With Zhao’s appointment, Meta now fields two chief AI scientists, Yann LeCun at FAIR and Shengjia Zhao at MSL, alongside Wang’s operational leadership. As Meta accelerates its open‑source AGI strategy, the newly fortified Superintelligence Lab aims to close the gap on OpenAI and Google, positioning the social‑media titan for a more , Subscribe Now Meta has appointed Shengjia Zhao, a former OpenAI researcher and co‑creator of GPT‑4, as the Chief Scientist of its newly created Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL)., Meta Names ChatGPT Co-Creator Shengjia Zhao as Chief Scientist of Superintelligence Lab Meta's Superintelligence Lab was set up to consolidate work on its Llama models and long‑term artificial general intelligence ambitions., Meta Platforms has appointed Shengjia Zhao, a former OpenAI researcher and co-author of the original ChatGPT paper, as the Chief Scientist of its new Superintelligence AI group, the company confirmed Friday (July 25). Zhao, who joined Meta in June, was a key contributor to OpenAI’s early breakthroughs, including the development of ChatGPT and the company’s first reasoning model, known as , Mark Zuckerberg has named Shengjia Zhao, an artificial intelligence researcher who joined Meta Platforms Inc. from OpenAI in June, as the chief scientist for the social media company’s new , .