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Meta Launches Superintelligence Labs Led by Alexandr Wang

The new unit consolidates the company’s AI research under Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang to drive long-term superintelligence development

IITian Trapit Bansal has announced he will be joining Meta
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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.