AI BriefingMeta Hires Luke Metz, Former OpenAI Researcher
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Meta has hired former OpenAI researcher Luke Metz to join its Superintelligence Labs.
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Prominent AI researcher Luke Metz has joined Meta's Superintelligence Labs. Metz left OpenAI in 2024 to join Mira Murati's Thinking Machines, before returning to OpenAI earlier this year.
Metz will begin working at Meta this week and will report to Alexandr Wang, who oversees the company's AI efforts. Meta has been actively recruiting AI talent, releasing several new AI models over the past few months.
This hire is part of a broader talent acquisition drive that followed Meta's multi-trillion won deal with Scale AI to bring Wang on board. It highlights the ongoing intense AI talent war among major frontier AI research labs.
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