Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is on a mission to catch up in the generative artificial intelligence race, and it’s willing to spend big to get there.

The company is shelling out billions of dollars to lure top talent from competitors, sparking doubts about the wisdom of this recruitment spree. According to OpenAI boss Sam Altman, Meta has offered engineers US$100 million bonuses to jump ship and join Mark Zuckerberg’s team, where they can expect hefty salaries. A few OpenAI employees have reportedly taken Meta up on the offer, joining Scale AI founder and former chief executive Alexandr Wang at the Menlo Park-based tech[…]

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Meta Makes Significant AI Talent Swoop

Meta has reportedly poached three high-profile AI researchers from OpenAI, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal. The recruited researchers are Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai. Notably, Zhai played a key role in establishing OpenAI’s Zurich office. The researchers have joined Meta’s superintelligence team. This latest victory in Meta’s widely-reported recruiting blitz suggests that the company’s methods can be effective in attracting top talent. Meta’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, has been employing a[…]

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Sam Altman Reveals Meta’s $100M Offers to Lure OpenAI Talent Fell Short

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been aggressively recruiting top AI researchers to bolster Meta’s new superintelligence division, led by former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang. Reports indicate Meta dangled compensation packages exceeding $100 million to attract talent from OpenAI and Google DeepMind, aiming to work closely with Zuckerberg himself. In a podcast with his brother Jack Altman, published Tuesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirmed Meta’s lavish offers but emphasized their lack of success. “They’ve been throwing around[…]

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