Meta plans fourth AI restructuring in six months - The Information

Investing.com -- Meta Platforms is planning to restructure its artificial intelligence efforts for the fourth time in six months, according to The Information, citing three people familiar with the matter.

The company’s Meta Superintelligence Labs is expected to be divided into four groups: a new lab currently known as TBD Lab (short for "to be determined"); a team focused on products including the Meta AI assistant; a team dedicated to infrastructure; and the company’s Fundamental AI Research lab, which handles longer-term research.

This reorganization follows a turbulent period for Meta’s AI initiatives. CEO Mark Zuckerberg has made significant efforts to overhaul the company’s AI work after setbacks earlier this year. During the summer, Meta agreed to invest billions of dollars to hire former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang and former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman as co-leaders of Meta Superintelligence Labs, an AI initiative aimed at achieving superintelligence.

The company has also been aggressively recruiting talent, hiring dozens of researchers from competitors including Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic.

The restructuring plans have not yet been announced internally and could still change, sources told The Information.

TBD Lab, which is developing the newest version of Meta’s flagship large language model Llama, is expected to have multiple leaders. Jack Rae, formerly of Google, is likely to lead pre-training efforts, where models learn to predict text from trillions of words collected from the internet and other datasets.

Ruoming Pang, who previously led model development at Apple, is expected to head infrastructure for TBD Lab, while Jiahui Yu, formerly of OpenAI, is anticipated to lead multimedia initiatives that would enable models to understand and generate non-text content.

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The post-training team is expected to be led by Hongyu Ren, formerly of OpenAI, and Pei Sun, formerly of Google. Post-training involves using refined data to improve a model’s performance on specific tasks.

Nat Friedman is expected to continue overseeing products for Meta Superintelligence Labs. Robert Fergus, co-founder of FAIR (Facebook AI Research), is likely to continue leading that lab, while Aparna Ramani, a long-time vice president of engineering for infrastructure, is expected to join as head of the broader infrastructure group.

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