The Llama 3 Herd of Models

Clemens Winter writes publicly about reinforcement learning and machine learning systems, and official OpenAI materials credit him on GPT-4 and GPT-4.5 work. Accessible public sources do not clearly establish a current employer.

AI researcher and former OpenAI scientist who became chief scientist of Meta Superintelligence Labs in July 2025; public academic sources also show earlier Stanford and Tsinghua training.

Co-founder and CTO at Thinking Machines. Previously VP of Research (Post-Training) at OpenAI, Staff Research Scientist at Google Brain, and a researcher at the Information Sciences Institute.

Xinyun Chen's homepage identifies her as an AI research scientist at Meta Superintelligence Labs, previously a staff research scientist at Google DeepMind. It also lists a PhD in Computer Science from UC Berkeley and a BS in Computer Science from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Recent public bios describe Angela Fan as a researcher at Meta working on large language models, machine translation, multilingual generation, and story generation.

Research scientist focused on parallel and distributed machine learning systems.

Research scientist at Meta working on post-training and model personalization. He previously worked on retrieval systems, recommendations, and ranking, and earned his Ph.D. from Stanford University.

Abhinav Pandey is listed as an author of the Meta AI technical report The Llama 3 Herd of Models.

Machine learning engineer at FAIR at Meta AI and incoming PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University.

Ahmad Al-Dahle joined Airbnb as Chief Technology Officer on January 14, 2026. Airbnb's announcement says he previously led Generative AI at Meta, founded Meta's Generative AI group in early 2023, and earlier studied engineering at the University of Waterloo and held senior technical leadership roles at Apple.

Staff research scientist at Meta whose work focuses on democratizing natural language processing tools, especially for low-resource languages.

Akhil Mathur is a postdoctoral research scientist at Meta FAIR whose public homepage highlights work in natural language processing and machine learning.

Research engineer at Meta with a verified OpenReview profile listing current affiliation at Facebook/Meta.

Amy Yang is listed as an author of the Meta AI technical report The Llama 3 Herd of Models.

Anirban Ghosh is listed as an author of the Meta AI technical report The Llama 3 Herd of Models.

Ankush Goyal is listed as an author of the Meta AI technical report The Llama 3 Herd of Models.

Machine learning engineer at Meta working on Llama post-training, with interests in reinforcement learning, generative AI, digital humans, AI at the edge, and ML systems.

Anuj Sharma is listed as an author of the Meta AI technical report The Llama 3 Herd of Models.

Machine learning researcher at Meta AI and visiting scientist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign focused on language models and multimodal learning.

Ashish Mitra is listed as an author of the Meta AI technical report The Llama 3 Herd of Models.

Founding AI Lead at Samaya AI with research interests in reasoning, retrieval, agentic systems, and reinforcement learning; previously completed a Stanford PhD in computer science under Christopher Manning.

Aston Zhang is a member of technical staff at OpenAI, author of Dive into Deep Learning, and a core contributor to Llama 3. His homepage says he earned his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Research scientist at Meta GenAI in Menlo Park working on foundation models, language generation, and evaluation.

Research scientist at Meta AI working on applied mathematics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.

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Clemens Winter

Shengjia Zhao

Barret Zoph

Xinyun Chen

Angela Fan

Abhimanyu Dubey

Abhinav Jauhri

Abhinav Pandey

Abhishek Kadian

Ahmad Al-Dahle

Aiesha Letman

Akhil Mathur

Alan Schelten

Amy Yang

Anirban Ghosh

Ankush Goyal

Anthony Hartshorn

Anuj Sharma

Archit Narang

Ashish Mitra

Ashwin Paranjape

Aston Zhang

Aurelien Rodriguez

Baptiste Rolland