- Mark Zuckerberg is playing hard ball, reportedly offering up to $100 million in signing bonuses to top AI researchers at OpenAI and other companies.
- The huge signing bonuses show Zuckerberg’s desperation to catch up in the AI arms race against other companies. The last version of LlaMa was a large dud and its planned “Behemoth” model, delayed.
Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly throwing millions of dollars in signing bonuses to lure the top AI researchers from OpenAI and other companies. Zuckerberg has formed a new Superintelligence Labs division within Meta, led by Alexandr Wang, formerly of Scale.
The aggressive, scorched-earth strategy by Zuckerberg comes after a recent release of LlaMa that was a large dud and its planned “Behemoth” model, delayed.
Zuckerberg sent out an internal memo that has been widely shared by the media.