Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s AI hiring spree

AI researchers person precocious been asking themselves a mentation of the question, "Is that truly Zuck?"

As archetypal reported by Bloomberg, the Meta CEO has been personally asking apical AI endowment to articulation his caller "superintelligence" AI laboratory and reboot Llama. His recruiting process typically goes similar this: a acold outreach via email oregon WhatsApp that cites the recruit's enactment past and requests a 15-minute chat. Dozens of researchers person gotten these kinds of messages astatine Google alone.

For those who bash hold to perceive his transportation (amazingly, not each of them do), Zuckerberg highlights the latitude they'll person to marque risky bets, the standard of Meta's products, and the wealth he's prepared to put successful the infrastructure to enactment them. He makes wide that this caller squad volition beryllium empowered and beryllium with him astatine Meta's headquarters, wherever I'm told the desks person already been rearranged for the incoming team.

Most of the headlines truthful acold person focused connected the eye-popping compensation packages Zuckerberg is offering, immoderate of which are good into the eight-figure range. As I've covered before, hiring the champion AI researcher is similar hiring a prima hoops player: determination are precise fewer of them, and you person t …

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