Meta is Building an AI Superintelligence Team

The most interesting thing in AI News this week. 🤯

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Since the Spring we’ve known that OpenAI is working on a social network that is likely to be a Twitter-clone, that could compete directly with Meta’s Threads product. While Mark Zuckerberg’s dream of a Metaverse didn’t exactly materialize in short order, Facebook has always believed the best defense, is offense.

In CNBC’s 2025 edition of its Disruptor 50 series, AI and National defense companies feature heavily. While we know that Meta is collaborating with Anduril on developing AI-powered virtual and augmented reality devices for the U.S. military, Meta is technically rich enough to compete for Superintelligence glory and the AGI race. Well, that’s exactly what it is doing we found out this week.

I cannot believe I’m saying this, but:

Meta launching AI superintelligence lab with nine-figure pay push, reports say