Zuckerberg’s Meta Superintelligence Labs poaches top AI talent in Silicon Valley

Meta Platforms is racing to secure top artificial intelligence talent for its newly created Superintelligence Labs to better compete with rivals including OpenAI, Google and Anthropic.

The Facebook and Instagram parent’s aggressive hiring for its unified AI initiative has intensified the talent war in Silicon Valley.

It also follows senior staff departures and a poor reception for Meta’s latest open-source Llama 4 model, challenges that have allowed Google, OpenAI and China’s DeepSeek to seize momentum in the AI race.

In June, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman…