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Meta hires OpenAI researcher Trapit Bansal for AI reasoning team - Tech Crunch

Published 26/06/2025, 18:00
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Investing.com -- According to a Tech Crunch report, Meta (NASDAQ:META) has recruited Trapit Bansal, a prominent OpenAI researcher, to work on AI reasoning models as part of its superintelligence unit.

Bansal, who left OpenAI in June as confirmed to TechCrunch by OpenAI spokesperson Kayla Wood, had been with the company since 2022. During his tenure, he played a crucial role in developing reinforcement learning alongside OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever and is credited as a foundational contributor to OpenAI’s first AI reasoning model, o1.

This hiring move comes as Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been actively expanding the company’s AI team in recent months. Zuckerberg has reportedly offered compensation packages worth $100 million to attract top researchers to join Meta’s new AI superintelligence lab.

The addition of Bansal is expected to provide valuable expertise to Meta’s efforts in developing advanced AI reasoning capabilities.

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