Mark Zuckerberg is working on Meta's new artificial 'superintelligence' team: it could be the most advanced in the world.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is personally leading the creation of a new team focused on developing a "superintelligence," a hypothetical artificial intelligence (AI) system that surpasses the capabilities of the human brain.

This ambitious project aims to build the world's most advanced AI platform and represents one of the company's largest technological ventures to date.

According to The New York Times , Meta has brought in Alexandr Wang, 28, founder and chief executive of the startup Scale AI , as one of the central figures of the new AI lab.

The company could also invest more than $10 billion in Scale AI, in a deal that would include the integration of other employees from that company.

The American newspaper also reports that Meta has offered multimillion-dollar sums to dozens of researchers from leading artificial intelligence companies, such as OpenAI and Google. Some of these experts have already agreed to join the new team being formed by the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

According to Bloomberg , Zuckerberg has personally spearheaded the hiring process for this new group, which is comprised of around 50 people . Furthermore, the entrepreneur has reportedly reorganized Meta's offices so that the new employees work in close proximity to him.

Both outlets agree that Zuckerberg expressed dissatisfaction with the progress made so far in artificial intelligence developments within Meta.

This frustration would also be related to several product launches that fell short of expectations, leading him to adopt a more direct and practical approach to speeding up development.

Last month, Meta decided to postpone the launch of its most advanced artificial intelligence model, known as 'Behemoth.' According to The Wall Street Journal , the decision was due to internal concerns about the system's capabilities.

Companies like OpenAI and Google have already expressed their intention to develop artificial general intelligence (AGI), that is, a machine capable of matching or surpassing human intelligence. However, this type of technology remains a thing of the past.

The development of advanced artificial intelligence systems has generated intense competition among major technology companies. Microsoft, for example, has invested more than $13 billion in OpenAI, while Amazon has allocated $8 billion to the startup Anthropic.

Zuckerberg began his formal foray into the field of AI in 2013, when he created Meta's first artificial intelligence lab. This decision came after his failed attempt to acquire DeepMind, a pioneering startup that was eventually acquired by Google and is now at the core of its AI strategy.

*This content was created with the assistance of artificial intelligence, based on information from EFE, and reviewed by the journalist and an editor.