Rylan Schaeffer announced on X that he had finished his last week at Meta Superintelligence Labs, where he worked as an AI research scientist. He described watching the lab assemble and accelerate and working with leading ML and AI researchers.
In the second part of the announcement, Schaeffer said he is leaving to take a risky bet orthogonal to existing AI labs and invited people interested in novel ML and AI research to contact him. He has not publicly named the effort or given himself a new title, so the destination remains unspecified.