Mark Zuckerberg on techies joining Meta for big salaries: LoL, that's mostly ...
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. These figures and rapid hiring made by Meta fuelled speculation of an unprecedented talent war, where financial gains reign supreme.
Mark Zuckerberg on techies joining Meta for big salaries
In an interview with The Information, Zuckerberg answered to the claims that Meta's Superintelligence Lab is hiring talent from rivals by using the lavish pay packages. 'Lol, that's mostly inaccurate,' he said.
Zuckerberg emphasised that the reachers are joining Meta because they want to 'build god' — a reference to the company's ambitious push toward
superintelligent AI
systems.
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Zuckerberg also revealed the facilities that Meta offer to elite AI researchers. He said that the top AI researchers at the company get access to 'infinite GPUs' which are used in training large models. They also get small and high-impact teams which directly report to the senior leadership at the company. Lastly, they get full freedom to experiment without any bureaucratic constraints.
'Researchers told us they want maximum GPUs,' Zuckerberg said. 'So we said, how about the smallest teams, direct access to me, and unlimited compute power?'
Meta's Superintelligence Lab has attracted top talent from companies like OpenAI, Apple and Google DeepMind. It is said that some of these AI researchers have received compensation packages exceeding Rs 1,600 crore. However, Zuckerberg insists that not the money, but mission and infrastructure are the real reasons for them to join the company.
The company is building massive compute clusters, including the Prometheus (1GW) and Hyperion (5GW) systems, which Zuckerberg claims will give Meta 'the most compute per researcher on the planet'.
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