Helen Toner, a former member of the Board of Directors of Openai, said that Meta could start to see other companies trying to poach their new AI talent.
Toner, who left the Board of Directors of Openai in November 2023, said in an interview with Bloomberg on Thursday that Meta will have to show that they “move fairly quickly” on the ground to keep their new hints of AI.
Toner added that Meta “will get attempts to poach them to other companies from the first day”.
Meta intensified its AI recruitment efforts in the middle of a wider Industry research for AI talents.
Last month, Meta said that he had an investment of $ 15 billion in the SCALEAI data re -ethical company. The founder and CEO of Scaleai, Alexandr Wang, will also join Meta as Director of the AI as part of the investment.
Wang co-head Meta superintendent Labs with Nat Friedman, the former CEO of Github. The rest of the new Meta team includes former researchers from Openai, Google and Anthropic.
Toner, however, said to Bloomberg that “it will be difficult” for Meta to succeed with her new hints of AI.
“There is a lot of organizational policy at stake,” she continued.
Toner said that the challenge encountered by the meta is not only to obtain resources but also to manage the ego.
“It takes a lot of will to look at powerful people in your business, who may not want to lose and tell them that you don’t want them to do what they want,” said Toner.
“The question will be, in part, can mark Zuckerberg, if it is his major personal project, is that it is enough to change their organizational dynamics,” she added.
The toner is not the only one to have criticized Meta’s recruitment efforts.
Sam Altman, the CEO of Openai, said that he had found “crazy” that Meta offered his employees 100 million dollars in signature from.
“The strategy of a ton of initial guarantee composition and that is the reason why you tell someone to join, as really the extent to which they focus on this and not on work and not on the mission, I do not think that it will set up a great culture,” said Altman in an episode of the Podcast “not capped with Jack Altman” which was broadcast last month.
Toner had previously voted to dismiss Altman as CEO of Openai in November 2023. At the time, the board of directors of Openai said that Altman “was not always frank in his communications” with them but had not provided more details. Altman finally returned as CEO a few days later.
Toner said Thursday in her interview with Bloomberg that she had not “really interacted” with Altman since her brief evidence of Openai.
“I am sure that at some point, we will find ourselves at the same event. The world of AI is quite small, and I am sure that we will both be happy to shake hands, but we do not have another chance so far,” said Toner.
The representatives of Toner and Meta did not respond to requests for comments from Business Insider.
