Meta CEO Announced Superintelligence Labs Team

Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled the formation of a Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL) team. It should boost the company’s AI efforts while competing against rivals OpenAI and Google.

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 before 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 the 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 that MSL will host the company’s foundation models, products, and Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) teams, as well as a new lab focused on developing the next generation of their 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.