Shengjia Zhao's journey from a Tsinghua University exchange student at Rice to Meta's Superintelligence Lab Chief Scientist exemplifies the power of e

The move underscores Meta’s strategy of spending aggressively now to secure a dominant position in what it views as the next foundational technology platform.

Meta names former OpenAI researcher Shengjia Zhao as Chief Scientist of its new AI unit, Meta Superintelligence Labs, focused on frontier AI model development.