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Reuters
2 days ago
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- Reuters
Zuckerberg's Meta Superintelligence Labs poaches top AI talent in Silicon Valley
July 8 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms (META.O), opens new tab is racing to secure top artificial intelligence talent for its newly created Superintelligence Labs to better compete with rivals including OpenAI, Google and Anthropic. The Facebook and Instagram parent's aggressive hiring for its unified AI initiative has intensified the talent war in Silicon Valley. It also follows senior staff departures and a poor reception for Meta's latest open-source Llama 4 model, challenges that have allowed Google, OpenAI and China's DeepSeek to seize momentum in the AI race. In June, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Meta had offered his employees bonuses of $100 million to recruit them. Here is a list of the new recruits at Meta: ALEXANDR WANG Meta hired the former Scale AI CEO to head the new division as chief AI officer, according to a memo reviewed by Reuters. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has also hired some Scale AI staff after the company invested $14.3 billion in the data-labeling startup. The former GitHub CEO will co-lead the unit with Wang and head the company's work on AI products and applied research. Friedman co-founded venture capital firm NFDG, which has backed high-profile startups including Safe Superintelligence, Perplexity and Figma. The former CEO of AI startup Safe Superintelligence has joined the team to lead the AI products division, sources told Reuters. Gross had co-founded NFDG. Pang was the head of Apple's Foundation Models team and responsible for advanced AI features, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. He joined Meta with a multi-million-dollar compensation package, according to Bloomberg News. The AI researcher joined OpenAI in 2022, where he played a key role in developing the "o-series" reasoning models. Bansal has directly worked with OpenAI and Safe Superintelligence co-founder Ilya Sutskever, according to his LinkedIn page. Bi joined OpenAI in 2024 after working for over 10 years at YouTube and Google. He co-founded YouTube Shorts and built multi-stage deep learning models to optimize Google Ads performance, according to his LinkedIn page. Chang joined OpenAI in 2023 after working as a Research Scientist at Google for more than four years, according to her LinkedIn page. She is a co-creator of GPT-4o, OpenAI's multimodal model, and invented MaskGIT and Muse text-to-image architectures at Google Research. Lin joined OpenAI in 2023, where he contributed to building advanced multimodal reasoning systems and Operator reasoning stack, OpenAI's computer-using agent architecture. Pobar joined Anthropic in 2023, where he oversaw infrastructure and inference pipelines for large language models. He also worked at Meta for about 11 years. Rae was a pre‑training technical lead for Google DeepMind's Gemini and spearheaded the reasoning development for Gemini 2.5. Ren joined OpenAI in 2023, co-creating multiple o‑series and GPT‑4o models. He helped lead post-training efforts for the ChatGPT maker's most advanced reasoning models. Schalkwyk was a former Google Fellow and oversaw major research and product integrations in speech AI. He has joined Meta Superintelligence Labs as a Voice Lead, according to his LinkedIn page. Sun worked on post-training, coding and reasoning for Gemini at Google DeepMind. He previously created the last two generations of self-driving unit Waymo's perception models. Yu joined OpenAI in 2023. Previously, he led the perception team at the AI startup. He co-created o3, o4-mini, GPT-4.1 and GPT-4o models. Zhao worked as a research scientist at OpenAI. He co-created ChatGPT, GPT-4, all mini models, 4.1 and o3.
Yahoo
2 days ago
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- Yahoo
Factbox-Zuckerberg's Meta Superintelligence Labs poaches top AI talent in Silicon Valley
(Reuters) -Meta Platforms is racing to secure top artificial intelligence talent for its newly created Superintelligence Labs to better compete with rivals including OpenAI, Google and Anthropic. The Facebook and Instagram parent's aggressive hiring for its unified AI initiative has intensified the talent war in Silicon Valley. It also follows senior staff departures and a poor reception for Meta's latest open-source Llama 4 model, challenges that have allowed Google, OpenAI and China's DeepSeek to seize momentum in the AI race. In June, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Meta had offered his employees bonuses of $100 million to recruit them. Here is a list of the new recruits at Meta: ALEXANDR WANG Meta hired the former Scale AI CEO to head the new division as chief AI officer, according to a memo reviewed by Reuters. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has also hired some Scale AI staff after the company invested $14.3 billion in the data-labeling startup. NAT FRIEDMAN The former GitHub CEO will co-lead the unit with Wang and head the company's work on AI products and applied research. Friedman co-founded venture capital firm NFDG, which has backed high-profile startups including Safe Superintelligence, Perplexity and Figma. DANIEL GROSS The former CEO of AI startup Safe Superintelligence has joined the team to lead the AI products division, sources told Reuters. Gross had co-founded NFDG. RUOMING PANG Pang was the head of Apple's Foundation Models team and responsible for advanced AI features, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. He joined Meta with a multi-million-dollar compensation package, according to Bloomberg News. TRAPIT BANSAL The AI researcher joined OpenAI in 2022, where he played a key role in developing the "o-series" reasoning models. Bansal has directly worked with OpenAI and Safe Superintelligence co-founder Ilya Sutskever, according to his LinkedIn page. SHUCHAO BI Bi joined OpenAI in 2024 after working for over 10 years at YouTube and Google. He co-founded YouTube Shorts and built multi-stage deep learning models to optimize Google Ads performance, according to his LinkedIn page. HUIWEN CHANG Chang joined OpenAI in 2023 after working as a Research Scientist at Google for more than four years, according to her LinkedIn page. She is a co-creator of GPT-4o, OpenAI's multimodal model, and invented MaskGIT and Muse text-to-image architectures at Google Research. JI LIN Lin joined OpenAI in 2023, where he contributed to building advanced multimodal reasoning systems and Operator reasoning stack, OpenAI's computer-using agent architecture. JOEL POBAR Pobar joined Anthropic in 2023, where he oversaw infrastructure and inference pipelines for large language models. He also worked at Meta for about 11 years. JACK RAE Rae was a pre‑training technical lead for Google DeepMind's Gemini and spearheaded the reasoning development for Gemini 2.5. HONGYU REN Ren joined OpenAI in 2023, co-creating multiple o‑series and GPT‑4o models. He helped lead post-training efforts for the ChatGPT maker's most advanced reasoning models. JOHAN SCHALKWYK Schalkwyk was a former Google Fellow and oversaw major research and product integrations in speech AI. He has joined Meta Superintelligence Labs as a Voice Lead, according to his LinkedIn page. PEI SUN Sun worked on post-training, coding and reasoning for Gemini at Google DeepMind. He previously created the last two generations of self-driving unit Waymo's perception models. JIAHUI YU Yu joined OpenAI in 2023. Previously, he led the perception team at the AI startup. He co-created o3, o4-mini, GPT-4.1 and GPT-4o models. SHENGJIA ZHAO Zhao worked as a research scientist at OpenAI. He co-created ChatGPT, GPT-4, all mini models, 4.1 and o3.
