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Meta Poaches Seven OpenAI Researchers to Power Superintelligence Effort

Seven former OpenAI researchers have joined Meta’s new superintelligence lab under Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang.

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Overview

  • Meta grew its superintelligence unit to seven former OpenAI researchers by hiring Shengjia Zhao, Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi and Hongyu Ren.
  • Meta invested $14 billion for a 49% stake in Scale AI and tapped its CEO, Alexandr Wang, to head the superintelligence lab.
  • CTO Andrew Bosworth clarified that the reported $100 million compensation packages reflect multi-year equity grants rather than one-time signing bonuses.
  • Lucas Beyer confirmed on X that he and his Zurich colleagues joined Meta without receiving a $100 million bonus and described the figure as fake news.
  • Meta continues to court additional AI talent, including direct outreach to OpenAI cofounders Ilya Sutskever and John Schulman.