Mark Zuckerberg sends introductory mail on all the key employees hired for Meta Superintelligence Labs including one of the top-paid
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has now, after weeks of speculation, officially announced the creation of Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL), a sweeping reorganization of the company's artificial intelligence efforts aimed at building "personal superintelligence for everyone." The new division will be led by former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang as chief AI officer, following Meta's $14.3 billion acquisition of his data-labeling startup.
"As the pace of AI progress accelerates, developing superintelligence is coming into sight," Zuckerberg wrote in an internal memo obtained by CNBC. "I believe this will be the beginning of a new era for humanity, and I am fully committed to doing what it takes for Meta to lead the way."
Former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman will partner with Wang to co-lead MSL, focusing on AI products and applied research. Zuckerberg described Wang as "the most impressive founder of his generation" and praised his "clear sense of the historic importance of superintelligence."
The 11 key employees joining Meta's Superintelligence Labs
The announcement comes alongside the hiring of 11 prominent AI researchers from competitors including OpenAI , Anthropic, and Google DeepMind. According to the memo, Meta has been actively recruiting talent as part of its aggressive push to compete with OpenAI and Google in the race for advanced AI systems.
Key new hires include:
"Meta is uniquely positioned to deliver superintelligence to the world," Zuckerberg said in the memo. "We have a strong business that supports building out significantly more compute than smaller labs. We have deeper experience building and growing products that reach billions of people."
"We're going to start research on our next generation of models to get to the frontier in the next year or so," Zuckerberg stated in the memo. The restructuring consolidates Meta's foundations, product, and FAIR teams under MSL, alongside a new lab focused on developing next-generation AI models.
Zuckerberg notes that the company’s AI efforts will focus on building systems that are not only human-capable but "personal," deeply integrated into how people interact with technology.
The CEO emphasized Meta's structural advantages, writing: "Our company structure allows us to move with vastly greater conviction and boldness. I'm optimistic that this new influx of talent and parallel approach to model development will set us up to deliver on the promise of personal superintelligence for everyone."
Meta AI currently serves more than 1 billion monthly active users across the company's platforms, powering what Zuckerberg described as "an increasing number of agents across Meta that help improve our products and technology."
He concluded the memo by stating: "We have even more great people at all levels joining this effort in the coming weeks, so stay tuned. I'm excited to dive in and get to work." Meta's aggressive AI expansion includes reported acquisition talks with Perplexity and Runway, plus an expected purchase of voice replication startup PlayAI.
"As the pace of AI progress accelerates, developing superintelligence is coming into sight," Zuckerberg wrote in an internal memo obtained by CNBC. "I believe this will be the beginning of a new era for humanity, and I am fully committed to doing what it takes for Meta to lead the way."
Former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman will partner with Wang to co-lead MSL, focusing on AI products and applied research. Zuckerberg described Wang as "the most impressive founder of his generation" and praised his "clear sense of the historic importance of superintelligence."
The 11 key employees joining Meta's Superintelligence Labs
The announcement comes alongside the hiring of 11 prominent AI researchers from competitors including OpenAI , Anthropic, and Google DeepMind. According to the memo, Meta has been actively recruiting talent as part of its aggressive push to compete with OpenAI and Google in the race for advanced AI systems.
Key new hires include:
- Trapit Bansal - Developed reinforcement learning techniques for reasoning models and contributed to OpenAI's advanced o-series systems
- Shuchao Bi - Led multimodal training efforts and developed voice capabilities for GPT-4o at OpenAI
- Huiwen Chang - Architected image generation systems and created breakthrough text-to-image technologies at Google Research
- Ji Lin - Contributed to multiple flagship models and reasoning architectures across OpenAI's product lineup
- Joel Pobar - Specialized in AI inference optimization at Anthropic after extensive engineering experience at Meta
- Jack Rae - Directed pre-training initiatives for Google's Gemini and led early large language model research at DeepMind
- Hongyu Ren - Led post-training research groups and contributed to numerous breakthrough AI models at OpenAI
- Johan Schalkwyk - Distinguished Google researcher who helped develop foundational speech and AI technologies
- Pei Sun - Advanced reasoning and coding capabilities for Gemini while creating autonomous vehicle perception systems at Waymo
- Jiahui Yu - Directed perception research teams and co-led multimodal AI development across OpenAI and Google
- Shengjia Zhao - Spearheaded synthetic data initiatives and contributed to foundational conversational AI breakthroughs at OpenAI
"Meta is uniquely positioned to deliver superintelligence to the world," Zuckerberg said in the memo. "We have a strong business that supports building out significantly more compute than smaller labs. We have deeper experience building and growing products that reach billions of people."
"We're going to start research on our next generation of models to get to the frontier in the next year or so," Zuckerberg stated in the memo. The restructuring consolidates Meta's foundations, product, and FAIR teams under MSL, alongside a new lab focused on developing next-generation AI models.
Zuckerberg notes that the company’s AI efforts will focus on building systems that are not only human-capable but "personal," deeply integrated into how people interact with technology.
The CEO emphasized Meta's structural advantages, writing: "Our company structure allows us to move with vastly greater conviction and boldness. I'm optimistic that this new influx of talent and parallel approach to model development will set us up to deliver on the promise of personal superintelligence for everyone."
Meta AI currently serves more than 1 billion monthly active users across the company's platforms, powering what Zuckerberg described as "an increasing number of agents across Meta that help improve our products and technology."
He concluded the memo by stating: "We have even more great people at all levels joining this effort in the coming weeks, so stay tuned. I'm excited to dive in and get to work." Meta's aggressive AI expansion includes reported acquisition talks with Perplexity and Runway, plus an expected purchase of voice replication startup PlayAI.
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