Mark Zuckerberg has Packed a high -ranking OpenAi researcher to be the research director of Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL). Yang Song, who previously managed the Openai strategic exploration team, now reports to Shengjia Zhao, another OpenAi former who has supervised the IA buzzy effort since July, according to several sources. It started earlier this month.
This decision comes after Zuckerberg made a job blitz earlier this summer, bringing at least 11 best researchers from Openai, Google and Anthropic.
Song had been in Openai since 2022. His research there has focused on improving the capacity of models to process complex and complex data sets through different methods. Although he was still a graduate student at the University of Stanford, he developed a revolutionary technique which helped to clarify the development of the Dall-E 2 of Openai images model. He and Zhao attended Tsinghua University in Beijing as undergraduate students and worked under the same advisor, Stefano Ermon, while pursuing doctorates in Stanford.
In a memo on the scale of the personnel sent this summer, Zuckerberg praised Zhao’s impressive CV as a co-creator of Chatgpt, GPT-4, all the mini-models, 4.1 and O3 in Openai, but he did not specify the new role of Zhao at Meta. In July, Zuckerberg wrote in a thread article that, even if Zhao had “co -founded the laboratory” and “was our main scientist of the first day”, Meta had decided to “formalize his role of leadership” as chief scientist of the laboratory. This decision was made after Zhao threatened to return to Openai, even going so far as to sign job documents, Wired reported.
A small number of researchers have left Meta Superintelligence Labs since the announcement of the initiative in June for the first time. Two staff members returned to Openai, Wired previously reported. One of these researchers went through integration but never presented itself for their first day of work at Meta.
Another AI researcher Aurko Roy also left Meta in July, Wired learned. He had worked at the technology giant for only five months, according to his personal website, who also says that he is now working on Microsoft AI. Roy did not immediately respond to a request for wired comments. Yang Song, Openai and Meta did not immediately respond to a request for a comment from Wired.
Song joins a field already crowded with renowned AI talent in the Meta more and more complicated AI division. When Zhao was hired in July, some have hypothesized that he had replaced Yann Lecun, the longtime chief scientist of Meta AI. In a LinkedIn article, Lecun said he remained in chief IA scientists for Facebook IA Research (Fair), the company’s fundamental IA research laboratory.
