Meta has made a radical structural change in its AI strategy. The company has combined all of its AI work, currently carried out by different teams, into a single center and created the newly established “Meta Superintelligence Labs” unit. According to the latest information, this step was taken to enable Meta to conduct its work in the field of artificial general intelligence (AGI) in a more centralized, coordinated and aggressive manner.
Meta will combine all AI units
Alexandr Wang, previously CEO of Scale AI, a company operating in the field of data labeling, was appointed to head the new formation. Wang serves as Chief AI Officer at Meta. He is accompanied by former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman. Friedman will be responsible for AI products and applied research at Meta.
In recent months, Mark Zuckerberg has been seen to be conducting an intensive investment process not only in the team structure but also in terms of financial and human resources in order to strengthen the company’s position in the AGI field.
Meta, which made a $14.3 billion investment in Scale AI in June, also directly added Alexandr Wang to its staff. The company did not stop there and transferred many prominent names in the sector. The new group of 11 researchers transferred includes Google DeepMind principal researcher Pei Sun, Anthropic engineer Joel Pobar and some names from OpenAI.
Meta is also in acquisition talks with structures such as Thinking Machines Lab founded by Mira Murati, artificial intelligence-based search engine Perplexity and Safe Superintelligence led by Ilya Sutskever. Each of these initiatives is among the independent but effective formations that play a critical role in the development of AGI-focused technologies.
This new structure was recorded as one of the clearest steps showing that Meta is positioned as a central actor not only with social media platforms but also in the artificial general intelligence race.
