Shengjia Zhao's journey from a Tsinghua University exchange student at Rice to Meta's Superintelligence Lab Chief Scientist exemplifies the power of education. His foundation at Tsinghua, broadened perspective at Rice,

Shengjia Zhao, who previously worked as a research scientist at OpenAI, will lead the research agenda at Meta's MSL.

Zhao, previously a research scientist at OpenAI, played a pivotal role in creating GPT-4 and various lighter models such as version 4.1 and o3. He is among at least eight researchers who have recently transitioned from OpenAI to Meta.