{"id":957361,"date":"2025-08-25T11:29:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T05:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=957361"},"modified":"2025-08-25T11:29:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T05:59:19","slug":"google-deepmind-ceos-blunt-answer-to-mark-zuckerberg-spending-millions-of-dollars-to-hire-ai-engineers-the-reason-is-simple-that-they-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/25\/google-deepmind-ceos-blunt-answer-to-mark-zuckerberg-spending-millions-of-dollars-to-hire-ai-engineers-the-reason-is-simple-that-they-are\/","title":{"rendered":"Google DeepMind CEO&#8217;s &#8216;blunt&#8217; answer to Mark Zuckerberg spending millions of dollars to hire AI engineers: The reason is simple that they are &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AI talent war has become intense in the last few months. Some even call it bizarre. Leading the way here is Mark Zuckerberg&#8217;s AI company. Meta is reportedly offering pay packages of more than $100 million to lure top researchers from leading labs like OpenAI. This aggressive recruitment strategy, which has already secured several high-profile hires, has ignited a fierce talent war and is raising concerns across the tech industry about escalating costs and competition.<\/p>\n<p>The motivation behind Meta&#8217;s extravagant spending was bluntly explained by Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, during a recent appearance on the &#8220;Lex Fridman&#8221; podcast. Hassabis suggested that Meta&#8217;s actions are a direct response to its position as an AI laggard. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI talent war has become intense in the last few months. Some even call it bizarre. Leading the way here is Mark Zuckerberg&#8217;s AI company. Meta is reportedly offering pay packages of more than $100 million to lure top researchers from leading labs like OpenAI. This aggressive recruitment strategy, which has already secured several high-profile hires, has ignited a fierce talent war and is raising concerns across the tech industry about escalating costs and competition. The motivation behind Meta&#8217;s extravagant spending was bluntly explained by Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, during a recent appearance on the &#8220;Lex Fridman&#8221; podcast. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-957361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957361","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=957361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}