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Express Tribune
2 hours ago
- Business
- Express Tribune
Mark Zuckerberg announces launch of Meta Superintelligence Labs
Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has announced the launch of Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL), a new AI unit intended to position the company at the forefront of artificial general intelligence development. The unit will bring together Meta's existing teams working on foundation models including the open-source Llama model and its Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) division. It will also launch a new lab focused on what Zuckerberg described as 'the next generation' of models. MSL will be led by Alexandr Wang, former chief executive of Scale AI, who joins Meta as chief AI officer. He will work alongside Nat Friedman, former GitHub CEO and a partner in the AI venture capital scene, who will oversee product and applied research efforts. The announcement, made via an internal memo obtained by CNBC, comes as Meta accelerates its recruitment drive amid intense competition with OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft for top AI talent. The company recently hired Wang and several colleagues as part of a $14.3 billion investment in AI infrastructure. It also recruited Friedman and Daniel Gross, both previously involved with Safe Superintelligence, the AI venture co-founded by OpenAI's Ilya Sutskever. In his memo, Zuckerberg said the emergence of superintelligence marked 'the beginning of a new era for humanity,' and that Meta was 'fully committed' to leading in its development. 'Meta is uniquely positioned to deliver superintelligence to the world,' he added, citing its scale, infrastructure, and experience in global product deployment. The new division will include high-profile hires from leading labs such as OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Anthropic. Zuckerberg also highlighted Meta's roadmap for Llama 4.1 and 4.2, which are already integrated across Meta platforms and used by more than a billion people monthly. Alongside this, the company is initiating work on its next set of frontier models, with a 'small, talent-dense' team still in formation. The creation of MSL signals Meta's strategic intent to move beyond consumer-facing AI assistants and invest in foundational AI infrastructure. The announcement also reinforces Zuckerberg's vision of 'personal superintelligence for everyone'—a competitive stake in the rapidly evolving global AI landscape. Zuckerberg concluded his note by hinting at more talent announcements in the coming weeks, describing the effort as 'a new influx of talent and a parallel approach to model development.'
Ammon
2 hours ago
- Business
- Ammon
Mark Zuckerberg announces creation of Meta Superintelligence Labs
Ammon News - Mark Zuckerberg said Monday that he's creating Meta Superintelligence Labs, which will be led by some of his company's most recent hires, including Scale AI ex-CEO Alexandr Wang and former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman. Zuckerberg said the new AI superintelligence unit, MSL, will house the company's various teams working on foundation models such as the open-source Llama software, products and Fundamental Artificial Intelligence Research projects, according to an internal memo obtained by CNBC. Bloomberg first reported about the new unit. Meta's co-founder and CEO has been on an AI hiring blitz as he faces fierce competition from rivals such as OpenAI and Google . Earlier in June, the company said it would hire Wang, now Meta's chief AI officer, and some of his colleagues as part of a $14.3 billion investment into Scale AI. Meta also hired Friedman and his business partner, Daniel Gross, who was CEO of Safe Superintelligence, the AI startup created by OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever, CNBC earlier reported. Meta had attempted to buy Safe Superintelligence but was rebuffed by Sutskever. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a recent podcast that Meta was recruiting AI researchers from his company, offering signing bonuses as high as $100 million. Meta technology chief Andrew Bosworth told CNBC's 'Closing Bell Overtime' in an interview on June 20 that OpenAI was countering Meta's offers.
Euronews
2 hours ago
- Health
- Euronews
Microsoft says AI outperforms doctors at complex medical diagnoses
Microsoft said it is one step closer to 'medical superintelligence' after a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool beat doctors at diagnosing complex medical problems. Tech giants are racing to develop superintelligence, which refers to an AI system that exceeds human intellectual abilities in every way – and they're promising to use it to upend healthcare systems around the world. For the latest experiment, Microsoft tested an AI diagnostic system against 21 experienced physicians, using real-world case studies from 304 patients that were published in the New England Journal of Medicine, a leading medical journal. The AI tool correctly diagnosed up to 85.5 per cent of cases – roughly four times more than the group of doctors from the United Kingdom and the United States, who had between five and 20 years of experience. The model was also cheaper than human doctors, ordering fewer scans and tests to reach the correct diagnosis, the analysis found. Microsoft said the findings indicate that AI models can reason through complex diagnostic problems that stump physicians, who specialise in their fields but are not experts in every aspect of medicine. However, AI 'can blend both breadth and depth of expertise, demonstrating clinical reasoning capabilities that, across many aspects of clinical reasoning, exceed those of any individual physician,' Microsoft executives said in a press release. 'This kind of reasoning has the potential to reshape healthcare'. Microsoft does not see AI replacing doctors anytime soon, saying the tools will instead help physicians automate some routine tasks, personalise patients' treatment, and speed up diagnoses. How the model works Microsoft's AI system made diagnoses by mimicking a doctor's process of collecting a patient's details, ordering tests, and eventually narrowing down a medical diagnosis. A 'gatekeeper agent' had information from the patient case studies. It interacted with a 'diagnostic orchestrator' that asked questions and ordered tests, receiving results from the real-world workups. The company tested the system with leading AI models, including GPT, Llama, Claude, Gemini, Grok, and DeepSeek. OpenAI's o3 model, which is integrated into ChatGPT, correctly solved 85.5 per cent of the patient cases, compared to an average of 20 per cent among the group of 21 experienced doctors. Limitations and next steps The researchers published their findings online as a preprint article, meaning it has not yet been peer-reviewed. Microsoft also acknowledged some key limitations, notably that the AI tool has only been tested for complicated health problems, not more common, everyday issues. The panel of doctors also worked without access to their colleagues, textbooks, or other tools that they might typically use when making diagnoses. 'This was done to enable a fair comparison to raw human performance,' Microsoft said. The company called for more real-world evidence on AI's potential in health clinics, and said it will 'rigorously test and validate these approaches' before making them more widely available.
