Meta, led by Mark Zuckerberg, has reportedly poached two more top researchers from OpenAI, Jason Wei and Hyung Won Chung, to work on its ambitious new superintelligence laboratory. Wired magazine reported on Tuesday that Wei and Chung's internal Slack accounts at OpenAI had been deactivated, citing multiple people familiar with the matter.
Both researchers joined OpenAI in 2023 after working at Alphabet-owned Google, where they collaborated on thought chaining and deep reasoning research.
At OpenAI, Wei focuses on reinforcement learning, a growing field in artificial intelligence that uses reward-based feedback to train models. Chung contributed to OpenAI’s “01” model, specializing in agents and inference.
It is reported that the two have a close working relationship and often work on overlapping projects.