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• @sungkim Sung Kim on bluesky

  Meta would have been better off acqui-hiring an existing team rather than hiring individual contributors to build a new AI team.  A cohesive group that works well together outperform a collection of highly talented individuals.  —  www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

• @seldo.com Laurie Voss on bluesky

  Meta has pivoted entirely to AI which is weird because the company is still called “Meta”, the name of their previous failed pivot. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

• @zeroanaphora Abbie on bluesky

  Meta commercial shows their AI bot instructing a father in how his own child likes their pancakes.  This is satanic.

• @sabadosama Lindsay Sabadosa on bluesky

  Hearing how Meta is lobbying hard in support of the AI regulation moratorium because it is written broadly enough to preempt not only AI laws, but kids online safety legislation as well.  Which tracks as as the Zuckerbergs also announce they are defunding & closing the school the…

• @mgsiegler.com M.G. Siegler on bluesky

  A certain co-founder of SSI seems notably absent...  [embedded post]

• @tbpn @tbpn on x

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• @selini0 @selini0 on x

  We can't buy Noah Shazeer for 1 billion but we can create him in the aggregate [image]

• @headinthebox Erik Meijer on x

  Congrats to all of these, especially Joel Pobar, who will clean up a lot of bullshit.

• @emollick Ethan Mollick on x

  So is the new Meta AI effort also going to be completely open weights? On one hand FAIR was committed, on the other a lot of investment to compete in a space with no clear path to value capture or complimentary assets (and where you are behind the European and Chinese efforts).

• @anjneymidha Anjney Midha on x

  JEPA is on the rise. @ylecun was right.

• @trapitbansal Trapit Bansal on x

  Thrilled to be joining @Meta! Superintelligence is now in sight 🚀

• @neilcybart Neil Cybart on x

  Also, when I hear or see the word “superintelligence,” I think of this GIF. Give me a break. [image]

• @dorialexander Alexander Doria on x

  Yann is going to leave Meta, raise 10 billions for jepagi and everyone will look silly.

• @benjamindekr Benjamin De Kraker on x

  The OpenAI braindrain (poachings) by other labs kind of confirms that the smartest minds in AI **don't actually believe** OAI is on the cusp of AGI, but rather that it's going to be a drawn-out slugfest for several years at least, and the economy still matters

• @can @can on x

  makes you wonder how many of these folks are on visas and how many people like them are not going to come to US now thanks to Trump's new policies

• @davidgan__ David Gan on x

  older bro works on AI at meta said Zuck was announcing the new hires like the '92 dream team lmao [image]

• @neilcybart Neil Cybart on x

  The more attention that is placed on individual contributors, the less likely this (whatever you call it) is going to pan out. They clearly want to convince as many people as possible that Zuckerberg is assembling the Dream Team. Also, I'm not exactly sure why anyone would

• @alexandr_wang Alexandr Wang on x

  I'm excited to be the Chief AI Officer of @Meta, working alongside @natfriedman, and thrilled to be accompanied by an incredible group of people joining on the same day. Towards superintelligence 🚀 [image]

• @cyber_trailer @cyber_trailer on x

  Remember, if you're applying for an AI position at Meta, no one can ever prove that you were not a regional manager at Toys “R” Us, RadioShack, Circuit City, or Sears.

• @josephfounder Joseph Hurtado on x

  @kyliebytes Zuck's approach contrasts so much with Apple. Apple has more cash than Meta, and could even buy one of the top 3 AI Labs, or get even a larger team onboard. Apple unfortunately seems not to care, money is abundant for now... Meta sees the threat, and has decided to le…

• @garymarcus Gary Marcus on x

  In recent weeks Meta has spent a ton of money, reorganized their AI, sidelined LeCun, and hired a bunch of talent. Zuckerberg claims they are uniquely positioned to lead the journey to superintelligence. Will they be perceived as the clear leaders in AI three years?

• @pmddomingos Pedro Domingos on x

  The problem with calling your new AI organization “Meta Superintelligence Labs” is that it sets you up to disappoint.

• @omoalhajaabiola @omoalhajaabiola on x

  Man, Meta has successfully lured some of OpenAI's top AI engineers. The talent war in artificial intelligence is officially heating up. Reportedly, some of them will earn $10m/year [image]

• @ai_for_success AshutoshShrivastava on x

  Zuck has assembled the Avengers for Meta Superintelligence Labs. [image]

• @primalpoly Geoffrey Miller on x

  @GaryMarcus LeCun has been a colossal PR embarrassment for Meta, given his bizarre dismissal of all concerns about the risks and downsides of AI.

