Within the battle 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 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 workforce, the WSJ stories, 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 lots of of prime AI researchers, coordinating targets by his “Recruiting Celebration 🎉” chat earlier than internet hosting dinners at his properties in Palo Alto and Lake Tahoe.
The technique is producing combined outcomes. Zuckerberg not too long ago bagged Scale AI’s CEO Alexandr Wang with a $14 billion funding, making the 28-year-old one among 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 stated of Zuckerberg’s attraction marketing campaign: “I’m actually completely happy that, not less than thus far, none of our greatest individuals have determined to take him up on [those offers].”
