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The battle between Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and OpenAI’s Sam Altman for the industry’s top AI talent shows no signs of cooling off. This time, Zuckerberg appears to have secured two more researchers from OpenAI.
"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.
Ellison also amended his Giving Pledge to focus resources on his Oxford-based institute tackling healthcare, hunger, and climate change.
Meta will invest in "hundreds of billions of dollars" in artificial intelligence with the world's first supercluster online next year, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Monday.
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,
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Newser on MSNZuckerberg: Top AI Talent Has 3 AsksMark Zuckerberg says that when it comes to attracting top artificial intelligence researchers, the much-discussed hefty paycheck is only one factor. Speaking on The Information's TITV on Monday, the Meta CEO noted these highly sought-after specialists have two other priorities: minimal management responsibility and maximum access to computing
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.
For Silicon Valley giants, getting ahead in the artificial intelligence race requires more than building the biggest, most capable models; they’re also competing to get third-party developers to build new applications based on their technology.