Meta is betting big on a new superintelligence lab, luring talent with massive paychecks and bringing in Scale AI’s Alexandr Wang—but insiders warn that deep internal dysfunction could sabotage the effort.

Meta Platforms Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg is taking a highly personal approach to what could become the company’s boldest artificial intelligence (AI) play yet. Frustrated with Meta’s current progress in AI,

AGI, while still a theoretical concept, refers to AI that can outperform humans across a broad range of cognitive tasks. Many experts believe such capabilities may be decades awayif they are possible at all.

Now, Meta is slated to launch a research lab devoted to building superintelligent AI, according to a report from The New York Times. Alexander Wang, the 28-year-old founder of Scale AI, a startup that helps companies build AI apps, which could receive a multibillion-dollar investment from Meta soon, will reportedly join the new lab.

Mark Zuckerberg wants to play a bigger role in the development of superintelligent AI — and is willing to spend billions to recover from a series of setbacks and defections that have left Meta lagging and the CEO steaming.