CIO Tech Outlook Team | Saturday, 16 August 2025, 12:07 IST
Meta Platforms is set to restructure its artificial intelligence efforts, marking the fourth overhaul in six months. The company’s Meta Superintelligence Labs will be split into four distinct groups: a new lab tentatively called TBD Lab, a team focused on products like the Meta AI assistant, an infrastructure-focused team, and the Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) lab, which concentrates on long-term AI research.
This restructuring follows a challenging period for Meta’s AI initiatives. CEO Mark Zuckerberg has prioritized revamping the company’s AI strategy after earlier setbacks this year. In a significant move, Meta invested billions to recruit former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang and former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman as co-leaders of Meta Superintelligence Labs, an initiative aimed at achieving superintelligence.
Also Read: Perplexity AI Makes $34.5B Bid for Google's Chrome Browser
The TBD Lab, tasked with developing the latest version of Meta’s flagship large language model, Llama, is expected to have multiple leaders. Jack Rae, formerly of Google, is likely to lead pre-training efforts, where models learn to predict text from trillions of words sourced from the internet and other datasets.
Nat Friedman is expected to continue overseeing products for Meta Superintelligence Labs, while Robert Fergus, co-founder of FAIR, is likely to maintain leadership of the long-term research lab. Aparna Ramani, a veteran vice president of engineering, is expected to head the broader infrastructure group.