{"id":30636,"date":"2025-06-27T09:00:49","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T09:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=30636"},"modified":"2025-06-27T09:24:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T09:24:34","slug":"mark-zuckerberg-ramps-up-metas-a-i-spending-as-competition-heats-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=30636","title":{"rendered":"Mark Zuckerberg Ramps Up Meta\u2019s A.I. Spending as Competition Heats Up"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Unhappy with his company\u2019s artificial intelligence efforts, Meta\u2019s C.E.O. is on a spending spree as he reconsiders his strategy in the contest to invent a hypothetical \u201csuperintelligence.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In April, Mark Zuckerberg<\/a>\u2019s lofty plans for the future of artificial intelligence crashed into reality.<\/p>\n

Weeks earlier, the 41-year-old chief executive of Meta had publicly boasted that his company\u2019s new A.I. model, which would power the latest chatbots and other cutting-edge experiments, would be a \u201cbeast.\u201d Internally, Mr. Zuckerberg told employees that he wanted it to rival the A.I. systems of competitors like OpenAI and be able to drive features such as voice-powered chatbots, people who spoke with him said.<\/p>\n

But at Meta\u2019s A.I. conference that month, the new A.I. model did not perform as well as those of rivals. Features like voice interactions were not ready. Many developers, who attended the event with high expectations, left underwhelmed.<\/p>\n

Mr. Zuckerberg knew Meta was falling behind in A.I., people close to him said, which was unacceptable. He began strategizing in a WhatsApp group with top executives, including Chris Cox, Meta\u2019s head of product, and Andrew Bosworth, the chief technology officer, about what to do.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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That kicked off a frenzy of activity that has reverberated across Silicon Valley. Mr. Zuckerberg demoted Meta\u2019s vice president in charge of generative A.I. He then invested $14.3 billion in the start-up Scale AI<\/a> and hired Alexandr Wang, its 28-year-old founder. Meta approached other start-ups, including the A.I. search engine Perplexity, about deals. And Mr. Zuckerberg and his colleagues have embarked on a hiring binge, including reaching out this month to more than 45 A.I. researchers at rival OpenAI alone and offering them compensation packages as high as $100 million each, two people with knowledge of the matter said. Four OpenAI researchers have accepted offers from the company.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Alexandr Wang, the founder of Scale AI, recently joined Meta, which has been on a hiring binge for A.I. talent. <\/span>Shuran Huang for The New York Times<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Unhappy with his company\u2019s artificial intelligence efforts, Meta\u2019s C.E.O. is on a spending spree as he reconsiders his strategy in the contest to invent a hypothetical \u201csuperintelligence.\u201dIn April, Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s lofty plans for the future of artificial intelligence crashed into reality.Weeks earlier, the 41-year-old chief executive of Meta had publicly boasted that his company\u2019s new A.I. model, which would power the latest chatbots and other cutting-edge experiments, would be a \u201cbeast.\u201d Internally, Mr. Zuckerberg told employees that he wanted it to rival the A.I. systems of competitors like OpenAI and be able to drive features such as voice-powered chatbots, people who spoke with him said.But at Meta\u2019s A.I. conference that month, the new A.I. model did not perform as well as those of rivals. Features like voice interactions were not ready. Many developers, who attended the event with high expectations, left underwhelmed.Mr. Zuckerberg knew Meta was falling behind in A.I., people close to him said, which was unacceptable. He began strategizing in a WhatsApp group with top executives, including Chris Cox, Meta\u2019s head of product, and Andrew Bosworth, the chief technology officer, about what to do.That kicked off a frenzy of activity that has reverberated across Silicon Valley. Mr. Zuckerberg demoted Meta\u2019s vice president in charge of generative A.I. He then invested $14.3 billion in the start-up Scale AI and hired Alexandr Wang, its 28-year-old founder. Meta approached other start-ups, including the A.I. search engine Perplexity, about deals. And Mr. Zuckerberg and his colleagues have embarked on a hiring binge, including reaching out this month to more than 45 A.I. researchers at rival OpenAI alone and offering them compensation packages as high as $100 million each, two people with knowledge of the matter said. Four OpenAI researchers have accepted offers from the company.Alexandr Wang, the founder of Scale AI, recently joined Meta, which has been on a hiring binge for A.I. talent. Shuran Huang for The New York TimesWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30638,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30636"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30639,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30636\/revisions\/30639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}