Mark Zuckerberg appoints Shengjia Zhao, who co-created OpenAI’s ChatGPT, as chief scientist of Meta’s AI Superintelligence Lab

Facebook co-founder and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced that Shengjia Zhao, co-creator of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, will serve as the chief scientist of Meta Superintelligence Labs. Zhao was one of several strategic hires in Zuckerberg’s multi-billion-dollar hiring spree and investment in artificial intelligence (AI).

Zhao, whose name was initially listed among new hires in a June memo, was revealed by Zuckerberg as a co-founder of Meta Superintelligence Labs and its “lead scientist from day one.”