Overview

• Meta has created Meta Superintelligence Labs to unify all its AI efforts under Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang with Nat Friedman co-leading applied research.
• The labs bring together foundation model development, AI product teams and the Fundamental AI Research group plus a dedicated lab for next-generation language and multimodal models.
• Meta’s mid-June $14.3 billion investment for a 49 percent stake in Scale AI was key to securing Wang’s leadership and expanding its data-labeling capabilities.
• More than a dozen top researchers from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind have joined through high-value incentives, including stock awards and signing bonuses.
• Zuckerberg has reaffirmed plans to spend hundreds of billions on AI, but analysts caution that meaningful financial returns are likely to materialize only over the long term.