Topic: meta superintelligence labs

  • Meta Reorganizes AI Team Into 'Superintelligence Labs'

    Meta Reorganizes AI Team Into 'Superintelligence Labs'

    Meta is consolidating its AI teams into Meta Superintelligence Labs to accelerate progress in artificial general intelligence (AGI), led by CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Alexandr Wang, former Scale AI CEO, will serve as chief AI officer, collaborating with ex-GitHub CEO Nat Friedman, following...

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  • Researchers Flee Meta's New AI Super Lab

    Researchers Flee Meta's New AI Super Lab

    Meta's AI Superintelligence Lab is experiencing high-profile departures, with at least three researchers leaving shortly after joining, including returns to OpenAI. The lab faces internal instability due to frequent reorganizations and bureaucratic hurdles, despite offering competitive compensati...

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  • Meta Expands AI Recruiting Efforts to New Talent Pool

    Meta Expands AI Recruiting Efforts to New Talent Pool

    Meta is aggressively recruiting top AI talent with multi-year offers exceeding $1 billion, targeting researchers from startups like Thinking Machines Lab, though no acceptances have been confirmed yet. Meta disputes the reported scale of offers, calling them a "handful," while Zuckerberg personal...

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  • Meta Hires OpenAI Scientist to Head AI Lab

    Meta Hires OpenAI Scientist to Head AI Lab

    Meta has recruited Yang Song from OpenAI to lead its Superintelligence Labs, part of an aggressive hiring campaign that has attracted top researchers from firms like Google and Anthropic. Song specialized in enhancing AI models for complex datasets at OpenAI and contributed to the development of ...

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  • Yann LeCun to Leave Meta, Launch AI Startup

    Yann LeCun to Leave Meta, Launch AI Startup

    Yann LeCun, Meta's chief AI scientist, is reportedly leaving to start his own venture focused on developing advanced "world models" that simulate environments and predict future events. Meta is undergoing significant AI restructuring, including creating the Meta Superintelligence Labs and investi...

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  • Meta's Yann LeCun Explains Role After New AI Chief Hire

    Meta's Yann LeCun Explains Role After New AI Chief Hire

    Meta appointed Shengjia Zhao as chief scientist for its Superintelligence Labs, reinforcing its AI leadership team while clarifying Yann LeCun's continued focus on fundamental research at FAIR. Zuckerberg highlighted Zhao's pivotal role in shaping research direction, while LeCun and Meta leadersh...

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  • Meta Weighs AI Partnerships with Google and OpenAI

    Meta Weighs AI Partnerships with Google and OpenAI

    Meta is reportedly exploring AI partnerships with Google and OpenAI to enhance Meta AI. While advancing its Llama 5 model, the company sees value in testing external models like Gemini for faster, more capable AI across its apps.

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