Avi Verma and Ethan Knight, both of whom who had previously worked with OpenAI, re-joined the ChatGPT-maker while the third exiting employee was another researcher, Rishabh Agarwal, who didn’t clarify where he would be moving.  

The report also shared that Chaya Nayak, the director of generative AI product management at Meta, will be joining OpenAI to work on special initiatives.

Separately, Shengjia Zhao, a co-creator of ChatGPT, threatened to quit Meta back in July and return to OpenAI. However, Zuckerberg managed to placate Zhao and appointed him chief scientist of Meta Superintelligence Lab, or MSL. 

A spokesperson for the company responded to reports on X saying, “We appreciate that there’s outsized interest in seemingly every minute detail of our AI efforts, no matter how inconsequential or mundane, but we’re just focused on doing the work to deliver personal superintelligence.”

Zuckerberg made a flurry of hires, spending billions on poaching star AI researchers from rivals like OpenAI to push the company’s eventual goal of “personal superintelligence.”