"Meta established MSLin June to spearhead CEO Mark Zuckerberg's push toward what he has called "personal superintelligence," a term he uses to describe AI systems that could eventually surpass human capabilities.The division has quickly become one of Meta's most important and expensive bets. In the last few months, Meta has spent hundreds of millions of dollars hiring engineers and researchers from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Apple, and other companies."
"The restructuring comes as Meta fine-tunes its sprawling AI organization, which spans multiple groups, including product and research, infrastructure, Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR), and TBD, an elite division tasked with developing the company's next-generation AI models."
""By reducing the size of our team, fewer conversations will be required to make a decision, and each person will be more load-bearing and have more scope and impact," Wang wrote."
Meta eliminated 600 positions within Meta Superintelligence Labs to reduce team size and accelerate decision-making. The change aims to create smaller, talent-dense teams where each individual carries more responsibility and impact. The AI organization spans product and research, infrastructure, Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR), and TBD, an elite group for next-generation models, and has faced overlapping mandates and shifting priorities. MSL launched in June to pursue "personal superintelligence" and became an expensive priority, with hundreds of millions spent recruiting talent from competitors. Rapid growth prompted internal friction and some early departures. Affected employees were notified.
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