Overview

• Mark Zuckerberg announced on Threads that Shengjia Zhao, who co-created ChatGPT and GPT-4 at OpenAI, is now chief scientist of Meta’s Superintelligence Lab.
• In his new role, Zhao will work directly with Zuckerberg and Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang to guide research on artificial general intelligence and enhancements to Meta’s Llama models.
• Meta launched the Superintelligence Lab to centralize its most advanced AI projects and pursue the development of full general intelligence separate from its FAIR division.
• Zhao’s elevation follows a spree of hires from OpenAI and other rivals, secured through nine-figure compensation offers and partnerships with AI startups.
• Meta plans to build multigigawatt AI superclusters and release much of its AGI research as open source, a strategy that has drawn both praise and safety concerns.