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Meta Appoints Former OpenAI Researcher as Chief Scientist of New AI Superintelligence Unit

Meta has named Shengjia Zhao, a former OpenAI researcher who contributed to ChatGPT, GPT-4, and the o1 reasoning model, as Chief Scientist of Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL). The company has been aggressively recruitin...

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Meta Considers Abandoning Open-Source AI Strategy for Closed Superintelligence Models

Meta's new Superintelligence Lab is reportedly discussing a pivot away from open-source AI models like the delayed Behemoth model toward closed-source development. This potential shift would mark a major philosophical ch...

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Meta Attempts to Acquire Ilya Sutskever's AI Startup, Pivots to Hiring Key Executives

Meta unsuccessfully attempted to acquire Safe Superintelligence, the $32 billion AI startup co-founded by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever. The company is now in talks to hire the startup's CEO Daniel Gross a...

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