Meta’s decision to create an ambitious new “superintelligence” AI research lab headed by Scale AI’s Alexandr Wang is a bold bid for relevance in its fierce AI battle with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.

Meta has developed plans to create a new artificial intelligence research lab dedicated to pursuing "superintelligence," according to reporting from The New York Times. The social media giant chose 28-year-old Alexandr Wang,

The Meta CEO is said to be hiring about 50 members for a new team working on AI-driven projects including artificial general intelligence.

Zuckerberg is said to be buying nearly half of Scale AI — and recruiting the company’s CEO, too

Tariffs may be leaving a cloud over the stock market, but tech companies continue their upward climb, buoyed by investor excitement around artificial intelligence. On Tuesday, Meta’s share price rose 1.20% amid reports that Mark Zuckerberg’s social media giant planned to invest around $15 billion into the startup Scale AI.

Many AI models were trained on the text of books, but a new test found at least one model has directly memorised nearly the entirety of some books, including Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone,

Meta eyes a $10 billion deal with Scale AI, signaling a stronger push for A.I. research and innovation, with potential shifts in the tech industry’s power dynamics.

The trio is widely regarded as among the world’s most elite AI talent.  All three are veteran ex-Meta researchers who helped lead the company’s high-profile generative AI efforts—and before that, ran labs together at Georgia Tech.