News Summary

Meta has announced the appointment of Shengjia Zhao, a former OpenAI researcher and co-creator of ChatGPT, as the chief scientist for its new AI unit, Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL). Zhao, who contributed to several significant AI advancements including ChatGPT and GPT-4, will lead MSL’s research agenda under the leadership of Alexandr Wang, the former CEO of Scale AI. This new unit aims to develop competitive frontier AI models, leveraging Zhao’s expertise in AI reasoning models. Meta has been on a recruiting spree to bolster this lab, attracting high-level researchers from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and other leading AI organizations. The company is also investing heavily in cloud computing infrastructure to support large-scale AI model training, with plans to utilize its 1-gigawatt cloud computing cluster, Prometheus, by 2026. This strategic move positions Meta to challenge AI giants like OpenAI and Google.