Openai loses four major researchers at Meta

Four researchers Openai They leave the company to go to the definition, and two sources confirm the wire.

Shangjia Zhao, Shuchu B, Jahwa Yu, and Hongio Ren, joined Meta. Openai Slack. I mentioned the information for the first time about leaving.

It is the latest in a series of aggressive moves by Mark Zuckerberg, who is racing to catch up with Openai, HotHROPIC and Google in building artificial general intelligence. Earlier this month, CEO of Openai Sam Altman said that Meta offers “giant offers” to Openai employees with “$ 100 million signature rewards”. He added, “None of the best people decided to take them on that.” A source in Openai confirmed the offers.

The sources say that Hongyu Ren was progressing in Openai after training for O3 and O4 Mini models, along with the open source model this summer. Post -training is the process of improving a model after training in a preliminary data set.

Shengjia Zhao is highly skilled in deep learning research, according to another source. Join Openai in the summer of 2022, and helped build the GPT-4 to start operating.

Jiahui Yu did a work period in Google DeepMind before joining Openai in late 2023. SHUCAO BI was the director of multimedia Openai models.

The departure comes from OpenAi shortly after the company lost three researchers from its Zurich office, Wall Street Journal mentioned.

Openai and Meta did not respond immediately to request a comment.

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