Overview

• Meta has formalized its Superintelligence Labs under Mark Zuckerberg’s direction and appointed Scale AI co-founder Alexandr Wang as its leader.
• The company recruited four senior OpenAI researchers—Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, Shengjia Zhao and Hongyu Ren—by offering compensation packages reportedly totalling up to $200 million per person.
• Earlier this month Meta invested $14 billion in Scale AI to secure strategic partnerships and bolster its advanced AI research capabilities.
• OpenAI’s chief research officer, Mark Chen, circulated retention memos and personal outreach plans to counter the high-value offers from Meta.
• For the first time, OpenAI has mandated a weeklong operational pause to address employee burnout and discourage further talent departures.