Mark Zuckerberg on techies joining Meta for big salaries: LoL, that’s mostly …
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has dismissed the idea that top AI researchers are joining Meta only for the massive paycheques, revealing that the major factor drawing towards them is the unmatched compute power autonomy. In an interview with The Information, Zuckerberg dismissed the idea of Meta “poaching researchers because of bags of money”. Instead he emphasised that the unparalleled compute power and the unique opportunity to build “superintelligence” are the reasons why AI researchers are joining the company.
Recently, we witnessed an aggressive recruitment drive from Meta, with some reports citing offers in the hundreds of millions of dollars to poach AI talent from Apple, OpenAI and Google DeepMind.
