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Meta Reorganizes AI Push as Departures Mount and Talks Turn to Rival Models

Meta is pausing hiring to reshape the group into four units, aiming to steady progress after Llama stumbled.

WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 18: CEO of Scale A.I. Alexandr Wang testifies during a House Armed Services Subcommittee on Cyber, Information Technologies and Innovation hearing about artificial intelligence on Capitol Hill July 18, 2023 in Washington, DC. The hearing focused on barriers that prevent the Department of Defense from adopting and deploying A.I. effectively and the risks from adversarial A.I. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
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Meta did poach several employees from rivals, but a lot of people are leaving, too.

Overview

  • Leaders at Meta Superintelligence Labs have discussed temporarily integrating Google’s Gemini and OpenAI’s models into Meta AI, with Anthropic models already used internally for coding, according to The Information.
  • An internal memo confirms a temporary hiring freeze across MSL while 2026 headcount planning proceeds, with business‑critical roles reviewed case by case and Alexandr Wang asserting continued investment.
  • MSL has been formalized into four teams—TBD Lab, FAIR as an innovation engine, Products & Applied Research, and MSL Infra—while the AGI Foundations group is being dissolved and absorbed.
  • A string of exits has followed the rapid buildout, including short‑tenure hires Ethan Knight and Rishabh Agarwal, would‑be recruit Avi Verma who never started, and veterans such as Chaya Nayak and Loredana Crisan, with Meta calling the attrition routine.
  • ChatGPT co‑creator Shengjia Zhao was named chief AI scientist after he reportedly prepared to return to OpenAI, and reports say the team is racing to ship improved Llama releases this year as work on a planned Behemoth model was de‑emphasized.