META APPOINTS SHENGJIA ZHAO AS CHIEF SCIENTIST OF NEW SUPERINTELLIGENCE LAB

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Shengjia Zhao, a former lead scientist at OpenAI, has joined Meta as chief scientist at the company's newly established Superintelligence Lab. Zhao, a co-creator of ChatGPT and GPT-4, will be tasked with setting the research agenda and scientific direction for the new lab. He will work directly with Mark Zuckerberg and Alexandr Wang to steer Meta's research efforts towards artificial general intelligence. Industry observers see Zhao's hiring as a significant move in the escalating AI talent war.