Posted 3/27/2024, 8:23:00 PM
Tech Giants Zuckerberg and Brin Compete for Top AI Talent with Lucrative Offers
- Mark Zuckerberg and Sergey Brin are personally recruiting top AI talent by reaching out to researchers and offering incentives to join their companies
- Zuckerberg has sent personal notes to researchers at Google's DeepMind lab trying to convince them to work at Meta
- Brin called an employee who was leaving for OpenAI, offering a pay raise and other perks to stay at Google
- Meta is relaxing policies around interviewing and raising salaries for current staff who threaten to leave
- OpenAI is luring talent with huge compensation packages worth $5-10 million while Meta salaries average around $400k