{"id":1020166,"date":"2026-07-11T08:56:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T03:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1020166"},"modified":"2026-07-11T09:07:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T03:37:13","slug":"iitian-rejects-metas-million-dollar-job-offer-to-launch-an-nvidia-backed-startup-to-create-ai-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/11\/iitian-rejects-metas-million-dollar-job-offer-to-launch-an-nvidia-backed-startup-to-create-ai-scientists\/","title":{"rendered":"IITian rejects Meta\u2019s million-dollar job offer to launch an Nvidia-backed startup to create AI scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If Mark Zuckerberg offers you a multi-million dollar package to join Meta\u2019s elite Superintelligence Labs, you sign on the dotted line. That\u2019s how you declare your arrival in Silicon Valley. <\/p>\n<p>But AI researcher and IIT Bombay alumnus Rishabh Agarwal refused Zuckerberg\u2019s offer and instead chose not to follow the standard playbook. <\/p>\n<p>An IIT Bombay graduate with an All India Rank (AIR) 33 in JEE, Rishabh has worked at the world\u2019s top AI labs, including Google Brain, DeepMind, and Meta, before co-founding Periodic Labs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Mark Zuckerberg offers you a multi-million dollar package to join Meta\u2019s elite Superintelligence Labs, you sign on the dotted line. That\u2019s how you declare your arrival in Silicon Valley. But AI researcher and IIT Bombay alumnus Rishabh Agarwal refused Zuckerberg\u2019s offer and instead chose not to follow the standard playbook. An IIT Bombay graduate with an All India Rank (AIR) 33 in JEE, Rishabh has worked at the world\u2019s top AI labs, including Google Brain, DeepMind, and Meta, before co-founding Periodic Labs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1020166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020187,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020166\/revisions\/1020187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}