Meta announces new ‘superintelligence’ unit to work on AI

Published on 01/07/2025 - 13:19 GMT+2

Meta announced a caller section to create an artificial intelligence (AI) strategy that is arsenic intelligent arsenic humans.

Mark Zuckerberg, nan CEO of Meta, wrote successful an soul memo connected Monday that Meta Superintelligence Labs, MSL, will beryllium a dedicated portion of nan institution focused connected artificial wide intelligence (AGI). 

The memo said that MSL would location respective investigation teams that are moving connected foundational AI models specified as  Llama software. 

It will beryllium lead by Alexandr Wang, nan erstwhile CEO of Scale AI, an American information note institution that builds training information sets for AI companies. 

Meta bought a 49 percent stock successful Scale AI past period for $14.3 cardinal (€12.4 billion), pinch nan institution saying astatine nan clip that it would employment Wang and a fewer different members of his team. 

Meta’s hiring spree

Zuckerberg’s memo included nan names of respective much group joining Meta from rivals OpenAI, Google and Anthropic. 

Former OpenAI leaders Hongyu Ren, Jiahui Yu, Shengjia Zhao and researchers Trapit Bansal, Shuchao Bi, Huiwen Chang and Ji Lin are now being brought into Meta, Zuckerberg’s soul memo added. 

Euronews Next contacted OpenAI to get their guidance to nan news but did not person an contiguous reply. 

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman precocious accused Meta of offering his labor $100 cardinal (€87 million) signing bonuses if they joined his company. 

Altman told his relative Jack successful his podcast astatine nan clip that he respects Meta’s “aggression” successful competing pinch nan institution but that promising “a ton of upfront guarnateed comp(ensation) … [won’t] group up a awesome culture”. 

“I deliberation group look astatine nan 2 paths [OpenAI vs Meta] and they opportunity OpenAI’s sewage a really bully shot, a overmuch amended changeable connected really delivering connected ace intelligence and whitethorn yet beryllium nan much valuable company,” he said.