Posted 4/5/2024, 10:29:00 AM
Meta Loses Key AI Talent to Rivals as Tech Giants Battle for Top Researchers
- Meta lost 3 top AI employees - Devi Parikh, Erik Meijer, and Abhishek Das - within a week amid big tech's battle for talent
- Employees cited reasons like wanting to do independent research and lack of advantage being at a large company
- CEO Mark Zuckerberg trying to woo researchers from Google's DeepMind with personal emails
- Meta offering big salary packages to researchers without interviews to attract talent
- Elon Musk said the current "talent war for AI is the craziest" he's seen, with OpenAI aggressively recruiting Tesla engineers