What Meta’s Efforts to Poach Top Talent Can Teach You About Crashing Tough Markets

After Zuckerberg spent billions on an AI 'dream team,' he has to deliver for Meta shareholders

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been on a two-week spending binge, hiring the priciest AI developers in an effort to make up for past setbacks.

What Meta’s Efforts to Poach Top Talent Can Teach You About Crashing Tough Markets

Meta’s tactics are aggressive, and require deep pockets. Whether its pricey recruiting will make it an AI leader is still unclear.

Meta's War for AI Talent

Meta, OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, and xAI are all hiring aggressively, but the pool of experienced talent is limited. Analysis by Alessandro Aresu The current race for artificial intelligence, which has significantly accelerated from 2012 to today and even more so from 2022, has long been a race to train and attract the best talent. Let's start from 2012. In that year, when Geoffrey Hinton at the University of Toronto founded a startup c…

Meta’s Talent Strategy In AI Era, And Lessons from Dangote’s Accumulation of Capabilities

I examine Meta’s strategic partnership with Scale AI to enhance both infrastructure and expertise in AI. By investing in Scale AI—renowned for its data annotation services—Meta secured critical data capabilities and opened doors to elite engineering talent. Simultaneously, Meta aggressively recruited top researchers and engineers from Scale AI and other companies, enticing them with competitive […] The post [Podcast] Meta’s Talent Strategy In AI…

The AI Scene: Meta vs. OpenAI and the Increasing Talent Rivalry

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a battle of capital, talent, and innovation, with OpenAI and Meta Platforms at the center. These technology leaders, sharing a common aim of developing sophisticated AI, embrace diametrically opposite approaches that define their paths and the industry as a whole. While Meta commits to open-sourced Llama models, OpenAI bets on its GPT series of closed-off offerings, their methods for developing AI, selling it, and…