Jason Wei, who worked on OpenAI’s o3 and deep research models, will be joining Meta’s superintelligence lab. His colleague Hyung Won Chung is also joining Meta, a source tells WIRED.

OpenAI researcher Jason Wei will reportedly join Meta’s new Superintelligence Lab. Another team member, Hyung Won Chung, might also join Meta, as the company works to catch up to rivals in the AGI race.

Meta has hired 2 more high profile AI researchers Jason Wei and Hyung Won Chung, from OpenAI. Both joind OpenAI in 2023 and are said to have collaborated on many of the big OpenAI projects before moving to Meta,

The ChatGPT maker was about to release its first major open-weight model, but a last-minute discovery has put the project on ice, fueling speculation about what went wrong.

As Mark Zuckerberg lures away top research talent to Meta, OpenAI executives say they're ‘recalibrating comp,’ according to an internal memo.

Meta has reportedly hired at least four more researchers from OpenAI. The new hires are Shengjia Zhao, Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, and Hongyu Ren. This follows news that Meta had already recruited OpenAI researcher Trapit Bansal and three others earlier this week.

The researchers argue that CoT monitoring can help researchers detect when models begin to exploit flaws in their training, manipulate data, or fall victim to malicious user manipulation. Any issues that are found can then either be “blocked, or replaced with safer actions, or reviewed in more depth.”

Monitoring AI's train of thought is critical for improving AI safety and catching deception. But we're at risk of losing this ability.

"No, we did not get 100M sign-on, that's fake news," Lucas Beyer, a former researcher at OpenAI, wrote on X.

With facilities that rival nuclear plants in energy use, Meta is scaling its AI ambitions to unprecedented levels.