Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) AI Chief, Alexandr Wang, has debunked rumors that the company’s SuperIntelligence Lab is staffed with top AI researchers who were poached from rival companies with lucrative pay packages.
On the “Core Memory” podcast with tech journalists Ashlee Vance and Kylie Robison, on Wednesday, Wang addressed the claims that Meta has been aggressively recruiting top AI researchers from competitors, allegedly offering up to $100 million.
He dismissed the idea that these researchers were primarily driven by financial incentives. “I think it’s like an incorrect assumption to think that, like the researchers are just money motivated or anything,” Wang said.
Wang emphasized that the recruits were attracted by other factors, such as the opportunity to have a large amount of computing power at their disposal. “People joined because there was high compute per researcher, so they could make more progress than maybe they would be able to make it wherever they were before,” he …
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