Business Insiderยท2025-08-26 09:00Core Insights - Meta is aggressively recruiting talent from Google's AI division DeepMind and Scale AI to bolster its superintelligence team, indicating a strategic focus on enhancing its AI capabilities [1][2][3] Group 1: Recruitment from DeepMind - Meta has hired at least 10 researchers from Google's DeepMind since July, including key contributors to Google's advanced AI models [1] - Notable hires include Yuanzhong Xu, who played a significant role in developing LaMDA and PaLM 2, and Mingyang Zhang, who has expertise in information retrieval for large language models [9][11] - Other DeepMind recruits include Tong He, who contributed to a gold medal achievement at the International Mathematical Olympiad, and Xinyun Chen, who specializes in autonomous code generation [10][12] Group 2: Recruitment from Scale AI - Meta has also recruited at least six researchers from Scale AI, particularly for its safety and evaluations team, following its acquisition of nearly half of Scale AI for $14 billion [2][3] - Key hires from Scale AI include Ziwen Han and Nathaniel Li, who co-authored a challenging test for AI models, and Summer Yue, who now leads the alignment group at Meta's Superintelligence Labs [14][15] - The SEAL (Safety, Evaluations, and Alignment Lab) team from Scale AI focuses on ensuring AI models align with human values and improve performance [13]