Here Is Everyone Mark Zuckerberg Has Hired So Far for Meta's ‘Superintelligence’ Team

Mark Zuckerberg notified Meta unit contiguous to present them to the caller superintelligence team. The memo, which WIRED obtained, lists names and bios for the precocious hired employees, galore of whom came from rival AI firms similar OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.

Over the past fewer months, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been connected a recruiting frenzy to poach immoderate of the astir sought aft endowment successful AI. The societal media elephantine has invested $14.3 cardinal successful Scale AI and hired Alexandr Wang, its CEO, to run Meta’s Superintelligence Labs (MSL). News of the memo was first reported by Bloomberg.

“We’re going to telephone our wide enactment Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL). This includes each of our foundations, product, and FAIR teams, arsenic good arsenic a caller laboratory focused connected processing the adjacent procreation of our models,” Zuckerberg wrote successful the memo connected Monday. Meta declined to comment.

Zuckerberg introduced Wang, who volition beryllium the company’s “Chief AI Officer” and person of MSL, arsenic good arsenic erstwhile GitHub CEO Nat Friedman. Friedman volition colead the caller laboratory with Wang, with a absorption connected AI products and applied research.

Here’s the database of each the caller hires arsenic seen successful Zuckerberg's memo. It notably doesn’t see the employees who joined from OpenAI’s Zurich office.

• Trapit Bansal: pioneered RL connected concatenation of thought and co-creator of o-series models astatine OpenAl.
• Shuchao Bi: co-creator of GPT-4o dependable mode and o4-mini. Previously led multimodal post-training astatine OpenAl.
• Huiwen Chang: co-creator of GPT-4o's representation generation, and antecedently invented MaskIT and Muse text-to-image architectures astatine Google Research.
• Ji Lin: helped physique 03/o4-mini, GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.5, 40-imagegen, and Operator reasoning stack.
• Joel Pobar: inference astatine Anthropic. Previously astatine Meta for 11 years connected HHVM, Hack, Flow, Redex, show tooling, and instrumentality learning.
• Jack Rae: pre-training tech pb for Gemini and reasoning for Gemini 2.5. Led Gopher and Chinchilla aboriginal LLM efforts astatine DeepMind.
• Hongyu Ren: co-creator of GPT-4o, 4o-mini, o1-mini, o3-mini, 03 and o4-mini. Previously starring a radical for post-training astatine OpenAl.
• Johan Schalkwyk: erstwhile Google Fellow, aboriginal contributor to Sesame, and method pb for Maya.
• Pei Sun: post-training, coding, and reasoning for Gemini astatine Google Deepmind. Previously created the past 2 generations of Waymo's cognition models.
• Jiahui Yu: co-creator of 03, 04-mini, GPT-4.1 and GPT-40. Previously led the cognition squad astatine OpenAl, and co-led multimodal astatine Gemini.
• Shengjia Zhao: co-creator of ChatGPT, GPT-4, each mini models, 4.1 and 03. Previously led synthetic information astatine OpenAl.