Mark Zuckerberg overhauls Meta’s AI division amid ’employee tensions’

In a significant restructuring of its burgeoning artificial intelligence arm, Meta Platforms is splitting its newly formed AI group, Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL), into four distinct teams. The move, according to a report by The New York Times, comes amid internal tensions and a high-stakes race to develop so-called “Superintelligence.” The reorganization is a direct effort to better capitalize on the billions of dollars spent poaching top AI talent, with many researchers receiving compensation packages reaching into the hundreds of millions. According to an internal memo reviewed by Bloomberg News, the new structure is designed to “accelerate” the company’s pursuit of AI that can perform tasks better than humans.

“Superintelligence is coming, and in order to take it seriously, we need to organize around the key areas that will be critical to reach it — research, product and infra,” wrote Alexandr Wang, Meta’s new chief AI officer, in the memo.