Jason Wei and Hyung Won Chung, researchers from OpenAI, will reportedly join Meta's Superintelligence Lab. Their internal Slack profiles at OpenAI are deactivated, indicating their departure. Wei focused on o3 and deep research models at OpenAI and has prior experience with chain-of-thought research at Google. Chung, who has a strong research background in reasoning and agents, worked on deep research and the o1 model at OpenAI. CEO Mark Zuckerberg aims to attract top talent with lucrative offers to accelerate the development of artificial general intelligence (AGI).
OpenAI researcher Jason Wei will join Meta's new Superintelligence Lab alongside Hyung Won Chung as part of CEO Mark Zuckerberg's efforts to accelerate progress toward AGI.
Wei's main focus at OpenAI was o3 and deep research models after working on chain-of-thought research at Google, while Chung specialized in deep research and OpenAI's o1 model.
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