Topic: ai talent competition
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Sam Altman Criticizes Meta for AI Talent Poaching: 'Missionaries Over Mercenaries'
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman criticized Meta's aggressive recruitment tactics, framing the talent competition as a clash between mission-driven innovators and short-term opportunists, while hinting at potential compensation adjustments for OpenAI teams. Altman downplayed Meta's high-profile hires, claim...
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OpenAI Leaders Reject Meta Offers, Compare Approach to Break-In
OpenAI's leadership criticized Meta's aggressive recruitment tactics, comparing them to theft after four senior researchers joined Meta's superintelligence lab. OpenAI is exploring compensation adjustments and ethical retention strategies to counter Meta's offers, including reported $100 million ...
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Meta Loses AI Talent to OpenAI, Anthropic Despite $2M Salaries
As companies pour billions of dollars into AI infrastructure, demand for AI talent to program and run these AI data centers is also greatly increasing. Meta is currently offering $2M+/yr in offers for AI talent and still losing them to OpenAI and Anthropic. The tech industry average is around 40% to 50%, with the retention rate dropping over the past couple of years due to layoffs. Next to it is Google’s DeepMind, which has a retention rate of 78%. Massive tech companies used to be the dream job...
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Meta Explored Acquisitions of AI Firms Like Thinking Machines
Meta is aggressively pursuing AI dominance through high-profile startup acquisitions and top talent recruitment, despite no formal offers yet, highlighting its competitive urgency. The company is investing heavily in AI leadership and wearables, with smart glasses emerging as a key platform, alre...
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