Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is absolutely tripping over himself to attract top AI talent to fill the ranks of his recently announced Superintelligence Labs — and he's willing to go to obscene lengths to make it happen

As Wired reports, more than a dozen people at Thinking Machines Lab, an AI startup founded by former OpenAI executive Mira Murati, were approached by Meta with ludicrous job offers.

 

 

One individual was even offered more than $1 billion, paid out over several years, a source told Wired — a staggering amount of money, needless to say.

 

But despite the mind-shattering amount of money on the table, not a single person at TML has taken the offer, hinting at some glaring brand issues Zuckerberg could be dealing with. Ouch!

 

Meta communications director Andy Stone disputed the exact figures to Wired, but confirmed offers were made.

 

The reporting suggests we've truly hit peak AI hype, as hundreds of billions of dollars are being poured into the tech despite little in the way of ROI in sight.

 

The news comes as an increasingly desperate Zuckerberg has been offering enormous sign-on bonuses to flesh out his Superintelligence Labs, as part of a broader bid to stay relevant in the ongoing race currently being led by Meta's competitors, including OpenAI and Google.

 

Earlier this year, Zuckerberg poached Ruoming Pang, the former head of Apple's fumbling "Apple Intelligence" software, as well as 28-year-old Scale AI cofounder Alexandr Wang, to lead the lab.