Zuckerberg’s AI hires disrupt Meta with swift exits and threats to leave
by Hannah Murphy, Cristina Criddle, and George Hammon from Ars Technica - All content on (#6ZNM5)
Within days of joining Meta, Shengjia Zhao, co-creator of OpenAI's ChatGPT, had threatened to quit and return to his former employer, in a blow to Mark Zuckerberg's multibillion-dollar push to build personal superintelligence."
Zhao went as far as to sign employment paperwork to go back to OpenAI. Shortly afterwards, according to four people familiar with the matter, he was given the title of Meta's new chief AI scientist."
The incident underscores Zuckerberg's turbulent effort to direct the most dramatic reorganisation of Meta's senior leadership in the group's 20-year history.