Foundation models
Meta Superintelligence Labs
Meta's consolidated AI division, formed in mid-2025 to unify its foundation-model, research and product AI work under one organization.
- Founded
- 2025
- Based in
- Menlo Park, United States
- Stage
- Division of a larger company
- Business model
- Consumer subscription, Open-weight / open-source, Enterprise contracts
- Legal name
- Meta Platforms, Inc. (Superintelligence Labs division)
- Record
- VerifiedChecked 24 September 2026
What Meta Superintelligence Labs does
Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL) was announced by Mark Zuckerberg on June 30, 2025, bringing together Meta's foundation-model development (the Llama model family), its long-running FAIR fundamental-research group, product integration work, and AI infrastructure engineering under one umbrella - a response to Meta's AI division falling behind OpenAI, Anthropic and Google on frontier model performance.
In August 2025, MSL restructured into four teams: TBD Lab, developing Llama models under Alexandr Wang (former CEO of Scale AI, who joined Meta as Chief AI Officer after Meta's investment in Scale); FAIR, Meta's fundamental research group, under Rob Fergus; Products and Applied Research, integrating models into Meta's consumer apps, under Nat Friedman; and MSL Infra, under Aparna Ramani. Its first major model under the new structure, Muse Spark, released in April 2026 as a closed-source system - a departure from Meta's earlier open-weight Llama strategy.
- Large language models
- Multimodal models
- Open-weight models
Runs it
- Mark ZuckerbergFounder & CEO, Meta Platforms
- Alexandr WangChief AI Officer, Meta; leads TBD Lab
- Rob FergusLeads FAIR (Fundamental AI Research)
- Nat FriedmanLeads Products and Applied Research
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Meta Superintelligence Labs
Division of a larger company
What it builds
Llama
Meta's open-weight large language model family, widely used as a base for third-party fine-tuning.
Muse Spark
Natively multimodal reasoning model, released April 2026 as Meta's first closed-source flagship model.
Meta AI
Consumer AI assistant integrated across Meta's apps (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp).
meta.ai (opens in a new tab)
Who runs it
Founders
Mark Zuckerberg
Founder & CEO, Meta Platforms
Announced Meta Superintelligence Labs on June 30, 2025.
Leadership
Alexandr Wang
Chief AI Officer, Meta; leads TBD Lab
Founder and former CEO of Scale AI.
Rob Fergus
Leads FAIR (Fundamental AI Research)
Nat Friedman
Leads Products and Applied Research
Former CEO of GitHub.
Aparna Ramani
Leads MSL Infra
What it has done
Muse Spark released as Meta's first closed-source flagship model
Meta released Muse Spark, a natively multimodal reasoning model, marking a departure from the open-weight strategy that defined the Llama line.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_Superintelligence_Labs (opens in a new tab)Meta Superintelligence Labs announced
Mark Zuckerberg announced the consolidation of Meta's AI efforts into a single organization after Meta's roughly $14.3 billion investment in Scale AI brought Scale founder Alexandr Wang into Meta as Chief AI Officer.
builtin.com/artificial-intelligence/meta-superintelligence-labs (opens in a new tab)
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