More details emerge of rocky start to Meta Superintelligence Labs
This week, Wired reported that things weren’t exactly humming along in Mark Zuckerberg’s AI all-star-packed Meta Superintelligence Labs, with some recent hires leaving the company after just weeks.
Today more details are emerging from the Financial Times, which reports that the team of newly minted multimillionaire AI pirates is struggling to adapt to life inside a legacy Big Tech company.
The new recruits, some of whom were reportedly offered nine-figure signing bonuses, appear to be flexing their newfound power.
One of the highest-profile recruits, ChatGPT cocreator Shengjia Zhao, reportedly threatened to return to OpenAI just days after joining Meta and had even started filling out paperwork at his old employer before Meta appeased him with the new title of “chief AI scientist.”
Avi Verma, one of the recent hires who left, didn’t show for his first full day of work after going through Meta onboarding, according to the report.
Meta told the FT that “some attrition is normal for any organization of this size. Most of these employees had been with the company for years, and we wish them the best.”
Today more details are emerging from the Financial Times, which reports that the team of newly minted multimillionaire AI pirates is struggling to adapt to life inside a legacy Big Tech company.
The new recruits, some of whom were reportedly offered nine-figure signing bonuses, appear to be flexing their newfound power.
One of the highest-profile recruits, ChatGPT cocreator Shengjia Zhao, reportedly threatened to return to OpenAI just days after joining Meta and had even started filling out paperwork at his old employer before Meta appeased him with the new title of “chief AI scientist.”
Avi Verma, one of the recent hires who left, didn’t show for his first full day of work after going through Meta onboarding, according to the report.
Meta told the FT that “some attrition is normal for any organization of this size. Most of these employees had been with the company for years, and we wish them the best.”
