July 15 (Reuters) - Mark Zuckerberg said on Monday thatMeta Platforms willHundreds of billions of dollars investedUsed in computing power to create "super intelligence" to further intensify his battle for this cutting-edge technology. Previously, he has been through high salaries to compete for the topAIEngineers wage a war for talent.
The announcement comes at a time when tech giants are racing to make high-profile acquisitions and offer multi-million-dollar annual compensation packages just to lure top talent in the field of artificial intelligence and compete for dominance of the next generation of AI technology. Zuckerberg posted on the social platform Threads, saying, "We have the funding from operations to make this happen. "
After the setbacks with the Llama 4 model and the departure of several key employees, Meta recently announced the creation of a new division, Meta Superintelligence Labs, to consolidate AI resources within the company.
The lab will be co-led by former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang and former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman. The announcement comes after Meta injected $14.3 billion into Scale AI and accelerated its recruitment of top AI talent.