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Meta Is Creating a New AI Lab To Pursue 'Superintelligence'

(Tuesday June 10, 2025 @03:38AM (msmash) from the pushing-the-limits dept.)


Meta is preparing to unveil a new AI research lab [1]dedicated to pursuing "superintelligence," a hypothetical A.I. system that exceeds the powers of the human brain, as the tech giant jockeys to stay competitive in the technology race, New York Times reported Tuesday, citing four people with the knowledge of the company's plans. From the report:

> Meta has tapped Alexandr Wang, 28, the founder and chief executive of the A.I. start-up Scale AI, to join the new lab, the people said, and has been in talks to [2]invest billions of dollars in his company as part of a deal that would also bring other Scale employees to the company.

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> Meta has offered seven- to nine-figure compensation packages to dozens of researchers from leading A.I. companies such as OpenAI and Google, with some agreeing to join, according to the people. The new lab is part of a larger reorganization of Meta's A.I. efforts, the people said. The company, which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has recently grappled with internal management struggles over the technology, as well as employee churn and several product releases that fell flat, two of the people said.



[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/technology/meta-new-ai-lab-superintelligence.html

[2] https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/06/09/1421259/meta-in-talks-for-scale-ai-investment-that-could-top-10-billion



Of course they are ... (Score:1)

by butt0nm4n ( 1736412 )

From the company that gave us the meta verse. How about meta work on being remotely intelligent, just enough to foresee that the social media business model was always rotten, profiting from fear, hate and lies, the more controversial the better the ad revenue, Cynical company, hope they fail.

Re: (Score:2)

by korgitser ( 1809018 )

Here's to hoping they manage to repeat the budget and success of the metaverse!

Re: (Score:2)

by Tailhook ( 98486 )

Look at this way: now that Zuckerburg et al. have a new shiny object to chase, you can look forward to not having to hear and read about the metaverse anymore, whatever it was supposed to be. And this time they are way behind several others, so you can safely ignore it.

Pretty cool.

Training the AGI with Facebook data... (Score:2)

by thesjaakspoiler ( 4782965 )

Oh boy!

A future with such AI overlords does suddenly look rather grim...

One thing is obvious... (Score:2)

by Mr. Dollar Ton ( 5495648 )

Taxes are way, way too low if the lizard people have this much to squander on bullshit.

Merge the groups (Score:2)

by greytree ( 7124971 )

Shurely Facebook could waste fewer billions by combining their research groups and try to make the Supermetaintelligenceverse ?

Zuckerborg is the right person to lead on this.. (Score:1)

by KingBillHK ( 7672774 )

His obvious humanity and humility leaves me with no anxiety at all for the future.

More like "Superstupidity" (Score:2)

by gweihir ( 88907 )

Maybe try to get to the level of a average person first. Because that is currently completely out of reach.

What does that even mean? (Score:2)

by IDemand2HaveSumBooze ( 9493913 )

> dedicated to pursuing "superintelligence," a hypothetical A.I. system that exceeds the powers of the human brain

To begin with, what does "the human brain" mean exactly? A brain of a person with average IQ? A genius? A moron? A brain of someone who's a vegetable on life support?

And what does 'exceed the power' mean exactly? Computers already do some things better than humans, like arithmetic calculations or chess. That's why computers exist. Does it mean it would do every single thing a human brain can do better? In which case, exactly how do you get an exhaustive list of all things a human brain can do? Our understa

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