Mark Zuckerberg overhauled the entire Meta AI into “super intelligence” with a dangerous multi-billion dollar bet.
Mark Zuckerberg has stacked decks in AI races, betting that unlimited capital, top talent and raw computing power will guarantee victory. What Zuckerberg is chasing is when Zuckerberg is chasing, if Ai “Superintelligence” is still an ambiguous and theoretical concept, Meta Announcing Monday, the CEO’s notable series of moves instantly changed the reality of everyone else in the game, especially the pioneering AI startups without the resources of meta.
Zuckerberg announced a massive improvement to its AI business on Monday, bringing its collection of AI businesses and projects under the umbrella of a newly created organization called Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL) and appointed former CEO Alexandr Wang as the first Chief AI officer of Data-Lableing Startup Scale AI, As.
“As AI progress accelerates, the development of super intelligence is beginning to be seen,” Zuckerberg wrote in an internal memo obtained. luck. “We believe this will mark the beginning of a new era of humanity, and we are completely committed to doing what Meta needs to lead,” he added that the details he shares are to build towards the company’s vision of “personal tension for all.”
Zuckerberg wrote in his new Superintelligence Lab: “It includes a new lab focused on developing all foundations, products, fair teams and next-generation models.”
He also confirmed that former Github CEO and investor Nat Friedman has joined Meta to partner with Wang to lead MSL and lead Meta’s work on AI products and applied research. “NAT worked for the Meta-Advisory Group last year, so he already has a good sense of our roadmap and what we need to do,” writes Zuckerberg. luck It has been reported Last week, Friedman was also connected to the King. He is a longtime active scale investor and co-hosted the Secret Scale AI Security Summit in Utah in November 2023.
Meta has hired extraordinary employment in recent weeks, joining King as part of a $14.3 billion deal with Scale, recruiting top Openai researchers for $100 million in compensation. In an internal note of Zuckerberg on Monday, he said Openai, Mankind, and Google.
For Openai, which launched a generative AI epidemic with the release of ChatGPT in late 2022, Meta’s aggressive employment spree represents a serious threat. Mark Chen, Chief Investigation Officer at Openai, explains the situation is like someone “to break into our home,” calling the loss of talent “theft.” Openai said it has begun recalibrating compensation and creating “creative” retention packages to stay competitive.
Openai has a long-standing partnership Microsoftwhich has invested more than $13 billion in Openai, and the relationship between the two companies reportedly has been strained over the past year. But as Meta is increasingly moving into open territory, the startup that led Sam Altman may need to find an alliance in his deep pocket.
Openai recently began using an AI chip created by Google. According to media reportsdespite Google’s Gemini LLMS being in direct competition with Openai, it shows growing ties between the two companies.
Meta’s AI Gambit
With an internet advertising business that generates over $40 billion per quarter, Meta can afford to bankroll unbanned AI batters, even if it doesn’t immediately make a profit.
Still, there are many risks to Meta’s latest moves.
When serving as King’s AI chief, Meta chose non-computer scientists who would lead all of the AI efforts. This may not work for Meta’s AI scientists and deep benches.
In his note, Zuckerberg said he and Wang had worked together for several years, saying, “I consider him to be the most impressive founder of his generation.”
Additionally, although there is no formal definition of “super intelligence,” it usually refers to intelligence that is far greater than human abilities in almost every domain, including scientific creativity, general wisdom, and social skills. Super intelligence is generally perceived as beyond artificial general information or AGI. This is ambiguous, but usually refers to AI systems with human-level intelligence across a wide range of work-related tasks. In other words, like humans, we can reason, plan, solve problems, understand language, and learn in generalizable ways.
Zuckerberg argues that Meta is “uniquely located to deliver something close to the world,” pointing to efforts to build data centers that support more computing power than small labs. Financial Times It was reported last week That meta is seeking $29 billion from private capital companies for an all-in-push to build AI data centers.
Of course, Microsoft and Google are spending tens of millions of dollars on Cap Ex to build AI infrastructure. Openai also said it intends to invest $500 billion in partners, including SoftBank, over the next few years to build the Stargate network for AI Datacenters.
If the competition for super intelligence is a testament to testament and capital, it appears that Zuckerberg is betting that he can outweigh the competition.