Meta plans to unveil a brand new AI analysis lab devoted to “superintelligence” as the corporate works to compete within the AI race, in keeping with a number of experiences.
Meta has tapped Scale AI founder and CEO Alexandr Wang to hitch the brand new lab, The New York Times reports. Meta has been in talks to take a position billions into Scale AI as a part of a deal that may carry Scale AI workers to Meta. Meta has additionally been poaching lead researchers from OpenAI and Google, per the Instances.
The brand new lab comes as Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg grows annoyed together with his firm’s AI shortfalls. Bloomberg experiences he has been assembly with AI researchers and engineers at his houses in Lake Tahoe and Palo Alto to personally recruit a crew of round 50 individuals, together with a brand new head of AI analysis.
Sources advised Bloomberg that Zuckerberg believes Meta can and may outpace different tech corporations gunning to realize AGI, the still-undefined concept that AI techniques may exceed human efficiency in lots of duties.
Meta AI final month reached 1 billion month-to-month lively customers.