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

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg connected Friday said Shengjia Zhao, the co-creator of OpenAI's ChatGPT, volition service arsenic the main idiosyncratic of Meta Superintelligence Labs.

Zuckerberg has been connected a multibillion-dollar artificial intelligence hiring blitz successful caller weeks, highlighted by a $14 cardinal investment successful Scale AI. In June, Zuckerberg announced a caller organization called Meta Superintelligence Labs that's made up of apical AI researchers and engineers. 

Zhao's sanction was listed among different caller hires successful the June memo, but Zuckerberg said Friday that Zhao co-founded the laboratory and "has been our pb idiosyncratic from time one." Zhao volition enactment straight with Zuckerberg and Alexandr Wang, the erstwhile CEO of Scale AI who is acting arsenic Meta's main AI officer.

"Shengjia has already pioneered respective breakthroughs including a caller scaling paradigm and distinguished himself arsenic a person successful the field," Zuckerberg wrote successful a societal media post. "I'm looking guardant to moving intimately with him to beforehand his technological vision."

In summation to co-creating ChatGPT, Zhao helped physique OpenAI's GPT-4, mini models, 4.1 and o3, and helium antecedently led synthetic information astatine OpenAI, according to Zuckerberg's June memo.

Meta Superintelligence Labs volition beryllium wherever employees enactment connected instauration models specified arsenic the open-source Llama household of AI models, products and Fundamental Artificial Intelligence Research projects.

The societal media institution volition invest "hundreds of billions of dollars" into AI compute infrastructure, Zuckerberg said earlier this month.

"The adjacent fewer years are going to beryllium precise exciting!" Zuckerberg wrote Friday.

WATCH: Meta announces monolithic ‘Prometheus’ & ‘Hyperion’ information halfway plans