Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently launched a recruitment drive to dig up top AI researchers from rival laboratories and expand his new super-smart team. In order to attract OpenAI and Google DeepMind staff to this team, led by former Scale AI CEO Alexandre Wang, and to work in physical positions near Zuckerberg, Meta reportedly launched a remuneration programme worth over $100 million.
These reports were confirmed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in a podcast with his brother Jack Altman on Tuesday. However, Sam Ottman pointed out that Zuckerberg ‘ s poaching efforts were largely unsuccessful and, in the process, he did not forget to scold her rival Meta.
“Meta started making huge offers to many of our team, and Sam Ottmann said in his blog, “You know, like $100 million in contract bonuses, and the annual salary is certainly more than that… I’m really happy that, at least so far, no one of our best teams has decided to accept his offer.”
Sam Ottman stated that he considered OpenAI’s culture of innovation to be a key factor in its success, while Meta “the current AI effort has not been as effective as they expected”. He respected Meta’s research, but “do not think Meta is an innovative company”. In the back of the podcast, Ottman stated that he believed that it was not enough for companies to pursue AI alone — real innovation was necessary to keep the lead.
Otman ‘ s comments highlight some of the challenges that Meta must overcome to build a successful AI super-smart laboratory. In addition to hiring the King, Meta announced last week that it had invested heavily in its former company, Scale AI. It was also reported that several star AI researchers, such as Jack Rae of DeepMind in Google and Johan Schalkwyk of Sesame AI, had been dug up. But the road ahead is still long.
In the foreseeable year ahead, Meta will have to staff its new AI team, while OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind are all working at full speed. In the coming months, OpenAi is expected to publish an open-source AI model, which is likely to keep Meta further behind in the AI competition.
At the end of the blog, Sam Ottman depicts an AI-driven social media stream that could further erode Meta’s AI application. He expressed curiosity about exploring a social media application using AI to provide customized delivery based on user needs rather than default algorithms that existed in traditional social media applications.
It is reported that a social networking application is being developed within OpenAI. Meanwhile, Meta is experimenting with an AI-driven social network through its Meat AI application. It remains to be seen whether this AI-driven social network will take off. At the same time, Zuckerberg and Sam Otmann appear to be ready to confront each other in the face of the AI talent battle.
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