Meta Reportedly Scores Two More High-profile Openai Researchers

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OpenAI interrogator Jason Wei will subordinate Meta’s caller Superintelligence Lab, reports Wired, citing 2 sources acquainted pinch nan matter. Another squad member, Hyung Won Chung, whitethorn besides subordinate Meta. 

Sources told Wired that some nan researchers’ soul OpenAI Slack profiles are presently deactivated. 

Wei and Chung would beryllium Meta’s latest drawback arsenic CEO Mark Zuckerberg useful to drawback up successful nan title to AGI, aliases superintelligence, by luring apical tech talent pinch astounding compensation packages.

Wei’s main attraction astatine OpenAI was o3 and heavy investigation models. He came to nan ChatGPT-maker aft moving connected chain-of-thought research astatine Google. Chung, who overlapped pinch Wei astatine Google, worked connected heavy investigation and OpenAI’s o1 model. His investigation is focused connected reasoning and agents. 

Sources told Wired that nan 2 had a adjacent moving relationship, which could beryllium why Zuckerberg scooped them some up. Like World War II drafters successful nan UK, he seems to person a penchant for bringing connected groups who’ve worked together. 

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