Meta is preparing to unveil a new research laboratory on artificial intelligence dedicated to the pursuit of “superintendent”, a hypothetical AI system which goes beyond the powers of the human brain, as a giant of jockeys technology to remain competitive in the technological race, according to four people knowing the plans of the company.
Meta tapped Alexandr Wang, 28 Invest billions of dollars in his business As part of an agreement that would also bring the other employees of AI to the company. Meta offered seven -to -digit remuneration packages to dozens of researchers from IA companies such as Openai and Google, some agreeing to join, according to people.
The new laboratory is part of a broader reorganization of Meta AI efforts, people said. The company, which has Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, recently fought on internal management difficulties on technology, as well as the unsubscribe of employees and several versions of products that have fallen flat, said two of the people.
Mark Zuckerberg, Managing Director of Meta, has invested billions of dollars to transform his business into AI power. From Openai Published Le Chatbot Chatgpt in 2022The technological industry ran to build the increasingly powerful AI, Mr. Zuckerberg, pushed his business to incorporate AI through his products, including in his smart glasses and a recently published application, Meta IA.
Staying in the race is crucial for Meta, Google, Amazon and Microsoft, with technology likely to be the future of industry. The giants pumped money in start-ups and their own AI laboratories. Microsoft has invested more than $ 13 billion in Openai, while Amazon has plowed $ 8 billion In the anthropogical of AI start-up.
The giants also spent billions to Hire employees of high-level start-ups and dismiss their technology. Last year, Google agreed to pay $ 3 billion to obtain a technology license and hire technologists and character executives. 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 will define the course for the future.”
The meta and the AI scale refused to comment. Bloomberg earlier reported that Mr. Wang joined the new meta-laboratory.
Superintelligence is considered by prominent researchers as a futuristic objective of AI development. OPENAI, Google and others declared that their immediate objective was to build “general artificial intelligence” or acted, a stenography for a machine that can do everything that the human brain can do, which is an ambition with No light path to success. Surprintelligence, if it can be developed, would go beyond AGE in its power.
Meta has invested in AI for more than a decade. Mr. Zuckerberg created the first laboratory dedicated to the company in 2013, after losing against Google by trying to acquire a seminal start-up called Deepmind. Deepmind is now at the heart of Google’s IA efforts.
Since then, Meta’s research efforts have been supervised by its main AI scientist Yann Lecun, who is also a professor at New York University. Dr. Lecun is a pioneer of neural networksThe technology that animates the Chatppt and similar systems.
After Chatgpt caused an explosion of interest in AI, Meta deployed additional resources to continue the technology. He created a generative AI group, led by Ahmad al-Dahle, vice-president of the company. The Dr. Lecun research group also started working on what he saw as the next generation of AI
Dr Lecun, who was part Three AI researchers who won the 2018 Turing PrizeOften called the Nobel Prize in computer science, is highly respected in the field. But his opinions on AI differ from others in Silicon Valley. While some believe that current technologies will reach act in the coming years, Dr. Lecun said that new ideas were necessary to achieve this high goal.
One of Meta’s strategies to gain ground in AI has been “open source” its software, essentially Freely give your code so that developers and others adopt its tools. The company has published an Open Source model, Llama, and its Chatbot, Meta Ai product. Meta AI was incorporated on Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, as well as in his smart-bana intelligent glasses. In May, Mr. Zuckerberg said more than a billion people Used Meta Ai every month.
More recently, the Meta AI division has lost employees because of rival companies, according to two people familiar with the issue. Departures are the result of an exhausting rate of product development, intestine struggles among team leaders and a tight labor market.
In April, Mr. Zuckerberg announced two new versions of Meta’s Llama AI models, which, according to him,, as well as comparable models of Openai and Google, according to test markers compiled by Meta.
Shortly after, the external researchers discovered that Meta’s landmarks were designed to make a product more sophisticated than it was. Some developers have been exasperated in what they saw as the cunning of Meta.
But not as exasperated as Mr. Zuckerberg, who was upset by the fact that people thought he was trying paper on the bad performance of the latest version, said two of the people.
Meta now bets that Mr. Wang will help him return to pole position in the AI race.
He must do it carefully. THE Federal Commerce Commission Recently, took the meta judged before the Federal Court for its acquisitions of Instagram and Whatsapp. An unusually structured investment agreement with the AI scale could help Meta bypass some of these concerns.
Mr. Wang founded the scale of the scale in 2016 alongside Lucy Guo, an engineer who was then dismissed by the company. The AI scale has helped other companies to create AI technologies. He hired armies of contractual workers to browse large amounts of data, label and “clean” information so that it can be used to form complex AI systems. Customers of the AI scale included Openai, Microsoft and Cohere, an AI start-up in Toronto.
More recently, the AI scale worked to create its corporate companies and public sectors, by dispatch consultants and engineers to work with companies and governments to help create software that uses AI
Mr. Wang once lived in the same house as the director general of Openai, Sam Altman. In January, the two were photographed side by side at the Capitol for the inauguration of President Trump. The next day, the AI scale placed an advertisement in the Washington Post in which Mr. Wang called Trump to increase investments in AI or risk getting behind in China.
“Dear President Trump,” said the announcement, “America must win the AI war.”