Meta plans to unveil a brand new AI analysis lab devoted to “superintelligence” as the corporate works to compete within the AI race, in accordance with a number of stories.
Meta has tapped Scale AI founder and CEO Alexandr Wang to affix the brand new lab, The New York Instances stories. Meta has been in talks to make investments billions into Scale AI as a part of a deal that may convey Scale AI workers to Meta. Meta has additionally been poaching lead researchers from OpenAI and Google, per the Instances.
The brand new lab comes as Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg grows annoyed together with his firm’s AI shortfalls. Bloomberg stories he has been assembly with AI researchers and engineers at his properties in Lake Tahoe and Palo Alto to personally recruit a group of round 50 individuals, together with a brand new head of AI analysis.
Sources instructed Bloomberg that Zuckerberg believes Meta can and will outpace different tech firms gunning to attain AGI, the still-undefined concept that AI programs might exceed human efficiency in lots of duties.
Meta AI final month reached 1 billion month-to-month energetic customers.
