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.

Mark Zuckerberg has officially revealed the team members of Meta’s new “superintelligence” division, following a months-long recruitment drive. Facebook’s parent company successfully poached seven researchers from OpenAI, two from Google DeepMind, one from Anthropic, and one from Sesame, an artificial intelligence hardware company.

The major departure, the most significant in Apple’s AI ranks since the company started working on Apple Intelligence a few years ago, underscores the heightened competition for talent in the