Mark Zuckerberg is personally reaching out to engineers at Google Deepmind, attempting to lure them to Meta. Meta is making a bold effort to hire AI engineers, using a variety of strategies to draw in leading researchers. Furthermore, it's offering substantial incentives to keep existing employees who are considering joining competing AI companies.
According to reports, Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, has apparently taken to directly contacting staff at Google's DeepMind. He's been sending personal emails in an attempt to attract them to Meta’s AI initiatives.
This action highlights the escalating rivalry for AI expertise, as Meta uses a range of strategies to lure leading scholars.
Insiders have informed The Information that Zuckerberg's emails underscore the importance of AI for Meta and are designed to attract DeepMind employees to work for Meta. The informants, who wished to remain unidentified, shared that these customised letters have successfully recruited at least one person.
Aside from Zuckerberg's personal involvement in recruitment, Meta has adopted a more assertive approach towards hiring in the field of AI. This includes skipping conventional interview processes and directly offering jobs to potential candidates.
Furthermore, it is reported that Meta has boosted salary incentives for its staff who showed interest in moving to competing AI firms, as a strategy to keep them.
The intense competition in the AI talent market has led companies such as Meta to take exceptional steps. Owing to the scarcity of skilled AI professionals, big tech companies are embarking on aggressive hiring campaigns. This was underscored by a Fortune report in December that described the ruthless atmosphere at prominent machine learning seminars.
Considering the high need for AI knowledge, Aravind Srinivas, the head of AI firm Perplexity, shared his journey of trying to hire a top-level researcher from Meta.
On the "Invest Like the Best" podcast, Srinivas expressed that the feedback he got highlighted the necessity for significant resources like NVIDIA's sought-after H100 GPUs, emphasizing the intense competition in the AI field.
To enhance its AI initiatives, Meta is putting a large amount of funds into NVIDIA's H100 GPUs, intending to purchase more than 340,000 of these units. This considerable investment highlights Meta's dedication towards improving AI functionalities across its platforms, such as Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
In the race against competitors such as Microsoft and its ally OpenAI, Meta is leaving no stone unturned in its quest for AI expertise and assets, indicating a robust competition for supremacy in the AI field.
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