Meta Reorganized Its New AI Group

Meta Platforms has split its freshly formed AI group into four separate teams. The reorganization is a part of the company’s plan to leverage recent hires from competing players.

The new teams are designed to ramp up Meta's ambition to develop AI-based personal superintelligence for users. An internal memo by chief AI officer Alexandr Wang stated that Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL) now has four distinct parts. “Superintelligence is coming, and to take it seriously, we need to organize around the key areas that will be critical to reach it — research, product, and infra,” Wang wrote in the memo.

Wang formerly served as CEO of Scale AI before Meta's $14.3 billion investment in the company in June. The move marks Meta's fourth AI restructuring over the past six months. There were no layoffs related to the reorganisation. CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently outlined the formation of the MSL team, designed to enhance the company’s AI efforts and compete with rivals such as Microsoft, Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google.

Zuckerberg made a concerted effort to poach engineers and employees from rival AI companies over the past several months. He was personally recruiting around 50 people for a new team to spur the company’s artificial general intelligence (AGI) scheme. Before the latest shakeup, the tech giant divided AI across three teams: Fundamental AI Research (FAIR), the AI products group, and the AGI foundations team.