Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has introduced Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL), a new organization combining foundational, product, and FAIR teams with a focus on next-generation AI models.

The announcement follows months of aggressive recruitment from rival firms like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.

Leadership of Meta’s Superintelligence Effort

Alexandr Wang, CEO of Scale AI, has been appointed as Meta’s chief AI officer to lead MSL.

Nat Friedman, former GitHub CEO, will co-lead the lab, concentrating on AI products and applied research.

Key New Hires and Their Expertise

The newly hired team includes:

• Trapit Bansal, who pioneered reinforcement learning on the chain of thought and co-created o-series models at OpenAI.
• Shuchao Bi, co-creator of GPT-4o voice mode and o4-mini, previously leading multimodal post-training at OpenAI.
• Huiwen Chang, contributor to GPT-4o’s image generation and inventor of MaskIT and Muse text-to-image architectures at Google Research.
• Ji Lin, involved in building GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.5, and Operator reasoning stack.
• Joel Pobar, specializing in inference at Anthropic and a former Meta engineer with 11 years’ experience on tools and machine learning.
• Jack Rae, pre-training tech lead for Gemini and contributor to DeepMind’s early LLM projects.
• Hongyu Ren, co-creator of multiple GPT versions, previously led post-training teams at OpenAI.
• Johan Schalkwyk, former Google Fellow and technical lead for Maya.
• Pei Sun, worked on Gemini’s post-training and created Waymo’s perception models at Google DeepMind.
• Jiahui Yu, co-creator of GPT-4.1 and GPT-4o, formerly led OpenAI’s perception team and co-led multimodal at Gemini.
• Shengjia Zhao, co-creator of ChatGPT and GPT-4 models, previously led synthetic data at OpenAI.

Meta’s Investment in AI and Team Growth

Meta has invested $14.3 billion in Scale AI. Zuckerberg’s memo highlights that MSL integrates Meta’s foundational, product, and FAIR teams with this newly formed superintelligence lab, focusing on developing advanced AI models.

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This article was created with AI assistance.