"Here, people say, 'I want the fewest number of people reporting to me and the most GPUs,'" Mark Zuckerberg said about the AI talent war.

Zuck took to Threads to boast about Meta’s AI infrastructure plans. But big facilities need large amounts of energy.

When I sat down with Meta CEO and founder Mark Zuckerbergto talk artificial intelligence, I expected that he would want to discuss the company’s new supercomputer plans and talk about why he’s been working the phones all summer in a red-hot AI recruiting blitz.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said top AI researchers are joining the company not just for high pay, but for greater autonomy and access to powerful compute. He highlighted small, well-equipped teams and the chance to build from scratch as key draws,

I’m focused on building the most elite and talent-dense team in the industry,” Meta’s CEO said in a post regarding the superintelligence effort.

Meta has reportedly poached two top OpenAI researchers, Jason Wei and Hyung Won Chung, for its new superintelligence lab, escalating the fierce AI talent war between leading tech giants.

Meta is spending billions and hiring top researchers to lead in AI. But Mark Zuckerberg says GPUs and autonomy, not just money, are what truly attract the brightest minds to Meta’s labs.

Prometheus will come online in 2026 acting as Meta's first-ever 1GW lab, with Hyperion launching in the years after, scaling AI compute power to 5GW, and these are Meta's mainstream AI projects. Meta will add multiple new AI clusters over the years, showing that the company is pushing heavily into AI, and plans to overtake the industry.