Bloomberg: Mark Zuckerberg personally led the creation of artificial superintelligence
Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has decided to personally lead the company's efforts to create artificial general intelligence (AGI) – a system capable of performing tasks at or better than humans, Bloomberg reports, citing informed sources.
According to reports, in May and June, Zuckerberg held private meetings with top AI experts at his homes in Palo Alto and Lake Tahoe.
He plans to create a new team, which is called Superintelligence Labs within the company, and is personally selecting about 50 leading engineers and researchers for it.
To this end, Meta even regrouped its offices in Menlo Park – the new team will be placed directly next to Zuckerberg's office.
In addition, the company is preparing for a multi-billion dollar investment in the American startup Scale AI, which supplies data for training artificial intelligence models.
The startup's founder, Alexander Wang, will join Meta's new team after the deal, according to sources. This could be the company's largest external investment in its history.
Zuckerberg's decision to step up work on AGI was a reaction to disappointment with the quality of the company's latest developments – in particular, the new Llama 4 model. Its performance has aroused skepticism both within the company and among independent developers.
The planned launch of an even larger model called Behemoth had to be postponed – it turned out that it did not have significant advantages over its predecessors, although Meta actively promoted it as a breakthrough.
Zuckerberg has shifted into "founder mode," becoming more involved in operational decisions. He personally hosts a WhatsApp group chat called Recruiting Party, where he and top executives look for new talent.
He also assured potential recruits that Meta had enough advertising revenue to finance the construction of new data centers with a capacity of several gigawatts — which would make the company one of the leaders in the world in computing capabilities.
Meta is competing with giants like OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic in the race for AI dominance. The company plans to invest tens of billions of dollars in AI in 2024-2025, and Zuckerberg says it's looking to "hundreds of billions" in the future.
- On April 4, Politico reported that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg had purchased one of the most expensive homes in Washington – a 1,400-square-foot mansion for $23 million in cash.
- On April 16, it was reported that Meta Platforms would begin using publicly available content from European users to train its artificial intelligence models.
