After refusing Mark Zuckerberg’s $1 billion job offer, Mira Murati ‘poaches’ Meta’s top AI researcher
In a dramatic turn of events in the ongoing AI talent wars, Soumith Chintala, one of Meta’s most influential AI leaders and co-creator of the widely used PyTorch framework, has joined Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati. This moves comes just months after Murati made headlines for refusing a reported $1 billion job offer from Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
For those unaware, Meta tried to buy OpenAI’s former Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Mira Murati startup, Thinking Machines Lab. But as she declined to sell her company despite a $1 billion offer, Mark Zuckerberg “responded by launching a full-scale raid,” reports the Wall Street Journal (WSJ).
