Zuckerberg assembling elite 50-person team to pursue AGI
According to Bloomberg, the move follows Meta’s internal frustration with Llama 4 and delayed flagship model, as rivals race toward human-level AI.
Mark Zuckerberg, the billionaire CEO of Meta Platforms, is assembling a team of experts to pursue so-called “artificial general intelligence” (AGI), machines capable of matching or surpassing human intelligence, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday.
The new AGI-focused initiative is reportedly linked to an investment of more than $10 billion in Scale AI. According to Bloomberg, Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang is expected to join the AGI group once the deal is finalized.
Meta did not immediately respond to a request for comment outside regular business hours.
Zuckerberg’s decision to personally recruit around 50 people for the project, including a new head of AI research, is said to stem in part from dissatisfaction with the performance and reception of Meta’s latest large language model, Llama 4.
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Last month, Meta postponed the release of its flagship “Behemoth” AI model due to internal concerns about its capabilities, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal.
Meanwhile, rivals such as OpenAI are also making strategic changes to attract additional investment in their pursuit of AGI.
