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Meta Hires Four More OpenAI Researchers

➡️ Shengjia Zhao is a key contributor to o1-mini and o3-mini and a former Stanford PhD student.

➡️ Jiahui Yu led the perception team, they were engaged in visual rationalization and multimodality in o3, o4-mini, gpt-4.1, 4o, etc. Before that, he led Gemini Multimodal at Google.

➡️ Shuchao Bi is the head of the multimodal post-training department at OpenAI. Worked on RL, formerly Engineering Director at Google and a key developer of YouTube Shorts.

➡️ Hongyu Ren is another important contributor to o1-mini and o3-mini. PhD in CS and ML teacher at Stanford.

In total, eight researchers left Altman for Meta in just a few days.
Sad 😐