In a memo to Meta workers, CEO Mark Zuckerberg introduced the corporate’s new “Meta Superintelligence Labs” group that can head up its AI work, Bloomberg reports.
Former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang, who joined Meta as a part of a multibillion greenback deal earlier this month, will head up the group as the corporate’s chief AI officer. Former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman will “companion with” Wang to assist lead the division, in keeping with Bloomberg. Meta has additionally made 11 new AI-focused hires, together with former Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and OpenAI workers.
Zuckerberg has been making big gives to potential hires – The Verge’s Alex Heath has reported that they’re “effectively into the eight-figure vary” – to bolster its AI efforts, which have fallen behind different huge AI firms. Meta has additionally held talks to purchase firms like Mira Murati’s Considering Machines Lab, Perplexity, and Ilya Sutskever’s Protected Superintelligence, although “none of those talks progressed to the formal provide stage for numerous causes,” Heath reported.
Meta can also be planning to “begin analysis on our subsequent era of fashions to get to the frontier within the subsequent 12 months or so,” Zuckerberg mentioned within the memo, which was revealed in full by CNBC.