Researcher

Rylan Schaeffer

Current role not listed

Schaeffer studies the engineering, science, and mathematics of intelligence. He led NeurIPS work showing how evaluation metrics can create the appearance of emergent abilities in large language models. In July 2026 he left Meta for what he called a risky bet outside existing AI labs; he has not named the effort.

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Background

Previously

2025-2026AI Research Scientist,

2024-2025Research Scientist, Gemini Pretraining & Data,

Google DeepMind

Until 2024Researcher,

2020-2023Research Associate,

2018-2019Data Scientist,

Education

Stanford University

Harvard University

UCL University of California, Davis

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Last editorial review: August 15, 2026

News 1

moveRylan Schaeffer leaves Meta Superintelligence Labs for an undisclosed new effort

Schaeffer said he had finished his last week at Meta and was leaving to take a risky bet outside existing AI labs; he has not named the effort.