Everyone Mark Zuckerberg has hired so far for Meta's 'superintelligence' team

• Trapit Bansal: pioneered RL on chain of thought and co-creator of o-series models at OpenAl.

• Shuchao Bi: co-creator of GPT-4o voice mode and o4-mini. Previously led multimodal post-training at OpenAl.

• Huiwen Chang: co-creator of GPT-4o's image generation, and previously invented MaskIT and Muse text-to-image architectures at Google Research.

• Ji Lin: helped build o3/o4-mini, GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.5, 4o-imagegen, and Operator reasoning stack.

• Joel Pobar: inference at Anthropic. Previously at Meta for 11 years on HHVM, Hack, Flow, Redex, performance tooling, and machine learning.

• Jack Rae: pre-training tech lead for Gemini and reasoning for Gemini 2.5. Led Gopher and Chinchilla early LLM efforts at DeepMind.

• Hongyu Ren: co-creator of GPT-4o, 4o-mini, o1-mini, o3-mini, o3 and o4-mini. Previously leading a group for post-training at OpenAl.

• Johan Schalkwyk: former Google Fellow, early contributor to Sesame, and technical lead for Maya.

• Pei Sun: post-training, coding, and reasoning for Gemini at Google Deepmind. Previously created the last two generations of Waymo's perception models.

• Jiahui Yu: co-creator of o3, o4-mini, GPT-4.1 and GPT-4o. Previously led the perception team at OpenAl, and co-led multimodal at Gemini.

• Shengjia Zhao: co-creator of ChatGPT, GPT-4, all mini models, 4.1 and o3. Previously led synthetic data at OpenAl.

zuck funds health research (a lot, and very ML focused) already

Better on ML than the next VR vaporware.

Is mark Zuckerberg systematically behind the curve on every hype?

He's just trying to figure out how to monetise your WhatsApp messages