Written by Echo Wang
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Meta Platform has appointed Chatgpt co-creator Shengjia Zhao as chief scientist in its ultra-smart lab, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Friday.
Zuckerberg wrote in the topic post: “In this role, Shengjia will set the research agenda and scientific direction for our new lab that we work directly with Alex and me.
Zhao is a former research scientist at Openai, co-created the GPT-4, as well as several mini models from OpenAI, including 4.1 and O3.
He is one of several researchers who have moved from Openai to Meta in recent weeks, part of Zuckerberg’s aggressive hiring competitors from competitors to close the Advanced AI gap. Meta has been offering some of the most profitable wage packages and compelling startup deals in Silicon Valley to attract top researchers, a strategy that follows its Llama 4 model underperforms.
Meta recently launched the Super Smart Lab to consolidate its work on Llama models and long-term artificial universal intelligence ambitions. Zhao is the co-founder of the lab, which operates separately from Fair, and Meta is set up in the AI research division led by deep learning pioneer Yann Lecun, according to Threads Post.
Zuckerberg said Meta aims to build “full general intelligence” and release its work as open source, a strategy that attracts both praise and attention from the AI community.
(Reported by Echo Wang on Rod Nickel)
