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 breaking news 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 current 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 a whole lot of high AI researchers, coordinating targets by his “Recruiting Get together 🎉” chat earlier than 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 one in every of tech’s priciest hires ever. However greater recreation has eluded the Meta CEO, says the WSJ, together with OpenAI co-founders Ilya Sutskever and John Schulman, each of whom have gone one to co-found newer startups.
In that podcast, Altman mentioned of Zuckerberg’s attraction marketing campaign: “I’m actually completely satisfied that, a minimum of to date, none of our greatest folks have determined to take him up on [those offers].”