OpenAI researcher Jason Wei joins Meta’s new team superintelligence labAccording to sources with knowledge of the issue,
Wei was involved in the development of OpenAI’s deep and o3 research models. personal website. After a brief stint working at Google on chain-of-thought researchWei became the first employee of OpenAI. Wei joined OpenAI as a software engineer. a self-described “diehard” You can also find out more about the following: reinforcement learningA method for training an AI model or improving it with either positive or negative feedback. It’s become a promising area of AI research—one that several of the researchers Meta has hired for its superintelligence team specialize in.
A source told WIRED another OpenAI researcher will be joining Meta, Hyung Won Chung. Numerous sources confirm the deactivation of both Wei and Chung’s OpenAI Slack profiles. OpenAI Meta Wei Chung and Wei did not respond immediately to WIRED requests for comments.
Chung worked Wei is working on the same OpenAI project as Wei. This includes deep research, OpenAI’s O1 model and OpenAI’s Deep Learning Model. Chung’s personal website. According to the website, his primary research interests are reasoning and agents. Chung worked with Wei also at Google and both of them joined OpenAI in the same year, as per their LinkedIn profile.
WIRED has heard from multiple sources that Wei Chung enjoy a good working relationship. Meta recruited groups of researchers who had experience in working together to its superintelligence lab. a trio from OpenAI’s Switzerland office Google acquired the ChatGPT creator.
Meta has gone on a hunting spree for the past few months. offering up to $300 million Top AI talent for over 4 years. Wired reported Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s CEO, sent a memo last month to the staff outlining a new plan for AI initiatives. The memo included a new list of staffers who were recruited by OpenAI for its superintelligence team.
OpenAI is fighting to keep up with the hiring frenzy. Last week, Wired published an article on the subject. reported OpenAI has recruited four top-ranking engineers at Tesla, xAI and Meta.
Wei posted a social media post Tuesday reflecting on his view of what he termed “an important lesson” He learned reinforcement learning “about how to live my own life.”
Wei writes that imitation in life (and building AI models) is good, and it’s important to start small. But “beating the teacher requires walking your own path and taking risks and rewards from the environment.”
