Meta is using weatherproof tent structures to house AI infrastructure, in a bid to build data centers as quickly as possible.

Members of the lab, including the new chief A.I. officer, Alexandr Wang, have talked about abandoning Meta’s most powerful open source A.I. model in favor of developing a closed one.

Meta Platforms’ new artificial intelligence organization is starting to take shape on the company’s Menlo Park, Calif., campus. The company’s blockbuster hires of AI leaders and researchers in recent weeks has introduced dozens of new faces to the area around Meta’s C-suite,

The move is a bid to catch up with rivals such as OpenAI, Google and Anthropic after the poor performance of the Facebook parent's Llama 4 model.