The move is a bid to catch up with rivals such as OpenAI, Google and Anthropic after the poor performance of the Facebook parent's Llama 4 model.

Meta Platforms’ new artificial intelligence organization is starting to take shape on the company’s Menlo Park, Calif., campus. The company’s blockbuster hires of AI leaders and researchers in recent weeks has introduced dozens of new faces to the area around Meta’s C-suite,

Daniel Gross, the former chief executive officer and co-founder of artificial intelligence startup Safe Superintelligence Inc., is joining Meta Platforms Inc.’s new superintelligence lab focused on AI.