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Meta's AI hiring efforts have scored big: Trapit Bansal, a highly influential OpenAI researcher, has officially joined Meta's AI superintelligence team.Bansal had been with OpenAI since 2022, being a key layer in the company's reinforcement learning development, and working as a foundational contributor on o1, their first AI reasoning model.For those keeping score, Bansal joins former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang, former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman and Safe Superintelligence co-founder Daniel Gross as recent addi ...