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Report: Meta taps Scale AI’s Alexandr Wang to join new ‘superintelligence’ lab


Mark Zuckerberg is hand-picking top researchers and engineers to join an upcoming AI research lab dedicated to “superintelligence," and Scale AI's Alexandr Wang is on the list.

Meta has tapped Scale AI founder and CEO Alexandr Wang to join the new lab, The New York Times reports. The new lab comes as Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg grows frustrated with his company’s AI shortfalls. Sources told Bloomberg that Zuckerberg believes Meta can and should outpace other tech companies gunning to achieve AGI, the still-undefined idea that AI systems could exceed human performance in many tasks.

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