Sky -touching salary and secret recruitment efforts have captured large technology as AI talent war is summer in summer, including companies including Meta, Google and Microsoft. highly competitive Compensation.
A prominent player in the battle is Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of 41-year-old Meta, who allegedly offered Andrew Tulch, AI researcher and co-founder of Thinking Machine Lab, a compensation package as $ 1.5 billion in at least six years. The Wall Street Journal Told that Tulocch turned down the proposal, but many others have taken money and have joined Zuckerberg’s tech veteran.
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Scale AI co-founder and former CEO Alexandra Wang, 28, joined the meta after the company paid $ 14.3 billion for 49% stake in his company. In a June memorandum, Zuckerberg called Wang “the most influential founder of his generation”, and said that in addition to the head of the Meta Superintending Team, Wang would also be the chief AI officers of Meta.
Zuckerberg also highlighted the huge scale of talent poaching in Silicon Valley, which shows that other members of their superintendent group, now called TBD Labs, according to Thursday’s report, according to a Thursday’s report. The Wall Street JournalInclude researchers done from Google, Openai and Anthropic.
Meanwhile, Apple has also lost talent with meta Four AI Researchers To join Zuckerberg’s company alone in July. Meta offered a $ 200 million compensation package in early July to involve the Meta’s superintendent attempt to the former Apple Manager – and Pang accepted in early July to involve Meta Superintendent attempts.
Zuckerberg allegedly played a personal role in recruiting the TBD Labs team, inviting the possible fare to discuss the proposal to join his homes in Palo Alto and Lake Taho. As BloombergZuckerberg even arranged the seating arrangement in Meta’s offices to keep the Superintendent team close to it.
Mark Zuckerberg. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Image
Ai is a deep investment in the AI Infrastructure, with meta for Meta $ 72 billionMicrosoft $ 80 billionAnd to google $ 85 billion This year towards the construction of AI facilities.
Here’s a look that others are competing:
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Microsoft
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleman is looking for fresh AI talent to join his former workplace, Google, Microsoft Team. The Wall Street Journal This week said that Suleyman, who worked in Google Over a decade And to lead the daily Applide AI team, is copying Zuckerberg by individually recruiting and offering them better salary.
So far, Microsoft has poved at least 24 employees from Google as a result of Suleyman’s efforts, mostly from Deepmind AI group, WsjOfficers and researchers are equally involved in the poaching, including former Google Vice President Engineering, Amar Subramania.
The average salary in Microsoft last year was $ 193,744, according to A Proxy filing With the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
Google signed a $ 2.4 billion deal Google Deepmind AI with AI coding startup windsurf last month to bring significant talent for the team. Windsurf co-founder and CEO, Varun Mohan, co-founder Douglas chain, and a select group of other researchers in the startup joined Google. As part of the deal, Google obtained a noxclusive license for windsurf technology.
Google did the same thing last year, a signature $ 2.7 billion agreement With Character.ai, an individual superintendent startup, in return for talent, especially character AI co-founder Noam Shezir and Daniel de Freetas. Even in this deal, Google received a noxclusive license for startup technology.
Openi
OpenEE CEO Sam Altman, 40, said in mid -June that Meta was offering bonuses to signed $ 100 million to its employees and in overall compensation in an attempt to remove them “more”. Meta Chief Technology Officer, Andrew Bosworth, Denied Claim.
By the end of June, eight Openai researchers took the proposal and joined the Meta’s Superintending team. For employees in the June 28 memo, OpenIII Chief Research Officer Mark Chen compared someone to break someone in his home and steal something. He promised that openi was “restructured” compensation in response to proposals keeping the payment “fair” for all.
On Friday, Ruckus Informed Some employees got bonus worth millions earlier this week, before the company launched its new GPT-5.
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