Long before Mark Zuckerberg pivoted Meta Away from the quest for virtual reality to “bring personal closeness to everyone,” Meta's research group fair was an important AI research powerhouse, in addition to tackling previous iterations of the company's llama AI model. The group is led by OG AI legend Yann Lecun, a pioneer in neural networks and computer vision.
Fairgroup works like an academic research lab within Meta, publishing research papers and sharing work with the wider community. However, since Meta came across the Lama 4 AI model, Zuckerberg has made an unprecedented adoption of the AI All-Star, poaching Meta's top researchers.'s Competitors building a new “Superintelligence team.”
Currently, the information reports new tensions between AI groups. This could have a major impact on Meta's AI research.
According to the report, there are some changes to the fact that fair operation is causing friction. A new review layer has been placed on pre-publication fair research, and the company has put pressure on the group to direct its work towards meta products rather than the wider AI research community.
In addition to this, Lecun appeared to be on the sidelines when 28-year-old college dropout Alexandr Wang was hired by Scale AI and appointed as Chief AI officer. Later, when Meta recruited Shengjia Zhao, a community of Chatgpt, remote from Openai, Zhao was named “Chief Scientist of Meta Superintelligence Labs.” The title reportedly went as far as he signed HR paperwork with his former employer, after he threatened to return to Openai.
According to two sources, Lecun discusses the possibility of leaving the role with her colleague. And the nine-figure salaries offered to recruits on the Super Intelligence Team are useless. Rocky Start to Meta Superintelligence Labs is questioning how quickly a new strategy can bring the meta back to AI races.
Bad atmosphere
Last week, Meta announced Vibes, a feed of AI-generated videos that appears in the Meta AI app. However, this announcement was quickly warped by attention from the Openai invitees-only Sora app. This presents short videos generated from the new Sora 2 video generation model that appears to set a new high standard for the quality of such technology.
The buzz around Sora is real. Now, despite only invitations on the iOS App Store Free Apps leaderboard, Meta AI is at number 97.
