OpenAI researcher Jason Wei will reportedly join Meta’s new Superintelligence Lab. Another team member, Hyung Won Chung, might also join Meta, as the company works to catch up to rivals in the AGI race.

Jason Wei, who worked on OpenAI’s o3 and deep research models, will be joining Meta’s superintelligence lab. His colleague Hyung Won Chung is also joining Meta, a source tells WIRED.

Meta has hired 2 more high profile AI researchers Jason Wei and Hyung Won Chung, from OpenAI. Both joind OpenAI in 2023 and are said to have collaborated on many of the big OpenAI projects before moving to Meta,

The ChatGPT maker was about to release its first major open-weight model, but a last-minute discovery has put the project on ice, fueling speculation about what went wrong.

Monitoring AI's train of thought is critical for improving AI safety and catching deception. But we're at risk of losing this ability.

As Mark Zuckerberg lures away top research talent to Meta, OpenAI executives say they're ‘recalibrating comp,’ according to an internal memo.

The researchers argue that CoT monitoring can help researchers detect when models begin to exploit flaws in their training, manipulate data, or fall victim to malicious user manipulation. Any issues that are found can then either be “blocked, or replaced with safer actions, or reviewed in more depth.”

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