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Meta Reportedly Scores Two More High-Profile OpenAI Researchers

UNITED STATES, JUL 16 – Meta has secured AI researchers Jason Wei and Hyung Won Chung from OpenAI, part of its strategy offering up to $300 million to accelerate development of artificial general intelligence.

  • On July 16, 2025, Jason Wei and Hyung Won Chung are leaving OpenAI to join Meta's superalignment team, attributed to reports cited by Wired.
  • Over the past month, Meta has offered lucrative four-year packages, prompting top researchers to depart competing firms, with sources indicating up to $300 million deals.
  • Their internal Slack profiles were deactivated, Wired reported, and OpenAI engineer Cheng Lu called the departures `huge loss.`
  • The hires represent Meta’s latest push under Mark Zuckerberg to close the AGI gap, while reports indicate he personally led recruitment efforts after underperforming AI models.
  • Looking ahead, Mark Zuckerberg said Meta will build datacenters the size of Manhattan to boost compute per researcher, while its shares have climbed this year.
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Wired broke the news in United States on Wednesday, July 16, 2025.
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