Meta restructures its AI unit beneath ‘Superintelligence Labs’

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is restructuring the corporate’s AI efforts to focus on constructing  AI “superintelligence.” 

Going ahead, all groups engaged on AI at Meta will fall beneath a brand new group known as Meta Superintelligence Labs, in keeping with Bloomberg, which considered an inner memo despatched Monday. 

Alexandr Wang, the previous CEO of knowledge labeling startup Scale AI, will lead the group as chief AI officer. He’ll companion with former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman, who will oversee Meta’s AI merchandise and utilized analysis, per Bloomberg.

Zuckerberg has been working arduous to get forward of the synthetic common intelligence (AGI) race, primarily by buying AI corporations and workers from prime AI corporations. Earlier this month, Meta invested $14.3 billion in Scale AI, bringing on Wang within the course of.

As well as, Zuckerberg has additionally been capable of lure 11 new AI researchers from rivals, in keeping with the report, together with some beforehand unreported hires equivalent to Google DeepMind principal researcher Pei Solar and Anthropic engineer Joel Pobar.