India, July 1 -- Indian-origin Trapit Bansal has become the latest high-profile employee to quit OpenAI and join Meta. Bansal was described by TechCrunch as "a highly influential OpenAI researcher" and a key player in the company's work on reinforcement learning.

In a post shared on the social media platform X this morning, the IIT Kanpur graduate confirmed that he will be joining Meta's new superintelligence unit, for which Mark Zuckerberg has been on a hiring spree and has poached several influential OpenAI researchers.

Trapit Bansal confirmed that he will be joining Meta in an X post this morning. Bansal holds a degree in Mathematics and Statistics from IIT Kanpur, a master's in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts, ...