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 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 via 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 in all 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, no less than to this point, none of our greatest individuals have determined to take him up on [those offers].”
