Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been on one thing of a hiring spree these days, attempting to workers up Meta’s new superintelligence team with top-tier AI researchers from competing labs. To work on a crew led by former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang and at a desk bodily close to Zuckerberg, Meta has reportedly provided staff from OpenAI and Google DeepMind compensation packages worth upwards of $100 million.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirmed these experiences on a podcast along with his brother, Jack Altman, which was published on Tuesday. Nevertheless, the OpenAI CEO famous that Zuckerberg’s recruiting efforts have been largely unsuccessful and made certain to throw a number of extra digs at Meta within the course of.
“[Meta has] began making these, like, big affords to lots of people on our crew,” Sam Altman stated on the podcast. “You realize, like, $100 million signing bonuses, greater than that [in] compensation per 12 months […] I’m actually comfortable that, at the very least to this point, none of our greatest individuals have determined to take him up on that.”
The OpenAI CEO stated he believed his staff made the evaluation that OpenAI had a greater likelihood of attaining AGI and should someday be the extra beneficial firm. He additionally stated he believes Meta’s give attention to excessive compensation packages for workers, moderately than the mission of delivering AGI, would possible not create an excellent tradition.
Meta reportedly tried to poach one among OpenAI’s lead researchers, Noam Brown, in addition to Google’s AI architect, Koray Kavukcuoglu. Nevertheless, each efforts had been unsuccessful.
Sam Altman went on to say he believes OpenAI’s tradition of innovation has been a serious key to its success, and that Meta’s “present AI efforts haven’t labored in addition to they hoped.” The OpenAI CEO stated 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 stated he believes it’s not sufficient for corporations to make amends for AI — they’ve to actually innovate to remain forward.
The OpenAI CEO’s feedback spotlight among the challenges that Meta has to beat in an effort to construct out a profitable AI superintelligence lab. Apart from bringing on Wang, Meta introduced final week that it invested significantly in Wang’s former firm, Scale AI. The corporate has additionally reportedly nabbed a few star AI researchers, similar 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 crew whereas OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind function at full pace. Within the coming months, OpenAI is anticipated to release an open AI model 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 stated he’s interested by exploring a social media app that makes use of AI to ship customized feeds based mostly on what customers need, moderately than the default, algorithmic feed that exists on conventional social media apps.
OpenAI is reportedly working on a social networking app internally. In the meantime, Meta is experimenting with an AI-powered social community by means 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.
