Overview

• Meta confirmed hiring Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, Xiaohua Zhai and Trapit Bansal into its Superintelligence unit to bolster expertise in reinforcement learning and reasoning.
• The researchers denied receiving $100 million signing bonuses, and CTO Andrew Bosworth criticized Sam Altman’s portrayal of the offers as dishonest exaggeration reserved for only the most senior roles.
• The company invested $14.3 billion in Scale AI and is in advanced talks to acquire PlayAI, aiming to integrate voice-replication technology into its AI assistant and hardware ecosystem.
• Bosworth signaled that additional researchers from OpenAI are expected to join Meta, reflecting the intensifying competition for a small pool of top AI talent.
• Meta’s Superintelligence lab will focus on building next-generation AI reasoning models to challenge OpenAI and Google in advancing toward artificial general intelligence.