AI Daily: Meta commits to AI ‘superintelligence’ effort

Catch up on the top artificial intelligence news and commentary by Wall Street analysts on publicly traded companies in the space with this daily recap compiled by The Fly:

SUPERINTELLIGENCE EFFORT: Meta (META) CEO Mark Zuckerberg informed employees on Monday of a major overhaul of the company’s artificial intelligence group, commenting that the company is committing to making AI “superintelligence,” or systems that can complete task as well as or potentially better than humans, Bloomberg’s Kurt Wagner reports. The CEO said that the social media giant’s AI efforts will operate under a new group known as Meta Superintelligence Labs, which will be led by Alexandr Wang, former CEO of Scale AI, the author says, citing an internal memo.

GOOGLE AI CHIPS: Microsoft-backed (MSFT) OpenAI, one of the globe’s largest customers of Nvidia (NVDA) AI chips, has recently started renting Google’s (GOOGL) AI chips to power ChatGPT and other products, The Information’s Anissa Gardizy and Qianer Liu report, citing a person who is involved in the arrangement. The move marks the first time OpenAI has used non-Nvidia semis in a meaningful way, the authors note.

AI TRAINING: Meta (META) and Anthropic prevailed in copyright suits against them over the last week, but the rulings have major caveats and don’t address when AI output might infringe copyright, The Verge’s Adi Robertson reports. Anthropic is backed by Amazon (AMZN) and Google (GOOGL).

POACHING EMPLOYEES: OpenAI’s chief research officer Mark Chen responded to Meta offers to poach employees, saying in a memo to staff that it feels like “someone has broken into our home and stolen something” and OpenAI is “recalibrating comp,” Wired’s Zoe Schiffer reports. The memo came days after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg successfully recruited four senior researchers from OpenAI to join Meta’s superintelligence lab.