Mark Zuckerberg is very frustrated with the advances of his company in artificial intelligence, so much that he is personally hiring a new team of AI experts and researchers to correct the current course of the company. His last launch was Call 4 and, as Bloomberg reportshe has not lived up to expectations. This has caused that the CEO is being implemented to the maximum in the creation of this new team with which it intends to turn to lead the competition and achieve its great goal: to create a AGI (general artificial intelligence).
Absolute priority. Zuckerberg has entered “Founder Mode”, this means that he is not delegating the creation of the superintelligence team, as they refer to him internally, but is participating in each step of the process. Fuenter nearby, say that the CEO created a WhatsApp group with other executives to discuss possible candidates and is the first to contact them. He has even met with them in their houses of Lake Tahoe and Palo Alto and has reorganized the offices of its headquarters in Melo Park so that the team feels close to their office and that everything is as private as possible.
The team will be made up of around 50 people and will have researchers and infrastructure engineers among others. What is not clear is how it will be integrated with the rest of the AI teams in the finish line or if there will be possible dismissals.
Discontent with the advances of the finish line in AI. In April, Meta announced Call 4its great language model that competes with others such as GPT-4. The truth is that it is difficult to unseat Chatgpt, which just in April was also proclaimed as The most downloaded app of the world.
The people of the Meta team worked nights and weekends, but the result has been disappointing. This also caused a delay in launching Call 4 Behemothits biggest model to date, because the current one is not at the level they want. Given this, frustrated, Zuckerberg has decided that he wants a new team.
Objective: General artificial intelligence. In early 2024, Zuckerberg revealed his great long -term goal: reach general artificial intelligence and “open it to the Open Source so that everyone can benefit.” General artificial intelligence is an even more ambitious concept; an AI that is able to perform any intellectual task, to carry out judgments and reason even with a greater capacity than human beings.
There are many companies wanting to lead the next great jump in AI and goal does not want to be left behind. Zuckerberg would be determined to achieve it, although it seems an unrealistic objective considering that it has been launched so far, he has not lived up to his expectations.
A Milmillionaire investment. In parallel to the formation of the new team, Zuckerberg would be planning a large investment in Scale AI, a company that offers services to train AI models and also develops applications for companies and governments. With this they would make a leap in quality by having a better data labeling. Although it is not confirmed, bells sound like The agreement is in a very advanced phase and could get to no less than 15,000 million dollarsthe largest external goal investment to date.
But Zuckerberg doesn’t seem to worry these millionaire investments. According to Bloomberg, he told possible candidates for his team that the target advertising business is strong and have plenty of liquidity to finance their career in the AI sector. One of these investments would have to do with the Creation of a gigantic data center that could leave for 200,000 million dollars. At its target moment he denied it, but if confirmed it would end up being the most expensive to date, followed by Amazon that will cost $ 100,000 million.
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