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Mark Zuckerberg has called reports on Meta’s million dollar<\/a> pay packages to poach artificial intelligence staff from competitors \u201cinaccurate\u201d, but did not elaborate on the actual numbers in an interview with The Information.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Speaking to the publication on reports of \u201c$100-200 million\u201d pay packages for Meta’s \u201cSuperintelligence<\/a>\u201d AI team, Mark Zuckerkberg called it a \u201chot market\u201d adding that it makes \u201csense\u201d to spend big on gaining the right talent.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cA lot of the specifics that have been reported aren’t accurate by themselves. But it is a very hot market,\u201d the 41-year-old CEO of Meta<\/a> acknowleged, adding, \u201cThere’s a small number of researchers, which are the best, who are in demand by all of the different labs. So I think that it certainly is quite competitive.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n He further noted that in the big scheme of AI<\/a> expenses, wherein the industry is pushing \u201chundreds of billions of dollars on compute and building out multiple gigawatt of clusters.. it really does make sense to compete super hard\u201d to get the top 50-70 researchers to build your team.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Explaining the decision to offer lucrative pay packages to AI recuits, the tech<\/a> billionaire also noted that AI does not need a \u201cmassive team\u201d, stating, \u201cYou actually kind of want the smallest group of people who can fit the whole thing in their head. So there’s just an absolute premium<\/a> for the best and most talented people.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cSo it kind of makes sense when you kind of think about it that, from that perspective, the amount that is being spent to recruit the people is actually still quite small compared to the overall investment and all when you talk about super intelligence,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n When asked about any discomfort in interactions with Sam Altman<\/a> after the poaching allegations, Mark Zuckerberg was flippant. \u201cI mean, what would I say? We’re building up this new team from scratch, and there’s like, five or six places in the world that have a lot of great researchers. You know, Meta, of course, is one of them. And part of what we’re doing is pulling over a lot of the key folks into the new efforts as well,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cBut we’re also doing a big recruiting push, so we’re not trying to target anyone individually. I want to make sure that I personally get to know all of the top researchers in the industry. So that way, whether it’s now or in the future, if there’s a good opportunity to work together, then we can, we can make that happen,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n In a post on Threads, Zuckerberg also announced that Meta<\/a> is building several massive data centers to power its AI ambitions, with the first one \u2014 called Prometheus, based in Ohio \u2014 expected to come online next year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cWe\u2019re building multiple more titan clusters as well,\u201d he added, hinting that all their data centres would be named after Greek titans of myth. Zuckerberg described the data centers as multigigawatt \u201cclusters\u201d. The biggest such facility is being built in Richland Parish, Louisiana, which the Facebook co-founder has touted as being \u201cnearly the size of Manhattan\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n This comes after Meta in April said it could spend as much as $72 billion on capex, with focus<\/a> on AI and the data centers used to train and run the models.<\/p>\n<\/div>\nPrice for AI talent \u2018competitive\u2019, says Mark Zuckerberg<\/h2>\n
Mark Zuckerberg explains Meta’s lucrative AI pay packages<\/h2>\n
On poaching allegations, and \u2018discomfort\u2019 in interactions with Sam Altman<\/h2>\n
Meta building gigawatt-size data centers: What is Prometheus?<\/h2>\n