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Meta Again Invites OpenAI Researchers To Join Its Superintelligence Lab

Two OpenAI researchers, Jason Wei and Hyung Won Chung, will reportedly join Meta's Superintelligence Lab artificial intelligence (AI) technology development team. 

According to a Wired report citing two sources familiar with the hirings, reported by Tech Crunch on Thursday, their departure from OpenAI further strengthens Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's efforts to catch up in the field of AGI (Artificial General Intelligence). 

Wired's sources stated that the two researchers' internal Slack profiles at OpenAI have been deactivated, indicating they are no longer active at the ChatGPT developer. 

Jason Wei is known as the principal researcher for the o3 project and deep research models at OpenAI. He previously worked at Google and contributed significantly to the development of the chain-of-thought prompting technique. 

Meanwhile, Hyung Won Chung also has a deep research background at OpenAI, including his involvement in the development of the o1 model. Chung's research focuses on developing reasoning capabilities and intelligent agent systems. Wei and Chung are known to have had a close working relationship since their time at Google. 

In recent months, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been aggressively recruiting top AI talent, reportedly offering compensation packages of up to US$100 million to attract top researchers to his company. 

Meta also previously recruited Trapit Bansal, a leading researcher from OpenAI, to develop the latest AI reasoning models. 

According to a report by The Wall Street Journal, in addition to Bansal, three other former OpenAI researchers—Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai—have also joined Meta's AI superintelligence team in recent weeks. 

They will work alongside other big names like Jack Rae, a former Google DeepMind researcher, and Johan Schalkwyk, a former machine learning team leader at startup Sesame. 

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