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chief ai officer @meta, founder meta superintelligence labs, founder @scale_ai. give everyone the adulthood they dreamed of in childhood

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1Jun 13, '24Today we’ve formalized an important hiring policy at Scale. We hire for MEI: merit, excellence, and intelligence. This is the email I’ve shared with our @scale_AI team. ———————————35.6×6M16k2k4.3k
3Jul 1, '25I’m excited to be the Chief AI Officer of @Meta, working alongside @natfriedman, and thrilled to be accompanied by an incredible group of people joining on the same day. Towards su22.5×3.8M22k1.7k5.5k
4Jul 25, '25We are excited to announce that @shengjia_zhao will be the Chief Scientist of Meta Superintelligence Labs! Shengjia is a brilliant scientist who most recently pioneered a new scali21.4×3.6M7.9k4421.1k
5Jan 26, '25DeepSeek is a wake up call for America, but it doesn’t change the strategy: - USA must out-innovate &race faster, as we have done in the entire history of AI - Tighten export c15.8×2.7M5.8k5681.1k
6Apr 5, '23let’s all be honest—working during COVID sucked. a lot. get your ass back in an office and rediscover what it feels like to love your work, and work with a team you love not too ma15.5×2.6M1.2k69132
8Feb 18, '25Grok 3 is a new best model in the world from the @xai team! Grok 3 ranks #1 on Chatbot Arena w/a big gap, and scores impressively on pretraining and reasoning evals. congrats to @e10.3×1.7M7.7k894531
9Nov 7, '23more has happened in the last year of AI than the prior 10 we are unmistakably in the fiery takeoff of the most important technology of the rest of our lives everybody—governments,9.3×1.6M3k380600
10Aug 22, '251/ Today we’re proud to announce a partnership with @midjourney, to license their aesthetic technology for our future models and products, bringing beauty to billions.9.1×1.5M5.6k368847
11Jul 30, '25View post on X8.7×1.5M5.4k5072.8k
12Jun 13, '25My note to Scale employees today—8.2×1.4M6.6k3922.4k
13Dec 3, '22The greatest modern tragedy is: The most brilliant and determined people often do not work on the world’s most urgent problems. We are on the brink of geopolitical crisis, and yet 7.8×09.1k895659
14Jun 29, '25very excited to be working with @shengjia_zhao, @jiahuiyu, @ren_hongyu, and @shuchaobi 😊 towards superintelligence 🚀6.7×1.1M3.9k153676
15Jan 20, '25Honored to be invited to attend the Inaugural at the Capitol! Optimism about AI and tech is palpable in DC this week. 🇺🇸 Proud to be an American.6.5×1.1M6.9k194552
16Oct 9, '23hope I’m wrong, but my estimate is there is ~10% chance this is the start of WW3 chaos is a ladder & the start of every major war has been a series of unlikely, unconnected tai6.2×1.1M1.4k74242
17May 29, '241/ We are launching SEAL Leaderboards—private, expert evaluations of leading frontier models. Our design principles: 🔒Private + Unexploitable. No overfitting on evals! 🎓Domain Ex5.8×984k1.7k209712
18Feb 10, '25Great to meet @narendramodi and @EmmanuelMacron in Paris today!5.8×978k17k627603
19Feb 7, '23PREDICTION: Google’s $15B deal with Apple to be the default search on iPhone will be re-negotiated and be a bidding war between MSFT/Bing and Google. It will become at least $25B, 5.7×968k4.2k304309
20Nov 11, '22Life hack: rewire yourself to enjoy grinding. MIT did this for me & most classmates. The school embrace the grind because there is no other way. The harder you work early in yo5.6×05.2k5891.3k
21Dec 25, '22I’m not a parent nor a child development expert… But it does seem like the best way to avoid having Normie kids is to allow them to play video games …and it’s definitely the best w5.3×893k2.7k137261
22Sep 24, '25new research from Meta FAIR: Code World Model (CWM), a 32B research model we encourage the research community to research this open-weight model! pass@1 evals, for the curious: 65.5.1×870k1.4k147420
23Feb 13, '25Free nations must lead in AI. Good conversation with @Keir_Starmer on global AI standards, economic prosperity, and how we can partner on the immense AI opportunities in the UK.4.7×792k1.6k121169
24Sep 3, '23i was doing math problems on the plane (usamo 2023!) and the flight attendant asked me if I was doing schoolwork (flattering age-wise she thought I was in school) it’s a total sham4.5×766k3.6k196498
25May 16, '241/ Some thoughts on the recent OpenAI and Google announcements, and what it indicates about what's next in AI. Hint: post-training is REALLY important... THREAD4.5×760k1.1k1351.1k
