Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Friday that former OpenAI researcher Shengjia Zhao will lead research efforts at the company’s new AI unit, Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL). Zhao contributed to several of OpenAI’s largest breakthroughs, including ChatGPT, GPT-4, and the company’s first AI reasoning model, o1.

Meta names former OpenAI researcher Shengjia Zhao as Chief Scientist of its new AI unit, Meta Superintelligence Labs, focused on frontier AI model development.

Mark Zuckerberg has named Shengjia Zhao, an artificial intelligence researcher who joined Meta Platforms Inc from OpenAI in June, as the chief scientist for the social media company’s new superintelligence AI group.