Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been on one thing of a hiring spree currently, attempting to workers up Meta’s new superintelligence workforce with top-tier AI researchers from competing labs. To work on a workforce led by former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang and at a desk bodily close to Zuckerberg, Meta has reportedly provided workers from OpenAI and Google DeepMind compensation packages price upwards of $100 million.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirmed these experiences on a podcast along with his brother, Jack Altman, which was printed on Tuesday. Nevertheless, the OpenAI CEO famous that Zuckerberg’s recruiting efforts have been largely unsuccessful and made positive to throw a couple of extra digs at Meta within the course of.
“[Meta has] began making these, like, large affords to lots of people on our workforce,” Sam Altman mentioned on the podcast. “, like, $100 million signing bonuses, greater than that [in] compensation per 12 months […] I’m actually comfortable that, no less than to date, none of our greatest folks have determined to take him up on that.”
The OpenAI CEO mentioned he believed his workers made the evaluation that OpenAI had a greater probability of attaining AGI and should in the future be the extra beneficial firm. He additionally mentioned he believes Meta’s give attention to excessive compensation packages for workers, quite than the mission of delivering AGI, would doubtless not create an excellent tradition.
Meta reportedly tried to poach considered one of OpenAI’s lead researchers, Noam Brown, in addition to Google’s AI architect, Koray Kavukcuoglu. Nevertheless, each efforts have been unsuccessful.
Sam Altman went on to say he believes OpenAI’s tradition of innovation has been a significant key to its success, and that Meta’s “present AI efforts haven’t labored in addition to they hoped.” The OpenAI CEO mentioned he respects many issues about Meta however famous he doesn’t “assume they’re an organization that’s nice at innovation.” Later within the podcast, Altman mentioned he believes it’s not sufficient for firms to make amends for AI — they’ve to actually innovate to remain forward.
The OpenAI CEO’s feedback spotlight a few of the challenges that Meta has to beat in an effort to construct out a profitable AI superintelligence lab. Moreover bringing on Wang, Meta introduced final week that it invested considerably in Wang’s former firm, Scale AI. The corporate has additionally reportedly nabbed a couple of star AI researchers, corresponding to Google DeepMind’s Jack Rae and Sesame AI’s Johan Schalkwyk. However there’s extra work forward.
Within the coming 12 months, Meta must workers up its new AI workforce whereas OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind function at full pace. Within the coming months, OpenAI is anticipated to launch an open AI mannequin that’s more likely to set Meta again within the AI race even additional.
Afterward within the podcast, Sam Altman described an AI-powered social media feed that appears more likely to encroach on Meta’s apps. The OpenAI CEO mentioned he’s interested in exploring a social media app that makes use of AI to ship customized feeds primarily based on what customers need, quite than the default, algorithmic feed that exists on conventional social media apps.
OpenAI is reportedly engaged on a social networking app internally. In the meantime, Meta is experimenting with an AI-powered social community by way of its Meta AI app. Nevertheless, evidently some customers are confused by the Meta AI app and have shared some hyperpersonal chats with the broader world.
Whether or not AI-powered social networks take off stays to be seen. Within the meantime, Zuckerberg and Sam Altman appear poised to butt heads over the AI expertise race.
