Overview

• WIRED confirmed at least three researchers have resigned from the new lab, with two returning to OpenAI after less than a month at Meta.
• Business Insider reports at least eight departures across researchers, engineers, and a senior product leader, including generative AI product director Chaya Nayak moving to OpenAI.
• Research scientist Rishabh Agarwal announced this is his last week at Meta after roughly five months, saying he wants to take a different kind of risk.
• Avi Verma and Ethan Knight are heading back to OpenAI, and a person familiar told Business Insider that Verma left before his official start date at Meta.
• The exits follow an aggressive hiring and restructuring push that recruited from DeepMind and Scale AI, included a $14 billion deal for nearly half of Scale, and split AI staff into four groups, according to reporting.