Sept 9 (Reuters) - Meta's TBD Lab unit comprises "a few

dozen" researchers and engineers developing its next-generation

of foundation models, the company's finance chief Susan Li said

on Tuesday.

The team name, TBD Lab, was a placeholder that had "stuck"

and felt appropriate, as much of what the team would build was

yet to be precisely shaped or determined, Li told investors at

the Goldman Sachs Communacopia + Technology conference.

"We conceive of it as sort of a pretty small,

few-dozen-people, very talent-dense set of folks."

TBD Lab is focused on pushing models to the AI frontier over

the next one to two years, she added.

Last month, The Information reported about Meta dividing its

Superintelligence Labs into four groups - the TBD Lab, short for

"to be determined"; a products team including the Meta AI

assistant; an infrastructure team; and the Fundamental AI

Research (FAIR) lab, which focuses on long-term research.

Meta reorganized its AI efforts under

Superintelligence Labs earlier this year following senior staff

departures and lukewarm reception for its latest open-source

Llama 4 model.

CEO Mark Zuckerberg personally led an aggressive talent

acquisition, floating offers for startups and directly courting

prospects on WhatsApp with million-dollar pay packages.

"We've established Meta Superintelligence Labs, which

includes our foundations, product, and FAIR teams as well as a

new lab that is focused on developing the next generation of our

models," Zuckerberg said in July.