Meta is assembling an elite new AI lab for its recommendations division

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC Meta quietly reorganized its recommendations team last fall to form an elite AI research lab. Yang Song, a former TikTok executive, heads the unit. The crucial Meta division has been adding top talent from OpenAI, Google, and Amazon. Meta is building a team of elite AI researchers to optimize the powerful algorithms that keep people's eyeballs glued to Facebook and Instagram, according to job listings and LinkedIn posts. The team, MRS Research...