On April 15th, local time, April 14th, according to Business InsiderMeta CEO Mark ZuckerbergPARTICIPATING MORE DIRECTLY IN THE AI COMPETITION - EVEN MOVING THE DESK INTO THE AI TEAM. ZUCKERBERG HAS BEEN REPOSITIONED TO THE AI LAB, CO-LOCATED WITH WANG DO AND NAT FRIEDMAN, AND RECOMMENCEDCode.
Meta Managing Director Dina Powell McCormick said at the World Economic Summit in Washington, "Mark did move the desk to AI Lab, sits with Wang Do, Nat Friedman and writes code all day. On the one hand, they might think, "That's great, you've come back for advice, Mark, and you're still writing the code. 'I think he's very determined that this depth of understanding is necessary to think about how best to get the model to work."
Zuckerberg is deeply involved in AI development with increased competition between Meta and ChatGPT in OpenAI, Claude in Anthropic and Gemini in Google. Previous reports indicate that Zuckerberg has not only repositioned the office layout of Menlopak headquarters to allow new staff to sit near it, but also5-10 hours per weekPARTICIPATION IN AI PROJECT DEVELOPMENT AND REVIEW TEAM WORK。
Meta has invested billions of dollars in an AI team called "Super Smart Laboratories", which includesAbout $15 billion(Note: The current exchange rate is about RMB 10,2.436 million)Scale AIAnd bring in the co-founders. Zuckerberg is also deeply involved in the recruitment of talent in this sector。
McCormick also mentioned that former CEO Nat Friedman had joined Meta in July to help advance the development of the AI product。
In the outside world, Meta once lagged behind other technology giants and front-line model companies in the generation AI competition, and “super-smart laboratories” are trying to reverse this through new models。
At present, OpenAI is dominant with ChatGPT, and Google is relying on the "all-in-house" capacity to keep pressure. Anthropic has been following developments such as Claude Code and Cowork in the past six months and has announced that, for security reasons, the latest model Claude Mythos will not be publicly released。
Meta's input began to show results with the launch of the first model by the SuperIntelligence Laboratory, Muse Spark. After the release of the model, Meta stock price rose 8%, which Zuckerberg referred to as the “first milestone” in the sector。