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Zuckerberg Launches Meta Superintelligence Labs in Bold AI Push

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has established Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL), a new division to unify and accelerate the company's AI development efforts. Former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang has joined as Chief AI Officer following Meta's $14.3 billion investment for a 49% stake in Scale AI. The division has also recruited former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman and 11 elite AI researchers from competitors including OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Anthropic, with some reportedly receiving compensation packages worth up to $100 million.
Zuckerberg Launches Meta Superintelligence Labs in Bold AI Push

In a strategic move to position Meta at the forefront of artificial intelligence development, CEO Mark Zuckerberg has officially launched Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL), consolidating all of the company's AI initiatives under one ambitious division.

The new organization is led by Alexandr Wang, the 28-year-old founder and former CEO of Scale AI, who joins Meta as Chief AI Officer following a $14.3 billion investment that gave Meta a 49% stake in Scale AI. Wang is partnered with Nat Friedman, former GitHub CEO, who will oversee AI products and applied research. Both executives report directly to Zuckerberg.

"As the pace of AI progress accelerates, developing superintelligence is coming into sight," Zuckerberg wrote in an internal memo released in late June. "I believe this will be the beginning of a new era for humanity, and I am fully committed to doing what it takes for Meta to lead the way."

The company has aggressively recruited top AI talent, hiring 11 researchers from rival organizations. Notable additions include Jack Rae, who led pre-training for Google's Gemini models; Jiahui Yu, co-creator of OpenAI's o3 and GPT-4o models; Shengjia Zhao, co-creator of ChatGPT and GPT-4; and Joel Pobar, who worked on inference systems at Anthropic. Industry reports suggest Meta has offered compensation packages worth up to $100 million to attract these researchers.

MSL will house all of Meta's AI teams, including those working on foundation models like Llama, product development, and the company's Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) group. The division will also include a new lab focused specifically on developing next-generation AI models "to get to the frontier in the next year or so."

The formation of Meta Superintelligence Labs represents Zuckerberg's most significant organizational commitment to AI development yet, as the company races against rivals like OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic toward artificial general intelligence (AGI) and beyond. The move has already created ripples across the industry, with OpenAI's Chief Research Officer Mark Chen describing the talent exodus as feeling like "someone has broken into our home and stolen something."

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