Mark Zuckerberg announces his AI ‘superintelligence’ super-group

In a memo to Meta staff, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the company’s caller “Meta Superintelligence Labs” radical that volition caput up its AI work, Bloomberg reports.

Former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang, who joined Meta arsenic portion of a multibillion dollar woody earlier this month, volition caput up the radical arsenic the company’s main AI officer. Former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman volition “partner with” Wang to assistance pb the division, according to Bloomberg. Meta has besides made 11 caller AI-focused hires, including erstwhile Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and OpenAI employees. 

Zuckerberg has been making immense offers to imaginable hires – The Verge’s Alex Heath has reported that they’re “well into the eight-figure range” – to bolster its AI efforts, which person fallen down different large AI companies. Meta has besides held talks to bargain companies similar Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab, Perplexity, and Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence, though “none of these talks progressed to the ceremonial connection signifier for assorted reasons,” Heath reported.

Meta is besides readying to “start probe connected our adjacent procreation of models to get to the frontier successful the adjacent twelvemonth oregon so,” Zuckerberg said successful the memo, which was published successful afloat by CNBC.