Meta Appoints Co-Creator ChatGPT As Chief Scientist Of Super Intelligence Lab

JAKARTA Meta Platforms has officially appointed Shengjia Zhao, one of the creators of ChatGPT, as Chief Scientist for its newest division, Super Intelligence Lab. This announcement was made directly by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, on Friday, July 25, via uploads on Threads.

"In this role, Shengjia will set research directions and scientific agendas for our new laboratory, and work directly with Alex and I," Zuckerberg wrote. Alex's name refers to Alexandr Wang, Meta's Chief AI Officer who was previously signed from the Scale AI startup, where Meta takes big shares as part of their expansion into advanced AI technology.

Shengjia Zhao was previously a research scientist at OpenAI, and is known as one of the main creators of ChatGPT, GPT-4, as well as several Mini OpenAI models such as GPT-4.1 and o3. He has become one of a number of well-known researchers who recently left OpenAI to join Meta, showing increasingly fierce competition in recruiting talent in the AI sector.

This move is part of Zuckerberg's aggressive strategy to pursue Meta's lag in the development of advanced artificial intelligence, especially after the performance of the Llama 4 model was deemed unsatisfactory.

Meta currently offers a very attractive compensation package for world-class AI researchers and is actively establishing partnerships with various startups to accelerate the advancement of their technology.

The Super Intelligence Lab itself has just been launched by Meta as a center for the development of the Llama model and a long-term ambitious project to realize general artificial intelligence.

In his upload on Threads, Zuckerberg said Shengjia Zhao was also one of the founders of the lab. The laboratory operates separately from FAIR (Facebook AI Research), the existing AI Meta research division and is led by the pioneer of deep learning, Yann LeCun.

Zuckerberg insists that Meta has a vision to develop full general intelligence and is committed to releasing its work as an open source project.

This open approach has won praise from a number of AI circles, but has also raised concerns about the risk of misuse or spread of technology that is not yet fully understood.

With the joining of Shengjia Zhao, Meta hopes to strengthen their position in the competition field for global artificial intelligence, as well as accelerate the realization of more sophisticated and inclusive AI technologies.