META: Meta Stock Hits All-Time High as Zuck Unveils Superintelligence Labs. What’s That About?

Shares closed Monday at a record $738.09 a pop and are flexing a whopping 23% year-to-date gain, outperforming every other Mag 7 peer.

🚀 Meta Stock Prints a Record Close

• Meta shares META clocked out Monday at an all-time high of $738.09 and touched an intraday peak of $747.90 — eclipsing its previous record from February when the social media giant started slashing underperformers to juice productivity.
• The new milestone cements Meta’s standout status this year, with the stock flexing a 23% gain year-to-date — easily outrunning its Magnificent Seven peers as investors pile in for the AI story. Microsoft MSFT ranks second with a 19% gain.
• The latest pop comes as Mark Zuckerberg doubles down on AI spending, hiring sprees and high-stakes bets — the kind that could reshape Meta’s identity far beyond a social media platform (not the slightest care about being a Metaverse company).

🌊 Zuck’s Superintelligence Labs: Super Bet, Super Name

• The big news fueling the fresh high? Meta just unveiled “Meta Superintelligence Labs” (MSL), an ambitious new unit that will bring together its foundation model teams, including the open-source Llama project, plus all of its core AI research.
• MSL will be spearheaded by some of Meta’s buzziest hires this year: Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang and ex-GitHub boss Nat Friedman — two heavyweights Zuck poached in his billion-dollar AI hiring spree.
• The internal memo, leaked to CNBC, shows Zuckerberg wants MSL to be the central point for the next wave of “fundamental artificial intelligence research.” Translation: keep up with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google’s DeepMind.

🌱 Wall Street Loves the AI Arms Race

• Investors appear to like Zuck’s turbocharged approach — and why not? Meta’s $14.3 billion investment into Scale AI shows just how far he’ll go to stay relevant in the race for AI dominance.
• The company’s rapid moves in large-language models, open-source tools, and data labeling have turned what looked like catch-up plays into potential leadership bets.
• With the stock at record levels and more AI announcements likely in the pipeline, the big question now is whether Meta can keep its superintelligence promises — or if the buzz will fade when the next AI breakthrough hits the headlines.