Meta Hires Four More OpenAI Researchers

Meta Platforms is hiring four more OpenAI artificial intelligence researchers as Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg continues an unprecedented recruiting effort to catch up to his AI rivals.

The researchers, Shengjia Zhao, Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi and Hongyu Ren, have each agreed to join, according to a person familiar with their hiring. They follow four other OpenAI researchers whose hirings were reported a few days ago. Their hirings were made after Meta’s agreement earlier this month to pay $14.3 billion to take a 49% stake in Scale AI and hire its CEO Alexandr Wang to lead its “superintelligence” efforts.