Mark Zuckerberg is In order to recruit top talents in the AI field, he established the newly established Metas Super Intelligent Laboratory. After trying out the gut open air (and successfully poached several top researchers), he seemed to be turning his eyes to the next target.
Thinking Machines Lab, a 50-person startup in Mira Murati, has received or received offers from the tech giant. (For those who don’t remember, Murati was formerly the chief technology officer of OpenAI.) One of the proposals exceeded $1 billion in years. Several sources confirmed that the rest were between four years in four years. Sources said some staff could make between $50 million and $100 million in the first year alone (a lab spokesperson declined to comment).
So far, at Thinking Machines Lab, no one has accepted the offer.
According to Wired, Zuckerberg’s initial publicity was low-key. In some cases, he sent direct information about WhatsApp to recruits. From there, the interviews were fast, a long call with the CEO himself, followed by a conversation with Chief Technology Officer Andrew “Boz” Bosworth and other meta-executives.
Here is the previous job message Zuckerberg sent to potential recruits – Meta Super Smart Labs (the tone of today hasn’t changed much):
“For years, we have been focusing on your work in advancing the benefits of technology and AI. We make some important investments in research, products and our infrastructure to build the most valuable AI products and services for people. We are optimistic that everyone using our services will have world-class AI assistants, each assistant that can help everyone’s business and be able to interact with their communities, interact with their communities, and be able to interact with their communities, and be able to interact with their communities, and be able to interact with AI. There is a state-of-the-art open source model, we want to bring the best people to the meta-region, and we want to share more about what we are building.”
In these conversations, Boz’s vision of how Meta will compete with Openai has been maintained. Sources say the tech giant is willing to use its open source strategy to undercut OpenAI, although it is behind its smaller competitors to build cutting-edge models. The idea is that meta can commodify technology by releasing open source models that compete directly with ChatGpt Maker.
“The pressure has been there since the beginning of the year, and I think what we’re seeing is that the climax with Camel 4 was kicked out of the door.” The launch of Meta’s latest model series was delayed due to the struggle to improve its performance, and once released, the company seemed to have a lot of dramatic drama that made other models look better than they actually were.
