https://www.wired.com/story/mark-zuckerberg-welcomes-superintelligence-team/ Skip to main content Wired SECURITY POLITICS THE BIG STORY BUSINESS SCIENCE CULTURE REVIEWS Wired Newsletters Security Politics The Big Story Business Science Culture Reviews More The Big InterviewMagazineSteven Levy's Plaintext ColumnEventsWIRED InsiderWIRED Consulting Newsletters Podcasts Video Merch Search Sign In Sign In Kylie Robison Business Jun 30, 2025 2:09 PM Here Is Everyone Mark Zuckerberg Has Hired So Far for Meta's 'Superintelligence' Team After a poaching frenzy that's brought in talent from rival firms like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, Zuckerberg announced a team of nearly two dozen researchers in an internal memo. * * * * Mark Zuckerberg chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc. during the Acquired LIVE event at the Chase Center in San... Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta PlatformsPhotograph: David Paul Morris/ Getty Images Save Save Mark Zuckerberg notified Meta staff today to introduce them to the new superintelligence team. The memo, which WIRED obtained, lists names and bios for the recently hired employees, many of whom came from rival AI firms like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. Over the past few months, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been on a recruiting frenzy to poach some of the most sought-after talent in AI. The social media giant has invested $14.3 billion in Scale AI and hired Alexandr Wang, its CEO, to run Meta's Superintelligence Labs. News of the memo was first reported by Bloomberg. "We're going to call our overall organization Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL). This includes all of our foundations, product, and FAIR teams, as well as a new lab focused on developing the next generation of our models," Zuckerberg wrote in the memo on Monday. Meta declined to comment. Got a Tip? Are you a current or former Meta employee who wants to talk about what's happening? We'd like to hear from you. Using a nonwork phone or computer, contact the reporter securely on Signal at kylie.01. Zuckerberg introduced Wang, who will be the company's "chief AI officer" and leader of MSL, as well as former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman. Friedman will colead the new lab with Wang, with a focus on AI products and applied research. Here's the list of all the new hires as seen in Zuckerberg's memo. It notably doesn't include the employees who joined from OpenAI's Zurich office. * Trapit Bansal: pioneered RL on chain of thought and cocreator of o-series models at OpenAl. * Shuchao Bi: cocreator of GPT-4o voice mode and o4-mini. Previously led multimodal post-training at OpenAl. * Huiwen Chang: cocreator of GPT-4o's image generation, and previously invented MaskIT and Muse text-to-image architectures at Google Research. * Ji Lin: helped build 03/o4-mini, GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.5, 40-imagegen, and Operator reasoning stack. * Joel Pobar: inference at Anthropic. Previously at Meta for 11 years on HHVM, Hack, Flow, Redex, performance tooling, and machine learning. * Jack Rae: pre-training tech lead for Gemini and reasoning for Gemini 2.5. Led Gopher and Chinchilla early LLM efforts at DeepMind. * Hongyu Ren: cocreator of GPT-4o, 4o-mini, o1-mini, o3-mini, 03 and o4-mini. Previously leading a group for post-training at OpenAl. * Johan Schalkwyk: former Google Fellow, early contributor to Sesame, and technical lead for Maya. * Pei Sun: post-training, coding, and reasoning for Gemini at Google Deepmind. Previously created the last two generations of Waymo's perception models. * Jiahui Yu: cocreator of 03, 04-mini, GPT-4.1 and GPT-4o. Previously led the perception team at OpenAl, and co-led multimodal at Gemini. * Shengjia Zhao: cocreator of ChatGPT, GPT-4, all mini models, 4.1 and 03. Previously led synthetic data at OpenAl. You Might Also Like ... * In your inbox: Get Plaintext--Steven Levy's long view on tech * We bought a robot attack dog from Temu * Big Story: Bluesky is plotting a total takeover of the social internet * I joined every class action lawsuit I could find, and so can you * Special Edition: Who even is a criminal now? Kylie Robison is a senior correspondent at WIRED covering the business of artificial intelligence. She was previously a reporter at The Verge, Fortune, and Business Insider. Please send story tips (no PR pitches) to @kylie.01 on Signal. ... 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