Overview

• Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is assembling a 50-member “superintelligence group” at Meta’s Menlo Park headquarters to accelerate work on artificial general intelligence.
• The push reflects Zuckerberg’s frustration with the quality and reception of Meta’s latest large language model, Llama 4, driving him to oversee talent recruitment directly.
• Meta has postponed the launch of its Behemoth AI model to ensure it delivers significant improvements over prior Llama iterations.
• In late April, Meta announced plans to boost capital expenditures to between $64 billion and $72 billion this year to expand data centers, GPUs and other AI infrastructure.
• The new team and spending surge intensify Meta’s competition with rivals such as Google and OpenAI for top AI talent and foundational breakthroughs.