Meta is ready to make high investments in the AI arena, especially their product, Meta AI. However, recently, they have experienced delays and challenges in introducing new, more powerful models, compared to other competitors – especially OpenAI and Google.
With this in mind, Mark Zuckerberg himself is now seen paying more attention to this matter, and is gathering and gathering talents and expertise in the artificial intelligence arena, to join Meta’s special team. Mark Zuckerberg is gathering this special team for secret development, known as the “Superintelligence” team.
It is said that one of the goals is to achieve the AGI phase ahead of others – which is the phase for artificial intelligence to function on par with humans in various tasks. Meta is today ready to integrate their offerings in applications such as Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, and also present on their smart glasses. With the offering of more powerful models, it will also make users use products under Meta more often.
Mark Zuckerberg is targeted to hire around 50 people for this special team. In addition to this team, Mark Zuckerberg is also said to be in talks to invest up to $10 billion in Scale AI, an artificial intelligence firm that helps other companies train their models.