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Well, it's official in a memo. Mark Zuckerberg announced meta-superintelligence labs and 11 new hires for that group.

Nat Friedman will, quote, partner with Alexander Wang to lead the new group, quoting Bloomberg.

Zuckerberg wrote Monday to employees that meta's AI efforts will fall under this new group called Meta Super Intelligence Labs or MSL, which will be

led by Alexander Wang, the former CEO of Data Labeling Startup Scale AI, according to an internal memo

reviewed by Bloomberg. Wang, whom Zuckerberg called the most impressive founder of his generation,

will serve as chief AI officer. Nat Friedman, the former CEO of GitHub, will partner

with Alex to lead the group. Zuckerberg continued and head meta's work on AI products and

applied research. Bloomberg previously reported on Zuckerberg's effort to recruit a new superintelligence

group. As the pace of AI progress accelerates, developing superintelligence is coming into sight,

Zuckerberg wrote in the internal post. I believe this will be the beginning of a new era for

humanity, and I am fully committed to doing what it takes for meta to lead the way.

Meta will spend, quote, hundreds of billions on AI projects and research in the years to come,

Zuckerberg has said, though the Facebook founder also expects that many firms will likely overspend on AI in and research in the years to come, Zuckerberg has said, though the Facebook founder

also expects that many firms will likely overspend on AI in an effort to avoid missing the wave.

There's a meaningful chance that a lot of the companies are overbuilding now, he said last summer,

but on the flip side, I actually think all the companies that are investing are making a rational

decision because the downside of being behind is that you're

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