"Instead of operating with byzantine org charts and layers of bureaucracy, the AI experts at TBD Lab, the core team at Meta Superintelligence Labs, has a "very flat" leadership structure. It's actually more of "a group science project," Zuckerberg said on the State of AI with Rowan Cheung podcast. That also means no deadlines handed down from the C-suite, Zuckerberg added."
"Zuckerberg said he's been intimately involved with the team, including the group's hiring and operations. That's not without reason. The Meta boss sees AI as the future of the company, and as such has reportedly dangled multimillion-dollar contracts to attract the best AI researchers. Meta has already poached top talent from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Anthropic, much to the irritation of AI CEOs."
"TBD Lab reportedly has about 50 members, and Zuckerberg compared it to a boat where every member has to contribute. "If someone isn't pulling their weight on that, it has this huge negative effect, in the way that it doesn't for a lot of other parts of the company," he said Thursday. To be sure, there has reportedly been some churn among the team and how it's organized."
The core team at TBD Lab, Meta Superintelligence Labs, maintains a very flat leadership structure and operates like a group science project with no executive deadlines. Researchers pursue uncertain timelines and focus on frontier work, so executives avoid imposing deadlines. The CEO is closely involved in hiring and operations and the company has offered multimillion-dollar contracts to recruit top AI researchers from OpenAI, DeepMind, and Anthropic. The roughly 50-person team is expected to contribute equally, and some recent departures indicate organizational churn. The venture's success is positioned as critical to the company's future direction.
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