As chief scientist of AI superintelligence unit, Zhao will set a research agenda for MSL under the leadership of Alexandr Wang, the former CEO of Scale AI. Meta has also upped its investment in cloud computing infrastructure, which should help MSL conduct the massive training runs required to create competitive frontier AI models.
“Shengjia co-founded the new lab and has been our lead scientist from day one. Now that our recruiting is going well and our team is coming together, we have decided to formalize his leadership role.”
