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Meta Superintelligence Labs
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- Founded
- 2025
- Headquarters
- Menlo Park, California
- Type
- Big Tech
- Website
- ai.meta.com
- SI Accord
- Signatory
- Models tracked
- 1
Leadership
- Alexandr Wang · Chief AI Officer, Meta
- Nat Friedman · Head of Products & Applied Research
- Mark Zuckerberg · CEO, Meta
Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL) is Meta’s bet on building superintelligence. Mark Zuckerberg announced it on June 30, 2025, after Meta invested about $14.3 billion in Scale AI and hired Scale’s co-founder Alexandr Wang as Meta’s Chief AI Officer. Former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman co-leads, focusing on products and applied research.
Structure
MSL is organised into four groups:
- TBD Lab: builds the frontier large language models, led by Wang
- FAIR: Meta’s long-running fundamental research lab
- Products and Applied Research: brings models into Meta’s apps, led by Friedman
- MSL Infra: the infrastructure behind it all
Meta paid record compensation packages to recruit researchers from OpenAI, Google and Apple during 2025.
Models
- Muse Spark (April 8, 2026): MSL’s first flagship, a closed model. Version 1.1 (July 2026) launched Meta’s first paid developer API, priced well below rivals. Version 1.3 followed in September 2026.
- Muse Glimmer (August 2026): a 30-billion-parameter open-weights model.
- Llama (2023–2025): Meta’s earlier open-weights family, now largely superseded.
Infrastructure and policy
Meta guided 2026 capital expenditure of $115–135 billion, much of it for SI data centers, and is building custom chips alongside Nvidia GPUs. Zuckerberg signed the White House Accord on Super Intelligence, calling the summit “a significant positive step”.
Meta Superintelligence Labs models
| Model | Released | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Muse Spark 1.3 | Sep 2026 | Current |
Frequently asked questions
What happened to Llama?
Meta's Llama models were the best-known open-weights models of 2023–2025. Since forming Meta Superintelligence Labs, Meta's flagship has been the closed Muse Spark family, while it still releases some open models such as Muse Glimmer.
Did Yann LeCun lead Meta Superintelligence Labs?
No. LeCun was Meta's chief AI scientist and led FAIR. He announced in November 2025 that he would leave Meta at the end of the year to found his own company focused on advanced machine intelligence (AMI).
Sources
- Meta Superintelligence Labs — Wikipedia
- Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 API pricing squeezes OpenAI and Anthropic — The Decoder
Written by
Luka Kušec · Editor
Editor of SI.info. Writes about Super Intelligence, technology policy and the people building frontier models.