Meta has just degenerated the AI talent war with Openai.
Shengjia Zhao, co-creator of Chatgpt and former principal scientist in Openai, joined Meta as chief scientist of her superintendent laboratories.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the appointment of Zhao on Friday in an article on social networks and described it as “pioneer” on the field which has already led several major breakthroughs of the AI.
Zhao previously helped build the GPT-4 and LEDs The efforts of synthetic data in Openai. According to the post, Zhao will now work directly with Zuckerberg and the new META AI chief, Alexandr Wang, the founder and CEO of Scale AI.
The new rental occurs during the IA expenses of several billion dollars of Zuckerberg, including an investment of $ 15 billion in AI on the scale and the creation of Meta Superintelligence Labs, a new division focused on fundamental models and the search for next generation.
In addition to Zhao, the company attracted the three researchers who built the office of Zurich d’Openai – Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov and Xiaohua Zhai – who all worked before at Google de Deepmind. The Superintelligence Laboratories team is now made up of a range of names previously seen with Openai, Anthropic and Google.
But the war for AI talents is far from over.
The vice-president of Databricks Naveen Rao compared competition to “in search of LeBron James”, believing that less than 1,000 people in the world can build border IA models.
Companies without species for massive remuneration packages are turning to hackathons and computing power as an unscrewed. CEO of perplexity Aravind Srinivas said a meta-researcher he had attempted from Poach told him to ask again when the company has “10,000 h100”.
AI workers in technology have already told Business Insider that Mark Zuckerberg de Meta had sent prospects directly by email and even welcomed AI researchers at home, while OPENAI CEO Sam Altman called potential hiring.
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The leaders of technological companies have mixed feelings on the poaching efforts of Meta.
“Meta at the moment is not on the border, maybe they will succeed in coming back,” said Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google Deepmind, in an episode of “Podcast Lex Fridman”, which was broadcast on Friday.
“It’s probably rational what they do from their point of view because they are late and they have to do something,” added Hassabis.
During an episode of July 18 of the podcast “UNCAPT with Jack Altman,” the CEO of Openai, Sam Altman, criticized certain “giant offers” from Meta to his company employees and described the “crazy” strategy.
“The extent to which they focus on money and not on work and not on the mission,” said Sam Altman. “I don’t think that will set up a great culture.”
Meta and Openai did not immediately respond to requests for comments.
