Meta Superintelligence Labs feels more like a startup than any other lab
alexandr_wang · x · 2026-09-18
mattdeitke (retweeted by alexandrwang) says that counterintuitively given Meta's size, Meta Superintelligence Labs feels more like a startup than any other major lab: the teams building models and products are shockingly small, and people have unusual agency — a big part of why people join.
In the same thread, joecarlsonshow praises Meta's Muse as genuinely impressive, surprised Meta beat Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI to it, and expects rivals to follow with their own versions.
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