Mark Zuckerberg has announced that former OpenAI staff member Shengjia Zhao will serve as the chief scientist on Meta’s new superintelligence team. That high-profile group is largely made up of AI professionals poached from other leading enterprises.

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

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.