{"id":28639,"date":"2025-07-01T01:54:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T01:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/28639\/"},"modified":"2025-07-01T01:54:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T01:54:09","slug":"metas-recent-ai-hires-to-lead-new-superintelligence-labs-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/28639\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta\u2019s Recent AI Hires to Lead New \u2018Superintelligence Labs\u2019 Unit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meta<\/a> CEO Mark Zuckerberg<\/a> reportedly told company staff Monday (June 30) that he is creating a new artificial intelligence (AI) business unit called Meta Superintelligence Labs that will be led by some of the company\u2019s most recent hires.<\/p>\n

Those leaders include former Scale AI<\/a> CEO Alexandr Wang<\/a> and former GitHub<\/a> CEO Nat Friedman<\/a>, CNBC reported<\/a>, citing an internal memo. Zuckerberg also said Meta had hired 11 other people in the last few weeks to join the team.<\/p>\n

The new unit will include teams working on Meta\u2019s foundation models, product, Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) and the next generation of its models, according to the report.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve spent the past few months meeting top folks across Meta, other AI labs, and promising startups to put together the founding group for this small talent-dense effort,\u201d Zuckerberg said in the memo, per the report. \u201cWe\u2019re still forming this group and we\u2019ll ask several people across the AI org to join this lab as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meta did not immediately reply to PYMNTS\u2019 request for comment.<\/p>\n

It was reported June 10 that Zuckerberg was personally recruiting experts for Meta\u2019s artificial general intelligence<\/a> (AGI) team, recruiting from a pool of AI researchers and engineers who had met with him at his homes in Lake Tahoe and Palo Alto, California.<\/p>\n

Zuckerberg had been clear about making AI a priority for Meta, but had recently gone into \u201cfounder mode,\u201d with a hands-on approach to management, the June 10 report said.<\/p>\n

It was reported June 18 that OpenAI<\/a> CEO Sam Altman<\/a> said Meta was offering $100 million signing bonuses<\/a> to poach his workers as it tried to catch up in the AI race.<\/p>\n

Scale AI, which is a data-labeling startup, announced June 12 that it had received a \u201csignificant investment<\/a>\u201d from Meta and that Wang would join Meta while also continuing to serve as a director on Scale\u2019s board of directors.<\/p>\n

It was reported June 18 that Meta was in talks to hire Friedman and Daniel Gross<\/a>, who are AI investors, and partially buy out their venture capital fund, NFDG<\/a>, which has invested in AI startups like Perplexity<\/a>, The Bot Company<\/a> and Safe Superintelligence<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to Monday\u2019s CNBC report, Meta hired both Friedman and Gross.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg reportedly told company staff Monday (June 30) that he is creating a new artificial…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":28640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[21753,691,24609,738,7798,340,24610,50,751,158,67,132,68,756],"class_list":{"0":"post-28639","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-agi","9":"tag-ai","10":"tag-artificial-general-intelligence","11":"tag-artificial-intelligence","12":"tag-mark-zuckerberg","13":"tag-meta","14":"tag-meta-superintelligence-labs","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-pymnts-news","17":"tag-technology","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-whats-hot"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114775488148634809","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}