26Feb 11, '23biggest red flag on a résumé is a spotless track record of high brand companies it indicates: - not sticking thru adversity - risk adverseness these people are generally actors—the4.4×745k2.8k169488
28Jan 30, '23Last week, @scale_AI hosted a Generative AI hackathon. It was the purest expression of builder energy, and an omen that the dark days of tech stagnation are over. Roughly ~300 hack4.0×678k1.9k2131.2k
29Jan 21, '251/ New Administration, same goal: Win on AI Our ad in the Washington Post, January 21, 2025 After spending the weekend in DC, I’m certain this Administration has the AI muscle to k3.9×654k2.3k225720
30Aug 21, '25We are truly only investing more and more into Meta Superintelligence Labs as a company. Any reporting to the contrary of that is clearly mistaken.3.8×644k3.8k171257
31Jan 29, '25What does DeepSeek R1 & v3 mean for LLM data? Contrary to some lazy takes I’ve seen, DeepSeek R1 was trained on a shit ton of human-generated data—in fact, the DeepSeek models are 3.2×548k1.9k2961.6k
32Mar 5, '23despite all the hate & bs on twitter, san francisco is still the heart of AI, the biggest technological shift since the dawn of the internet the tech people who loudly moved ou3.2×535k1.1k5699
33Oct 15muse spark open. why 2026 won't be like 1984 3.1×535k4.9k257673
34Mar 18, '23the next 2-3 years of AI are definitively going to define the coming 2-3 decades of the world for those in technology: you live a lifetime for a moment like this—don’t waste it; do3.1×529k3.5k619544
35Dec 17, '22College is closer to a 4-year party than a career-preparation program. Most curriculum is totally unrelated to your future job—most jobs rely on skills that are entirely absent fro2.9×495k2.3k187181
36Feb 19, '23there are so many engineers (literally 10s of thousands) at big tech companies who are working on things that fundamentally don't matter and nobody cares about this is because at "2.8×472k2.1k153231
37May 21, '241/ Today, @Scale_AI is announcing $1B of financing at a $13.8B valuation. The round was led by @Accel along with our existing investors. @Scale_AI has never been better positioned 2.7×463k1.5k121355
38Aug 20, '23the most valuable skill in the world is systems engineering: the ability to debug, understand, and improve a complex system with limited/poor measurement THIS is what makes great s2.6×442k3.1k392918
39May 3, '25Team America will prevail 🇺🇸2.5×431k4.1k221303
41Apr 17, '23awkward truth: engineering productivity is far more correlated with culture than team size there are startups w/ 10 engineers that ship more for their customers than big co enginee2.4×412k1.6k233203
42Jul 29, '24Given a TechCrunch writer’s recent ad hominem attacks while covering our MEI policy, I’ve decided to call my TechCrunch Disrupt session off. Yes, “all the way off.”2.4×406k2.2k46131
43Sep 21, '25New, very needed benchmark from @scale_AI: SWE-Bench Pro Includes: - Multi-file edits - 100+ lines changed on average - Complex dependencies across large codebases Current top mode2.4×403k1.5k85333
44May 13, '25Good discussion on AI leadership with President Trump and my colleagues from across the AI industry 🤝 Thanks to our Saudi hosts as well!2.4×402k4.7k361365
45Dec 12, '24Since ChatGPT dropped in 2022, AI progress has been dramatic. But it's also been predictable—new models, bigger chip clusters, more chatbots. Not in 2025. Here are the three big ch2.4×401k1.3k1781.1k
46Dec 26, '23my interests roughly by age 0-12—math+chess all the time 13-17—math+algos+physics all the time 17-25—stopped doing math. tried to be cool. coded, read literature, played poker, tra2.4×400k2.4k146728
47Feb 20, '23one thing that most AI hypers don’t appreciate is just how slowly most of the world changes most workloads at big banks still are 80%+ on-prem, despite the cloud existing for 16+ y2.3×384k1.9k176178
48Aug 2, '23i have been weird my whole life everybody i’ve met who I respect has been weird the coolest people are usually also the weirdest weird is one of the best words in the english dicti2.2×372k2.2k217268
49Jan 6, '23The greatest luxury in life is being in an environment where your only responsibility is to learn This might sound like college, but college is not a place to learn most useful thi2.2×370k2.3k249253
50Dec 26, '24It is quite fitting that DeepSeek, China’s leading LLM lab, releases its latest model V3 on Christmas. - on-par with GPT-4o & Claude 3.5 Sonnet - trained w/10x less compute The bit2.2×369k1.7k184449
