{"id":222226,"date":"2025-06-28T20:40:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T20:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/222226\/"},"modified":"2025-06-28T20:40:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T20:40:10","slug":"mark-zuckerbergs-secret-list-of-top-ai-talent-to-poach-has-tech-world-atwitter-us-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/222226\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s secret list of top AI talent to poach has tech world atwitter | US news"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mark Zuckerberg<\/a> reportedly spent months putting together a list of the top AI engineers and researchers across the globe, preparing to offer potential recruits lucrative compensation packages in Meta<\/a>\u2019s attempt to poach AI talent from key competitors.<\/p>\n

Silicon Valley has been talking for weeks about the Meta<\/a> CEO\u2019s quest to attract top AI talent, including by offering pay packages worth up to $100m.<\/p>\n

Zuckerberg has personally reached out to desired candidates, according to the Wall Street Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has been competing in the search for AI dominance with rivals like OpenAI<\/a>, Google, Microsoft and Amazon, which have invested billions of dollars into AI research and product development. Last month, questions were raised about the direction of Meta\u2019s AI development after it delayed the scheduled rollout of Behemoth, its flagship AI model.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, Meta paid $14bn for a stake in Scale AI and is putting its founder, 28-year-old Alexandr Wang, in charge of its \u201csuperintelligence team\u201d \u2013 an internal lab that would focus on Meta\u2019s efforts to develop a hypothetical AI system that is smarter than humans.<\/p>\n

Last year, Google bought out the shareholders in Character.AI, a chatbot service that allows users to have personal conversations with different AI personas, for $2.7bn.<\/p>\n

People on \u201cthe list\u201d, as Zuckerberg\u2019s slate is known around Silicon Valley, include recent graduates from top PhD programs at schools like the University of California at Berkeley and Carnegie Mellon. Many are currently employed by Meta\u2019s AI competitors, including OpenAI and Google\u2019s DeepMind project, and have traded notes with each other on Meta\u2019s recruiting efforts.<\/p>\n

A recruit who has personally spoken to Zuckerberg said that his goal appears to be a \u201ctransfusion from the country\u2019s top AI labs\u201d. A WhatsApp group chat called \u201cRecruiting Party\u201d was formed for Zuckerberg and at least two other senior Meta executives to talk through potential hires. The Meta CEO has been trying to personally find candidates by looking through research papers, according to the Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n

Zuckerberg\u2019s hands-on recruiting efforts have drawn the ire of OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman, who called<\/a> the rumored signing bonuses and compensation packages on offer \u201ccrazy\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m really happy that, at least so far, none of our best people have decided to take them up on that,\u201d Altman said during an appearance on the Uncapped podcast<\/a>, which is hosted by his brother Jack. \u201cI think the strategy of a ton of upfront, guaranteed comp, and that being the reason you tell someone to join, like really the degree to which they\u2019re focusing on that and not the work and not the mission, I don\u2019t think that\u2019s going to set up a great culture.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mark Zuckerberg reportedly spent months putting together a list of the top AI engineers and researchers across the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3163],"tags":[323,1942,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-222226","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-technology","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}