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Zuckerberg announces new AI hires for “Meta Superintelligence Labs”

Zuckerberg has been actively recruiting top AI researchers from competitors reportedly by offering compensation packages worth $100 million.

6/30/25 3:11PM

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg officially announced the initial roster of AI researchers that he recruited away from his competitors. In an internal memo to employees, Zuckerberg said the new team will be called “Meta Superintelligence Labs,” headed by Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang, per Bloomberg.

Wang will be assisted by Nat Friedman, the former CEO of Microsoft’s GitHub. The memo reportedly listed 11 new hires from the intensely competitive AI field, including top researchers from Google, DeepMind, OpenAI, and Anthropic.

According to multiple reports, Meta has offered massive compensation packages worth up to $100 million to the AI engineers it sought to poach from the competition. Reports said the company plans to hire more than 50 people for the team.

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A federal judge in Northern California has granted a preliminary injunction blocking the Pentagon from labeling Anthropic as a national security supply chain risk.

The ruling temporarily prevents the Defense Department from restricting the AI company’s access to federal contracts amid a dispute over its refusal to allow certain military and surveillance uses of its technology. The designation could also have shifted lucrative government work toward competitors, including OpenAI.

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