Posted on 07/02/2025 7:46:28 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Meta has poached at least 10 artificial intelligence researchers from ChatGPT creator OpenAI, while reportedly offering some other top talent packages worth more than $150 million ($US100 million) in the first year alone for joining its new superintelligence team.
The aggressive hiring spree, which has reportedly been criticised by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, comes as Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg hopes his firm can make AI as smart as humans (artificial general intelligence, or AGI) or smarter than humans (superintelligence) before anyone else.
Meta has offered some top-tier AI researchers and executives packages of up to $450 million ($US300 million) over four years, according to sources which spoke to Wired — but none of those top earners were supposedly from OpenAI.
Meta has also recruited from other AI competitors such as Google, Anthropic, Sesame, Microsoft’s GitHub, and Scale AI.
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We haven’t *quite* gotten to the ‘zaibatsu’ stage of cyberpunk literature where corps protect their talent with arms and a career move is staged with hacking, stealth exfiltration and probably some disabling of company lethal implants.
Zuckerberg has gotten behind his peers in the development of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). Rather than trying to catch up, he’s trying to leap-frog ahead of them, and is shooting directly for Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI).
And the guy seems to have the cash and the talent to do it. Gonna be a strange world 20 years from now.....
AI, craft a Russian/Ukrainian peace agreement document.
AI, craft a federal budget.
AI, what’s the best way to get the mullahs to hand over the U-235 & centrifuges?
What they call AI is simply copied intelligence at best.
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