The poaching of AI researchers from the likes of OpenAI — with salaries in the tens of millions of dollars — and the debut of Meta’s new Superintelligence group comes after the Facebook operator

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, has heated up the race towards AI superintelligence by restructuring the company’s artificial intelligence division with the main aim being to develop artificial superintelligence, that is, intelligence that is far beyond what humans are capable of.

Mark Zuckerberg has officially revealed the team members of Meta’s new “superintelligence” division, following a months-long recruitment drive. Facebook’s parent company successfully poached seven researchers from OpenAI, two from Google DeepMind, one from Anthropic, and one from Sesame, an artificial intelligence hardware company.