Meta has made unusually high compensation offers to new members of its "superintelligence" team — including a more than $200 million package for a former Apple distinguished engineer https://t.co/LLvbZbaKIs ...

Move over, AGI. Silicon Valley has a new favorite buzzword: "superintelligence" https://t.co/5IDcrCrQO5 ...

The Prompt: Can Meta Hire Its Way To Superintelligence? https://t.co/Q4xEaI3hr0 https://t.co/Q4xEaI3hr0 ...

RT Saritha Rai (@SarithaRai)An influential AI voice questions Zuckerberg's Superintelligence group spending spreeHelen Toner, former OpenAI board member -Q: Can this turn around Meta’s fortunes, turn it into a real AI juggernaut?A: It’ll be difficulthttps://t.co/t8ahSQ8yJL@business @haslindatv#AI https://t.co/njjXbKAo1p ...

AI Development History - The AI debate in the 2010s was framed by two books: one predicting superhuman intelligence and the other focusing on AI as surveillance tech [1][2] - Reality, exemplified by LLMs and ChatGPT, fell between these extremes, aligning with the traditional definition of AI as passing the Turing test [2][3] - ChatGPT's ability to pass the Turing test is considered a significant achievement [3]

The Prompt: Can Meta Hire Its Way To Superintelligence?https://t.co/oj1XrPfc6U https://t.co/vFyvWta0nZ ...

What was new in what Zuckerberg said. Yeah. I think what we learned today to your point, is that this thing is official.We had been talking and reporting about this for a couple of weeks now. I think what's new is that they listed in total, if you include Alexander Wang, 13 new hires for this team. So we did confirm a lot of the new members of the team.And we also learned that Nat Friedman, former CEO, GitHub, is going to sort of co-run this new team with Alex Wang. So I get the sense Alex Lane is perhaps i ...

Core Insights - Meta Platforms, Inc. is restructuring its AI strategy by forming a new division called Meta Superintelligence Labs, aimed at creating superintelligence that surpasses human cognitive abilities [1][5] - Alexandr Wang, the former CEO of Scale AI, has been appointed as Chief AI Officer to lead this new division, emphasizing a unified leadership approach [1][2] Strategic Investments and Talent Acquisition - Meta has made a significant investment of $14.3 billion for a 49% stake in Scale AI, securing Wang's leadership and enhancing its AI capabilities [3] - The company is actively recruiting top AI talent from industry leaders such as OpenAI, DeepMind, and Anthropic, with Zuckerberg personally involved in the recruitment process [3] Leveraging Open-Source and In-House Innovations - Meta's AI initiatives will utilize open-source Llama 3 models and proprietary MTIA chips to reduce dependence on expensive NVIDIA hardware, aiming for optimized performance and cost-efficiency [4] Vision for the Future - Zuckerberg expressed confidence in Meta's ability to deliver personal superintelligence, highlighting the company's strong business foundation and experience in reaching billions of users [5]

Mark Zuckerberg announced a new “Superintelligence” division within Meta Platforms, officially organizing an effort that has been the subject of an intense recruiting blitz in recent month https://t.co/SOa8zyqFhu ...

It's almost like investors are saying a hundred million isn't enough, dear. Make it two. You're right.Make it billions. It doesn't matter. Just spend as much as you can.And that really at the core of this is that this talent spend, it's the new signal to investors. Just like capex spend in the first few years of the race. No one wants to be the first to pull back because cutting comp doesn't just risk losing talent.It risks signaling that you're losing momentum. And now an internal meta memo suggests that Z ...