Within the struggle for high 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 techniques.
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 staff, the WSJ reviews, suggesting Zuckerberg’s strategies can ship.
As Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, first revealed in a latest podcast together with his brother Jack, Zuckerberg has been dangling $100+ million compensation packages in an effort to lure high expertise from OpenAI. The Journal subsequently reported that Zuckerberg has been personally WhatsApping tons of of high AI researchers, coordinating targets by his “Recruiting Party 🎉” chat earlier than hosting dinners at his houses in Palo Alto and Lake Tahoe.
The technique is producing combined 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 really happy that, at least so far, none of our best people have decided to take him up on [those offers].”
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