Meta’s New Superintelligence Lab Is Discussing Major A.I. Strategy Changes - The New York Times
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Meta’s superintelligence lab is being closely watched after the company recently stumbled with A.I. technology, including internal management struggles, employee churn and product releases that fell flat. Mr. Zuckerberg’s ultimate goal is to create A.I. that is “superintelligent,” which means it would hypothetically exceed the powers of the human brain.
Mr. Zuckerberg has embarked on a spending spree to create the new lab, offering as much as nine-figure pay packages to hire top researchers from companies like OpenAI, Google, Apple and Anthropic. Meta also sidelined its executive who had been leading generative A.I.
In June, the company made a $14.3 billion investment in the A.I. start-up Scale AI, which was founded and led by Mr. Wang. Under the deal, Meta took a 49 percent stake in the company, and Mr. Wang and a team of top Scale employees joined Meta in leadership roles.
The company has since renamed its entire A.I. division “Meta Superintelligence Labs,” with Mr. Wang as chief A.I. officer. Within the larger A.I. division, Mr. Wang has led an exclusive team of around a dozen newly hired researchers, a handful of his deputies from Scale AI, and Nat Friedman, the former chief executive of GitHub, a software start-up.
Many members of Mr. Wang’s team reported to Meta’s headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., last week for the first time, the two people with knowledge of the matter said. The group is working in an office space siloed from the rest of the company and next to Mr. Zuckerberg, the people said.