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Tensions are emerging between Meta’s core team and Meta Superintelligence Lab (MSL) over training data and compute
- Meta’s Chief AI Officer has privately told people that he disagreed with Zuckerberg’s longtime lieutenants such as Chief Product Officer Chris Cox and CTO Andrew Bosworth, The New York Times reported citing people briefed on the conversations.
- Cox and Bosworth wanted Wang’s team to use Instagram and Facebook data to train the new AI model but Wang pushed backed saying such a move will slow them down and that the goal is to catch up with OpenAI and Google before focusing on products, the people said.
- The people added that Meta’s focus on superintelligence is pushing other teams to the sidelines as seen recently when Bosworth was told to divert $2 billion of Reality Labs budget for next year to MSL.
- There is also disagreement over which division should get more compute, with those working on the core businesses wanting to have more of it.
- Meta spokesman, Dave Arnold, disputed the claims.