04-07-2025, 05:38 PM
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Who are the 11 AI experts hired by Meta? Fun fact — all of them are immigrants
04-07-2025, 05:41 PM
Trapit Bansal
Worked previously at OpenAI
Education: Master of Science (M.Sc. Integrated), Mathematics & Statistics, IIT Kanpur; Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA.
About: Trapit Bansal is credited with his groundbreaking research on AI, which helps AI models improve logical step-by-step problem-solving abilities. His industrial work is cited widely and has affected both industrial and academic AI models.
Shuchao Bi
Worked previously at OpenAI
Education: Bachelor of Science (BS), Zhejiang University, China; Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of California, Berkeley, USA.
About: Shuchao Bi is a well-known name in the multimodal AI field, and has co-developed the voice mode for GPT-4o and the o4-mini model. His work has been key to advancements in conversational AI.
Huiwen Chang
Worked previously at Google Research
Education: Bachelor of Science (BS), Tsinghua University, China; Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Princeton University, USA.
About: Huiwen Chang is the brain behind MaskIT and Muse architectures, which have become the foundational models in creating generative AI images. She led the GPT-4o image generation team.
Ji Lin
Worked previously at OpenAI
Education: Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Tsinghua University, China; Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA.
About: Ji Ling played a crucial part in optimising and scaling large language models such as GPT-4o and the o4 group. His work has made AI images more cost-effective.
Joel Pobar
Worked previously at Anthropic and Meta
Education: Bachelor of Information Technology (Honours), Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia.
About: Joel Pobar has over a decade of experience in building scalable AI models. A part of technologies like HHVM, Hack, and PyTorch, his work enables AI models to run efficiently at scale.
Jack Rae
Worked previously at Google DeepMind
Education: Bachelor of Science (BS), University of Bristol, UK; Master of Science (MS), Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), USA; Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University College London (UCL), UK.
About: Jack Rae is a leader in large-scale language model research. He has pre-trained Gemini 2.5, and has developed Google’s Gopher and Chinchilla models.
Hongyu Ren
Worked previously at OpenAI
Education: Bachelor of Science (BS), Peking University, China; Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Stanford University, USA.
About: Hongy Ren is credited with the post-training of GPT-4o and the o1/3/4o-mini models to increase reliability and robustness. His research focuses on making AI safer and trustworthy.
Johan Schalkwyk
Worked previously at Google
Education: Bachelor of Science in Engineering (BS MEng), University of Pretoria, South Africa.
About: A Google fellow and speech recognition expert, Johan Schalkwyk led the Maya team and contributed to Google's Sesame project in its early days.
Pei Sun
Worked previously at Google DeepMind
Education: Bachelor of Science (BS), Tsinghua University, China; Master of Science (MS), Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), USA.
About: Pei Sun's research concerns the post-training of advanced AI models and their reasoning. He has also developed the perception systems for Waymo’s self-driving cars.
Jiahuai Yu
Worked previously at OpenAI and Gemini
Education: Bachelor of Science (BS), University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), China; Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), USA.
About: Jiahuai Yu's work focuses on perception and multimodal AI, having been associated with o3/4o-mini and GPT-4/4o. His research enables AI models to generate information from texts, images and more.
Shengjia Zhao
Worked previously at OpenAI
Education: Bachelor of Science (BS), Tsinghua University, China; Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Stanford University, USA.
About: Shengjia Zhao is the co-creator of ChatGPT, GPT-4, and o4-mini, and is a lead researcher of data synthesis and AI safety.
Worked previously at OpenAI
Education: Master of Science (M.Sc. Integrated), Mathematics & Statistics, IIT Kanpur; Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA.
About: Trapit Bansal is credited with his groundbreaking research on AI, which helps AI models improve logical step-by-step problem-solving abilities. His industrial work is cited widely and has affected both industrial and academic AI models.
Shuchao Bi
Worked previously at OpenAI
Education: Bachelor of Science (BS), Zhejiang University, China; Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of California, Berkeley, USA.
About: Shuchao Bi is a well-known name in the multimodal AI field, and has co-developed the voice mode for GPT-4o and the o4-mini model. His work has been key to advancements in conversational AI.
Huiwen Chang
Worked previously at Google Research
Education: Bachelor of Science (BS), Tsinghua University, China; Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Princeton University, USA.
About: Huiwen Chang is the brain behind MaskIT and Muse architectures, which have become the foundational models in creating generative AI images. She led the GPT-4o image generation team.
Ji Lin
Worked previously at OpenAI
Education: Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Tsinghua University, China; Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA.
About: Ji Ling played a crucial part in optimising and scaling large language models such as GPT-4o and the o4 group. His work has made AI images more cost-effective.
Joel Pobar
Worked previously at Anthropic and Meta
Education: Bachelor of Information Technology (Honours), Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia.
About: Joel Pobar has over a decade of experience in building scalable AI models. A part of technologies like HHVM, Hack, and PyTorch, his work enables AI models to run efficiently at scale.
Jack Rae
Worked previously at Google DeepMind
Education: Bachelor of Science (BS), University of Bristol, UK; Master of Science (MS), Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), USA; Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University College London (UCL), UK.
About: Jack Rae is a leader in large-scale language model research. He has pre-trained Gemini 2.5, and has developed Google’s Gopher and Chinchilla models.
Hongyu Ren
Worked previously at OpenAI
Education: Bachelor of Science (BS), Peking University, China; Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Stanford University, USA.
About: Hongy Ren is credited with the post-training of GPT-4o and the o1/3/4o-mini models to increase reliability and robustness. His research focuses on making AI safer and trustworthy.
Johan Schalkwyk
Worked previously at Google
Education: Bachelor of Science in Engineering (BS MEng), University of Pretoria, South Africa.
About: A Google fellow and speech recognition expert, Johan Schalkwyk led the Maya team and contributed to Google's Sesame project in its early days.
Pei Sun
Worked previously at Google DeepMind
Education: Bachelor of Science (BS), Tsinghua University, China; Master of Science (MS), Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), USA.
About: Pei Sun's research concerns the post-training of advanced AI models and their reasoning. He has also developed the perception systems for Waymo’s self-driving cars.
Jiahuai Yu
Worked previously at OpenAI and Gemini
Education: Bachelor of Science (BS), University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), China; Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), USA.
About: Jiahuai Yu's work focuses on perception and multimodal AI, having been associated with o3/4o-mini and GPT-4/4o. His research enables AI models to generate information from texts, images and more.
Shengjia Zhao
Worked previously at OpenAI
Education: Bachelor of Science (BS), Tsinghua University, China; Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Stanford University, USA.
About: Shengjia Zhao is the co-creator of ChatGPT, GPT-4, and o4-mini, and is a lead researcher of data synthesis and AI safety.
04-07-2025, 05:49 PM
Solid background. What if a country is run by such a group? With appropriate training in politics, econ and finance and defence?
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