Meta Recruits Core OpenAI Researcher to Strengthen AI Reasoning Model Strategy
2025/06/26 16:52According to a report by Jinse Finance, citing tech media outlet TechCrunch, sources reveal that Meta has hired highly influential OpenAI researcher Trapit Bansal to join the company’s newly established AI Superintelligence division, where he will work on AI reasoning models. Bansal’s addition is expected to provide significant support to Meta’s AI Superintelligence Lab, which already brings together several industry leaders, including former ScaleAI CEO Alexandr Wang, former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman, and Safe Superintelligence co-founder Daniel Gross. Notably, Meta has yet to publicly release any AI reasoning models within its open-source Llama model family. In recent months, Mark Zuckerberg has been aggressively recruiting top talent with lucrative offers to build Meta’s new AI team, with reports suggesting compensation packages for leading researchers could reach as high as $100 million. However, the specific terms of Bansal’s compensation have not been disclosed.
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