Who joined Meta in 2026

CJ Desai joins Meta as chief enterprise platform officer

CJ Desai → to Meta, Chief Enterprise Platform Officer, from MongoDB

Meta creates a new enterprise AI unit and hands it to a MongoDB, ServiceNow and Cloudflare product veteran.

hireconfirmedSep 28, 2026CNBC: Meta hires MongoDB CEO CJ Desai to lead enterprise unit. MongoDB shares crater

Thinking Machines Lab founding team (five engineers) → to Meta as Researcher, Meta Superintelligence Labs

Showed Meta's recruiting reached past incumbents and into the founder-scientist labs built to compete with it.

hirereportedAug 1, 2025TheNextWeb: Meta has hired five founding members of Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab in a systematic talent raid

Ke Yang → to Meta as Researcher, Meta Superintelligence Labs

Showed Meta's Apple recruiting reached beyond one team, widening the damage to Apple's AI bench.

hirereportedJul 9, 2025PYMNTS: Apple AI Crises Deepen as Search Exec Ke Yang Moves to Meta

Ruoming Pang → to Meta as Researcher, Meta Superintelligence Labs

The most expensive individual offer reported in the two-year window, and the clearest sign Apple had become a supplier of AI talent rather than a destination for it.

hirereportedJul 7, 2025Bloomberg: Apple Loses Top AI Models Executive to Meta's Hiring Spree

Daniel Gross → to Meta as AI Products Lead, Meta Superintelligence Labs

Gave Meta a proven product leader with Apple and founder-scale credibility, and forced a leadership change at a rival lab in the same week.

hirereportedJul 3, 2025CNBC: Ilya Sutskever becomes CEO of Safe Superintelligence after Meta poached Daniel Gross

Nat Friedman → to Meta as Superintelligence Labs Leadership

Rounded out Meta Superintelligence Labs' founding leadership pair alongside Wang.

hirereportedJun 30, 2025Time: Alexandr Wang and Nat Friedman: The 100 Most Influential People in AI 2025

Shengjia Zhao → to Meta as Chief Scientist, Meta Superintelligence Labs

Gave Meta a direct technical line to the model architecture behind OpenAI's flagship product.

hirereportedJun 30, 2025Inc.: Meta Poached Its New Chief Scientist for Superintelligence From OpenAI

Alexandr Wang → to Meta as Chief AI Officer

The single largest capital commitment behind any 2024-2025 AI hire, and the appointment that created Meta Superintelligence Labs.

hireconfirmedJun 13, 2025TechCrunch: Scale AI confirms 'significant' investment from Meta, says CEO Alexandr Wang is leaving