Report: Meta faucets Scale AI’s Alexandr Wang to hitch new ‘superintelligence’ lab

Meta plans to unveil a brand new AI analysis lab devoted to “superintelligence” as the corporate works to compete within the AI race, in keeping with a number of experiences.

Meta has tapped Scale AI founder and CEO Alexandr Wang to hitch the brand new lab, The New York Occasions experiences. Meta has been in talks to speculate billions into Scale AI as a part of a deal that will carry Scale AI workers to Meta. Meta has additionally been poaching lead researchers from OpenAI and Google, per the Occasions. 

The brand new lab comes as Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg grows annoyed together with his firm’s AI shortfalls. Bloomberg experiences he has been assembly with AI researchers and engineers at his properties in Lake Tahoe and Palo Alto to personally recruit a workforce of round 50 individuals, together with a brand new head of AI analysis. 

Sources instructed Bloomberg that Zuckerberg believes Meta can and will outpace different tech firms gunning to attain AGI, the still-undefined concept that AI methods may exceed human efficiency in lots of duties.

Meta AI final month reached 1 billion month-to-month lively customers.