Meta lands OpenAI researcher Luke Metz in latest superintelligence hire
What's the deal? AI researcher Luke MetzDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → has joined Meta's Superintelligence LabsDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to Axios. He starts this week and will report to Alexandr WangDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, who leads Meta's AI efforts.
Why now? Metz's move comes amid an intensifying fight for top AI talent, with leading researchers jumping between rival frontier labs.
The résumé: Metz left OpenAI in 2024 to join Mira Murati's Thinking Machines, then rejoined OpenAI earlier this year. His path illustrates how quickly researchers now cycle through competing labs.
The context: Metz is Meta's latest major hire in a spree that followed a multibillion-dollar deal with Scale AIDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, which brought former Scale chief executive officer Wang into the company. Meta has debuted several new models in recent months.
The signal: Meta's aggressive recruiting underscores how the race to build advanced AI has become a contest for people as much as for compute — and how frontier labs are willing to pay heavily to win it.
Read more: Axios
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