Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg Reportedly Restructures AI Division, Creates Meta Superintelligence Labs

Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL) was reportedly created by the corporate CEO, Mark Zuckerberg. As per a number of stories, the brand new group was created as part of the restructuring of the prevailing Meta AI division. The MSL group is now stated to be heading the division with a give attention to growing the subsequent technology of enormous language fashions (LLMs) and synthetic intelligence (AI) know-how for the corporate. The group will probably be headed by the previous Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang, who joined Meta this month.

According to a Bloomberg report, Zuckerberg wrote a memo to Meta workers informing them in regards to the restructuring course of and the creation of MSL. Based on paperwork seen by the publication, MSL will probably be headed by Wang and lead the prevailing AI division. The Meta CEO reportedly referred to as Wang the “most impressive founder of his generation.”

The former CEO of Microsoft-owned GitHub, Nat Friedman, will reportedly “partner with Alex to lead” MSL. Meta has reportedly made 11 new hirings for the group, with the brand new workers becoming a member of from rivals reminiscent of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and extra.

In a submit on X (previously often called Twitter), Wang confirmed his new designation as Chief AI Officer of Meta. He additionally shared the listing of 11 new members of the crew that can be a part of him and Friedman to kind the Meta Superintelligence Labs.

Among them are former OpenAI workers reminiscent of Trapit Bansal, co-creator of the o-series fashions; Shuchao Bi, who co-developed GPT-4o’s Voice Mode; and Huiwen Chang, the co-creator of GPT-4o’s picture technology capabilities. Others embrace former workers of DeepMind and Anthropic. The Verge claimed that every of those new hires is incomes within the eight figures. Here’s the complete listing of the crew members beneath the MSL group:

“As the pace of AI progress accelerates, developing superintelligence is coming into sight. I believe this will be the beginning of a new era for humanity, and I am fully committed to doing what it takes for Meta to lead the way,” Bloomberg quoted Zuckerberg as saying.