Meta Platforms is reportedly forming a Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL) team, designed to boost the company’s AI efforts while competing against rivals such as OpenAI and Google.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg tapped former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang to lead the MSL team. Wang, who is also chief AI officer for Meta, was CEO of Scale AI prior to Meta Platforms making a $14.3 billion investment in the company last month.
“Alex and I have worked together for several years, and I consider him to be the most impressive founder of his generation”, Zuckerberg stated in an internal memo. “He has a clear sense of the historic importance of superintelligence, and as co-founder and CEO he built Scale AI into a fast-growing company involved in the development of almost all leading models across the industry”.
Former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman and various employees and engineers from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google Deepmind also boarded MSL.
Zuckerberg explained in the memo MSL will host the company’s foundation models, products, and Fundamental AI Research teams, “as well as a new lab focused on developing the next generation of our models”.
“I’m optimistic that this new influx of talent and parallel approach to model development will set us up to deliver on the promise of personal superintelligence for everyone,” he stated.
Zuckerberg made a concerted effort to poach engineers and employees from rival AI companies over the past month. Bloomberg previously reported he is personally recruiting around 50 people for a new team to spur the company’s artificial general intelligence scheme.
Source: Mobile World Live
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