Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta Platform. Artificial intelligence has been an indispensable focus for tech giant leaders in competition with players such as Openai, Microsoft and Google.
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Mark Zuckerberg Monday said he was creating Yuan Super Smart Labs will be led by some of his company’s recent employees, including former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang and former Github CEO Nat Friedman.
Zuckerberg said the new AI superintelligence division, MSL, will house various teams at the company, such as open source camel software, products and basic artificial intelligence research projectaccording to an internal memorandum obtained by CNBC.
Bloomberg first Report About the new unit.
Meta’s co-founder and CEO has been AI Hires Blitz When he faces fierce competition from competitors such as Openai Google. In early June, the company said it would hire Wang, now chief AI officer at Meta and some of his colleagues, is part of a $14.3 billion investment in AI.
Meta also hired Friedman and his business partner Daniel Gross Report. Meta tried to buy a safe superintelligence, but was rejected by Sutskever.
Openai CEO Sam Altman explain In recent podcasts, Meta is recruiting AI researchers Offering signature bonuses from his company up to $100 million.
Metatech chief Andrew Bosworth told CNBC’s “closing overtime” in an interview on June 20 that Openai is opposing the Meta offer.
“The market is setting the rate here for a level of talent, which is incredible and unprecedented in my 20-year career as a technical executive,” Bosworth said.
Here is the full internal memo from Zuckerberg on Monday:
As the speed of advancement of artificial intelligence accelerates, the developing super intelligence is seeing. I believe this will be the beginning of a new era of humanity and I am completely committed to the efforts to lead the Meta. Today, I want to share some details about how we organize our AI efforts to build our vision: everyone’s personal super intelligence.
We will call our overall organization Meta Super Smart Lab (MSL). This includes all our foundations, product and equity teams, and new labs dedicated to developing next-generation models.
Alexandr Wang joined Meta as our Chief AI Officer and lead MSL. Alex worked with me for a few years and I think he is the most impressive founder of his generation. He has a clear understanding of the historical importance of superintelligence and, as co-founder and CEO, he built ScaleAi in a rapidly growing company involving nearly all leading models throughout the industry.
Nat Friedman also joined Meta in collaboration with Alex to lead MSL, leading our work in AI products and applied research. NAT will work with Connor to define his role. He runs Github at Microsoft and recently runs one of the leading AI investment companies. NAT served on our Meta Advisory Group last year, so he already has a good understanding of our roadmap and what we need to do.
We also have several strong new team members joining today or joining in the past few weeks I’m also happy to share:
- Trapit Bansal – Created RL on the idea chain and co-creator of Openai’s O series model.
- Shuchao Bi – Co-creator of GPT-4O Voice Mode and O4-Mini. Previously trained after leadership of OpenAI.
- Huiwen Chang – Co-creator of GPT-4O image generation and invented Maskgit and Muse text-to-image architecture on Google Research
- Ji Lin – Helps build O3/O4-Mini, GPT-4O, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.5, 4o-Imagegen and operator inference stacks.
- Joel Pobar – Inferences of anthropomorphism. Previously, META in HHVM, HACK, FLOW, REDEX, performance tools and machine learning lasted for 11 years.
- Jack Ray – Gemini’s former technical leader and Gemini 2.5 reasoning. LED Gopher and Chinchilla’s early LLM efforts at DeepMind.
- Hongyu Ren – Co-creators of GPT-4O, 4o-Mini, O1-Mini, O3-Mini, O3 and O4-Mini. Previously led a group that trained in Openai.
- Johan Schalkwyk – Former Google researcher, an early contributor to Sesame, and a technology leader at Maya.
- Wear the sun – Google DeepMind’s Gemini training, coding and reasoning. The last two generations of Waymo’s perception model were created before.
- Jiahui Yu – Co-creators of O3, O4-Mini, GPT-4.1 and GPT-4O. Previously led Openai’s Perception Team and led multimodal in Gemini.
- Shengjia Zhao – Chatgpt co-creator of GPT-4, all mini models, 4.1 and O3. Previously synthesised data in OpenAI.
I’m excited about our plan to make progress on Llama 4.1 and 4.2. These model power meta AI, over 1 billion actives per month in our applications and increasingly meta-agent use, can help improve our products and technologies. We are committed to continuing to build these models.
Meanwhile, we will begin researching the next generation model to reach the border around next year. Over the past few months, I’ve spent months meeting at Meta, other AI labs and promising startups to bring the founding team together to achieve this small, talent-intensive effort. We are still forming this group and we will also ask a few people from AI Org to join the lab.
Meta is providing the world with a unique position of super intelligent. We have a strong business that supports larger computing than smaller labs. We have deeper construction and growing products that can attract billions of people. We are pioneering and leading the AI glasses and wearables category, which are growing very quickly. Our company structure enables us to act with greater faith and boldness. I’m optimistic that this new approach to talent and parallel approaches to model development will allow us to provide everyone with a commitment to personal superintelligence.
We will have more great people on every level joining this effort in the coming weeks, so stay tuned. I’m so glad to sneak in and go to work.
