Sources: OpenAI researcher Jason Wei, who worked on o3 and deep research models, and his colleague Hyung Won Chung are joining Meta's new superintelligence lab
Jason Wei, who worked on OpenAI's o3 and deep research models, will be joining Meta's superintelligence lab.
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Discussion
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@kylierobison.com
Kylie Robison
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Scoop: Another high-profile OpenAI researcher departs for Meta. Jason Wei, who worked on OpenAI's o3 and deep research models, will be joining Meta's superintelligence lab. His colleague Hyung Won Chung is also joining Meta, a source tells WIRED. www.wired.com/story/jason-...
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@sarthakgh
Sar Haribhakti
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Zuck: “I think we're going to have the largest compute fleet of any company, and focusing on that on being powered by a small and talent-dense team, I think we're gonna have by far the most compute per researcher to do leading edge work.”
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@borrowed_ideas
@borrowed_ideas
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some thoughts on Zuck's hiring spree for Meta's Superintelligence team. [image]
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@garymarcus
Gary Marcus
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'twas the night before AGI or so the story went and at just that very moment everyone left for more money to start something new
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@0xkrma
Karma
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OpenAI will be nothing without its people 💚 The only reason Sama came back was because they had a secondary sale a week after his firing. The board firing Sama derailed that so employees went crazy on Twitter as their payday was stolen away from them. Had Sama been fired a
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@swyx
@swyx
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ok wow meta is not fucking around ho lee shit [image]
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@devahaz
Deva Hazarika
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First OpenAI employees revolted to bring Sama back and save the tender offer, now they're leaving left and right for giant pay packages. These doing it all for the good of humanity types are the most mercenary financial operators in tech.
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@gergelyorosz
Gergely Orosz
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If you make guaranteed generational wealth in a few short years, doing virtually the same work as before - who would stick with the lower-paying company? This is how OpenAI recruits from smaller AI startups - I hear it all the time. And now how Meta recruits from OpenAI!
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@iscienceluvr
@iscienceluvr
on x
It actually feels like Meta now has too much star talent to fail
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@brettfujioka
Brett Fujioka
on bluesky
If I were going to historicize AI over the past thirty years. Zuckerberg very likely saw social media as a means of replicating a collective intelligence (Noosphere). Now that social media has declined (failed), he wants to use the data from previous users to achieve AGI or a s…
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@tinabelmont
Tina Belmont
on bluesky
If his AI version of himself is so superior, he should give away his wealth,upload himself already and get it over with. — Even if his AI has nothing and no rights, I'm sure in its vast superiority it will overcome those obstacles in no time! — He should take Musk and Altman …
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@fpardalis
@fpardalis
on bluesky
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg would like to build giant power and water sucking AI facilities in your town so that in the next heat wave the grid collapses and you have no water to drink. When your city sues them, there will be a long protracted trial during which you will die w…
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@aaronvandorn
Aaron van Dorn
on bluesky
Zuckerberg building the world's largest building by an order of magnitude would be vastly more impressive than whatever AI bullshit they're cooking up to instantly generate insane, genocidal conspiracy theories. [embedded post]
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@jasonkoebler
Jason Koebler
on bluesky
Yesterday, Mark Zuckerberg did a two-minute interview about AI superintelligence but there were audio issues with the livestream, resulting in a completely silent video. I attempted to use the amazing, incredible power of AI to rescue this lost artifact: — www.404media.co/savi…
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@ianfortey
@ianfortey
on bluesky
Zuckerberg saw Elon falter and realized he had a fast track to becoming an even bigger sack of shit if he tried hard to ruin the world. — If I were writing a fictional story about a place where they had to endure water rationing so AI could exist, my character would burn that f…
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@sethcotlar
Seth Cotlar
on bluesky
I don't know about you, but I feel comforted knowing that the guy whose premier product helped facilitate a genocide in Myanmar and which pumps tons of false, emotionally-activating reactionary propaganda into my feed because it thinks I'm a conservative white man, is spending bi…
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@justinling.ca
Justin Ling
on bluesky
The Information's chummy one-on-one with Zuckerberg about Meta's question to pitch billions into LLMs — under the branding of their new TITV show, sponsored by AWS — isn't going well. Two minutes into the interview, there's no audio. — www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2cz...
