Meta is adding yet another top A.I. expert to the company’s rapidly growing roster of talent, much of it plucked from rival firms like OpenAI, Anthropic and Google. Apple now joins the mix of disgruntled competitors, with researcher Ruoming Pang leaving the iPhone maker to join Mark Zuckerberg ’s push toward advanced forms of A.I.

Meta says its next-generation datacenter clusters will be so big, they will take up a similar amount of space as Manhattan.

Top members of Meta’s new Superintelligence Lab discussed pivoting away from the company’s powerful open source AI model, Behemoth, and instead developing a closed model. This would mark a major philosophical shift for Meta.

Meta Platforms Inc., the technology conglomerate behind Facebook, is going all-in on artificial intelligence infrastructure. CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Monday announced plans to invest “hundreds of billions of dollars” into building some of the world’s largest AI superclusters.

Members of the lab, including the new chief A.I. officer, Alexandr Wang, have talked about abandoning Meta’s most powerful open source A.I. model in favor of developing a closed one.

Baird analyst Colin Sebastian joins the GeekWire Podcast to discuss Amazon, Google, and Meta’s AI strategies, tech investing trends, and how today’s AI boom compares to the dot-com era.