"The entire Meta superintelligence lab could sit on a Boeing 737 Max - and still have seats to spare. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg likens it more to a boat where seats are extremely limited. "Seats on the boat are precious," Zuckerberg said on "The State of AI with Rowan Cheung" podcast. Any bad hires or organizational bloat could weigh the whole operation down."
""You don't need many, many hundreds of people - you need 50 to 100 people," Zuckerberg said. "It's a group science project." Zuckerberg recently said that he was looking to build "small, talent-dense teams" to progress the company's AI vision. Landing a job on the team has its perks: many researchers score multimillion-dollar pay packages, access to wide swaths of capital for GPU computing costs, and face decreased deadline pressures from corporate leadership (at least, that's what Zuckerberg says)."
Roles in the superintelligence lab are described as scarce and critical, likened to limited seats on a boat, where poor hires or organizational bloat can significantly slow progress. The lab is organized as small, talent-dense teams of roughly 50 to 100 people operating with flattened management and without top-down deadlines. Researchers receive multimillion-dollar pay packages, broad access to capital for GPU computing, and reduced corporate deadline pressure. The company invested heavily in talent and infrastructure, acquiring nearly half of Scale AI and hiring leaders and engineers from OpenAI and DeepMind after concerns about Llama-4's trajectory.
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