Meta continues to expand its staff with strong names in order not to fall behind its competitors in artificial intelligence technologies. Finally, the company has added experienced researcher Trapit Bansal, who left OpenAI. Bansal will work in the Super Intelligence Unit that will carry out Meta’s artificial intelligence projects for the future. This development paves the way for the more hardening of competition in the sector.
Trapit Bansal is a name that has played important tasks in OpenAI since 2022. The founding partner made basic contributions to reinforcement learning with Ilya Sutskever. It is also known as one of the founding researchers in the “O1” project, which stands out as the first reasoning model of OpenAI. With this experience, it is expected to make a serious technical contribution to Meta.
Meta aims to compete in reasoning models with experienced names such as Bansal.
The new Super Intelligence Laboratory of Meta is not limited to Bansal. Lucas Beyer, who recently left OpenAI, researchers such as Alexander Kolesnikov and Xiaohua Zhai began to take part in this team. In addition, Jack Rae from Google Deepmind and Johan Schalkwyk contribute to Meta’s new artificial intelligence vision. This squad enlarges the company’s potential in this field.
Meta has not released a public reasoning model so far. However, recent transfers show that preparations are accelerating in this regard. The company aims to develop a structure that can compete with advanced artificial intelligence solutions such as OpenAI’s O3 model and Deepseek’s R1 model. Bansal’s participation is at the center of this plan.
It is known that Mark Zuckerberg offers quite high salary offers to create the super -intelligence team. It is claimed that bids up to $ 100 million are directed to some researchers. It was not announced how much fees Bansal received during this transfer process. However, this transfer is a critical move in terms of commodity.
On the other hand, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently said that Meta was trying to transfer talented researchers from their own teams. However, according to Altman, it was stated that the best researchers rejected these proposals. But the separation of an important name like Bansal makes this claim questioning. Meta remains silent on this issue.
Zuckerberg is said to be interested in individual transfers as well as some artificial intelligence -oriented initiatives. Interviews with organizations such as Safa Superintelligigence, Thinking Machines Labs and Perplexity have not yet been concluded. The contacts carried out by these initiatives show that Meta’s technology investment is directed not only to individuals but also to structures. Although these acquisitions have not been realized, the company’s interest continues.
Meta’s super -intelligence laboratory is expected to play a larger role in the company’s overall product strategy. Just as Google’s Deepmind unit provides support for a wide range of products, Meta wants to establish a similar structure. It is planned to feed the artificial intelligence representatives to be developed especially for enterprises by this laboratory. A solid reasoning infrastructure is essential for the success of these representatives.
Competing companies have made a significant distance in this field. Companies such as Google, OpenAI and Deepseek attract attention with high -performance reasoning models. These models perform superior to solving complex problems using more processing power. Meta needs to progress quickly and effectively in order to be ambitious in this field.
Meta is trying to create a strong foundation with names such as trapit Bansal. However, the information that OpenAI has recently prepared to present a open -source reasoning model will make competition even more difficult. How Meta will respond to these difficulties will be clear in the coming period. The determination and staff of the company in this field continues to be carefully monitored.