Meta is preparing to uncover a new laboratory for artificial intelligence dedicated to monitoring “super -intelligence”, the AI hypothetical system, which exceeds the powers of the human brain because technical gigant jockey to remain competitive in the technology plant, according to four people with knowledge of society.
Meta took advantage of Alexander Wang, 28, founder and CEO of the AI starting scale AI to join the new laboratory, people said and spoke of investing billions of dollars in their company in an agreement that would also bring another scale of AI employees in the company. Meta has offered dozens of AI leading researchers such as Openai and Google, seven to nine -digit compensatory packages, and according to people they agreed to join.
The new laboratory is part of the greater reorganization of the AI meta effort, people said. The company that owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp recently faced internal technology management management, as well as Churn employees and several products that have fallen, two people said.
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, invested billions of dollars to transform his company into powerhouse AI. Since Openi released Chatgpt Chatbot in 2022, the technical industry has been competing to build an increasing AI, Mr. Zuckerberg, forced its company to integrate AI across its products, even in its intelligent glasses and recently released META AI.
Staying in the race is essential for meta, Google, Amazon and Microsoft, and technology is likely to be the future for this industry. The giants drew money to start -up businesses and their own AI laboratories. Microsoft has invested more than $ 13 billion in Openai, while Amazon sailed $ 8 billion in the beginning anthropic AI.
Behemoths also spent billions on hiring employees from major start -ups and a license for their technology. Last year, Google agreed to pay $ 3 billion to license for license technology and hiring technologists and managers from Characte.ai, a start-up that builds chatbots for personal conversations.
In February Mr. Zuckerberg (41) called AI “potentially one of the most important innovations in history”. He added: “This year is preparing a course for the future.”
Meta and AI scale refused to express themselves. Bloomberg before reported That Mr. Wang joined the new meta laboratory.
Scientists are considered a futuristic goal of artificial intelligence development. Openai, Google and others said that their immediate goal is to build “artificial general intelligence” or AGI, an abbreviation for a machine that can do anything that the human brain can do, which is ambition without a clear way to success. Superintelligence, if it could develop, would exceed Agi in its power.
Meta has invested in AI for more than ten years. In 2013, Mr. Zuckerberg created the first AI laboratory of the company after losing Google in an effort to get a key start-up called DeepMind. Deepmind is now the core of Google AI effort.
Since then, his main scientist AI Yann Lecun has been overseen by the research efforts of META, who is also professor of New York University. Dr. Lecun is a pioneer of neural networks, technology that controls chatgpt and similar systems.
After Chatgpt caused an explosion of AI interest, the meta deployed other sources to monitor technology. It created a Generative Group AI, led by Vice President of Ahmad Al-Dahle. Research Group Dr. Lecuna also started working on what he saw as the next generation AI
Dr. Lecun, who was among the three scientists of AI who won the Turing Prize 2018, often called the Nobel Prize of Computer Science, is highly respected in the field. His views on AI, however, differ in Silicon Valley from others. While some believe that current technologies will reach AGI in the next few years, Dr. Lecun said that completely new ideas are needed to achieve this noble goal.
One of the META strategies to obtain land in AI was the “open source” software, basically giving away their AI code freely so that developers and others accept their tools. The company released Open-source AI Model, Llama and its Chatbot Product, META AI. Meta AI was incorporated on Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, as well as in its intelligent Ray-Ban glasses. In May, Mr. Zuckerberg said more than One billion people He uses meta AI every month.
Recently, according to two people who are familiar with this matter, the AI meta AI division has lost competing societies. The departures were the result of an exhaustive pace of product development, infighting between team leaders and the close labor market.
In April, Mr. Zuckerberg announced two new versions of the Meta Llama AI, which he claimed to play and better than comparable models from Open and Google, according to the testing benchmarks assembled.
Soon afterwards, external scientists found that Meta’s benchmarks were designed to look more sophisticated than they were. Some developers were angry with what they saw as Meta’s scam.
But not as angry as Mr. Zuckerberg, who was angry that people thought they were trying to paper at the poor performance of the latest edition, two people said.
Meta is now betting that Mr. Wang will help him get back to the pole position in Rase AI.
He has to do it carefully. The Federal Commission has recently taken the meta to the Federal Court court for the acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp. An unusually structured investment agreement with AI scale could help meta of some of these fears.
Mr. Wang founded AI Scale AI in 2016 together with Lucy Guo, an engineer who was later released. The AI scale has helped other businesses to build AI technologies. She hired army of contractual workers to sew a huge amount of data, marking and “cleaning” information so that they could be used to train complex AI systems. Among the customers of Scale AI were Openai, Microsoft and Coher, beginning AI in Toronto.
More recently, Scale AI worked on the construction of its business and public enterprises, expeditions of consultants and engineers to cooperate with companies and governments to help create software used by AI
Mr. Wang once lived in the same house as the CEO of Openai, Sam Altman. In January, they were both photographed side by side in Capitol for the inauguration of President Trump. The following day, Scale AI placed an advertisement in the Washington Post, in which Mr. Wang urged Mr. Trump to increase investment in AI or the risk of falling behind China.
“Dear President Trump,” said advertising, “America must win AI war.”
