Luke Metz Joins Meta’s Superintelligence Lab

The signal here is less about one researcher than about where Meta is concentrating its talent budget: a lab explicitly framed around superintelligence rather than applied product work. That framing matters because it puts Meta in the same recruiting pool as other frontier labs, where individual senior researchers carry outsized weight in setting research direction and in convincing peers to follow. Whether this is an isolated hire or the start of a broader clustering of researchers around that lab is the open question worth watching.