
Second Place is Desperate: A Look at China's AI Crisis in Beijing
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Name | Nationality | Meta tenure (as of 250719) | Personal history | Current position | Previous experience | Bailiwick | Highest degree | Department |
Nat Friedman | USA | 18th | 26 years | VP, Meta Superintelligence | NFDG; CEO, Github | Developer ecosystems | BS, MIT (CS) | - |
Daniel Gross | Israel | 18th | 15 years | VP Product, Meta Superintelligence | Cofounder, SSI; NDFG | AI product & venture | - | - |
Yann Le Cun | France | 11.6 years | 37 years | VP + Chief AI Scientist, Meta | Professor, NYU | Deep learning | PhD, Sorbonne UPMC | BS, ESIEE Paris |
Name | Nationality | Meta tenure (as of 250719) | Personal history | Current position | Previous experience | Bailiwick | Highest degree | Department |
Joel Pobar | Australia | 11 years | 24 years | VP, Compilers & Infra, Meta | MTS, Anthropic; Senior Engg Director, Meta | LLM compilers & infra | - | BS, Queensland UT (CS) |
Mat Marco | Brazil | 11 years | 14 years | VP Product, Meta | VP Product, DeepMind; Director of Product, Microsoft | Developer platforms | MS, National U (CS) | BS, Fundacao Getulio Vargas (Business) |
Annie Hu | USA | 11th | 15 years | Director of Product, Meta | VP Product, Scale AI | AI product management | MBA, Chicago Booth | BS, UMaryland (Finance) |
Ruben Mayer-Hirshfeld | USA | 2 days | - | Director of Product, Meta | SVP, Gen AI & Scale; Cofounder, Scout AI; Founder, FameGame | AI ops | - | MS, Stanford (CS, Econ) |
Linda Gong | USA | 11th | 4 years | Product Manager, Meta | Chief of Staff, Scale; Software Engg, Anrok; Quant, Two Sigma | Superintelligence product strategy | - | MS, BS, MIT (CS) |
Jon Wifong | USA | 32 days | 17 years | Business Development, Meta | SVP Field Ops, Scale; CRO, Parallel Domain; EA, Mulesoft | AI field operations | - | BS, Texas A&M (CS) |
Name | Nationality | Meta tenure (as of 250719) | Personal history | Current position | Previous experience | Bailiwick | Highest degree | Department |
Summer Yue | USA | 11th | 3 years | Director, Alignment, DeepMind | VP of Research, Scale; Research, DeepMind | Reinforcement learning & AI infrastructure | - | BS, UPenn (CS, Econ) |
Li Liu | China | 6 years | 2 years | Research Scientist, Meta | MTS, OpenAI | Multimodal reasoning | PhD, UC Berkeley (Math) | BS, South China UT (ECE) |
Lucas Beyer | Germany | 17th | - | Research Scientist, Meta | MTS, OpenAI; Staff Researcher, DeepMind | Self-supervised vision | PhD, RWTH Aachen (CS) | BS, RWTH Aachen (Computation) |
Rui Hou | China | 7 days | 5 years | Research Scientist, Meta | MTS, X AI; Senior Staff Research, Meta | ML infrastructure | PhD, UMich | BS, Tongji |
Pingchuan Ma | China | 7 days | 1 year | Research Scientist, Meta | MTS, OpenAI | Vision, language | PhD, MIT (CS) | BS, Nankai (Software) |
Name | Nationality | Meta tenure (as of 250719) | Personal history | Current position | Previous experience | Bailiwick | Highest degree | Department |
Alexander Kolesnikov | Russia | 17th | 8 years | Research Scientist, Meta | Staff Research Scientist, DeepMind | Self-supervised vision | PhD, IST Austria | BS, MS, LMSU Moscow (Math) |
Allan Jabri | USA | 2.4 years | 4 years | Research Scientist, Meta | MTS, OpenAI; Research, Meta | Visual self-supervised learning | PhD, UC Berkeley | BS, Princeton (CS) |
Arno Blaas | Russia | 5.3 years | 6 years | Research Scientist, Meta | MTS, Anthropic; Research, Meta; Senior Engg, Google; Senior Engineer, Yandex | RL & game agents | - | BS, MS, LMSU Moscow (Math) |
Chunyuan Li | China | 18th | 7 years | Research Scientist, Meta | MTS, X AI; Research Lead, ByteDance; Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research | Diffusion & multimodal generation | PhD, Duke (ECE) | BS, Huazhong (ECE) |
Gabriel Ilharco | Brazil | 4 days | 1 year | Research Scientist, Meta | MTS, X AI | Multimodal alignment | PhD, U Wash (CS) | MS, BS, ITA Sao Paolo (ECE) |
Shengjia Zhao | China | 18th | 3 years | Research Scientist, Meta | MTS, OpenAI | Probabilistic modelling | PhD, Stanford (CS) | BS, Tsinghua |
Shuchao Bi | China | 18th | 12 years | Research Scientist, Meta | Head of Post Training, OpenAI; Director of Engg, Youtube | Video generation | PhD, UC Berkeley (Math) | BS, Zhejiang (Math) |
Xiaohua Zhai | China | 17th | - | Research Scientist, Meta | MTS, OpenAI; Senior Staff Research, DeepMind; Senior Engg, Google | Vision transformers | PhD, Peking (CS) |