Billionaire Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta Platforms, is setting up a team of experts to promote "general artificial intelligence (AGI)" or machines that can be on par with or beyond the capabilities of humans.
Mark Zuckerberg is building a new parallel AI team with an investment of more than $10 billion in Scale AI. Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang plans to join the AGI group after the deal is finalized.
Mark Zuckerberg's plan is to personally hire about 50 people, including a new AI research leader for the AGI group.
The recruitment was partly due to the performance disappointment of Meta's latest major language model, Llama 4.
Last month, Meta delayed the release of the AI model "Behemoth" due to concerns about the model's capabilities.
Rivers like OpenAI are also looking to make changes to attract more investment to develop AGI.