Indian-origin AI researcher Rishabh Agarwal, known for his work at Google Brain and DeepMind, has resigned from Meta’s AI lab after a five-month stint, sharing the news on social media platform X in a 156-word post. He is now exploring new opportunities in the AI field.
In his post, Agarwal revealed that he was drawn to the Superintelligence Team by an offer from Mark Zuckerberg and Scale AI CEO Alexander Wang. Ultimately, he followed Zuckerberg’s advice: “The biggest risk in a rapidly changing world is not to take any risk.”
During his short tenure, Agarwal contributed significantly to Meta’s AI research, including enhancing “thinking models” through RL scaling, using synthetic data in mid-training, and improving on-policy distillation methods. He expressed gratitude toward his teammates for their collaboration.
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Agarwal’s departure underscores his preference for new challenges and risk-taking over high-profile roles in major tech companies. The AI industry is now closely watching his next move.