51Feb 1, '20If you want to be a historian, go into finance. If you want to write the future, go to a startup. Financiers study the ideas that already exist and pick the profitable ones. They s2.1×02.2k500179
52Jun 18, '23funny misalignment: - most employees (esp high performers) want SMALLER teams—fewer people to deal with, more work done - most managers want BIGGER teams—more people = more power, 2.1×362k1.3k121252
53Aug 10, '23one of the biggest lies of psychology is that introversion vs extroversion are innate traits extroversion can be learned—given a sufficient number of positive social interactions, 2.1×360k1.7k143334
54Dec 1, '22One of my favorite interview questions is: "What’s the hardest you’ve ever worked on something?" It's an extremely efficient filter for the kinds of people I like to work with. Wha2.1×01.6k110860
55Feb 4, '23the #1 reason to go to college is to find a significant other before the Real World corrupts you and all your suitors the #2 reason is to make friends with whom you can share your 2.1×354k1.2k64207
56Dec 26, '22The first thing you have to unlearn as an Adult is: Stop worrying about the BS everyone else is worried about. College apps & similar games train you to think the crowds are ri2.0×344k1.8k188290
57Apr 10, '25I testified at today's @HouseCommerce hearing on AI. The CCP has an AI master plan that’s working. I told Congress that America must do the following to win on AI: Dominate, Unleas2.0×344k2.4k351766
58Dec 12, '22.@elonmusk just came onstage with Dave Chappelle at Chase Center Elon was booed continuously for 5 minutes Finally, he asks Dave Chappelle to get on twitter SF is most definitely b2.0×02.7k100101
59Mar 6, '23working hard is infectious being around people who are always working makes it shockingly easy to work really hard inversely, surrounding yourself with leisurely or lazy people wil2.0×333k2.2k237380
60May 15, '25Team America will prevail 👍🇺🇸1.9×329k3.1k193141
61Oct 7, '24At the YC Alumni Reunion, I got lots of questions from new founders about how to build a successful company, but realized that they all had the same answer. And it’s this: ————————1.9×322k2.9k3552.1k
62Nov 10, '25Meta Omnilingual ASR expands speech recognition to 1,600+ languages, including 500 never before supported, as a major step towards truly universal AI. We are open-sourcing a full s1.9×316k1.4k150524
63Nov 19, '22Unintuitive fact of engineering: Big teams (>8 people) ship less than small teams. Not only less per capita—less overall! A big team that is not a fractal of small teams will lo1.8×02k212329
64Jan 21, '25…and I am confident that under President Trump's administration, we will do just that.1.8×310k1.9k152103
65Nov 26, '22The real problem with other cities (LA, NYC, Miami) relative to SF is that people are severely over-socialized. You need time alone to think, reflect & build plans to do anythi1.8×01.7k110216
66Aug 14, '25welcome to the team @hwchung27 @_jasonwei and @EdwardSun0909! some may recognize them from various recent livestreams :)1.6×279k1.4k65158
67Sep 16, '24As LLMs get smarter, evals need to get harder. OpenAI’s o1 has already maxed out most major benchmarks. Scale is partnering with CAIS to launch Humanity’s Last Exam: the toughest o1.6×276k1.3k147409
68Nov 10, '19Simple rule for founders: Only spend your time on things whose value compounds exponentially. They don't need to scale, but they need to compound. Examples: - Hiring - Culture - Co1.6×01.6k247361
69Nov 8, '22Large language models are magical. But using them in production has been tricky, until now. I’m excited to share ✨Spellbook🪄✨— the platform for LLM apps from @scale_AI. 🧵1.6×01.3k119577
70Jan 23, '23I’m seeing many fall into the “self-driving trap” w/Gen AI The self-driving trap is seeing shiny demos & thinking said demos will reach 100% reliability for prod w/in a few yea1.6×272k1.2k128117
72Jul 30, '23obsession goes a very long way, much further than intelligence does.1.5×260k2.6k406348
73Apr 18, '25OpenAI o3 is a genuine meaningful step forward for the industry. Emergent agentic tool use working seamlessly via scaling RL is a big breakthrough. It is genuinely incredible how c1.5×259k1.7k79219
74Jan 20, '25Trump just announced he will end DEI, and ensure that our country is “colorblind and merit-based”. MEI all the way Merit, excellence, and intelligence 🇺🇸💪1.5×257k5.7k304170
