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Meta Launches 50-Person ‘Superintelligence’ Team in Bid for Human-Level AI

Meta is deploying tens of billions in ad revenue to expand AI infrastructure in a bid to recruit top experts for its AGI push.

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Meta Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at LlamaCon 2025, an AI developer conference in April.
Meta logo is seen in this illustration taken, August 22, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/ File Photo

Overview

  • Mark Zuckerberg has created a 50-person superintelligence group at Meta’s Menlo Park campus to drive research toward human-level artificial intelligence.
  • Frustrated by delays and criticism of its Llama4 model, Zuckerberg is personally steering recruitment and has reconfigured office space for direct oversight.
  • The company is offering seven- to nine-figure compensation packages to lure AI researchers from rivals including OpenAI and Google.
  • Meta plans a multibillion-dollar investment in Scale AI that includes bringing founder Alexandr Wang into its new lab leadership.
  • To support its AGI ambitions, Meta has raised its 2025 capital expenditure outlook to $64 billion–$72 billion for enhanced computing and data infrastructure.