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Meta has hired the engineering team behind Gizmo, an AI-powered vibe-coding app that reached 600K+ i...

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The article describes a large-scale acqui-hire of a specialized generative media team into Meta's labs, signaling a talent-driven push toward AI-generated interactive content.
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Meta has hired the engineering team behind Gizmo, an AI-powered vibe-coding app that reached 600K+ installs with just $5.49M in seed funding. The ex-Snapchat team joins Meta's Superintelligence Labs, led by Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang and former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman, alongside Meta's recent $14.3B Scale AI investment and $2B Manus acquisition. Gizmo's technology transforms natural language prompts into interactive mini-apps, positioning Meta to democratize content creation across its social platforms. This acqui-hire signals Meta's strategic focus on AI-generated interactive experiences as the next evolution of social media, moving beyond passive consumption to AI-creation tools. 🔮

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