Meta's AI Superteam
Will Meta's stacked roster choke like the Nets?
Mark Zuckerberg has been trying to poach top AI researchers with $100M bonuses.
This is actually an absurd amount of money to be throwing around.
Sam Altman (CEO of OpenAI) says nobody on his team has taken up the offer yet, but, let's be real, someone is bound to cave in.
This is all part of Zuck’s plan to create a super-intelligence “dream-team”. Basically, to just get some of the best researchers and improve Meta’s position in the AI race.
After a pretty lackluster LLaMA 4 release, Meta has been falling behind in the public eye.
Even with top talent like Yann LeCun (considered one of the '“Godfathers of AI”), the research lab has been rapidly falling behind in an exponentially improving field.
Zuck’s plan to just get the best people he can is basically the same as building super-teams in the NBA.
It’s like what the Brooklyn Nets did in 2020, getting 3 superstars in Kyrie, KD, and Harden, only to fall short in the playoffs because of KD's “big ass” feet.
If you don’t know what I’m talking about, see here.
Regardless of KD’s big shoes, this news comes shortly after Meta acqui-hired ScaleAI for a 49% stake valued at $14.8B.
ScaleAI is a company that basically provides high-quality labeled data for ML models to train on.
This acquisition essentially tanked a $30B valuation company literally just to get the CEO and cofounder, Alexandr Wang, for Zuck’s super-intelligence dream team.
I say it tanked the company because their largest clients were Meta’s direct competitors.
When it comes to data, you need to trust your supplier as these models are heavily reliant on quality training data, and having your competitor own the supply is usually a sign to find a new supplier.
It’s crazy, over the past two months, we’ve gotten two duos in the AI space. Sam Altman and Johnny Ive were the first, and now Zuck and Alexandr Wang.
On top of all of this, Meta was also trying to get Ilya Sutskever (co-founder of OpenAI and ex-Chief Scientist) and his company Safe Super Intelligence for $32B.
Ilya denied, but his co founder and CEO, Daniel Gross, is said to be in talks to join this dream team… money talks for some.
Definitely interesting to see what happens with this as time moves on.
Will Meta actually be the first to reach the goal of a super-intelligent AI model? Or will their efforts be similar to the 2020/21 Brooklyn Nets?