| Company type | Division |
|---|---|
| Industry | Artificial intelligence |
| Founded | June 30, 2025; 7 months ago (2025-06-30) |
| Headquarters | , U.S. |
Key people | Alexandr Wang(chief AI officer) |
Number of employees | 3,000[1] (2025) |
| Parent | Meta Platforms |
Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL) is an Americanartificial intelligence division ofMeta Platforms, headquartered inMenlo Park, California. The division focuses on research and development in the field ofartificial superintelligence.
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In June 2025,Bloomberg News reported thatMark Zuckerberg, the chief executive ofMeta Platforms, had expressed displeasure atLlama 4, the company'slarge language model released in April, tasking employees to work overtime. In response, Meta began internally developing Behemoth, a larger model set to be more sophisticated than offerings fromOpenAI,Anthropic, andGoogle. According toThe Wall Street Journal, amid concerns from Meta's leadership over Behemoth's capabilities, the company delayed the release of the model. The decision to delay Behemoth led Zuckerberg to involve himself closely with Meta's AI efforts, starting aWhatsApp group chat with senior leadership to recruit researchers. According toBloomberg News, Zuckerberg set a goal to hire approximately fifty people to staff a firm to achieveartificial general intelligence.[2]
That month, Zuckerberg sought to invest several billion dollars intoScale AI and hire its chief executive and founder,Alexandr Wang.[2] In addition, he had personally recruited researchers at his homes inLake Tahoe andPalo Alto, California;[2]The New York Times later reported that Zuckerberg had offered compensation packages valued betweenUS$1 toUS$100 million to employees at OpenAI and Google.[3]
Days later, Meta announced that it was investingUS$14.3 billion into Scale AI, an intentionally muted role despite hiring Wang in order to avoid scrutiny from theFederal Trade Commission amid an impending decision from judgeJames Boasberg inFTC v. Meta (2020).[4] According toThe Information, Zuckerberg was willing to provideUS$5 billion, though Wang countered withUS$20 billion.[5] In order to fund the tentative firm, Meta implemented advertisements in WhatsApp.[6]The Information later reported that Meta was discussing hiringNat Friedman, the former chief executive ofGitHub, and the businessman and investorDaniel Gross, and acquiring their venture capital firm, NFDG.[7]
According toCNBC, Meta had sought to acquireSafe Superintelligence Inc., but its CEOIlya Sutskever refused the acquisition.[8] Additionally, Zuckerberg privately discussed acquiringThinking Machines Lab andPerplexity AI, though the deals fell through over disputes concerning prices and strategy. Days later,The Verge reported that Gross and Friedman would report directly beneath Wang.[9][10] Zuckerberg assumed a dominant role in hiring employees,[11] though his efforts faced complications from researchers who expressed skepticism at Meta's artificial intelligence, uncertainty over internal restructuring, and a perceived strategic conflict with Meta's vice president for artificial intelligence,Yann LeCun.[12] Additionally, several researchers were surprised to receive messages from Zuckerberg, including one person who, believing a message they received to be a hoax, did not respond for several days.[12]
On June 30, Zuckerberg announced that he was establishing Meta Superintelligence Labs with Wang serving aschief AI officer and Friedman leading work on AI products.Meta AI (formerly Fundamental Artificial Intelligence Research) and several other divisions, including a new team called TBD Lab, dedicated to "developing the next generation" of Meta's large language models, were placed beneath Meta Superintelligence Labs.[13][14] In an internal memo, Zuckerberg named eleven employees the company had hired.[15] Zuckerberg's efforts forced other AI company executives, includingMicrosoft'sSatya Nadella and OpenAI'sSam Altman, to attract researchers themselves.[16] In July, Gross joined Superintelligence Labs as Friedman's counterpart.[17] That month,The New York Times reported that Superintelligence Labs executives had discussed a proprietary AI model.[18]
In August, Meta restructured Meta Superintelligence Labs into four subgroups.[19]
On November 20, 2025, Yann LeCun left Meta's chief AI scientist role to start a new firm.[20][21]
Meta Superintelligence Labs comprises four groups: TBD Lab, a team managing Meta'slarge language models that is led by Wang, FAIR, an artificial intelligence research team, Products and Applied Research, a consumer integration team led by Friedman, and MSL Infra, a team for infrastructure to sustain artificial intelligence models that is led by Aparna Ramani.[19]