NEW YORK] Meta Platforms has appointed Zhao Shengjia, co-creator of ChatGPT, as chief scientist of its Superintelligence Lab, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Friday (Jul 25), as the company accelerates its push into advanced artificial intelligence (AI).

Mark Zuckerberg has named Shengjia Zhao, an artificial intelligence researcher who joined Meta Platforms Inc. from OpenAI in June, as the chief scientist for the social media company’s new superintelligence AI group.

Zhao, a PhD from Stanford University, comes from OpenAI, where he played a big role in creating ChatGPT, GPT-4, and several models, including GPT-4.1 and o3. At Meta, he will set the strategy for the foundational models,