New Delhi, July 26 -- Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Friday announced that his company's new Superinteligence Labs has appointed ChatGPT co-creator Shenjia Zhao as the chief scientist. In the new role, Zhao will set the research agenda and the newly setup AI lab while also set the scientific direction and report directly to Meta Chief AI officer Alexandr Wang.

Announcing the new appointment in a post on Threads, Zuckerberg wrote, "Shengjia co-founded the new lab and has been our lead scientist from day one. Now that our recruiting is going well and our team is coming together, we have decided to formalize his leadership role."

"Shengjia has already pioneered several breakthroughs including a new scaling paradigm and distinguished himself a...