Meta announces its Superintelligence Labs Chief Scientist: former OpenAI GPT-4 co-creator Shengjia Zhao

Mark Zuckerberg sits beside former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang and new Superintelligence Labs Chief Scientist Shengjia Zhao. Credit: Mark Zuckerberg/Meta

Meta has appointed Shengjia Zhao, a former OpenAI researcher and co‑creator of GPT‑4, as the Chief Scientist of its newly created Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL).

The announcement was made Friday by Mark Zuckerberg on Threads, noting Zhao will lead the lab’s scientific agenda alongside him and Alexandr Wang, the former CEO of Scale AI who Meta recently brought onboard as Chief AI Officer.

“I am very excited to take up the role of chief scientist for meta super-intelligence labs. Looking forward to building asi [artificial superintelligence] and aligning it to empower people with the amazing team here. Let’s build!” Zhao wrote in ...