Meta plans to build an AI lab led by Scale AI CEO Alexander Wang, specializing in the pursuit of 'superintelligence,' and is offering hundreds of millions to tens of billions of yen in compensation to lure AI researchers from OpenAI and Google
Meta is reportedly planning to invest $14.8 billion in Scale AI, a company that provides data labeling services. As part of this investment, Meta is reportedly planning to open an AI research lab headed by Scale AI CEO Alexander Wang, specializing in the pursuit of superintelligence.
Meta Is Creating a New AI Lab to Pursue 'Superintelligence' - The New York Times
Meta's Mark Zuckerberg Creating New Superintelligence AI Team - Bloomberg
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-10/zuckerberg-recruits-new-superintelligence-ai-group-at-meta
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Scale AI provides the data labeling services required to train machine learning models. Scale AI counts major companies such as Microsoft and OpenAI among its clients.
Meta was reported to be planning to invest $10 billion in Scale AI, but the latest reports say that Meta has agreed to acquire 49% of Scale AI for $14.8 billion.
Meta in talks to invest 1.4 trillion yen in AI company Scale AI, Meta's largest external AI investment - GIGAZINE
As part of the investment, Scale AI CEO Alexander Wang will reportedly become Meta's top executive and lead CEO Mark Zuckerberg's planned 'superintelligence' lab.
Superintelligence is seen as the future goal of AI development, and AI researchers such as OpenAI and Google have set the construction of ' artificial general intelligence (AGI)' as their immediate goal. However, The New York Times points out that AGI is 'an ambitious goal with no clear path to success.' However, if superintelligence can be developed, its power will far exceed AGI.
Meta is scrambling to stay competitive in the AI market and is planning a new AI lab focused on the pursuit of superintelligence, according to four people familiar with the company's plans, and Zuckerberg is reportedly actively recruiting top AI researchers for the lab.
Meta is reportedly planning to welcome Scale AI CEO Wang as head of its new AI research lab, and to welcome other Scale AI employees to Meta. Meta is also offering seven- to nine-figure compensation packages (several hundred million to tens of billions of yen) to lure AI researchers from major AI companies such as OpenAI and Google. Some AI researchers have already agreed to move to Meta.
Meta's planned new AI lab is part of a larger restructuring of its AI business, the people said. Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has been plagued by internal management disputes over AI technology, employee turnover and failed product releases, the people said.
The AI industry is highly competitive, with tech giants like Meta, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft investing heavily in the space. Microsoft has invested more than $13 billion in OpenAI, while Amazon has invested $8 billion in AI startup Anthropic.
Amazon invests $4 billion into Claude developer Anthropic, co-developing AWS's own AI chip - GIGAZINE
Large companies have hired talent from prominent startups and spent billions of dollars to license their technology, including Google, which agreed to pay $3 billion to Character.AI to license it and lure away engineers.
Meta has released its software as open source to increase its competitiveness in the AI field. However, in recent years, it has been pointed out that Meta has lost 11 of the 14 AI researchers who were part of the original development team ofLlama , an open source large-scale language model that is at the heart of its AI strategy, to competitors.
Meta has lost 11 of the 14 original Llama development team members to competitors - GIGAZINE
In this context, Meta hopes that by appointing Wang to head its new AI research lab, he will help put Meta back in pole position in the race for AI.
Meta and Scale AI declined to comment on the establishment of the new AI lab when contacted by The New York Times.
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