AI Researcher Luke Metz Leaves OpenAI to Join Meta's Superintelligence Labs
Renowned AI researcher Luke Metz has left OpenAI to join Meta's Superintelligence Labs (MSL). He will report to Alexandr Wang, Meta's Chief AI Officer who leads the division. This move highlights the intense talent war among top AI labs, as tech giants like Meta aggressively recruit elite researchers from rivals like OpenAI to bolster their frontier AI capabilities. Metz has had a turbulent career path recently, leaving OpenAI in 2024 for Mira Murati's startup Thinking Machines, returning to OpenAI earlier this year, and now moving to Meta. Meta has been aggressively expanding MSL, which was formed in June 2025 and is responsible for the Muse generative AI models.
## BACKGROUND
Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL) was established in June 2025 to focus on artificial superintelligence, succeeding the Fundamental Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR) group. The lab is led by Alexandr Wang, who joined Meta as Chief AI Officer after Meta acquired a significant non-voting stake in Scale AI. Thinking Machines Lab is an AI startup founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati.