When Mark Zuckerberg revamped Meta‘s artificial intelligence operations this year, he recruited a new leader — Alexandr Wang, a 28-year-old entrepreneur — to build a team of top researchers from rivals like OpenAI and Google.
That team, called TBD Lab (for “to be determined”), was placed in a siloed space next to Zuckerberg’s office at the center of Meta’s Silicon Valley headquarters, surrounded by glass panels and sequoia trees. Zuckerberg wanted to separate the new AI group from the bureaucracy of the company, which owns Facebook, Instagram and…
