Indian-Origin Trapit Bansal, Hammad Syed Among 44 Picked For Meta's Superintelligence Unit
Meta has reportedly been poaching the employees of other AI research companies like OpenAI, Google Deepmind, Anthropic and AI startups to build this elite team. Several reports stated that Meta is likely paying between $10-$100 million per year to these 44 people in the elite team.
2 Indians Among 44 Members Team
2 India-origin were part of the Meta's Superintelligence team. Other than Trapit Bansal, Hammad Syed also joined the elite team as a software engineer.
Who Is Hammad Syed?
Hammad Syed is the Co-Founder and CEO of Play.ht according to his LinkedIn profile, a leading AI voice generation platform that helps users create realistic, human-like speech from text using advanced AI models. With a strong focus on synthetic media, Play.ht serves thousands of content creators, developers, and businesses worldwide.
Hammad has a background in technology and entrepreneurship. He pursued his education at Sir M Visvesvaraya Institute of Technology in Bangalore, India, as per Crunchbase.
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