Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg makes a keynote speech in the course of the Meta Join annual occasion, on the firm’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, on Sept. 25, 2024.
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Friday mentioned Shengjia Zhao, the co-creator of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, will function the chief scientist of Meta Superintelligence Labs.
Zuckerberg has been on a multibillion-dollar synthetic intelligence hiring blitz in latest weeks, highlighted by a $14 billion funding in Scale AI. In June, Zuckerberg introduced a brand new group referred to as Meta Superintelligence Labs that is made up of high AI researchers and engineers.
Zhao’s identify was listed amongst different new hires within the June memo, however Zuckerberg mentioned Friday that Zhao co-founded the lab and “has been our lead scientist from day one.” Zhao will work instantly with Zuckerberg and Alexandr Wang, the previous CEO of Scale AI who’s performing as Meta’s chief AI officer.
“Shengjia has already pioneered a number of breakthroughs together with a brand new scaling paradigm and distinguished himself as a frontrunner within the discipline,” Zuckerberg wrote in a social media submit. “I am wanting ahead to working carefully with him to advance his scientific imaginative and prescient.”
Along with co-creating ChatGPT, Zhao helped construct OpenAI’s GPT-4, mini fashions, 4.1 and o3, and he beforehand led artificial information at OpenAI, in line with Zuckerberg’s June memo.
Meta Superintelligence Labs can be the place workers work on basis fashions such because the open-source Llama household of AI fashions, merchandise and Basic Synthetic Intelligence Analysis initiatives.
The social media firm will make investments “lots of of billions of {dollars}” into AI compute infrastructure, Zuckerberg mentioned earlier this month.
“The following few years are going to be very thrilling!” Zuckerberg wrote Friday.
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