(Reuters) -Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has pledged hundreds of billions of dollars towards building massive data centers, days after ratcheting up the AI race with the launch of a division made up of engineers poached from rivals he hopes to challenge.

Meta Platforms Inc. (META) has hired two artificial intelligence (AI) researchers from Apple (AAPL) to bolster its newly created Superintelligence Labs team, according to Bloomberg. The social media giant poached Apple’s Mark Lee and Tom Gunter,