This is how Mark Zuckerberg is stealing from the competition: bonuses of up to 100 million to sign AI talent
Mark Zuckerberg's Meta company has taken a significant step in its bid to lead the artificial intelligence race by creating the new Meta Superintelligence Labs . To do so, it is recruiting some of the most influential figures in the AI industry from tech giants such as OpenAI, Apple, Google, and Anthropic.
Reuters reports that the lab will be co-led by former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang and former GitHub president Nat Friedman. The additions include leaders with experience at OpenAI, Google, Apple, and Anthropic — such as Daniel Gross, Ruoming Pang, Trapit Bansal, and Ji Lin—who will contribute their expertise in advanced reasoning systems, multimodal models, and underlying artificial intelligence technologies.
Who's who at Meta Superintelligence Labs- Nat Friedman : Former CEO of GitHub, a key platform for software developers. Known for his ability to lead large-scale technology projects and foster open innovation.
- Daniel Gross : Co-founder of the startup incubator Pioneer and former Director of AI at Apple. Renowned for his strategic vision and ability to identify emerging talent in artificial intelligence.
Both experts will work alongside Alexandr Wang , founder and CEO of Scale AI, a data-driven company specializing in training AI models. Wang has been a key figure in the development of technologies applied to defense and technology companies.
- Ruoming Pang : Former Google DeepMind researcher, with expertise in language models and deep learning.
- Trapit Bansal : Former employee of Anthropic, an OpenAI rival focused on safe AI. He contributed to the development of models capable of reasoning and responding in ways aligned with human values.
- Ji Lin : Expert in large-scale training infrastructure, essential for building next-generation AI models.
This initiative symbolizes Meta's renewed push into AI through significant investment and talent acquisition, with the goal of strengthening its capabilities and competing globally with leading companies in the sector .
On the other hand, Reuters adds that Zuckerberg's company has offered salary packages with bonuses of up to $100 million to attract top-tier talent, thereby seeking to regain ground on competitors such as OpenAI, Google, and Claude. Furthermore, with the collaboration of all the influential figures in the sector, Meta aims to develop an artificial superintelligence capable of reasoning, learning, seeing, listening, and acting autonomously .
Meta Superintelligence Labs will therefore be the arm of Meta tasked with leading that vision, with access to nearly unlimited resources and the freedom to innovate .
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