Chaya Nayak Leaves Meta to Join OpenAI’s Special Initiatives Team

In a LinkedIn post, Nayak reflected on her decade-long journey at Meta, which began with the Data for Good initiative. “I joined to help jumpstart Data for Good, an effort to show how data and AI/ML could benefit the world. What started as a bold experiment grew into the foundation of my career,” she wrote.

Over the years, she worked on projects such as Disaster Maps and later led the Facebook Open Research and Transparency (FORT) team, focusing on responsible research frameworks, including data cleaning and differential privacy. She also contributed to Meta’s Generative AI strategy, including work on the company’s large language models, Llama and Meta AI.

 “In the last 2.5 years, I worked on GenAI – solving hard problems at incredible speed, and imagining what the next wave of AI could mean for society,” she added.

Announcing her new role, Nayak said, “It feels like the perfect next chapter: to take everything I've learned, and pour it into work that will help define what comes next for technology and society.”

Her exit follows other recent AI talent departures from Meta, with some moving to OpenAI.