JPMorgan hired an AI scientist from Meta's Reality Labs after its VR head quietly left

AI Briefing

• – JPMorgan hires Meta's Reality Labs AI scientist Lambert Mathias to work on agentic enterprise AI, a move that comes as the bank's global head of immersive technology and spatial computing research, Blair McIntyre, quietly left the bank.
• – Mathias joins JPMorgan as a managing director in Seattle, bringing his expertise in multimodal, egocentric perception systems and LLMs and AI agents.
• – The hires may signal a shift in JPMorgan's focus away from its VR initiatives, which were a key part of the bank's Metaverse ambitions.