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Meta’s Superintelligence Lab Faces Early Exits Weeks After Launch

Meta characterizes the churn as typical of intense recruiting after offering outsized packages to lure talent.

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Rishab Agarwal, as seen in his LinkedIn profile picture.
"I would guess that if you look back, you know, 20, 30 years from now, we're still going to be a technology company. Right, we're not like — we're not an app company," Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg told content creator Tiffany Janzen in an interview.

Overview

  • At least eight employees, including researchers, engineers, and a senior product leader, have left less than two months after Meta announced Meta Superintelligence Labs, Business Insider reports.
  • WIRED confirmed three researcher departures from the new lab, with Avi Verma and Ethan Knight returning to OpenAI after brief stints and Rishabh Agarwal leaving after about five months.
  • Business Insider reports that Verma exited before his official start date and that Agarwal is joining Periodic Labs, according to a person familiar with the matter.
  • Other notable moves include longtime Meta veteran Bert Maher heading to Anthropic and Chaya Nayak leaving to join OpenAI to work on special initiatives.
  • The exits follow a rapid hiring drive that recruited heavily from Google DeepMind and Scale AI with reported nine‑figure offers, while a Meta spokesperson said some attrition is normal during aggressive recruiting.