Stanford PhD Zhengxuan Wu Leaves Google DeepMind for Meta, Focusing on Safety
aryaman2020 · x · 2026-10-31
Zhengxuan Wu, co-first author of ReFT and creator of pyvene, has left Google DeepMind to join Meta, updating his bio to "safety @Meta TBD." The Stanford CS PhD's research spans representation-level model intervention and agent safety evaluation, marking another safety-focused hire from a rival lab.
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