Meta's AI Chief Rejects 'Incorrect' Claims Of Mark Zuckerberg's Big-Money Talent Poaching: 'People Joined Because...'
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Meta’s AI chief, Alexandr Wang, rejected claims that Meta primarily poached top AI researchers with enormous pay packages, saying that financial incentives were an incorrect assumption. Wang said researchers joined because Meta offered high compute per researcher and an individualized recruiting approach that aligned with their research directions. The piece notes Meta invested $14.3 billion in Scale AI and appointed Wang to lead its SuperIntelligence Lab, while other insiders describe aggressive competition for AI talent across OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepMind. The article also highlights claims that Meta spends heavily on AI hiring (reported around $10 billion annually) and has made very large compensation offers to some recruits.
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