Meta Says Open AI Hire is Superintelligence Group Chief Scientist

July 26, 2025

Meta Says Open AI Hire is Superintelligence Group Chief Scientist – Bloomberg

A Meta store in Burlingame, California.Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg

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 superintelligence AI group.

Zhao was part of the team behind the original version of OpenAI’s popular chatbot, ChatGPT. He will help lead Meta’s high-profile group, which is aiming to build new AI models that can perform tasks as well as or better than humans. Zhao will report to Alexandr Wang, the former chief executive officer of Scale AI who also joined Meta in June as Chief AI Officer.