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Wang: Scale AI's research team of 100 scientists is one-tenth competitors' size

Alexander Wang · Mark Zuckerberg, James Cameron, Andrew Yang and More - TBPN Top 5 · Sep 20, 2025 · at 15:36

Alexander Wang, leading Meta's AI lab, discusses Meta's strategy to reach superintelligence with TBPN hosts John Coogan and Jordi Hays.

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“Our team is smaller and more talent dense than any of the other labs. The other labs are like 10 times bigger, and our team is about a hundred people of cracked AI scientists”

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The claim, plainly

Meta's AI laboratory team consists of about 100 scientists, making it roughly one-tenth the size of rival AI labs.

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Assessment

As of September 2025, independent public reporting from The Wall Street Journal (August 2025) and The New York Times (December 2025) confirmed that Meta Superintelligence Labs' core frontier AI research unit (TBD Lab), led by then-Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang, comprised approximately 100 elite AI researchers and engineers. Furthermore, headcount data for primary rival frontier labs during mid-to-late 2025 shows OpenAI employing roughly 4,500 to 7,800 staff (with several thousand technical staff), Google DeepMind employing approximately 6,000 personnel, and Anthropic employing between 1,100 and 2,300 personnel. Consequently, Meta's core frontier lab team was indeed approximately 100 scientists and roughly one-tenth the size of rival AI labs.

The Wall Street Journal (August 8, 2025) and The New York Times (December 12, 2025) reported that Meta Superintelligence Labs' core TBD Lab team numbered approximately 100 researchers and engineers.
Workforce intelligence and media reporting in mid-to-late 2025 placed OpenAI at 4,467–7,850 employees, Google DeepMind at ~6,000 employees, and Anthropic at ~1,100–2,300 employees, each with technical headcounts at or exceeding 10 times Meta's core team size.

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[1] wikipedia.org [2] fastcompany.com [3] wikipedia.org [4] it-daily.net [5] medium.com [6] indianexpress.com [7] bitget.com [8] thestar.com.my

OpenAI employee count headcount 2025 Meta AI team size researchers scientists 2024 OR 2025 "Meta" "Superintelligence Lab" AI scientists 100 Alexandr Wang "Meta" "100" AI lab rival "Google DeepMind" employee count headcount 2025 Anthropic employee count headcount 2025 "TBD Lab" Meta size headcount "100"

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