The acquisition is expected to contribute to Meta's voice-enabled feature development across platforms such as WhatsApp, Instagram, and the Meta Quest ecosystem.

Jason Wei and Hyung Won Chung have left OpenAI to join Meta's superintelligence lab, as the tech giants intensify their battle for top AI talent.

Top members of Meta’s new Superintelligence Lab discussed pivoting away from the company’s powerful open source AI model, Behemoth, and instead developing a closed model. This would mark a major philosophical shift for Meta.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said top AI researchers are joining the company not just for high pay, but for greater autonomy and access to powerful compute. He highlighted small, well-equipped teams and the chance to build from scratch as key draws,

"It'll be a challenge culturally for sure," Dell said of Meta's aggressive hiring of top AI talent with huge signing bonuses.

Meta’s AI recruits seek cutting-edge hardware and autonomy over sky-high salaries, says Zuckerberg, as Meta invests massively in superclusters.

Meta is turbocharging its bet on artificial intelligence, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealing plans to invest hundreds of billions of dollars in building large-scale AI infrastructure. However, not everyone sees the endless potential of the area ...

Meta has fixed a critical vulnerability in its AI chatbot platform that could have exposed users' private prompts and responses to acker. The company has also awarded $10,000 to the ethical hacker who reported the flaw.