Mark Zuckerberg has been taking significant strides in AI over the past months, including sharing the vision of the Meta Superintelligence Lab. Mark isn’t sparing any expense to stand tall in the AI race. The Meta CEO has decided to divide the Meta Superintelligence Labs into four major divisions:
- TBD (to be determined) focused on foundation models, especially the Llama series. TBD will be overseen by Alexandr Wang, Meta’s newly appointed Chief AI Officer.
- FAIR (Fundamental AI Research) Meta’s dedication to long-term foundational AI exploration, i.e, Supertelligence. FAIR is led by Robert Fergus, co-founder of FAIR.
- Products & Applied Research, the division will be headed by Nat Friedman, former GitHub CEO, and will dive into consumer-facing offerings and develop AI products that can compete quickly in the market.
- MSL Infra, dedicated to data centers and other AI hardware for Meta’s AI systems. Aparna Irani, a Meta VP, is responsible for AI and developer infrastructure domains.
THE HIRING SPREE, TALENT WAR, & INTERNAL FRICTION
Meta is set to target and has already hired top-tier AI experts from their competitors like OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, and Apple with hefty 9-figure packages. Some signing packages are reportedly estimated from Rs 800 Cr to Rs 1,600 Cr, though Mark hinted such numbers may be exaggerated.
As Meta proceeds it’s fourth major restructuring in six months, the company has frozen AI hiring, claiming it is just “routine planning”.
The hire includes a young 24-year-old AI prodigy, Matt Deitke. Meta’s pursuit of Matt began with $125 million offer for over four years, coming to an end with a whopping doubled package of $250 million. This union of young minds with the longstanding staff has also raised some internal friction.
The personal churn and complete upside down of the company has also led to many executive and longstanding staff departures, including Joelle Pineau, VP of AI Research (FAIR), and other significant members of the company like Erik Meijer, Devi Parikh, and Abhishek Das ( High Level Researchers).
DIGGING THE DOLLARS
Meta has raised its projected capital expenditure from $60 – 65 billion to $66 – 72 billion for 2025. Also, Meta has stepped to acquire a 49% stake in Scale AI by investing $14.3 billion, onboarding its CEO Alexandr Wang to lead MSL.
The total project expense for 2025 is anticipated to be in the range of $113 billion to $118 billion.
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