Mark Zuckerberg, ‘Frustrated’ by Llama 4, Assembles Meta ‘Superintelligence’ Team

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly frustrated at the current level of progress exhibited by his company’s AI model, Llama 4, and is assembling a team of AI experts to focus on the notion of achieving a “superintelligence,” according to CNN.

Citing reports from both The New York Times and Bloomberg, CNN’s Jordan Valinsky noted that Zuckerberg is slated to hire about 50 people for this team and has altered the layout of Meta’s Menlo Park HQ to have the AI-oriented squad nearer to his own office, per anonymous sources.

Alexandr Wang, the founder and CEO of Scale AI, is said to be part of this new initiative — and Meta is purported to be considering a significant investment (to the tune of billions of dollars) of investment in Wang’s company.

Meta Wants Its ‘Superintelligence’ To Outperform OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini

With both Meta AI and Llama already being deployed, Zuckerberg seemingly wants to surpass the current goals of OpenAI (responsible for ChatGPT) and Google (known for its Gemini AI model) and others in their quest for AGI, or artificial general intelligence, to create a superintelligence that would exceed AGI in its scope and capability, according to the NYT.

Citing people familiar with the matter, the NYT also claimed that Meta’s AI division had suffered the loss of key employees to rival companies in the same space, largely due to a harsh pace of product development, destructive infighting within management, and a competitive job market paying a premium for AI professionals.

As Axios outlined, Menlo Ventures venture capitalist Deedy Das recently shared an X post in which he reinforced the above claim, stating that he had gotten wind of at least three separate cases over the course of the last week in which Meta had lost out on hiring desirable AI talent to competitors enjoying offers upward of $2 million annually.

Both Meta and Scale AI declined to comment on the matter, according to a variety of news outlets — but Axios writer Ben Berkowitz did have at least one concise observation to offer in summation, as billions of dollars flood the industry.

“Why [this news] matters: Cost doesn’t matter in the race for AI dominance.”