Somebody get Mark Zuckerburg some milk…
Word on the street (and by “street” I mean Sam Altman running his mouth on a podcast) is that Meta is trying to poach OpenAI’s top talent with $100 million signing bonuses. Yes, $100 million… and you thought Zuckerburg planting that story of Eduardo mutilating chickens was petty.
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Altman spilled the tea on the “Uncapped” podcast, claiming that despite Meta’s thirsty offers, “none of our best people have decided to take them up on that” which either means OpenAI doesn’t quite have the smartest tools in the shed, or he’s lying out of his a$$ about this whole thing. Most engineers would sell their own grandmother for that kind of money, but apparently OpenAI’s bench is built different… I guess? Regardless though, that’s the rumor… and Altman is big mad.
And yet, if this is true, this is just another prime example of Zuckerburg acting like a trust fund kid, ready to splurge cash on anyone with a PhD and a pulse. For instance, he’s already dropped $14.3 billion for a 49% slice of Scale AI mostly so they could snag founder Alexandr Wang and a handful of his buddies. As a result, Scale AI folks followed him. Additionally, Zuck himself is apparently entering the chat of multiple DM’s, personally recruiting for Meta’s new “Superintelligence” division (whatever that means).
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But even still, it’s a clear indication that Marky Mark is being kept up at night presumably because OpenAI has the rizz, and Meta’s AI models keep getting delayed for being, well, kinda sucky. Even Jack Rae from DeepMind couldn’t resist the call of the Zuck Bucks, which tells you either Meta’s got some wild comp packages or DeepMind’s cafeteria food is finally as bad as everyone thinks.
With that said, Meta’s open-source AI push isn’t nothing. Their Llama models are basically the IKEA of large language models… Everyone uses them, but nobody brags about it. As Daniel Newman from Futurum pointed out, Meta built the rails that half the AI industry is now riding, even if the trains sometimes derail and catch fire on arrival. Which is why Altman is right about one thing… copycats rarely win (unless you’re Zuck). Of course, in the end, we really don’t know if that initial claim of Zuckerburg dipping his proverbial pen into OpenAI’s ink is true or not… but what we do know is that Altman is busy in bed with Jony Ive for $6.4 billion and making their future AI look so clean you could eat off it (all while Zuckerburg is getting lost in the sauce).
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On the other hand, Meta’s money cannon is definitely impressive… and if it holds the weight, it might buy Zuckerburg some traction. But apparently, working for Sam Altman screams louder in Silicon Valley these days than working for the man who has pissed off more people than any one person will in their lifetimes. Meaning, keep your eyes on this story to see what more details come out and place your bets accordingly. Until next time, friends…
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