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Nat Friedman

Nat Friedman

Vice President of Product and Applied Research, Meta Superintelligence Labs

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Meta abandons open-source AI playbook with first proprietary model from Superintelligence Labs

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Co-leading MSL alongside Wang; overseeing AI product integration

For three years, Meta staked its AI strategy on open-source; the Llama series became the industry's most widely used open-weight model family. On April 8, 2026, Meta released Muse Spark from its new Superintelligence Labsβ€”and kept it closed, a shift for a company that once argued open-source would defeat proprietary rivals the way Linux beat Unix.

Updated May 30