Elon Musk broke his silence in the ongoing war of talent in Silicon Valley. Unprecedented AI Talent War It is said that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg started it for the company Superintelligence Labs. And it is reportedly affected by almost all technology companies (large and small). Apple, Google, Microsoft, or lesser known companies (until a few months ago), such as Windsurf. In response to all the topics that give a $100 participation bonus on every topic of Meta, Zuckerberg tells investors: He added, “The best and most talented people have an absolute premium.” During a revenue call last week, the company said its capital expenditure would reach up to $72 billion in 2025. This is an increase of approximately $30 billion from the previous year.
What Elon Musk said in a meta-engineer joining Xai
But billionaire Elon Musk claims much of it Meta-engineer Joined his AI startup xaiand unlike Meta, the company doesn't pay astronomically high salaries to join them. “Many strong meta-engineers are on Xai and don't need an insane initial comp (still great, but not unsustainable).
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In another post on the issue, Musk cried out to the engineers to join Xai. “For ultra hardcore engineers, @Xai is a place,” he writes.
Meta hires top executives from Apple, Openai and more
Meta's Superintelligence Labs team consists of a lineup of names previously seen in Openai, Anthropic, Apple and Google. Meta hired Ruoming Pang, former head of Apple's AI modeling team, to join the team with a reward package reportedly worth more than $200 million. In late July, Shengjia Zhao, co-creator of ChatGpt and former lead scientist at Openai, joined Meta as the chief scientist. Zhao previously helped build GPT-4 and led the synthetic data initiative at Openai. Other large-scale recruitments made by Meta include former Gitubu Chief Natfriedman, former CEO of Scale AI Alexandrewan, former Openrai researchers Shenzia Chao, Shuchao Bi, Ziahui Yu and Fragrance Len.
“Difficulties” for Llama 4 models
Zuckerberg reportedly bolstered the war on Silicon Valley's talent through aggressive employment and startup deals after the low performance of Facebook's parent Llama 4 model. He is said to be unhappy with his company team as Meta is trying to catch up with rivals such as Openai, Google and humanity. Meta's Llama 4 AI model has been attempting to copy the technique from Chinese startup DeepSeek, but is said to have received such a poor reception from the developer, so Zuckerberg allows for a complete overhaul of the company's AI strategy.Citing the source, Mark Zuckerberg sends emails directly to prospects and hosts AI researchers at home, according to a report by Business Insider.
