Meta has recruited Matt Deitke, co-founder of Seattle-based AI startup Vercept, to join its newly formed Superintelligence Lab — the high-profile effort by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to develop powerful new forms of artificial intelligence.

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 announced on Monday that the company will channel hundreds of billions of dollars into constructing multiple huge AI data centres as part of its race toward superintelligence.

Meta is adding yet another top A.I. expert to the company’s rapidly growing roster of talent, much of it plucked from rival firms like OpenAI, Anthropic and Google. Apple now joins the mix of disgruntled competitors, with researcher Ruoming Pang leaving the iPhone maker to join Mark Zuckerberg ’s push toward advanced forms of A.I.

Shareholders claim that Mark Zuckerberg and other top officials should have to reimburse Facebook for $8 billion in fines and penalties.

Mark Zuckerberg is expected to appear as a star witness in an unusual $8 billion trial that kicks off this week at which the Meta CEO is accused of operating Facebook as an illegal enterprise that allowed users' data to be harvested without their consent.

Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) CEO Mark Zuckerberg said his company plans to invest hundreds of billions of dollars on artificial intelligence infrastructure, as it remains on track to bring the world's first 1 gigawatt-plus supercluster online next year.

Through the acquisition, Meta is adding fresh talent to its ranks and bringing over the startup's 35 employees.