Mark Zuckerberg has named Shengjia Zhao, an artificial intelligence researcher who joined Meta Platforms Inc. from OpenAI in June, as the chief scientist for the social media company’s new superintelligence AI group.

Zhao, a PhD from Stanford University, comes from OpenAI, where he played a big role in creating ChatGPT, GPT-4, and several models, including GPT-4.1 and o3. At Meta, he will set the strategy for the foundational models,