Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been on one thing of a hiring spree these days, attempting to employees up Meta’s new superintelligence crew 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 supplied workers from OpenAI and Google DeepMind compensation packages price upwards of $100 million.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirmed these stories on a podcast together 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 certain to throw a couple of extra digs at Meta within the course of.
“[Meta has] began making these, like, large gives to lots of people on our crew,” Sam Altman stated on the podcast. “You recognize, like, $100 million signing bonuses, greater than that [in] compensation per yr […] I’m actually glad that, at the very least up to now, none of our greatest folks have determined to take him up on that.”
The OpenAI CEO stated he believed his workers made the evaluation that OpenAI had a greater likelihood of reaching AGI and will at some point be the extra precious firm. He additionally stated he believes Meta’s deal with excessive compensation packages for workers, somewhat than the mission of delivering AGI, would seemingly not create an incredible tradition.
Meta reportedly tried to poach one in every 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 stated he respects many issues about Meta however famous he doesn’t “suppose they’re an organization that’s nice at innovation.” Later within the podcast, Altman stated he believes it’s not sufficient for firms to atone for AI — they’ve to actually innovate to remain forward.
The OpenAI CEO’s feedback spotlight a number of the challenges that Meta has to beat with a purpose to construct out a profitable AI superintelligence lab. Apart from 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, similar to Google DeepMind’s Jack Rae and Sesame AI’s Johan Schalkwyk. However there’s extra work forward.
Within the coming yr, Meta should employees up its new AI crew 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.
In a while 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, somewhat 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 its Meta AI app. Nevertheless, it appears that 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.
