Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been on one thing of a hiring spree recently, making an attempt to employees up Meta’s new superintelligence team with top-tier AI researchers from competing labs. To work on a workforce led by former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang and at a desk bodily close to Zuckerberg, Meta has reportedly provided staff from OpenAI and Google DeepMind compensation packages worth upwards of $100 million.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirmed these studies on a podcast together with his brother, Jack Altman, which was published on Tuesday. Nonetheless, the OpenAI CEO famous that Zuckerberg’s recruiting efforts have been largely unsuccessful and made certain to throw a couple of extra digs at Meta within the course of.
“[Meta has] began making these, like, big provides to lots of people on our workforce,” Sam Altman stated on the podcast. “You recognize, like, $100 million signing bonuses, greater than that [in] compensation per yr […] I’m actually blissful that, at the very least to this point, none of our greatest individuals have determined to take him up on that.”
The OpenAI CEO stated he believed his staff made the evaluation that OpenAI had a greater likelihood of attaining AGI and will at some point be the extra precious firm. He additionally stated he believes Meta’s deal with excessive compensation packages for workers, quite than the mission of delivering AGI, would probably not create an ideal tradition.
Meta reportedly tried to poach considered one of OpenAI’s lead researchers, Noam Brown, in addition to Google’s AI architect, Koray Kavukcuoglu. Nonetheless, each efforts have been unsuccessful.
Sam Altman went on to say he believes OpenAI’s tradition of innovation has been a serious key to its success, and that Meta’s “present AI efforts haven’t labored in addition to they hoped.” The OpenAI CEO stated he respects many issues about Meta however famous he doesn’t “suppose they’re an organization that’s nice at innovation.” Later within the podcast, Altman stated he believes it’s not sufficient for corporations to atone for AI — they’ve to actually innovate to remain forward.
The OpenAI CEO’s feedback spotlight a few of the challenges that Meta has to beat with a purpose to construct out a profitable AI superintelligence lab. Moreover bringing on Wang, Meta introduced final week that it invested significantly in Wang’s former firm, Scale AI. The corporate has additionally reportedly nabbed a few star AI researchers, akin to Google DeepMind’s Jack Rae and Sesame AI’s Johan Schalkwyk. However there’s extra work forward.
Within the coming yr, Meta must employees up its new AI workforce whereas OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind function at full pace. Within the coming months, OpenAI is anticipated to release an open AI model that’s prone to set Meta again within the AI race even additional.
In a while within the podcast, Sam Altman described an AI-powered social media feed that appears prone to encroach on Meta’s apps. The OpenAI CEO stated he’s inquisitive about exploring a social media app that makes use of AI to ship customized feeds primarily based on what customers need, quite than the default, algorithmic feed that exists on conventional social media apps.
OpenAI is reportedly working on a social networking app internally. In the meantime, Meta is experimenting with an AI-powered social community by means of its Meta AI app. Nonetheless, plainly some customers are confused by the Meta AI app and have shared some hyperpersonal chats with the broader world.
Whether or not AI-powered social networks take off stays to be seen. Within the meantime, Zuckerberg and Sam Altman appear poised to butt heads over the AI expertise race.