{"id":52286,"date":"2025-10-02T23:58:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T23:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/52286\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T23:58:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T23:58:10","slug":"tension-emerges-between-metas-ai-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/52286\/","title":{"rendered":"Tension emerges between Meta\u2019s AI teams"},"content":{"rendered":"

Long before Mark Zuckerberg pivoted Meta<\/a> away from its quest for virtual reality to \u201cbring personal superintelligence<\/a> to everyone,\u201d Meta\u2019s research group FAIR was a powerhouse of important AI research, in addition to working on earlier iterations of the company\u2019s Llama AI models. The group is headed by OG AI legend Yann LeCun, who is a pioneer in neural networks and computer vision. <\/p>\n

The FAIR group<\/a> operates like an academic research lab within Meta, publishing research papers and sharing work with the wider community. But since Meta\u2019s stumble with its Llama 4 AI model, Zuckerberg went on an unprecedented hiring spree of AI all-stars, poaching top researchers from Meta\u2019s competitors to build out a new \u201cSuperintelligence team.\u201d <\/p>\n

Now, The Information is reporting<\/a> that there are new tensions between the AI groups, which could have huge ramifications for Meta\u2019s AI research. <\/p>\n

Per the report, several changes to how FAIR operates are causing friction. A new layer of review has been imposed on FAIR\u2019s research before publication, and the company has been pressuring the group to direct its work more toward Meta products rather than the wider AI research community. <\/p>\n

Adding to this, LeCun appeared to be sidelined when 28-year-old college dropout Alexandr Wang was hired from Scale AI and named chief AI officer. Later, when Meta recruited Shengjia Zhao, the cocreator of ChatGPT, away from OpenAI, Zhao was named \u201cchief scientist of Meta Superintelligence Labs.\u201d Reportedly, the title was given to Zhao to appease him after he threatened to return to OpenAI<\/a>, going so far as to sign HR paperwork with his former employer.<\/p>\n

According to two Information sources, LeCun has discussed with colleagues the possibility of quitting the role. And the nine-figure salaries offered to the Superintelligence team recruits aren\u2019t helping. The rocky start<\/a> to Meta Superintelligence Labs raises questions about how quickly the new strategy can get Meta back into the AI race. <\/p>\n

Bad vibes<\/p>\n

Last week, Meta announced \u201cVibes,\u201d a feed of AI-generated videos that appears in the Meta AI app. But the announcement was quickly dwarfed by the attention on OpenAI\u2019s invite-only Sora app<\/a>, featuring short videos generated from its new Sora 2 video generation model, which appears to set a new, high standard for the quality of such technology. <\/p>\n

The buzz around Sora is real: it\u2019s now No. 3 on the iOS App Store free apps leaderboard<\/a> despite being invitation-only, while Meta AI sits at No. 97. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Long before Mark Zuckerberg pivoted Meta away from its quest for virtual reality to \u201cbring personal superintelligence to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,85,46,125],"class_list":["post-52286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}