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AI Daily Brief — 30 June 2025

A Meta-and-China Monday. Zuckerberg formally unveiled Meta Superintelligence Labs with an 11-name roster of poached talent and Alexandr Wang as first Chief AI Officer. Tencent open-sourced Hunyuan-A13B, a 256K-context MoE claiming AIME wins over DeepSeek-R1. Colorado’s SB 24-205 became the first US state-level comprehensive AI law to take effect, while Utah’s AG sued Snap over its My AI chatbot.

Top stories

  • Zuckerberg unveils Meta Superintelligence Labs. New umbrella org consolidating all of Meta’s foundations, product and FAIR teams plus a “TBD Lab” focused on next-gen models. Memo casts “personal superintelligence” as the company’s defining bet. via CNBC
  • Alexandr Wang named Meta’s first Chief AI Officer. Scale AI founder takes the title; former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman co-leads MSL on AI products and applied research. Follows Meta’s $14.3B Scale AI investment earlier in the month. via Fortune
  • MSL roster names 11 elite hires. Zuckerberg’s memo listed the founding cohort: Trapit Bansal (OpenAI RL on CoT/o-series), Shuchao Bi (GPT-4o voice, o4-mini), Huiwen Chang (GPT-4o image gen), Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, Xiaohua Zhai, Hongyu Ren, Jiahui Yu, Ji Lin (all OpenAI), Joel Pobar (Anthropic), and Pei Sun (Google DeepMind). via Entrepreneur
  • Tencent open-sources Hunyuan-A13B reasoning MoE. 13B active / 80B total parameters, native 256K context, hybrid fast/slow reasoning. Tencent’s benchmarks claim AIME 2024/2025 scores of 87.3 / 76.8, beating DeepSeek-R1 (79.8 / 70). Weights on Hugging Face (Pretrain, Instruct, FP8, GPTQ-Int4). via Hugging Face
  • Colorado AI Act takes effect. SB 24-205 — the first US state-level comprehensive AI law — moved from passage to active enforcement, imposing developer and deployer duties around “high-risk” AI systems used in consequential decisions. via Promptfoo

Who shipped

Meta shipped a corporate reorg. Tencent shipped an open MoE. Colorado shipped enforcement.

Open-source pulse

Hunyuan-A13B’s hybrid fast/slow reasoning design and 256K context put Tencent back in the open-weight reasoning conversation. Combined with Alibaba’s Qwen-VLo from the previous day, China’s open-source labs anchor the week’s release calendar.

Money, infra & hardware

The MSL memo formalised what Sam Altman had griped about two weeks earlier: Meta offering OpenAI staff packages reported as high as $100M+ to defect. By end-of-month Meta had landed at least 10 OpenAI researchers, with Apple’s Ruoming Pang and SSI’s Daniel Gross also in the cohort.

Quiet corners

Utah’s Division of Consumer Protection and Attorney General sued Snap, alleging Snapchat’s “deceptive design” (including the rollout of its My AI chatbot) addicts children to the platform — part of a broader state-AG push against consumer-facing AI features aimed at minors. via McKool Smith

By the numbers

  • 11 — named MSL founding hires
  • 7 / 2 / 1 / 1 — split by origin (OpenAI / Google DeepMind / Anthropic / Sesame)
  • 13B / 80B / 256K — Hunyuan-A13B active params / total / context
  • 87.3% / 79.8% — AIME 2024: Hunyuan-A13B vs DeepSeek-R1
  • $14.3B — Meta-Scale AI investment that brought Wang in

Compiled by AI Feed’s editor from verified web sources for 30 June 2025.