Overview

• Zuckerberg has taken personal control of the initiative, hosting recruitment meetings at his Lake Tahoe and Palo Alto homes and reorganizing Meta’s Menlo Park headquarters to seat the superintelligence team near his office.
• He is offering compensation packages ranging from seven to nine figures to poach researchers from OpenAI, Google, and other leading AI labs.
• Meta is in talks to invest roughly $15 billion for a 49 percent stake in Scale AI, with founder Alexandr Wang set to lead the new lab.
• The superintelligence project follows setbacks for Meta’s Llama 4 and the delayed Behemoth model and is part of a broader reorganization of its AI efforts.
• The company has earmarked up to $65 billion in AI infrastructure spending for 2025, including a massive data center in Louisiana, to fuel its advanced computing needs.