Goal is offering salaries between 10 and 100 million dollars to Openai star researchers, Google and other companies to hire 50 experts who lead their new superintelligence laboratory, for which Zuckerberg has entered ‘FOUNDER MODE ‘, as published by The New York Times.
Why is it important. The Zuckerberg company has lost ground in the AI race after Some stumbling blocks With her models she calls and the key talent escape, including the director of Research of IA Joelle Pineau, whom we could interview a year ago.
Now try to recover based on a talonario.
In figures. Meta offers reach nine digits per investigator, that is, 100 million dollars. Although they are not structured as a check for that amount.
- The packages go “seven to nine figures” according to Own sources of The New York Times.
- Following the typical goal model, it is likely that most be in actions (RSUS) that are distributed for four years.
- The actions are distributed quarterly for four years.
In any case, it is a conjecture based on what was seen above. And these are unpublished amounts, well above the 2 million annually that were already considered exceptional offers.
In addition, the company plans to invest 15,000 million dollars to buy approximately half of Scale AI and bring to its CEO, Alexandr Wang, 28.
The context. Meta created his first AI laboratory in 2013, but since the launch of Chatgpt in 2022 there has been somewhat lagging behind. His latest models have had performance problems, and the company was discovered after manipulating Benchmarks to make their products seem better than they really were. A practice that We saw in the past on smartphones and that also reached AI.
Between the lines. Wang’s choice is not accidental: he is Zuckerberg’s personal friend and a billionaire who made his fortune with Scale AI, a company specialized in labeling data To train AI systems. Its closeness to political power could also be an aid at a complicated regulatory moment for the goal.
Google, Openai and Anthropic continue to launch increasingly powerful models while finishing struggle to stay relevant. Sam Altman continues to insist that we are close to the AGI. Even more pressure.
Yes, but. Money does not guarantee success. Goal is reputable to be A complicated environmentwith constant internal struggles. In addition, many of the best researchers already have millionaire offers of their current employers and may prefer to stay where they are.
Deepen. This movement is part of an upward trend: large technological ones are buying promising startup parts to get talent without having to get the complete company. Microsoft He did it with inflection ai and Google with Character.AI. It is a way to save a few dollars, but above all, to dodge compromising questions by regulators.
The big question is if Zuckerberg, who already burned a lot of money with a metaverso that remains far from the expectations raised (and the return of investment), this time can be successful with its most expensive bet to date.
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