Superintelligence Quest Inspires Zuckerberg to Pledge Hundreds of Billions
By Reuters | 14 Jul, 2025

Meta's frantic poaching of top AI talent is the prelude to Mark Zuckerberg's quest for superintelligence at a cost of hundreds of billions of dollars.

Meta logo is seen in this illustration taken June 18, 2025. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo

Mark Zuckerberg said on Monday that Meta Platforms would spend hundreds of billions of dollars on computing power to build superintelligence, intensifying his pursuit of a technology he has chased with a talent war for top AI engineers.

The announcement comes as tech giants such as Meta aggressively chase high-profile acquisitions and offer multi-million-dollar pay packages to attract top talent in the race to lead the next wave of artificial intelligence.

"We have the capital from our business to do this," Zuckerberg said in a post on Threads.

The Facebook and Instagram parent has recently unveiled its new division, Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL), to unify the company's AI efforts, following setbacks with its Llama 4 model and key staff departures.

The MSL will be led by former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang and ex-GitHub chief Nat Friedman, after Meta invested $14.3 billion in Scale and ramped up efforts to recruit top AI talent.

(Reporting by Jaspreet Singh in Bengaluru; Editing by Anil D'Silva)