• @garymarcus Gary Marcus on x

  @primalpoly not sure Zuck cares about the downsides, but yet YLC has become a bit of a joke, precisely because of his dismissiveness.

• @bindureddy Bindu Reddy on x

  Meta seems about 12 months behind SOTA at the moment The longer they delay the next model drop the worse it will get Even a multi-billion reorg may not save them Grok and Gemini caught up earlier this year - partly due to DeepSeek's open source push and partly because they

• @boringbiz_ @boringbiz_ on x

  Full list of Zuckerberg's super intelligence team that he hired with signing bonuses as high as $100M Worth noting that 12 out of 13 on the list are either immigrants or children of immigrants Attracting talent from around the world remains America's superpower [image]

• @basedbeffjezos @basedbeffjezos on x

  If Zuck's plan works out, it will show the AGI race is pay to win

• @jack_w_rae Jack Rae on x

  Very excited to be joining Meta! The mission to build superintelligence is one of humanity's greatest challenges and opportunities. It's a privilege to be able to work on it. Grateful to Mark and the team for the warm welcome 💙

• @yacinemtb Kache on x

  the real redpill is that zuck isn't paying ML researchers in only money - money is worthless. He's paying them in the ability to not work 80 hour work weeks

• @turnernovak Turner Novak on x

  BREAKING: IBM reportedly paying employees to leave and take jobs at Meta to improve the prestige of their AI program

• @bnj Ben South on x

  It's officially tech trade season [image]

• @bgurley Bill Gurley on x

  I really wonder if this is a direct “backfire” of the early employee liquidity policy. Be careful when you financially engineer. FAFO.

• @basedbeffjezos @basedbeffjezos on x

  Strong team Let MSL cook now LET THEM COOK [image]

• @yanda @yanda on x

  Whoever says capital isn't a competitive advantage should take a look at this list.  Wowza.

• @garymarcus Gary Marcus on x

  Meta just re-orged their AI, now apparently all under Alexandr Wang — is LeCun just a wall decoration at this point? Memo from Zuck (not LeCun), w no mention of LeCun: [image]

• @rihardjarc Rihard Jarc on x

  What if $META's Zuck gets 50 best AI talents, pays them $5B yearly, and then does massive headcount reductions over the years as AI agents take over. Even before genAI, Elon at Twitter fired 80% of the workforce. It turns out that X (Twitter) works fine with 80% fewer employees. …

• @ns123abc Nik on x

  > be sama > publicly humiliates zucc, says meta's efforts are doomed > brags that “no researchers are leaving OpenAI” > meanwhile does literally nothing except drop more “AGI is coming soon” prophecy stories > top researchers immediately start to leave >*panic* >starts copying zu…

• @pitdesi Sheel Mohnot on x

  In the last month, Meta went from being a laughingstock in AI to being a real contender (in my head at least) Cost them maybe 2% of the company. Stock is up 10% (market up 5%) Feels worth it for an asymmetric bet Never count Zuck out!

• @deedydas Deedy on x

  Here's everyone Meta hired for their Superintelligence team. Say hello to the new residents of Atherton with their $10M+/yr comp packages, everyone! [image]

• @chamath Chamath Palihapitiya on x

  This is a great example of the narrative fallacy that governs Silicon Valley.  We sell mission and vision as so important but it's a lie.  All companies get reduced to the same basic economic equation - your time for their money.  In this, we are all hyper predictable creatures a…

• @krishnanrohit Rohit on x

  Interesting, Nat Friedman will co-lead with Alex Wang. Dan Gross isn't mentioned. [image]

• @signulll @signulll on x

  it's kinda interesting that nearly no one from meta leadership is actively part of the cultural or technical discourse on x. the most important platform for both. the company trying to own the future of social has almost no presence on the one place where the future of culture

• @signulll @signulll on x

  so why the hell would idealistic leading researchers join meta of all places besides pure cash? i think zuck's pitch likely includes: - data, more human behavioral data than any other entity. it's the closest proxy to “training on humanity” without breaking laws. -

• r/technology r on reddit

  Mark Zuckerberg announces creation of Meta Superintelligence Labs.

• r/LocalLLaMA r on reddit

  [WIRED] Here Is Everyone Mark Zuckerberg Has Hired So Far for Meta's ‘Superintelligence’ Team

• r/artificial r on reddit

  Here Is Everyone Mark Zuckerberg Has Hired So Far for Meta's ‘Superintelligence’ Team

• r/OpenAI r on reddit

  Here Is Everyone Mark Zuckerberg Has Hired So Far for Meta's ‘Superintelligence’ Team