75Nov 24, '22Much of Silicon Valley is the reshuffling of uninspired, unremarkable individuals with one Great Brand on their resume, being recycled through tens of other Aspiring Great Brands. 1.5×01.8k127198
76Jul 16, '24first day in new office @scale_AI ✨ we’ve come a long way since @daniel_levine’s basement 📈1.4×242k1.8k40277
77Mar 25, '23truly, bias for action—more than any other trait—is the trait that seems most correlated with success and impact it is SO much better to be constantly shipping, making mistakes, an1.4×234k1.6k210458
78Aug 27, '23immigrants have some of the hardest lives immigrants are often discriminated against, have to work dramatically harder, are culturally alienated, and 1000s of miles away from every1.4×232k2k201123
79Feb 2, '23every great startup I know started as a nucleus of hardworking, insecure nerds1.3×218k1.3k92145
80Nov 30, '19How to hire people better than you: 1—Clear most of your calendar 2—List the most talented people you know 3—Meet up with each one 4—Paint a genuine vision and progress against it 1.2×01.3k159269
81Mar 29, '23urgency is a hell of a drug if you find yourself addicted to the feeling that every moment counts—cherish it. urgency will feel quite unreasonable to most. as a general rule, most 1.2×205k1.8k239382
82May 11, '25🔜1.2×200k1.2k4758
83Sep 5, '22The way that Bezos and the AMZN team derived AWS was by asking: “If compute costs will trend to 0 in perpetuity, what business would you build?” The purity is staggering. Today’s A1.2×01.1k80377
85Feb 8, '23the fact that Google market cap fell $100B in a day after being *slightly* late to RLHF-enhanced LLMs (ChatGPT-like models)—after inventing the Transformer—is a great lesson that y1.1×194k1.3k114104
86Feb 9, '25coming soon to a podcast app near you @TheoVon1.1×193k1.7k42155
87Nov 15, '22Let’s not lie to ourselves about American Dynamism The fact that @a16z doesn’t include any AI, chip, or cyber companies, despite these being the top 3 tech competitions w/China, is1.1×01.3k73192
88Dec 31, '19Bit of startup advice which I rarely hear: Spend the money on a nice office. Be frugal on just about everything else, but get a nice office. It's hard to appreciate just how much y1.1×01.4k14889
89Aug 26, '25Congratulations to the @scale_AI team on a major $99M contract with the @USArmy!1.1×185k1.2k69101
90Dec 4, '22My biggest mistakes in life (so far): 1—Forgetting who is truly there for me (the Real ones) 2—Not telling them I appreciate & love them 3—Getting off the learning treadmill at1.1×01.1k97260
91Oct 16, '22One of the saddest societal norms is losing curiosity at age 22. We are encouraged to in explore through the end of college, but then fiercely pivot towards exploitation—“go get a 1.1×01.2k118139
92Nov 12, '22The cultural prohibition of grinding & hard work will be the road to hell for America. If you love America, you’d realize our future is contingent on industrialism, not hedonis1.0×01.2k109131
93Feb 29, '20I’m always shocked by smart, young, driven people who choose a company because of “mentorship”. Yes, it is good to have some guidance, but most driven folks succeed through figurin1.0×01.1k103112
94Jan 10, '24only a very small % of the population truly understands how quickly AI will improve in the coming years and how much will change as AI models solve reasoning, coding, multimodality1.0×171k1.3k159253
95Apr 28, '24Advice to my younger self: - surround yourself with truly excellent people. top 1% in some important way - find something to work on for a LONG time (10+ yrs). jumping around doesn1.0×170k2.1k2281.1k
96Dec 6, '22Today, @goodside joined @scale_AI as a Staff Prompt Engineer. I am going to assert that Riley is the first Staff Prompt Engineer hired *anywhere*. These large models are a new kind1.0×01.1k80141
97Apr 10, '25Was great talking with @marthamaccallum after today's hearing on how America can win on AI.0.9×154k1.3k164296
98Jan 22, '24the 2 years of life where the greatest human potential is lost are the first 2 years entering the workforce everyone has a sharp realization that nobody actually cares about their 0.9×153k1.4k103416
99Dec 13, '22Peter Thiel’s criticism was famously “we asked for flying cars and got 140 characters” Well now, we have an on-demand artist, on-demand expert chatbot, on-demand copywriter, on-dem0.9×01.1k8795
101Sep 17, '23one of the secrets you learn from those older and wiser than you: speak less. say more when you speak (ie pack more information into fewer words). it’s easy in youth to think speak0.7×118k1.1k117218

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