In a memo to Meta employees, 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 “associate with” Wang to assist lead the division, based on Bloomberg. Meta has additionally made 11 new AI-focused hires, together with former Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and OpenAI staff.
Zuckerberg has been making large gives to potential hires – The Verge’s Alex Heath has reported that they’re “properly into the eight-figure vary” – to bolster its AI efforts, which have fallen behind different huge AI corporations. Meta has additionally held talks to purchase corporations like Mira Murati’s Pondering Machines Lab, Perplexity, and Ilya Sutskever’s Secure Superintelligence, although “none of those talks progressed to the formal provide stage for varied 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 yr or so,” Zuckerberg mentioned within the memo, which was revealed in full by CNBC.