It has been confirmed that Dr. Jung Hyung-won, a Korean researcher who participated in the development of OpenAI's reasoning AI model 'o1', has joined Meta's Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL).
U.S. IT publication Wired reported on the 16th (local time) that Dr. Jung Hyung-won and Jason Wei, two OpenAI researchers, are newly joining Meta's Superintelligence Labs.
Dr. Jung Hyung-won was the only Korean among the 20 researchers who participated in OpenAI's deep research and in the development of the 'o1' model. In a presentation video released by OpenAI last September, he directly explained that the 'o1' model can accurately understand and translate Korean, even with mixed typos and grammatical disruptions. In December of last year, he also appeared in a video alongside OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to announce the official launch of 'o1'.
Dr. Jung's research fields are 'reasoning' and 'agents'. Before joining OpenAI, he worked at Google and transferred to Meta this time with his colleague Jason Wei, with whom he had previously worked. The specific terms of their recruitment are not known.
Wired explained that both individuals have inactive accounts on OpenAI's internal messenger, Slack, which signifies their departure. OpenAI and Meta have not made an official statement regarding this.
Sources reported that Meta is scouting skilled AI talent in 'team units' for superintelligence research. Previously, Meta had recruited three researchers who had worked together at OpenAI's Swiss office.
Recently, Meta has been heavily recruiting excellent personnel to develop superintelligent AI. In this process, it has been taking many key personnel from OpenAI. Meta has offered compensation packages of up to $100 million to recruit more than 10 OpenAI researchers and has reportedly recruited Apple's overall head of AI model development with a $200 million compensation package.
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, said in a recent interview that 'anything can be done' to recruit talent.