Meta is offering AI researches over $100m / year to join Intelligence Lab

And looks like folks are taking the offers.
Snapped up researchers from OpenAI, Google & Anthropic.

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As Mark Zuckerberg staffs up Meta’s new superintelligence lab, he’s offered top tier research talent pay packages of up to $300 million over four years, with more than $100 million in total compensation for the first year, WIRED has learned.

Meta has made at least 10 staggeringly high offers to OpenAI staffers, sources say. One high ranking researcher was pitched on the role of chief scientist but turned it down, according to multiple sources with direct knowledge of the negotiations. While the pay package includes equity, in the first year the stock vests immediately, sources say.

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A senior engineer who spoke to WIRED confirmed their pay was around $850,000 per year at Meta—an impressive sum that pales in comparison to the packages currently on offer. Every single one of the 11 Meta superintelligence hires is an immigrant who did their undergrad abroad.

7 China, 1 India, 1 Australia, 1 UK, 1 South Africa.
8 are PhD or PhD dropouts in the US. This doesnt include the $14b meta spent earlier this month to acquihire Scale AI's CEO.

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Meta is investing $14.3 billion into Scale AI, landing the startup’s CEO Alexandr Wang to help the company’s artificial intelligence efforts.

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AI research is getting competitive now, know some folks hiring people as 'agents' to get them comp packages $5m+

The new head of Metas AI Unit is 28 year old MIT graduate Alexander Wang who Meta paid $14b+ for.