Who is Shengjia Zhao? ChatGPT co-creator named Chief Scientist at Meta’s Superintelligence Labs

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Friday announced that his company’s new Superintelligence Labs has appointed ChatGPT co-creator Shengjia Zhao as the chief scientist. In the new role, Zhao will set the research agenda at the newly set up AI lab, define its scientific direction, and report directly to Meta Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang. 

Announcing the appointment in a post on Threads, Zuckerberg wrote, “Shengjia co-founded the new lab and has been our lead scientist from day one. Now that our recruiting is going well and our team is coming together, we…