pay packages and hanging startup provides to attract excessive researchers, a technique that follows the underwhelming effectivity of its Llama 4 model.

Meta launched the Superintelligence Lab recently to consolidate work on its Llama fashions and prolonged‑time interval artificial regular intelligence ambitions. Zhao is a co-founder of the lab, in response to the Threads publish, which operates individually from FAIR, Meta’s established AI evaluation division led by deep learning pioneer Yann LeCun.

Zuckerberg has acknowledged Meta targets to assemble “full regular intelligence” and launch its work as open provide — a technique that has drawn every reward and concern all through the AI group.

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