Ellison also amended his Giving Pledge to focus resources on his Oxford-based institute tackling healthcare, hunger, and climate change.

"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.

In his increasingly desperate efforts to keep up in the ongoing AI race, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is throwing out the rulebook in his quest to expand data center infrastructure as fast as possible. As SemiAnalysis first reported last week,

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.

Mark Zuckerberg has revealed Meta Platforms is set to invest hundreds of billions of dollars into constructing vast AI data centers, aiming to achieve superintelligence.

Mark Zuckerberg says Meta plans to invest “hundreds of billions of dollars” in data centres and computing infrastructure to power its artificial intelligence goals.

Last month, the social media giant invested $14.3 billion in Scale AI ( SCAI.PVT) and brought on its CEO, Alexandr Wang, and hired former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman and Safe Superintelligence CEO Daniel Gross. The company also poached Apple's head of AI foundation models, Ruoming Pang, according to Bloomberg.

Meta is reportedly offering massive salaries – up to Rs 1,600 crore – to top AI researchers from Apple and OpenAI. These hires will drive its Superintelligence Lab and long-term push towards AGI.

Mark Zuckerberg has something called “The List”—top AI experts who he’s targeting to join Meta’s Superintelligence Lab. He revealed the first 11 members in an internal memo to staff. Fortune spoke to an expert who explains Zuckerberg’s logic.