Time of India
3 hours ago
- Business
- Time of India
Meta's AI talent war raises questions about strategy
Mark Zuckerberg and Meta are spending billions to recruit top artificial intelligence talent, triggering debates about whether the aggressive hiring spree will pay off in the competitive generative AI race. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently complained that Meta has offered $100 million bonuses to lure engineers away from his company, where they would join teams already earning substantial salaries. Several OpenAI employees have accepted Meta's offers, prompting executives at the ChatGPT maker to scramble to retain their best talent. "I feel a visceral feeling right now, as if someone has broken into our home and stolen something," Chief Research Officer Mark Chen wrote in a Saturday Slack memo obtained by Wired magazine. Chen said the company was working "around the clock to talk to those with offers" and find ways to keep them at OpenAI. Meta's recruitment drive has also landed Scale AI founder and former CEO Alexandr Wang, a Silicon Valley rising star, who will lead a new group called Meta Superintelligence Labs, according to an internal memo, whose content was confirmed by the company. Meta paid more than $14 billion for a 49 percent stake in Scale AI in mid-June, bringing Wang aboard as part of the acquisition. Scale AI specializes in labeling data to train AI models for businesses, governments, and research labs. "As the pace of AI progress accelerates, developing superintelligence is coming into sight," Zuckerberg wrote in the memo, which was first reported by Bloomberg. "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," he added. US media outlets report that Meta's recruitment campaign has also targeted OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever, Google rival Perplexity AI, and the buzzy AI video startup Runway. Seeking ways to expand his business empire beyond Facebook and Instagram, Zuckerberg is personally leading the charge, driven by concerns that Meta is falling behind competitors in generative AI. The latest version of Meta's AI model, Llama, ranked below heavyweight rivals in code-writing performance on the LM Arena platform, where users evaluate AI technologies. Meta is integrating new recruits into a dedicated team focused on developing "superintelligence" -- AI that surpasses human cognitive abilities. - 'Mercenary' approach - Tech blogger Zvi Moshowitz believes Zuckerberg had little choice but to act aggressively, though he expects mixed results from the talent grab. "There are some extreme downsides to going pure mercenary... and being a company with products no one wants to work on," Moshowitz told AFP. "I don't expect it to work, but I suppose Llama will suck less." While Meta's stock price approaches record highs and the company's valuation nears $2 trillion, some investors are growing concerned. Institutional investors worry about Meta's cash management and reserves, according to Baird strategist Ted Mortonson. "Right now, there are no checks and balances" on Zuckerberg's spending decisions, Mortonson noted. Though the potential for AI to enhance Meta's profitable advertising business is appealing, "people have a real big concern about spending." Meta executives envision using AI to streamline advertising from creation to targeting, potentially bypassing creative agencies and offering brands a complete solution. The AI talent acquisitions represent long-term investments unlikely to boost Meta's profitability immediately, according to CFRA analyst Angelo Zino. "But still, you need those people on board now and to invest aggressively to be ready for that phase" of generative AI development. The New York Times reports that Zuckerberg is considering moving away from Meta's Llama model, possibly adopting competing AI systems instead.
Euronews
3 hours ago
- Business
- Euronews
Meta announces new ‘superintelligence' unit to work on AI
Meta announced a new division to create an artificial intelligence (AI) system that is as intelligent as humans. Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, wrote in an internal memo on Monday that Meta Superintelligence Labs, MSL, will be a dedicated part of the company focused on artificial general intelligence (AGI). The memo said that MSL would house several research teams that are working on foundational AI models such as Llama software. It will be lead by Alexandr Wang, the former CEO of Scale AI, an American data annotation company that builds training data sets for AI companies. Meta bought a 49 percent share in Scale AI last month for $14.3 billion (€12.4 billion), with the company saying at the time that it would employ Wang and a few other members of his team. Meta's hiring spree Zuckerberg's memo included the names of several more people joining Meta from rivals OpenAI, Google and Anthropic. Former OpenAI leaders Hongyu Ren, Jiahui Yu, Shengjia Zhao and researchers Trapit Bansal, Shuchao Bi, Huiwen Chang and Ji Lin are now being brought into Meta, Zuckerberg's internal memo added. Euronews Next contacted OpenAI to get their reaction to the news but did not receive an immediate reply. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently accused Meta of offering his employees $100 million (€87 million) signing bonuses if they joined his company. Altman told his brother Jack in his podcast at the time that he respects Meta's 'aggression' in competing with the company but that promising 'a ton of upfront guarnateed comp(ensation) … [won't] set up a great culture'. 'I think people look at the two paths [OpenAI vs Meta] and they say OpenAI's got a really good shot, a much better shot on actually delivering on super intelligence and may eventually be the more valuable company,' he said.
