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The Prompt: Can Meta Hire Its Way To Superintelligence?
UNITED STATES, JUL 1 – Meta invests $14.3 billion in Scale AI and offers top AI researchers multi-million dollar packages to build advanced AI systems aiming to surpass human intelligence.
- Meta, led by Mark Zuckerberg, launched the Meta Superintelligence Labs to recruit top AI researchers from competitors like OpenAI and Anthropic.
- This recruiting surge follows accelerating AI progress and Zuckerberg’s urgency to avoid falling behind in the competitive AI field.
- The new team is led by Alexandr Wang, former Scale AI CEO, and includes several key contributors to OpenAI’s GPT-4o model and other AI projects.
- Meta offered multi-million dollar packages reportedly reaching $100 million in total compensation, although some recent hires did not receive these bonuses.
- Meta’s aggressive hires illustrate its strong AI ambitions but face criticism from rivals and raise ongoing concerns about AI’s ethical and environmental impacts.
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Meta’s new hires offer a peek into superintelligence plans
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Mark Zuckerberg raises eyebrows after announcing efforts to pursue 'superintelligence' AI: 'It is worth anything to prevent that'
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly on a "spending spree" to stay competitive on the artificial intelligence front, according to The New York Times. What's happening? Much like Zuckerberg and other Silicon Valley tech titans "disrupted" industries as their stars rose, AI is now disrupting that disruption. As the AI sector advances at a rapid clip, companies are scrambling to ensure they have sufficient skin in the game, and Meta is no differe…
Sam Altman scoffs at Mark Zuckerberg’s AI recruitment drive and says Meta hasn’t even got their ‘top people’
Sam Altman is pushing back on Mark Zuckerberg's aggressive AI recruitment drive after the Big Tech company poached several key researchers from OpenAI.
Here Are the Top A.I. Researchers Who Just Joined Meta’s Superintelligence Team
The results of Meta’s full-throttle hiring push to achieve advanced forms of A.I. is finally beginning to materialize. A new team at the Mark Zuckerberg-led company will be known as Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL), according to an internal memo first reported by Bloomberg. Much to the frustration of Meta’s rivals, the team is stacked with talent poached from top competitors like OpenAI, Google DeepMind and Anthropic. “As the pace of A.I. progr…
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