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Jason Wei

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Research Scientist at Meta

Wei helped popularize chain-of-thought prompting, which lets language models improve complex reasoning by working through intermediate steps. He also made influential contributions to instruction tuning and the study of abilities that emerge as models scale.

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Research Scientist
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Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.

Last editorial review: August 9, 2026

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Citation history from Aug 25, '25 to Jun 1, '26133,699108,18382,667Aug 25, '25Jun 1, '26
133,699citations as of Jun 1, '26+51,032 since Aug 25, '25