Zuckerberg's tactic is working. Meta has lured away several of OpenAI's top AI researchers
Meta's aggressive policy of poaching personnel from its competitors has begun to bear fruit. OpenAI is losing yet another artificial intelligence specialist.
Meta's aggressive policy of poaching personnel from its competitors has begun to bear fruit. OpenAI is losing yet another artificial intelligence specialist.
According to TechCrunch, the most painful loss for OpenAI concerns a key researcher of reasoning models of artificial intelligence, Trapit Banzal. The specialist's Linkedin page states that he left Sam Altman's company in June of this year. This information was confirmed by OpenAI spokeswoman Kayla Wood. Trapit Banzal has worked at OpenAI since 2022 and, together with Ilya Sutzkever, laid the reasoning foundations for the company's first AI model, o1.
Banzal will join Meta's superintelligence team, where he could reunite with Sutzkever, who left the company in June of last year. Meta recently tried to acquire Ilya Sutzkever's AI startup Safe Superintelligence, but was rejected. However, Mark Zuckerberg's company did not give up without a fight. Meta managed to hire Safe Superintelligence CEO Daniel Gross.
It is certain that Banzal will see familiar faces in his new job. According to The Wall Street Journal, three other former OpenAI researchers: Lucas Bayer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai have already joined the Meta superintelligence team.
This is not the first time OpenAI has lost key employees to competitors. Anthropic, the developer of Claude, managed to bring OpenAI co-founder John Schulman to its ranks after nine years of working alongside Altman and Sutskever.
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