Earlier this week, reports surfaced indicating that Mark Zuckerberg is directly involved in hiring leading AI professionals, offering potential candidates salaries of up to ₹860 crore. This effort includes attempts to attract talent from the competing firm OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT.
Currently, in a related development, a new report has emerged indicating that Mark Zuckerberg has achieved success in his endeavors. Meta has allegedly recruited three researchers from OpenAI, thereby strengthening its own AI team. The group consists of Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai. All three were reportedly affiliated with OpenAI Zurich and had previously been employed at Google DeepMind before ultimately transitioning to OpenAI.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Aggressive Hiring Drive For Meta
Mark Zuckerberg has taken a proactive approach in recruiting AI talent. Recent reports indicate that Meta’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, has been directly contacting AI professionals with attractive compensation packages. Additionally, The Wall Street Journal reported that he invested $14 billion to acquire a stake in the AI startup Scale AI, which was founded by Alexandr Wang. It appears that Mark Zuckerberg is fully committed to hiring AI talent, with the goal of enhancing Meta’s AI capabilities in the face of the rapidly changing generative AI landscape, where companies such as Google, Meta, OpenAI, Perplexity, and others are vying for a share of the market.
