Within the battle 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 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 staff, the WSJ reviews, suggesting Zuckerberg’s strategies can ship.
As Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, first revealed in a current podcast along 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 a whole lot of high AI researchers, coordinating targets by means of his “Recruiting Get together 🎉” chat earlier than internet hosting dinners at his houses in Palo Alto and Lake Tahoe.
The technique is producing blended outcomes. Zuckerberg just lately bagged Scale AI’s CEO Alexandr Wang with a $14 billion funding, making the 28-year-old certainly one of tech’s priciest hires ever. However larger recreation 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 completely satisfied that, no less than thus far, none of our greatest folks have determined to take him up on [those offers].”
