Meta’s $300M AI Talent War
🚨 Meta’s $300M AI Talent War: OpenAI, Apple & the Future of Superintelligence ✴️
It’s about buying minds.
Mark Zuckerberg is going all-in on Meta’s Superintelligence Lab, and the strategy is crystal clear:💰Poach the best AI talent in the world—at any cost.
📊 The Numbers Shaking Up Silicon Valley:
✅ Compensation packages reaching $300M (including equity)
✅ Researchers from OpenAI, Apple, DeepMind, Anthropic already signed
✅ Ruoming Pang, Apple’s Head of Foundation Models, reportedly offered $10M–$15M/year
✅ Meta insiders say 20+ top researchers have quietly joined in recent months
✅ Entire AI teams are getting reverse-acqui-hired
🔥 Sam Altman called it “distasteful”
♟ Others say: Zuck’s playing chess while others are still playing checkers.
But this isn’t just about poaching.
It’s about reshaping the future of AI itself.
🧠 Who’s Jumping Ship & for What 💰
Ruoming Pang – Apple’s AI chief (Foundation Models) → Meta
Yuanzhi Li – OpenAI → Meta
Anton Bakhtin – Anthropic → Meta
Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, Xiaohua Zhai – OpenAI Zurich → Meta
Shengjia Zhao, Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, Hongyu Ren – OpenAI → Meta
Trapit Bansal, Huiwen Chang, Ji Lin, Joel Pobar, Jack Rae – OpenAI/DeepMind/Google → Meta
📈 The Wild Numbers
💰 Up to $300M in total comp over 4 years
💸 Some offers hitting $100M+ in year one alone
👨💻 At least 10 mega-offers to OpenAI researchers
💼 Average Meta engineer (E7 level): $850K–$1.5M/year
🎯 Meta aims to dominate open-source AI (LLaMA), frontier models, and superintelligence—by buying time through talent.
And in today’s AI arms race...
Talent is the new compute.
While the world debates AGI safety and regulation,
Meta is quietly building a dream team—one 9-figure offer at a time.
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