Meta Poaches OpenAI Scientist to Help Lead AI Lab

Meta Poaches OpenAI Scientist to Help Lead AI Lab

Yang Song, who previously led the strategic explorations team at OpenAI, is the new ‘research principal’ of Meta Superintelligence Labs.

Meta hires Yang Song from OpenAI

Meta made another big move and brought in another researcher from OpenAI. This time it's Yang Song, an expert who is now the chief researcher at Meta Superintelligence Labs. According to Wired, he started working in the new department headed by Mark Zuckerberg at the beginning of this month. Song was OpenAI's head of strategic research and will now report to Shengjiao Zhao, also a former employee of the company. Zhao has overseen Meta's efforts …

Meta hires OpenAI’s Yang Song for MSL research role

Meta has hired former OpenAI researcher Yang Song as the research principal for its Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL). Mark Zuckerberg recruited Song, who started at the company earlier this month, according to multiple sources. Song previously led the strategic explorations team at OpenAI. In his new position at Meta, he reports directly to Shengjia Zhao. Zhao, another OpenAI alum, has overseen the MSL initiative since July. Who is Yang Song? A…