Within the combat for prime AI expertise, Meta simply reportedly snagged a win, poaching three OpenAI researchers regardless of rival Sam Altman’s public mockery of Mark Zuckerberg’s lavish hiring ways.
The newest victory in Zuckerberg’s widely-reported recruiting blitz: Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai – who established OpenAI’s Zurich workplace – have joined Meta’s superintelligence group, the WSJ reviews, suggesting Zuckerberg’s strategies can ship.
As Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, first revealed in a latest podcast along with his brother Jack, Zuckerberg has been dangling $100+ million compensation packages in an effort to lure prime expertise from OpenAI. The Journal subsequently reported that Zuckerberg has been personally WhatsApping a whole bunch of prime AI researchers, coordinating targets by way of his “Recruiting Social gathering 🎉” chat earlier than internet hosting dinners at his properties in Palo Alto and Lake Tahoe.
The technique is producing blended outcomes. Zuckerberg lately bagged Scale AI’s CEO Alexandr Wang with a $14 billion funding, making the 28-year-old considered one of tech’s priciest hires ever. However greater sport has eluded the Meta CEO, says the WSJ, together with OpenAI co-founders Ilya Sutskever and John Schulman, each of whom have gone on to co-found newer startups.
In that podcast, Altman mentioned of Zuckerberg’s allure marketing campaign: “I’m actually joyful that, a minimum of thus far, none of our greatest folks have determined to take him up on (these affords).”
