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Mark Zuckerberg currently personally oversees the hiring of Meta's artificial intelligence experts, offering more incredible compensation and even startup acquisitions. The company's goal is to catch up with its rivals and close the gap in developing its own AI systems, reports the Wall Street Journal.
Meta has undergone a series of restructuring this year after criticism over delays in the release and operation of new AI models. In April, the company faced criticism for using LM Arena's Chatbot Arena rankings. This allowed AI developers to manipulate performance tests on models. Meta personally tested 27 model variants at the chatbot arena between January and March. Just before the release of Llama4. At the time of its announcement, the company released the results for one model.
In response to these failures, Zuckerberg has been sending personal emails and WhatsApp messages to top researchers, infrastructure engineers and startup founders over the past few months, providing rewards for candidates of more than $100 million and discussing project purchases.
To organize the hiring process, Zuckerberg created a private WhatsApp chat with Meta's employment manager, called “Recruit Party.” He personally reviews candidates' academic publications, holds dinners at Meta residences in Palo Alto and Lake Tahoe, and plans where their desks are.
Meta promises that selected employees will have access to unlimited computing power and funding from vast advertising revenues. However, candidates fear frequent restructuring and uncertainty in the company's leadership. In addition to the controversy, there is the position of Meta's chief AI scientist, Yann LeCoun. Yann LeCoun doubts that the current approach to large-scale language models will lead to true “super intelligence.”
Zuckerberg has achieved a new team of around 50 people “huge breakthroughs” and creates AI that surpasses human intelligence. However, as Openai and the opposing producers from tough competition, the possibility of Meta's success remains uncertain.
Potential recruits include Openai co-founders John Shulman and Ilya Sutzkever, and Sora Video Generator developer Bill Peebles. Meta also invested in $14 billion startup scale AI. AI has been appointed CEO, 28-year-old Alexander Wang, head of the new “Superintelligence Lab.” However, most AI expert Zuckerberg has invited invitations who refused to join the meta, and Openai's Sam Altman says that key employees remain on his team.
“None of our best experts has agreed to these suggestions so far,” Altman jokingly said at a recent industry conference.
Meta declined to comment further, citing a standard assessment of “beneficial partnerships” and confidence in further development of AI.
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