Here’s What Mark Zuckerberg Is Offering Top AI Talent
Like Mark Zuckerberg Staffs Up Up up by Meta’s Superintelligence Lab, he offered high -level research talent remuneration packages of up to $ 300 million over four years, with more than $ 100 million in total compensation for the first year, Wired learned.
Meta made at least 10 incredibly high offers to OpenAi employees, according to sources. A high -ranking researcher was presented on the role of chief scientist, but refused him, according to several sources with direct knowledge of negotiations. Although the remuneration package includes equity, the first year, the actions are immediately accompanied, according to sources.
“It is almost how much I would need to go to work at Meta,” explains an Openai staff member who spoke with Wired under the cover of anonymity because he is not authorized to speak publicly about the company. Other employees said they weighed money against the potential impact they could have in Meta compared to Openai. Several thought their impact would be higher in Openai.
“These statements are false – the size and structure of these remuneration packages have been distorted everywhere,” said Meta spokesperson Andy Stone. “Some people have chosen to considerably exaggerate what is happening for their own ends.”
A senior engineer who spoke to Wired confirmed that his salary was around $ 850,000 a year in Meta – an impressive sum that turns pale compared to the currently offered packages. People in the remuneration strip above this engineer (E7, in terms of meta) earn an average of $ 1.54 million per year, according to data from users submitted on the levels.Fyi.
Andrew Bosworth, technology director at Meta, said everyone was not receiving an $ 100 million offer during a Q&R with employees last week. “Listen, you guys, the market is hot. It’s not that hot. Okay? So it’s just a lie,” he said. “We have a small number of leadership roles for which we hire, and these people grant a bonus.” He added that the $ 100 million is not a connection bonus, but “all these different things” and that Openai has thwarted the offers.
By comparison, Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, received $ 79.1 million in total remuneration in 2024, most of them in shares, according to a financial file by the company. Dara Khosrowshahi, Uber CEO, won around $ 39.4 million (once again, mainly in stock) the same year.
Monday, Mark Zuckerberg sent a note to Meta staff presenting the new superintendent team. Alexandr Wang, former CEO of the AI scale, is now the head of Meta AI, “said Zuckerberg. He is joined by Nat Friedman who previously directed GitHub. Together, Wang and Friedman will be Corières, an organization that Zuckerberg has nicknamed the Meta Superintelligence Labs. The company did not appoint a chief scientist or a research director as part of the announcement. Neither Wang nor Friedman are considered researchers, at least in the traditional sense. None of the OpenAi employees who left for Meta received the offer of $ 300 million, according to a source knowing the contracts.
