Why Did Mark Zuckerberg Reboot Meta's AI Lab?

John Collison names four moves he thinks even an opinionated founder would not make. Mark Zuckerberg treated the recent prior AI effort as not good enough. Standing up Meta Superintelligence Labs is the reboot, and people can read that between the lines. He was willing to pay a lot of money to bring Alexandr Wang over, including 49 percent of what Collison calls a very good grindy business. Wang had worked in AI and had never trained a frontier model, so the hire was a bet on potential rather than on having done that exact job. Zuckerberg also cleared his calendar and did only this for two months.

Wang says that once Zuckerberg decides something is right, he shifts the work to match that belief. A lot of successful founders keep the old calendar and hope someone else carries the change. Wang calls Zuckerberg's version a high learning rate: he will pivot whole efforts so they stay consistent with the decision.