Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been on one thing of a hiring spree currently, making an attempt to workers 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 provided workers from OpenAI and Google DeepMind compensation packages value upwards of $100 million.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirmed these experiences on a podcast along 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 positive 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 recognize, like, $100 million signing bonuses, greater than that [in] compensation per yr […] I’m actually completely happy that, not less than to date, 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 probability of attaining AGI and will at some point be the extra beneficial firm. He additionally stated he believes Meta’s deal with excessive compensation packages for workers, relatively than the mission of delivering AGI, would probably not create an awesome tradition.
Meta reportedly tried to poach certainly one 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 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 “suppose they’re an organization that’s nice at innovation.” Later within the podcast, Altman stated he believes it’s not sufficient for corporations to compensate 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. In addition to 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 number of star AI researchers, akin to Google DeepMind’s Jack Rae and Sesame AI’s Johan Schalkwyk. However there’s extra work forward.
Within the coming yr, Meta should workers up its new AI crew whereas OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind function at full velocity. 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.
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 in exploring a social media app that makes use of AI to ship customized feeds primarily based on what customers need, relatively 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 way 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.