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@_jasonwei
Jason Wei
on x
Becoming an RL diehard in the past year and thinking about RL for most of my waking hours inadvertently taught me an important lesson about how to live my own life. One of the big concepts in RL is that you always want to be “on-policy”: instead of mimicking other people's
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@prashant_1722
Prashant
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@kyliebytes @_jasonwei Another blow for OpenAI. “It's not about the money” 😂
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@revolvingdoordc
@revolvingdoordc
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Fundamentally, the Abundance™ agenda (cut red tape, i.e. deregulate, to facilitate building stuff) is about fast-tracking the construction of AI data centers. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
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@creebeauvoir
Cree
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@_jasonwei absolutely iconic to post this right now
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@wtergan
@wtergan
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@kyliebytes @_jasonwei I think sam has learned a very hard and expensive lesson here that everyone on this planet has a price, even those who “believe in the openai mission” supposedly...
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@cloutman_
Cloutman
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only a n00b like zuck pays 9 figures for human AI researchers when they're on the verge of being automated
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@jessicalessin
Jessica Lessin
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One theme is loud and clear from 1) Zuckerberg describing AI recruiting to me 2) the windsurf deal and 3) the recent Meta raid on OpenAI Recruiting is now 1:many. AI researchers come as a team.
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@jessicalessin
Jessica Lessin
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I asked Zuckerberg if he switched AI gears after the disappointing Llama 4. He said: “There is this big debate in the industry today. All right, is super intelligence going to be possible in three years, five years, seven years? “But I don't think anyone knows the answer. I
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@andrewcurran_
Andrew Curran
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Zuck has struck again.
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@kyliebytes
Kylie Robison
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His Slack is deactivated along with another researcher at OpenAI, Hyung Won Chung (@hwchung27).
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@wtergan
@wtergan
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@kyliebytes @hwchung27 yikes... major blows to openai if they are gone too. makes that whole “the best folks arent going anywhere” schitck sama was saying a couple weeks ago seem silly now.
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@markpatient
Mark Patient
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Zuck looks like my Jr. Math and PE teacher if she had had access to Ozempic in the 90s. [image]
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@thegkurtz
Guilherme Kurtz
on x
My favorite Zuckerberg quote: “In a world that's changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.” It becomes more true each day.
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@jakehalloran1
Jake Halloran
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if you work at openai get yourself on a livestream, zuck will have an offer in bound by eod
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@ovovengeful
@ovovengeful
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zuckerberg just stealing all of openAI with money doesn't sit right with me man it's capitalism, i get it, get your money but he's basically ibm at this point
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@kyliebytes
Kylie Robison
on x
Two sources confirm that OpenAI researcher Jason Wei (@_jasonwei) is leaving the company for Meta.
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@lessin
@lessin
on x
Great interview
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@conorsen
Conor Sen
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If Silicon Valley Moneyball is a thing he's the 🐐 at it.
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@mattmvinson
Matt Vinson
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He's right. $1-2bn in comp for elite talent is nothing when you're spending $70bn on capex every year.
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@matt_slotnick
Matt Slotnick
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key quote that's going to define the next decade of work “historically people would ask, what's my scope going to be. here, people say ‘i want the fewest number of people reporting to me, and the most GPUs’”
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@theinformation
@theinformation
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The Information | TITV | July 15th, 2025 https://x.com/...
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@harrystebbings
Harry Stebbings
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You want to see how hard modern media is: Conversation with Mark Zuckerberg on AI hiring... 39 likes in 9 hours. Brutal.
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@chatgpt21
Chris
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Mark Zuckerberg says the false reports of big pay days, discount the other reasons people are excited to work at ‘meta super intelligence lab’ and that a big reason is because > researchers have more access to compute (per capita)
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@jessicalessin
Jessica Lessin
on x
You actually kind of want the smallest group of people who can fit the whole thing in their head." - Zuckerberg on AI recruiting “The amount that is being spent to to recruit the people is actually still quite small compared to the overall investment” - Zuckerberg on comp got