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 underneath a brand new group known as Meta Superintelligence Labs, based on Bloomberg, which seen an inside memo despatched Monday.
Alexandr Wang, the previous CEO of information labeling startup Scale AI, will lead the group as chief AI officer. He’ll accomplice 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 substitute common intelligence (AGI) race, primarily by buying AI corporations and staff from high 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 in a position to lure 11 new AI researchers from rivals, based on the report, together with some beforehand unreported hires akin to Google DeepMind principal researcher Pei Solar and Anthropic engineer Joel Pobar.
