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Recently, Elon Musk revealed at an event that several senior engineers from Meta are switching to his emerging artificial intelligence company xAI. Although the starting salary at xAI is not very high, Musk believes that the company's future valuation could surpass that of Meta. He also mentioned that xAI has a good tradition of offering salary incentives to top talent.
It is reported that Meta has been actively recruiting talent in the field of artificial intelligence, even contacting more than 100 employees from OpenAI, successfully hiring at least 10 people. This behavior has been interpreted by the outside world as a "desperate move" by Meta in the competition for talent. At the same time, Shengjia Zhao, a core member of the ChatGPT team, has also joined Meta as the Chief Scientist of the Super Intelligence Lab.
However, some engineers have refused Meta's recruitment efforts. They believe that OpenAI's research direction is closer to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), and they prefer small teams that are efficient and flexible, and do not want to participate in advertising-driven projects.
As the competition for talent in the technology industry intensifies, xAI's rapid development has attracted the attention of many industry observers. At the same time, companies such as OpenAI, Google, and Meta are also competing for top researchers. Meta has expanded the scale of its artificial intelligence department and has invested $1.4 billion in Scale AI.
In June, Meta launched the Super Intelligence Lab, aiming to gather top experts in the field. Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, claimed that Meta offered up to $100 million in salaries to attract his team members, but this statement was denied by Meta. According to media reports, Meta did send multiple job offers to OpenAI employees, but not everyone chose to join.
Finally, Meta promised new employees that they would fully own the company's shares or stock options after one year of employment. However, Benjamin Mann, co-founder of Anthropic, stated that employees were not interested in Meta's generous incentive measures, but rather valued the organization's mission more.
Key Points:
🌟 Multiple senior engineers from Meta have switched to Musk's xAI, and its future valuation may exceed that of Meta.
💼 Meta is actively recruiting artificial intelligence talent, contacting more than 100 employees from OpenAI.
🚀 The competition for talent in the technology industry is intensifying, and xAI's rapid development has attracted industry attention.
