Another High-Profile OpenAI Researcher Departs for Meta
10 months ago
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- OpenAI researcher Jason Wei is joining Meta’s new superintelligence lab.
- Wei worked on OpenAI’s o3 and deep research models, specializing in reinforcement learning.
- Another OpenAI researcher, Hyung Won Chung, is also joining Meta.
- Wei and Chung have a close working relationship and previously worked together at Google and OpenAI.
- Meta has been aggressively recruiting top AI talent, offering up to $300 million over four years.
- Meta recently poached a trio of researchers from OpenAI’s Switzerland office.
- OpenAI has been countering Meta’s hiring spree by recruiting engineers from Tesla, xAI, and Meta.
- Wei shared a social media post about reinforcement learning lessons applicable to life and AI development.