Meet Trapit Bansal, hired for record breaking salary by Meta, not from IIT Mumbai, IIM, NIT, VIT, his overall package is Rs…
From interning in Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI to getting Rs 800 crore joining bonus Trapit Bansal has come a long way. The former OpenAI researcher has officially joined Meta Superintelligence Labs. Bansal confirmed the move on Tuesday in a post on X, writing, “Thrilled to be joining Meta! Superintelligence is now in sight.”
A graduate of IIT Kanpur, Bansal joined OpenAI in 2022 and made significant contributions to its reinforcement learning efforts and early AI reasoning models. TechCrunch described him as “a highly influential OpenAI researcher.”
Who is Trapit Bansal?
- Trapit Bansal is an AI researcher with a background in mathematics, statistics, and computer science. His research areas include natural language processing (NLP), deep learning, and meta-learning.
- He earned a Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst holding a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and Statistics from IIT Kanpur. He also completed his PhD in Computer Science from the same university.
- During his academic years, he held research internship positions at IISc Bengaluru, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft.
- He interned at OpenAI for four months in 2017 during his graduation. Following his internships, his first full-time role was at OpenAI, where he joined as a Member of Technical Staff in January 2022. At OpenAI, he worked on reinforcement learning (RL) and reasoning-focused frontier research alongside co-founder Ilya Sutskever.
- Bansal co-created the model referred to as “01,” though further details are not public, according to his LinkedIn profile.
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