Mark Zuckerberg has a habit of investing huge sums of money on a particular bet in the tech industry, like spending $46 billion to create the Metaverse, but most people know that the plan ultimately failed. Now, Meta's CEO is recruiting talent and placing them in the super-intelligence lab. The team in the laboratory is committed to the research and development of various basic models and strives to occupy a leading position in the artificial intelligence competition.
As for the employee list of the department, a detailed list shows that there are 44 employees in the department. Interestingly, 50% of them are from China, 40% have resigned from OpenAI, and there are other "eye-opening" findings.
Meta is currently on a hiring spree, trying to poach talent from well-known companies such as OpenAI and Apple, and offering them offers that are hard to refuse. Before recruiting the iPhone maker's head of base models (which came with a $200 million signing bonus), Meta poached three former OpenAI employees, one of whom claimed he didn't receive the $100 million signing bonus.
While Meta only knows how much it has committed to recruiting, @deedydas obtained a detailed employee list for the social media giant's super-intelligence lab from an anonymous company employee. As mentioned above, 50% of the recruiters are from China, 75% of whom are PhDs and 70% of whom are researchers. OpenAI has the largest number of recruits, accounting for 40%, followed by Google's DeepMind, accounting for 20%, and Scale's 15%.
In short, Meta’s super-intelligence lab has a pretty diverse staff, most of whom haven’t even been with the company for a month. The post on Perhaps the most striking detail on the list is that 50 percent of the 44 employees are from China, which could put Meta in hot water once the Trump administration begins investigating the company for any security breaches.
So we wouldn’t be surprised if Mark Zuckerberg is asked about these Chinese researchers by various regulators in the future.