India, July 3 -- Trapit Bansal, an Indian-origin researcher and IIT Kanpur graduate, has left OpenAI to join Meta's newly launched Superintelligence unit, becoming the latest high-profile AI expert to make the switch.

"Thrilled to be joining Meta! Superintelligence is now in sight," Bansal wrote on X.

Meta has been recruiting top artificial intelligence researchers from companies like OpenAI and offering salaries in the tens of millions of dollars, Bloomberg reported.

According to Reuters, Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg has personally led an aggressive talent raid for the company's artificial intelligence efforts under a new division called Meta Superintelligence Labs.

OpenAI spokesperson Kayla Wood has also confirmed to TechCrunch that...