Meta’s aggressive summer campaign to poach a star-studded AI “dream team” has ignited a cultural firestorm inside its Menlo Park headquarters. According to reports, the creation of a secretive “TBD Lab” has fostered a divisive two-tier system, sparking resentment among existing staff. The work of the TBD Lab is closely guarded, and its members’ names are conspicuously absent from Meta’s internal organizational chart. The Revolving Door of a Billion-Dollar ‘Dream Team’The cultural friction is exacerbating the instability of Meta’s expensively assembled team. Underpinning Meta’s strategy is the promise of nearly unlimited computing power.