According to Sam Altman, the tech billionaire is trying to sign high-end notes with a signing bonus of up to $100 million to poverty as Mark Zuckerberg actively assembles a new AI team in the Yuanzhong. “I’m really happy that at least so far none of our best people have decided to accept that,” Altman said in a recent episode No covera podcast hosted by his brother, Jack Altman. Sam Altman did not specify whether signing bonuses are offered in cash, stock options or other form of payment. Meon did not respond to an observer's request for comment.
Meta and Openai, along with other tech giants like Google and Microsoft, locked in a full-speed race to develop advanced AI systems that could surpass humans. Zuckerberg plans to form a team of 50 people amid the frustrations of Meta's current AI efforts, such as its open source model Llama, but progress is not fast enough.
“I heard Meta thinks we are their biggest competitors, and I think it's reasonable for them to continue to work – their current AI efforts are not working as they hoped,” Ultraman said in a podcast aired yesterday (June 17). He added: “I respect a lot of things from Meta as a company, but I don't think they're a company that is good at innovation.”
With plans to spend between $64 billion and $72 billion on AI plans this year, Meta is stepping up efforts to scale up data centers, hardware and talent mastery. Earlier this month, it signed a deal to invest more than $14 billion in data infrastructure startup AI. As part of the agreement, AI CEO Alexandr Wang (a longtime friend of Altman's) will leave the company to lead Meta's new AI team.
Zuckerberg personally took the lead in Meta's AI recruitment driver. He himself met almost all new employees, hosted dinners at his home in Lake Tahoe and Palo Alto for personal recruitment and even rescheduling the office layout to bring the AI team closer to him, Bloomberg reported. So far, the company has reportedly successfully poached high-profile talent, including Google Deepmind researcher Jack Rae and Sesame AI’s machine learning clue Johan Schalkwyk.
Altman doesn't believe Meta's positive compensation package will translate into long-term success. “I don’t think it’s going to build a great culture as far as they focus on than work rather than task,” Altman said. “I think people kind of look at both paths and say, well, Openai’s lens is really good, it’s a better shot that is actually delivered on super smart and could end up being a more valuable company.”
META pays for software engineering annual packages ranging from $212,000 to $3.67 million, while Openai pays $238,000 to $1.34 million, including stocks, including stocks. Zuckerberg received $27.2 million in stock and bonus last year. He did not serve as the company's chief executive's basic salary.
Competitors interested in Openai are nothing new to Altman, recalling a former Meta employee telling him that the company sees Chatgpt as a potential “Facebook replacement.” But unlike Meta's social feed, Altman believes that Chatgpt's goal is to be really useful, rather than promote unhealthy habits like “destructive enterprises.”
Altman also criticized other tech giants for negatively affecting users, picking Google out ad-driven models and Apple's iPhone addictiveness. “And you have chatgpt,” he said. “I think it's just trying to help me, and that's a good thing.”
