Meta’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg announced the creation of Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL) on Monday. This would be a new division aimed at developing artificial general intelligence (AGI) an AI system that can match or exceed human intelligence across a wide range of tasks.
The Mark Zuckerberg’s superintelligence labs group will reportedly bring together Meta’s foundational AI model teams, product teams, and the company’s well-known Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) division. A new lab under MSL will also focus on building the next generation of large language models (LLMs).
Meta superintelligence labs
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has reorganized the company’s artificial intelligence efforts under a new division called Meta Superintelligence Labs, according to a source on Monday.
The division will be headed by Alexandr Wang, former CEO of data labeling startup Scale AI. He will be the chief AI officer of the new initiative at the social media giant, the source said.
Mark Zuckerberg’s superintelligence effort
Mark Zuckerberg is going all in after poor reception for Meta’s latest open-source Llama 4 model, challenges that have allowed rivals including Google, OpenAI and China’s DeepSeek to seize momentum in the AI race.
Zuckerberg hopes the new lab will fast-track work on AGI and help create new cash flows from the Meta AI app, image-to-video ad tools and smart glasses.
Meta’s AI push and aggressive offers
Over the past month, Zuckerberg personally led an aggressive talent raid, floating offers for startups including OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence (SSI) and courting prospects directly on WhatsApp with million-dollar pay packages.
Meta earlier this month, invested $14.3 billion in Scale AI.
The new division will reportedly include SSI’s co-founder and CEO, Daniel Gross along with Wang and some Scale AI staff.
Former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman will co-lead the Superintelligence Labs with Wang and head the company’s work on AI products and applied research, according to the source.
Meta AI new hires
Zuckerberg has also brought on 11 new hires in the AI field, including researchers from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, the source said.
The new appointments include former DeepMind researchers Jack Rae and Pei Sun; several OpenAI alumni such as Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, Shengjia Zhao and Hongyu Ren; as well as Anthropic’s Joel Pobar, who previously spent more than a decade at Meta, according to the source.
Meta’s big bet
As per OpenAI CEO, Sam Altman Meta had offered his employees bonuses of $100 million to recruit them earlier this month,
As per some analysts Meta’s AGI bet could be another try by tht company to yield near-term returns. Also Meta’s Reality Labs unit, has burned through more than $60B since 2020, and has shown nothing much other that smart glasses and Quest headsets.
Billions spend by tech companies
Estimated big tech companies are expected to spend $320 billion on AI in 2025.
In 2024, Microsoft spent $650 million to scoop up most of Inflection AI’s staff, including co-founder Mustafa Suleyman, while Amazon poached key talent from Adept.
Also tech giants are still far off from reaching the pinnacle of technology. As per SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son pegs the breakthrough within a decade.
