Compiled by: Chen Junda
After Meta's consecutive reports of talent poaching and OpenAI's attempts to retain employees through increased vacation, salary raises, and discussions, the Silicon Valley AI talent war has seen another significant development.
According to Zhidongxi on July 1st, today, Meta's founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg officially announced the establishment ofMeta's Superintelligence Laboratory in an internal memo.
Meta has recruited numerous top AI talents from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and other companies. Zuckerberg mentioned 11 people in his memo,of which 7 are Chinese, and 7 are from OpenAI. OpenAI's Chief Research Officer Mark Chen's claim of being "robbed" does not seem to be an exaggeration.
These Chinese AI researchers share many commonalities, havingcompleted their undergraduate education in China at top-tier universities including Tsinghua, Peking University, University of Science and Technology of China, and Zhejiang University. The list includes Shu Chao, Huiwen Chang, Ji Lin, Hongyu Ren, Jiahui Yu, Shengjia Zhao and others, who were key model and team leaders at OpenAI.
Scale AI's former CEO Alexandr Wang and GitHub's former CEO Nat Friedman will lead this department. Notably, Friedman was a co-founder at an AI startup Safe Superintelligence, created by OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever.
Zuckerberg stated that the Superintelligence department will integrate multiple Meta teams, responsible for open-source Llama model development, product applications, and foundational AI research projects. Meta is actively advancing the development of Llama 4.1 and 4.2.
