New Delhi: Meta has hired a former OpenAI researcher, Shengjia Zhao, to be the chief scientist of its newly established Superintelligence AI Lab, CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed. Zhao, who was one of the authors of the original ChatGPT paper and the co-designer of OpenAI’s first reasoning model, o1, is now taking a critical lead position in the most ambitious AI project of the tech giant ever.

Zhao slipped into a department at Meta in June and will report to the former Scale AI CEO, Alexandr Wang, who is now the Chief AI Officer at Meta. This is an indication of the increasing ambition by Meta to become the leader in the worldwide quest to achieve artificial general intelligence (AGI), with Zhao assuming responsibility for setting research directions at the Superintelligence Lab, independent of Meta, which has an older AI group, FAIR.

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