According to Business Insider, Zuckerberg recently told the Meta made a major reshuffle, and the head of the Superintelligence Laboratory (MSL), who has only been on the job for a few months Alexandr Wang An internal letter was recently released announcing specific adjustments.
Wang stated thatMSL will be split into four specialized teams, with multiple AI teams reporting to it, specifically:
TBD Lab: Focuses on training large-scale AI models and exploring new directions such as "Omni" models.
FAIR: Serves as an innovation engine to drive the application of FAIR's findings to large-scale training in TBD labs Rob Fergus will continue to lead FAIR and Yann LeCun will continue to serve as FAIR's Chief Scientist, but both will report to Wang.
Product and Applied Research: Enhance product-oriented research and development to integrate AI technologies into Meta products Nat Friedman leads this team and reports to Wang.
Infrastructure Team: Integrates infrastructure resources to support the training and deployment of large-scale AI models. led by Aparna Ramani and integrated into Aparna's organization and still reporting to Wang.
It is worth mentioning that in this restructuring, the General Artificial Intelligence Foundations (AGI Foundations) team has been disbanded and the members will be placed in other suitable teams and positions.
Wang said in the letter:
I am well aware of the pain that comes with organizational restructuring, but I firmly believe that taking the time to straighten out the organization at this moment will allow us to move towards superintelligence at a faster pace in the long run.