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Meta Expands Superintelligence Labs with Apple AI Experts as Scale AI Trims Staff After $14.3B Deal

Meta’s recruitment of Mark Lee and Tom Gunter underscores its push toward artificial general intelligence, reshaping Scale AI after a $14.3 billion minority investment.

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Vancouver hosted one of the world’s top AI research conferences this week—drawing thousands of PhDs, professors, and Big Tech recruiters.
A pedestrian walks past technology startup Scale AI office in San Francisco. The company laid off 14% of its workforce just weeks after Meta invested $14.3 billion and hired its CEO Alexndr Wang.
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Overview

  • Meta has hired Apple AI researchers Mark Lee and Tom Gunter to strengthen its new Superintelligence Labs division.
  • Earlier this week, OpenAI researchers Jason Wei and Hyung Won Chung joined Meta, marking the latest in its aggressive talent acquisitions.
  • Superintelligence Labs, launched in late June under Alexandr Wang and Nat Friedman, centralizes Meta’s AI research efforts toward AGI.
  • Scale AI, now 49% owned by Meta, cut 14% of its workforce—over 200 employees and 500 contractors—to streamline its GenAI operations.
  • These recruitment and restructuring moves highlight the intensifying competition for top AI talent, data labeling capacity and compute resources.