Hugo-Barra

Meta just added another significant piece to its AI ambitions. The company has acqui-hired the co-founders and full team of Dreamer — an AI startup building a platform for creating personalized AI agents — and folded them into Meta Superintelligence Labs under Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang. Who Is Dreamer? Dreamer launched in 2026 with a clear thesis: every person should be able to build software that makes their life better, without needing to write code. The platform was built around making AI agents accessible to non-technical users — not enterprise deployments, not developer tooling, but personal agents for individuals. ...

Meta just made its most pointed bet yet on personal AI agents — and it came with a familiar face. The company has acqui-hired the full team behind Dreamer, a startup building tools for creating personalized AI agents, in a deal that brings former Meta and Google executive Hugo Barra back into the Meta fold. The Dreamer team will join Meta Superintelligence Labs, working under Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang — formerly the founder of Scale AI — according to a Bloomberg report confirmed by multiple sources and the founders themselves on X. ...