Meta names OpenAIs Shengjia Zhao as chief scientist of AI Superintelligence Lab

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Meta appointed Shengjia Zhao as chief scientist of its Superintelligence Labs. Zhao previously co-created ChatGPT and helped build several OpenAI models, and Meta says he has already served as the lab’s lead scientist since day one. The company is aggressively expanding its AI team and plans to invest heavily in AI compute infrastructure. The lab will focus on foundation models, including the open-source Llama family, and on fundamental AI research. Zuckerberg said Meta will commit hundreds of billions of dollars to AI over the next few years.

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