in the grand narrative of Meta x AI, we saw the flop (Llama 4 hurhurhur), and now we’re seeing the turn: - *more* hiring since the soup wars…

in the grand narrative of Meta x AI, we saw the flop (Llama 4 hurhurhur), and now we’re seeing the turn: - more hiring since the soup wars of 2025 - Zuck literally moved in with Alexandr and Nat and is koding again - finally GA’ed Opus-ish level model (no api, not open, but still) - bought @dps Dreamer and @peakji Manus to build the AI OS prosumer layer the MSL “river” is gonna be pretty exciting. Scoop! Meta has hired a fifth founding member from Thinking Machines Lab. Joshua Gross is a top engineer who built Thinky's flagship product, Tinker, from "zero-to-one." He now leads engineering teams at Meta Superintelligence Labs.

Source: Swyx (X) | 2026-04-16