Time of India
02-07-2025
- Business
- Time of India
Read Mark Zuckerberg's full memo to employees on Meta Superintelligence Labs: We are going to …
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has officially announced the formation of Meta Superintelligence Labs . The new division aims to develop 'personal superintelligence for everyone' and will be led by former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang as its Chief AI Officer. This move follows Meta's recent $14.3 billion acquisition of Wang's data-labeling startup. Wang will co-lead MSL alongside former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman, who will focus on AI products and applied research. In a memo sent to employees, Zuckerberg also introduced the full team of 11 members who the company has hired from competitors like Google, OpenAI and Anthropic. Read Meta CEO's full memo to his employees: As the pace of AI progress accelerates, developing superintelligence is coming into sight. I believe this will be the beginning of a new era for humanity, and I am fully committed to doing what it takes for Meta to lead the way. Today I want to share some details about how we're organizing our AI efforts to build towards our vision: personal superintelligence for everyone. We're going to call our overall organization Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL). This includes all of our foundations, product, and FAIR teams, as well as a new lab focused on developing the next generation of our models. Alexandr Wang has joined Meta to serve as our Chief AI Officer and lead MSL. Alex and I have worked together for several years, and I consider him to be the most impressive founder of his generation. He has a clear sense of the historic importance of superintelligence, and as co-founder and CEO he built ScaleAI into a fast-growing company involved in the development of almost all leading models across the industry. Nat Friedman has also joined Meta to partner with Alex to lead MSL, heading our work on AI products and applied research. Nat will work with Connor to define his role going forward. He ran GitHub at Microsoft, and most recently has run one of the leading AI investment firms. Nat has served on our Meta Advisory Group for the last year, so he already has a good sense of our roadmap and what we need to do. We also have several strong new team members joining today or who have joined in the past few weeks that I'm excited to share as well: Trapit Bansal -- pioneered RL on chain of thought and co-creator of o-series models at OpenAI. Shuchao Bi -- co-creator of GPT-4o voice mode and o4-mini. Previously led multimodal post-training at OpenAI. Huiwen Chang -- co-creator of GPT-4o's image generation, and previously invented MaskGIT and Muse text-to-image architectures at Google Research Ji Lin -- helped build o3/o4-mini, GPT-4o, GPT-4 .1, GPT-4.5, 4o-imagegen, and Operator reasoning stack. Joel Pobar -- inference at Anthropic. Previously at Meta for 11 years on HHVM, Hack, Flow, Redex, performance tooling, and machine learning. 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, o3 and o4-mini. Previously leading a group for post-training at OpenAI. Johan Schalkwyk -- former Google Fellow, early contributor to Sesame, and technical lead for Maya. Pei Sun -- post-training, coding, and reasoning for Gemini at Google Deepmind. Previously created the last two generations of Waymo's perception models. Jiahui Yu -- co-creator of o3, o4-mini, GPT-4.1 and GPT-4o. Previously led the perception team at OpenAI, and co-led multimodal at Gemini. Shengjia Zhao -- co-creator of ChatGPT, GPT-4, all mini models, 4.1 and o3. Previously led synthetic data at OpenAI. I'm excited about the progress we have planned for Llama 4.1 and 4.2. These models power Meta AI, which is used by more than 1 billion monthly actives across our apps and an increasing number of agents across Meta that help improve our products and technology. We're committed to continuing to build out these models. In parallel, we're going to start research on our next generation of models to get to the frontier in the next year or so. I've spent the past few months meeting top folks across Meta, other AI labs, and promising startups to put together the founding group for this small talent-dense effort. We're still forming this group and we'll ask several people across the AI org to join this lab as well. Meta is uniquely positioned to deliver superintelligence to the world. We have a strong business that supports building out significantly more compute than smaller labs. We have deeper experience building and growing products that reach billions of people. We are pioneering and leading the AI glasses and wearables category that is growing very quickly. And our company structure allows us to move with vastly greater conviction and boldness. I'm optimistic that this new influx of talent and parallel approach to model development will set us up to deliver on the promise of personal superintelligence for everyone. We have even more great people at all levels joining this effort in the coming weeks, so stay tuned. I'm excited to dive in and get to work. AI Masterclass for Students. Upskill Young Ones Today!– Join Now
