Meta Names Chief Scientist for New AI Unit

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Let's just go through the leadership here because as Alexander Wang of scale AI then there's a chief scientist and Yan Lakum is somewhere as well. >> Yeah, that's right. It's been a total reorg Caroline in the last couple months. So there's obviously Mark Zuckerberg at the top and I do mention him specifically because he's incredibly hands-on with it when it comes to Meta's AI related projects. Uh Alexander Wang, the scale AI co-founder who they just sort of brought over in June after that massive investment they made in Scale AI. uh Shang Jia Jiao you just mentioned is the new chief scientist of the super intelligence labs. Um basically that's the group internally that's going to hopefully for meta develop this new model that will be super intelligent right that will achieve that human level capability and then Yan Lun is still at Meta he is still a chief scientist by title as well he is running the fair group which is the AI research division of Meta uh they were very clear over the weekend and and on Friday that Lacun is still there still doing the research for Meta >> I'm grateful you you talked about Zuckerberg's role, right? This announcement at the end of last week was on his social media platforms and channels personally. Do we know if the team is finished? Like, have the Avengers been assembled and they're they're done now or are they still out there in the marketplace trying to find more people? >> I believe they're still hiring. Uh when we originally broke this story back in June that the super intelligence group was being brought together, we had heard that there were going to be around 50 people was the target. I've been keeping a spreadsheet, Ed. I'm up to like 30 or so. So, you know, we're maybe a little over halfway done. But, um, I do think clearly they're at a point where they feel that they have a large enough group that they can start talking about this publicly, start talking about the chief scientist, things like that. But, I don't think we're necessarily at the end of the road uh for hiring. I would think they would hire, you know, no matter uh how many people they get if they're getting good people. I think Mark Zuckerberg has made clear this is a collection of talent and I'm not sure that he's going to simply be like, "Oh, we've hit 50, therefore we're going to say no to other good people." I'm sure they'll bring as many good people in the door as they