Mark Zuckerberg is assembling “the most elite” team to make Meta a leader in the development of “superintelligence.” In a latest Facebook post, Zuckerberg said that Meta is building not one, but several multi-Gigawatt (GW) clusters and first one of them dubbed “Prometheus” is expected to go live in 2026.
With superintelligence, Zuckerberg plans to create AI systems with the capability of completing an array of tasks as well as or better than humans – exceeding current intelligence limitations across domains.
Zuckerberg, 41, told his Facebook followers that Meta is pouring in “hundreds of billions of dollars” to build superintelligence. The tech mogul added that his businesses have the kind of capital required to bring these plans to the fruition stage.
“We’re actually building several multi-GW clusters. We’re also building Hyperion, which will be able to scale up to 5GW over several years. We’re building multiple more titan clusters as well. Just one of these covers a significant part of the footprint of Manhattan,” the Meta chief noted.
In July this year, Zuckerberg announced a new research unit called the Meta Superintelligence Labs, tasked with working on Meta’s ambitions with the next iteration of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Speaking about the same, the billionaire said, “Meta Superintelligence Labs will have industry-leading levels of compute and by far the greatest compute per researcher. I’m looking forward to working with the top researchers to advance the frontier!”
Advancing towards its plans, Meta acquired a 49 percent stake in Scale AI in June for approximately $14.8 billion. Alexandr Wang, the CEO of Scale AI, was soon appointed as Meta’s Chief AI Officer.
In order to form its “elite” team of AI experts, Meta has been poaching top tier software professionals from companies including Apple, Microsoft, as well as Google. Last week, for instance, Ruoming Pang from Apple’s foundation models team quit to reportedly join Meta.