Meta公司近期宣布，ChatGPT联合创始人Shengjia Zhao将担任其超级智能实验室的首席科学家，引发了业界对其现任首席AI科学家Yann LeCun角色的关注。LeCun在领英上澄清，其作为FAIR（Fundamental AI Research）首席科学家的角色，一直专注于长期AI研究和构建新的AI范式，这一使命和角色均未改变。Meta的FAIR部门成立于十多年前，致力于AI技术的研究与发展，并推出了开源大语言模型Llama。而新成立的超级智能实验室则将聚焦于为每个人开发“个人超级智能”，并已将FAIR、基础和产品团队纳入其麾下。LeCun表示期待与Zhao合作，加速新研究在先进模型中的整合。

🔹 Meta任命ChatGPT联合创始人Shengjia Zhao为超级智能实验室首席科学家，此举引发了对Yann LeCun角色的关注。LeCun作为Meta的首席AI科学家，其核心职责是领导Fundamental AI Research（FAIR）部门，并专注于AI的长期研究和新范式的构建，这一角色和FAIR的使命均未发生变化。

💡 Meta的FAIR部门在AI领域已有十余年历史，是其AI技术研究和发展的重要力量，曾成功推出开源大语言模型Llama。而新设立的超级智能实验室则被定位为更宏观的AI发展部门，旨在实现“为每个人提供个人超级智能”的目标，并将FAIR等部门整合其中。

🚀 LeCun本人在社交媒体上明确表示，他将继续专注于AI的长期研究和新范式的开发，其角色和FAIR的使命并未受到此次人事变动的影响。他同时表达了与新任首席科学家Shengjia Zhao合作的意愿，以期加速前沿研究成果在Meta最先进模型中的应用和整合。

🌟 此次人事调整突显了AI领域人才争夺的激烈，以及Meta在AI战略上的持续投入。通过引入如Zhao这样的顶尖人才，Meta旨在进一步推动其在AI前沿技术，特别是超级智能和下一代AI模型方面的研究进展。

Meta said Friday that Shengjia Zhao, co-creator of ChatGPT, is now the chief scientist of its Superintelligence Labs.AI industry watchers questioned how this would impact Yann LeCun, Meta's longtime chief AI scientist.LeCun clarified his role in a LinkedIn post on Friday.

The more the merrier at Meta.

The AI talent wars took another turn on Friday when Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that Shengjia Zhao, co-creator of ChatGPT and the former lead scientist at OpenAI, is now the chief scientist at Meta's Superintelligence Labs.

"In this role, Shengjia will set the research agenda and scientific direction for our new lab working directly with me and Alex," a statement shared to Zuckerberg's Threads account said. "Shengjia co-founded the new lab and has been our lead scientist from day one."

The statement said Meta chose to formalize Zhao's leadership position because recruiting is "going well" and the team "is coming together."

While the announcement elicited congratulatory remarks from some AI enthusiasts online, and more discussion about Meta's ongoing poaching spree, others asked: What about Yann LeCun?

LeCun became a prominent figure in the AI industry after joining Meta, then Facebook, in 2013. He serves as the chief AI scientist for Meta's Fundamental AI Research, formerly known as Facebook AI Research. On LinkedIn, LeCun acknowledged the questions and clarified his role at Meta.

"My role as Chief Scientist for FAIR has always been focused on long-term AI research and building the next AI paradigms," LeCun wrote on Friday. "My role and FAIR's mission are unchanged."

Zuckerberg and Alexandr Wang, the Scale AI founder who joined Meta in June as its chief AI officer, confirmed that LeCun's role is unchanged on their respective social media accounts.

What's the difference between Meta's FAIR and its Superintelligence Labs?

Although both FAIR and the Superintelligence Labs deal with AI, they're slightly different.

Meta created FAIR over a decade ago to research and advance AI technology, which resulted in the 2023 release of its open-source large language model, Llama. LeCun is now largely focused on developing a new kind of model, known as a world model, that could one day replace large language models.

The Superintelligence Labs, meanwhile, is the umbrella department housing Meta's FAIR, foundations, and products teams, Zuckerberg said in an internal memo in June. Zuckerberg said the Superintelligence Labs would focus on developing "personal superintelligence for everyone." Bloomberg reported that LeCun would report to Wang.

Wang praised Zhao in an X post on Friday.

"Shengjia is a brilliant scientist who most recently pioneered a new scaling paradigm in his research," Wang said in an X post on Friday. "He will lead our scientific direction for our team."

LeCun said he's looking forward to working with Zhao "to accelerate the integration of new research into our most advanced models."