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Meta’s latest move to hire Shengjia Zhao, a co-creator of ChatGPT, as chief scientist for its Superintelligence Labs demonstrates its aggressive strategy in the AI talent acquisition landscape. Following a $15 billion investment in Scale AI, Zhao’s expertise from GPT-4 and synthetic data initiatives at OpenAI will enhance Meta's push towards foundational AI models. The recruitment of three other significant researchers from OpenAI further emphasizes the fierce competition for top-tier AI talent, likened to searching for a superstar like LeBron James, given the limited pool of experts capable of creating advanced AI systems.

Meta's Chief Global Affairs Officer, Joel Kaplan, explained that Meta won't sign the European Commission's Code of Practice for general-purpose AI models, citing legal uncertainties.

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OpenAI researcher Jason Wei will join Meta's new Superintelligence Lab alongside Hyung Won Chung as part of CEO Mark Zuckerberg's efforts to accelerate progress toward AGI.

Meta engineers have confirmed that the company has replaced Llama with Claude Sonnet for internal development tasks. This move comes after Llama 4 faced criticism since its launch, including negative reviews within the first 36 hours and controversies over model rankings.

Meta has addressed a security vulnerability that allowed users to access private prompts and AI-generated responses of others, revealing major concerns with data authorization.

Meta's new Superintelligence Lab is considering a pivot from their open-source AI model, Behemoth, to developing a closed model due to underwhelming performance.

"Meta has taken down around 10 million profiles that were impersonating large content producers and acted against 500,000 accounts engaged in spammy behavior."

Meta is committing hundreds of billions of dollars for AI data centers aimed at superintelligence, reorganizing efforts under Superintelligence Labs despite earlier setbacks with Llama 4.