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

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

Over nan past fewer months, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been connected a recruiting frenzy to poach immoderate of nan astir sought-after talent 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. News of nan memo was first reported by Bloomberg.

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

Zuckerberg introduced Wang, who will beryllium nan company’s “chief AI officer” and leader of MSL, arsenic good arsenic erstwhile GitHub CEO Nat Friedman. Friedman will colead nan caller laboratory pinch Wang, pinch a attraction connected AI products and applied research.

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

• Trapit Bansal: pioneered RL connected concatenation of thought and cocreator of o-series models astatine OpenAl.
• Shuchao Bi: cocreator of GPT-4o sound mode and o4-mini. Previously led multimodal post-training astatine OpenAl.
• Huiwen Chang: cocreator of GPT-4o's image generation, and antecedently invented MaskIT and Muse text-to-image architectures astatine 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: conclusion astatine Anthropic. Previously astatine Meta for 11 years connected HHVM, Hack, Flow, Redex, capacity tooling, and instrumentality learning.
• Jack Rae: pre-training tech lead for Gemini and reasoning for Gemini 2.5. Led Gopher and Chinchilla early LLM efforts astatine DeepMind.
• Hongyu Ren: cocreator of GPT-4o, 4o-mini, o1-mini, o3-mini, 03 and o4-mini. Previously starring a group for post-training astatine OpenAl.
• Johan Schalkwyk: erstwhile Google Fellow, early contributor to Sesame, and method lead for Maya.
• Pei Sun: post-training, coding, and reasoning for Gemini astatine Google Deepmind. Previously created nan past 2 generations of Waymo's cognition models.
• Jiahui Yu: cocreator of 03, 04-mini, GPT-4.1 and GPT-4o. Previously led nan cognition squad astatine OpenAl, and co-led multimodal astatine Gemini.
• Shengjia Zhao: cocreator of ChatGPT, GPT-4, each mini models, 4.1 and 03. Previously led synthetic information astatine OpenAl.