Meta Bets Big on Superintelligence With Scale AI

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Meta Bets Big on Superintelligence With Scale AI’s CEO at the Helm

Written by Aaron S.,

Editor-In-Chief

Last Updated: June 10, 2025

Key Takeaways

Meta is launching a new AI lab focused on developing "superintelligence" beyond human capabilities;
Alexandr Wang of Scale AI will lead the lab, with Meta betting a multi-billion dollar investment in his company;
Meta is hiring top AI talent from OpenAI and Google, offering huge salaries to strengthen its new research team.

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Meta Bets Big on Superintelligence With Scale AI’s CEO at the Helm

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Meta is setting up a new artificial intelligence (AI) unit focused on developing "superintelligence", a system that would surpass human thinking, according to a June 10 report by The New York Times.

Meta has brought in Alexandr Wang, the 28-year-old CEO of Scale AI, to lead this new group. Alongside this, Meta is in discussions to invest billions of dollars into Wang’s company.

As part of the deal, several Scale AI employees may also join the new lab. Meta has also been attempting to recruit AI researchers from top companies, such as OpenAI and Google. Some of them have reportedly accepted offers that include very large pay packages.

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While many companies are aiming to build artificial general intelligence (AGI), which would match human brainpower, superintelligence would be a step beyond that. If AGI can do what humans can, superintelligence would outperform us entirely.

Wang’s company, Scale AI, has played a key role in helping train AI systems. Since launching in 2016 with co-founder Lucy Guo, who was later let go, Wang built Scale AI into a key provider of data labeling services.

The company hires large teams of contractors to sort and prepare data that is used to teach AI models. Its clients have included companies such as OpenAI, Microsoft, and the Canadian start-up Cohere.

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