Elon Musk has recruited numerous researchers and engineers from Meta's AI team, with at least 14 departures to xAI since January and others moving to OpenAI. Some Meta employees reportedly received retention offers up to $300 million. Musk publicly celebrated the hires on X, claiming many strong Meta engineers joined xAI without enormous initial compensation. Meta confirmed normal attrition and said none who left for xAI were part of the new TBD Lab overseeing its superintelligence efforts. Departing staff included Xinlei Chen, Ching-Yao Chuang, Alan Rice, and Sheng Sen, who helped scale Meta's Llama models amid company setbacks and strategic changes.
helping Meta in the global race to build superintelligence, an almost godlike form of artificial intelligence that could think for itself and be much smarter than any human. Musk himself has gloated about the departures, posting on X that 'many strong Meta engineers have and are joining xAI and without the need for insane initial [compensation].' At least 14 Meta researchers and engineers have left for their new home at Musk's AI competitor since January, while others have fled to OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT.
The company official also confirmed that none of the researchers who left for xAI were part of new TBD Lab, the group being tasked with overseeing Meta's renewed efforts to create superintelligence. The key employees leaving have included Xinlei Chen, a research scientist at Meta's Fundamental AI Research, research scientist Ching-Yao Chuang, Alan Rice, Meta's data center manager, and Sheng Sen, an AI research scientist who helped scale Meta's flagship Llama AI models.
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