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Meta has secured the services of Yang Song, a high-ranking researcher from OpenAI, to take on the role of research principal at Meta Superintelligence Labs. This move is part of a broader hiring initiative by Mark Zuckerberg, who has recently brought in top AI talent from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic. Yang Song, known for his work on the development of OpenAI\u2019s DALL-E 2 image generation model, will report to Shengjia Zhao, another OpenAI alum and the current chief scientist of Meta’s AI lab. Song’s recruitment underscores Meta\u2019s commitment to bolstering its AI capabilities amid a competitive landscape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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