Meta is aggressively recruiting top AI researchers, including Trapit Bansal and Ruoming Pang, to lead its Superintelligence Labs and develop advanced AI systems, highlighting India's growing influence in the global AI landscape.

Meta (NASDAQ:META)’s newly formed superintelligence lab is discussing potential changes to the company’s artificial intelligence strategy that could represent a major shift for the social media giant.

Meta is making massive AI investments, aiming to become a leading AI powerhouse and compete with OpenAI and other peers. Read more on META stock here.

Meta Platforms' new Superintelligence lab is reportedly reconsidering the release of its open-source AI model Llama 4 Behemoth, weighing a shift toward closed-source development. This marks a potential pivot away from Meta's previous open-source strategy amid concerns over performance and competitive pressures.

Meta says the company will channel billions of dollars into constructing multiple huge AI data centres as part of its race toward superintelligence.

Meta is building data centers in tents to rapidly scale AI infrastructure and try to catch rivals such as DeepSeek, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.

We’re calling the first one Prometheus and it’s coming online in ‘26,” Zuckerberg says. “We’re also building Hyperion, which will be able to scale up to 5GW over several years.” He also pointed to a SemiAnalysis report that goes into detail about Meta’s AI “Superintelligence” strategy,