Indian-Origin Trapit Bansal, Hammad Syed Among 44 Picked For Meta’s Superintelligence Unit | Business News

Last Updated:July 20, 2025, 16:49 IST

Meta, led by Mark Zuckerberg, is boosting AI efforts with the Meta Superintelligence team, hiring talent from OpenAI, Google Deepmind, and others.

Two Indians — Trapit Bansal and Hammad Syed — Join Meta’s Superintelligence Dream Team

The stiff competition in the gen AI has forced Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta to gear up its efforts, aiming at dominating the rising field and grabbing the largest pie of the emerging and revolutionary technology. Meta has been building its Superintelligence Team through carrots and sticks that will focus on building and developing artificial general intelligence (AGI) as known as “superintelligence”.

A total of 44 people from varied origins were part of the new elite division called Meta Superintelligence.

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.

Who Is Trapit Bansal?

Indian-American Trapit Bansal is making headlines at the global level after being recruited for Meta’s upcoming Superintelligence 11 Team. The former AI researcher of OpenAI is now part of a coveted team of Meta working to develop superintelligence, which is a type of intelligence in computers that exceeds human minds in reasoning, thinking, processing, and problem-solving.

Trapit Bansal is an AI researcher. He has had Masters of Science in Mathematics and Statistics from IIT, Kanpur. He then completed another Master of Science in Computer Science from University of Massachusetts Amherts. Thereafter, he pursued PHD in Computer Science from the same University of Massachusetts Amherst. His research areas were natural language processing, deep learning and meta-learning.

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