Meta recruits leading OpenAI researcher Trapit Bansal for AI reasoning lab

 Meta has onboarded a prominent OpenAI researcher, Trapit Bansal, to work on advanced artificial intelligence (AI) reasoning models within its recently established AI superintelligence team, according to a report by TechCrunch.


Trapit Bansal had been with OpenAI since 2022 and played a major role in launching the company’s reinforcement learning research, working closely with co-founder Ilya Sutskever. He is named as one of the original contributors to OpenAI’s first AI reasoning model, known as o1.

 

His LinkedIn profile indicates that he left OpenAI in June. OpenAI spokesperson Kayla Wood confirmed to TechCrunch that Bansal had indeed exited the organisation.
Bansal is expected to significantly strengthen Meta’s new AI superintelligence group, which already includes notable figures such as former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang. The team is also in discussions to bring in former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman and Safe Superintelligence co-founder Daniel Gross.
 
His expertise could help Meta develop a cutting-edge AI reasoning model to compete with leading offerings like OpenAI’s o3 and DeepSeek’s R1. At present, Meta does not have a publicly available AI reasoning model.

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