Mark Zuckerberg notified Meta workers immediately to introduce them to the brand new superintelligence crew. The memo, which WIRED obtained, lists names and bios for the lately employed staff, lots of whom got here from rival AI corporations like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.
Over the previous few months, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been on a recruiting frenzy to poach among the most wanted expertise in AI. The social media big has invested $14.3 billion in Scale AI and employed Alexandr Wang, its CEO, to run Meta’s Superintelligence Labs (MSL). Information of the memo was first reported by Bloomberg.
“We’re going to name our total group Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL). This consists of all of our foundations, product, and FAIR groups, in addition to a brand new lab centered on growing the following era of our fashions,” Zuckerberg wrote within the memo on Monday. Meta declined to remark.
Zuckerberg launched Wang, who would be the firm’s “Chief AI Officer” and chief of MSL, in addition to former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman. Friedman will colead the brand new lab with Wang, with a give attention to AI merchandise and utilized analysis.
Right here’s the checklist of all the brand new hires as seen in Zuckerberg’s memo. It notably doesn’t embody the staff who joined from OpenAI’s Zurich workplace.
- Trapit Bansal: pioneered RL on chain of thought and co-creator of o-series fashions at OpenAl.
- Shuchao Bi: co-creator of GPT-4o voice mode and o4-mini. Beforehand led multimodal post-training at OpenAl.
- Huiwen Chang: co-creator of GPT-4o’s picture era, and beforehand invented MaskIT and Muse text-to-image architectures at Google Analysis.
- Ji Lin: helped construct 03/o4-mini, GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.5, 40-imagegen, and Operator reasoning stack.
- Joel Pobar: inference at Anthropic. Beforehand at Meta for 11 years on HHVM, Hack, Circulation, Redex, efficiency tooling, and machine studying.
- Jack Rae: pre-training tech lead for Gemini and reasoning for Gemini 2.5. Led Gopher and Chinchilla early LLM efforts at DeepMind.
- Hongyu Ren: co-creator of GPT-4o, 4o-mini, o1-mini, o3-mini, 03 and o4-mini. Beforehand main a bunch for post-training at OpenAl.
- Johan Schalkwyk: former Google Fellow, early contributor to Sesame, and technical lead for Maya.
- Pei Solar: post-training, coding, and reasoning for Gemini at Google Deepmind. Beforehand created the final two generations of Waymo’s notion fashions.
- Jiahui Yu: co-creator of 03, 04-mini, GPT-4.1 and GPT-40. Beforehand led the notion crew at OpenAl, and co-led multimodal at Gemini.
- Shengjia Zhao: co-creator of ChatGPT, GPT-4, all mini fashions, 4.1 and 03. Beforehand led artificial information at OpenAl.
