Meta is reorganizing its structure and recruiting talent with multimillion-dollar salaries to develop artificial intelligence that surpasses human capabilities.
Mark Zuckerberg's company seeks to position itself as a global leader in AI, following some setbacks with its latest technology launches.
What is superintelligence and why is Meta pursuing it?
Superintelligence aims to create AI systems that perform tasks beyond what the human mind can achieve. It is still a theoretical concept, but it is gaining increasing traction in Silicon Valley.
According to The New York Times and Bloomberg, Meta has created a new laboratory dedicated exclusively to this area, focusing on achieving the much sought-after artificial general intelligence (AGI).
An elite team with salaries approaching nine figures
To advance the plan, Meta is recruiting about 50 AI experts, offering compensation packages ranging from seven to nine figures. Several come from rival companies such as Google and OpenAI.
This working group is known internally as the "superintelligence group." Its mission is to create models capable of imitating—and eventually surpassing—human reasoning.
Llama 4's failure and Behemoth's delay
Meta recently stumbled with the Llama 4 model, which was criticized by experts and evaluated as only a minor advance compared to industry leaders. There were even allegations that the published results were inflated.
