Meta Platforms has separated its newly formed AI group into four individual teams as part of the company’s plan to leverage its recent hires.
Bloomberg reported the new teams are designed to ramp up Meta Platforms’ ambition to develop AI-based personal superintelligence for users.
The news agency cited an internal memo by chief AI officer Alexandr Wang which stated Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL) now has four distinct parts.
“Superintelligence is coming, and in order to take it seriously, we need to organise around the key areas that will be critical to reach it — research, product and infra”, Wang wrote in the memo, according to Bloomberg.
Wang formerly served as CEO of Scale AI prior to Meta Platforms making a $14.3 billion investment in the company in June.
The Information reported the move marks Meta Platforms’ fourth AI restructuring over the past six months. Bloomberg reported there were no layoffs related to the reorganisation on 19th August.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently outlined the formation of the MSL team, designed to boost the company’s AI efforts while competing against rivals Microsoft, Anthropic, OpenAI and Google.
Zuckerberg made a concerted effort to poach engineers and employees from rival AI companies over the past several months. Bloomberg previously reported he is personally recruiting around 50 people for a new team to spur the company’s artificial general intelligence (AGI) scheme.
Prior to MSL, Bloomberg explained the tech giant divided AI up across three teams: Fundamental AI Research (FAIR), the AI products group and the AGI foundations team.
The news agency reported Robert Fergus will continue to lead the FAIR team after returning to Meta Platforms in May, while the AGI foundations group is being disbanded.
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