Meta Superintelligence Labs
In plain wordsA division Meta created in 2025 to pursue superintelligence, gathering all of the company's AI teams under new leaders recruited in an expensive hiring campaign.
The umbrella organization for Meta Platforms' AI work, created in mid-2025 to build frontier models and, in Mark Zuckerberg's phrase, 'personal superintelligence' for Meta's users. An August 2025 reorganization divided it into four groups: a small frontier-model unit (TBD Lab), the FAIR research lab of Meta AIMeta AI, prop. n.: The artificial intelligence research group of Meta, the company behind Facebook and Instagram, known for the PyTorch software and the Llama models. It is also the name of Meta's chatbot., a products and applied-research group, and an infrastructure group. Its creation followed the disappointing reception of Llama 4 and accompanied Meta's purchase of a 49 percent non-voting stake in Scale AIScale AI, prop. n.: A company that pays large numbers of people to label examples, write model answers and grade chatbot replies, producing the data AI developers train and test on. Meta bought nearly half of it in 2025., whose founder Alexandr Wang became Meta's chief AI officer, and a recruiting drive that hired dozens of researchers from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Apple and other labs with unusually large pay offers. About 600 positions were cut in October 2025. Its first model, Muse Spark, announced on 8 April 2026 to power the Meta AI assistant, was released as a proprietary model rather than with downloadable weights.
Origin
Announced by Mark Zuckerberg in an internal memo on 30 June 2025, with Alexandr Wang as chief AI officer and Nat Friedman, former chief executive of GitHub, leading AI products.
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- Meta AIMeta AI, prop. n.: The artificial intelligence research group of Meta, the company behind Facebook and Instagram, known for the PyTorch software and the Llama models. It is also the name of Meta's chatbot.
- Scale AIScale AI, prop. n.: A company that pays large numbers of people to label examples, write model answers and grade chatbot replies, producing the data AI developers train and test on. Meta bought nearly half of it in 2025.
- superintelligencesuperintelligence, n.: A mind, usually imagined as an AI, that would leave even the cleverest people far behind in nearly every kind of thinking, not just in one game or skill. None is known to exist.
- LlamaLlama, prop. n.: A family of AI language models from Meta, first released in 2023, whose trained settings can be downloaded and run by anyone, making them the foundation for thousands of other AI projects.
- frontier labfrontier lab, n.: One of the handful of companies building the most advanced AI models of the moment, spending billions of dollars on computing power to train them.
- Safe Superintelligence Inc.Safe Superintelligence Inc., prop. n.: A company started in 2024 by Ilya Sutskever, a co-founder of OpenAI, with the single goal of building a superintelligent AI that is safe. It sells no products.
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Meta AIMeta AI, prop. n.: The artificial intelligence research group of Meta, the company behind Facebook and Instagram, known for the PyTorch software and the Llama models. It is also the name of Meta's chatbot., artificial superintelligenceartificial superintelligence, n.: Superintelligence in machine form: AI that would outthink the best humans at nearly every intellectual task. Often shortened to ASI and pictured as the stage after human-level AI., Mark ZuckerbergMark Zuckerberg, prop. n.: The American co-founder and chief executive of Facebook's parent company Meta, who made it a major AI developer that released its Llama models for anyone to download., Safe Superintelligence Inc.Safe Superintelligence Inc., prop. n.: A company started in 2024 by Ilya Sutskever, a co-founder of OpenAI, with the single goal of building a superintelligent AI that is safe. It sells no products., Scale AIScale AI, prop. n.: A company that pays large numbers of people to label examples, write model answers and grade chatbot replies, producing the data AI developers train and test on. Meta bought nearly half of it in 2025., Alexandr WangAlexandr Wang, prop. n.: An American entrepreneur who founded Scale AI, a major supplier of human-labeled data for training AI, and became Meta's chief AI officer in 2025., personal superintelligencepersonal superintelligence, n.: Mark Zuckerberg's term for a future AI far smarter than people that would serve each person as their own helper, rather than one central system doing everyone's work., reverse acquihirereverse acquihire, n.: A deal in which a big tech company hires a start-up's founders and top staff and pays to license its technology, without buying the company itself.