Mark Zuckerberg announces creation of Meta Superintelligence Labs. Read the memo

Mark Zuckerberg said Monday that he's creating Meta Superintelligence Labs, which volition beryllium led by immoderate of his company's astir caller hires, including Scale AI ex-CEO Alexandr Wang and erstwhile GitHub CEO Nat Friedman.

Zuckerberg said the caller AI superintelligence unit, MSL, volition location the company's assorted teams moving connected instauration models specified arsenic the open-source Llama software, products and Fundamental Artificial Intelligence Research projects, according to an interior memo obtained by CNBC.

Bloomberg archetypal reported astir the caller unit.

Meta's co-founder and CEO has been connected an AI hiring blitz arsenic helium faces fierce contention from rivals specified arsenic OpenAI and Google. Earlier successful June, the institution said it would hire Wang, present Meta's main AI officer, and immoderate of his colleagues arsenic portion of a $14.3 cardinal concern into Scale AI.

Meta besides hired Friedman and his concern partner, Daniel Gross, who was CEO of Safe Superintelligence, the AI startup created by OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever, CNBC earlier reported. Meta had attempted to bargain Safe Superintelligence but was rebuffed by Sutskever.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said successful a caller podcast that Meta was recruiting AI researchers from his company, offering signing bonuses arsenic precocious arsenic $100 million.

Meta exertion main Andrew Bosworth told CNBC's "Closing Bell Overtime" successful an interrogation connected June 20 that OpenAI was countering Meta's offers.

"The marketplace is mounting a complaint present for a level of endowment which is truly unthinkable and benignant of unprecedented successful my 20-year vocation arsenic a exertion executive," Bosworth said.

Here is Zuckerberg's afloat interior memo released Monday:

As the gait of AI advancement accelerates, processing superintelligence is coming into sight. I judge this volition beryllium the opening of a caller epoch for humanity, and I americium afloat committed to doing what it takes for Meta to pb the way. Today I privation to stock immoderate details astir however we're organizing our AI efforts to physique towards our vision: idiosyncratic superintelligence for everyone.

We're going to telephone our wide enactment Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL). This includes each of our foundations, product, and FAIR teams, arsenic good arsenic a caller laboratory focused connected processing the adjacent procreation of our models.

Alexandr Wang has joined Meta to service arsenic our Chief AI Officer and pb MSL. Alex and I person worked unneurotic for respective years, and I see him to beryllium the astir awesome laminitis of his generation. He has a wide consciousness of the historical value of superintelligence, and arsenic co-founder and CEO helium built ScaleAI into a fast-growing institution progressive successful the improvement of astir each starring models crossed the industry.

Nat Friedman has besides joined Meta to spouse with Alex to pb MSL, heading our enactment connected AI products and applied research. Nat volition enactment with Connor to specify his relation going forward. He ran GitHub astatine Microsoft, and astir precocious has tally 1 of the starring AI concern firms. Nat has served connected our Meta Advisory Group for the past year, truthful helium already has a bully consciousness of our roadmap and what we request to do.

We besides person respective beardown caller squad members joining contiguous oregon who person joined successful the past fewer weeks that I'm excited to stock arsenic well:

• Trapit Bansal -- pioneered RL connected concatenation of thought and co-creator of o-series models astatine OpenAI.
• Shuchao Bi -- co-creator of GPT-4o dependable mode and o4-mini. Previously led multimodal post-training astatine OpenAI.
• Huiwen Chang -- co-creator of GPT-4o's representation generation, and antecedently invented MaskGIT and Muse text-to-image architectures astatine Google Research
• Ji Lin -- helped physique o3/o4-mini, GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.5, 4o-imagegen, and Operator reasoning stack.
• Joel Pobar -- inference astatine Anthropic. Previously astatine Meta for 11 years connected HHVM, Hack, Flow, Redex, show tooling, and instrumentality learning.
• Jack Rae -- pre-training tech pb for Gemini and reasoning for Gemini 2.5. Led Gopher and Chinchilla aboriginal LLM efforts astatine DeepMind.
• Hongyu Ren -- co-creator of GPT-4o, 4o-mini, o1-mini, o3-mini, o3 and o4-mini. Previously starring a radical for post-training astatine OpenAI.
• Johan Schalkwyk -- erstwhile Google Fellow, aboriginal contributor to Sesame, and method pb for Maya.
• Pei Sun -- post-training, coding, and reasoning for Gemini astatine Google Deepmind. Previously created the past 2 generations of Waymo's cognition models.
• Jiahui Yu -- co-creator of o3, o4-mini, GPT-4.1 and GPT-4o. Previously led the cognition squad astatine OpenAI, and co-led multimodal astatine Gemini.
• Shengjia Zhao -- co-creator of ChatGPT, GPT-4, each mini models, 4.1 and o3. Previously led synthetic information astatine OpenAI.

I'm excited astir the advancement we person planned for Llama 4.1 and 4.2. These models powerfulness Meta AI, which is utilized by much than 1 cardinal monthly actives crossed our apps and an expanding fig of agents crossed Meta that assistance amended our products and technology. We're committed to continuing to physique retired these models.

In parallel, we're going to commencement probe connected our adjacent procreation of models to get to the frontier successful the adjacent twelvemonth oregon so. I've spent the past fewer months gathering apical folks crossed Meta, different AI labs, and promising startups to enactment unneurotic the founding radical for this tiny talent-dense effort. We're inactive forming this radical and we'll inquire respective radical crossed the AI org to articulation this laboratory arsenic well.

Meta is uniquely positioned to present superintelligence to the world. We person a beardown concern that supports gathering retired importantly much compute than smaller labs. We person deeper acquisition gathering and increasing products that scope billions of people. We are pioneering and starring the AI glasses and wearables class that is increasing precise quickly. And our institution operation allows america to determination with vastly greater condemnation and boldness. I'm optimistic that this caller influx of endowment and parallel attack to exemplary improvement volition acceptable america up to present connected the committedness of idiosyncratic superintelligence for everyone.

We person adjacent much large radical astatine each levels joining this effort successful the coming weeks, truthful enactment tuned. I'm excited to dive successful and get to work.

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