Zuckerberg is forming a "superintelligence" team to boost Meta's AI

New York.- Meta's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, is personally creating a new "superintelligence" team dedicated to building the world's most advanced artificial intelligence (AI) platform - a hypothetical AI system that surpasses the capabilities of the human brain - in which he is investing huge amounts of money, according to several specialized media reported this Tuesday.

According to The New York Times (NYT), Meta has hired Alexandr Wang, 28, founder and CEO of the artificial intelligence startup Scale AI, to join Meta's new lab, and could invest more than $10 billion in his company as part of a deal that would also incorporate other Scale AI employees. The newspaper also points out that Meta has offered multimillion-dollar figures to dozens of researchers from leading AI companies such as OpenAI and Google, and some have agreed to join. According to Bloomberg, Zuckerberg has personally led the hiring of a team of about 50 people, and has even reorganized Meta's offices so that the new employees sit near him.

Both media outlets point out that Zuckerberg has been frustrated with the pace of development of Meta's AI - the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp-, as well as by several product launches that failed, and has opted for a more practical strategy to accelerate progress.

Last month, Meta delayed the launch of its flagship AI model, 'Behemoth', due to concerns about its capabilities, according to the Wall Street Journal.

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OpenAI, Google, and other tech companies have already announced that their goal is to develop artificial general intelligence (AGI), a machine that for now is only fiction.

In this technological race, a lot of money is being invested: Microsoft has injected more than 13 billion dollars into OpenAI, while Amazon has allocated 8 billion dollars to the artificial intelligence startup Anthropic. Zuckerberg created the company's first AI lab in 2013, after missing the opportunity to acquire a pioneering startup called DeepMind, which Google got instead. DeepMind is now the center of Google's AI.