Mark Zuckerberg-led Meta Platforms (META) has appointed former OpenAI researcher Shengjia Zhao as the chief scientist of its Meta Superintelligence Labs, a new division within Meta, led by Zuckerberg’s vision to create artificial general intelligence (AGI) that surpasses human capabilities. Touted for his significant contributions in building ChatGPT, GPT-4 and the company’s first AI reasoning model, o1, Zhao joins a super team at Meta, where Zuckerberg has assembled some of the best minds in AI globally.
Commenting about Zhao’s addition to the team, Zuckerberg said, “I’m excited to share that Shengjia Zhao will be the Chief Scientist of Meta Superintelligence Labs. 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.” Zhao will lead the research initiatives at the unit headed by Alexandr Wang, the founder of Scale, in which Zuckerberg invested an eye-watering $14 billion to acquire a 49% stake.
