Meta’s superintelligence division is building a dedicated hardware team

Meta is already known for the smart glasses and virtual reality headsets made by its Reality Labs division. This newer effort is part of Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL), the high-profile AI division announced last year, which hints that Meta is mulling other types of AI devices. The effort, which has not yet been reported, has seen some Reality Labs engineers transition to MSL to prototype the AI division’s software on Reality Labs hardware, with the two divisions working closely together.The tech giant is hiring Rui Xu, who headed hardware at Dreamer, an AI agent startup whose founding team Meta acqui-hired last month, to lead hardware at MSL, according to sources familiar with the matter.Meta’s superintelligence division is building a dedicated hardware team and hiring a veteran engineer to lead it as the company pushes deeper into AI-powered devices. Does the AI race has a winner ?