No amount of money can make people want to work for Zuck

How much would you have to be paid to spend time with Mark Zuckerberg? For some of the people who joined the AI ​​team of Meta, millions of dollars are simply not enough. According to a new Financial Times report, the Meta AI laboratory is such a mess (and probably, Zuck is such a bad attachment) that recent hires threatened to leave a few days of membership, and promotions were given just to prevent people from leaving.

FT underlines Shengjia Zhao, “head of the AI” of Meta, as an excellent example of this dynamic. How did Zhao end up with this title? Well, the former Openai employee who participated in the development of Chatgpt spent a few days in Meta’s operations and probably saw what it was shit. He immediately started making arrangements to leave, going so far as to sign documents to return to Openai, according to the Financial Times, before Meta agreed to put the top title. And they say that Silicon Valley is not really a meritocracy!

Zhao is apparently far from the only hiring of Meta at a very high level which shivered at the sight of the superintendent laboratory. Earlier this week, Wired reported that several recent additions to the company’s IA effort had already abandoned the ship. This included the former employees of Openai Ethan Knight and Avi Verma, and the Alum of Google Deepmind Rishabh Agarwal, who all spent only one handful in Meta’s operation. Meta veterans are also coming out, with more than two dozen long -standing staff in recent weeks, according to FT.

Frankly, it is difficult to blame them if you have followed the big titles of Meta’s AI efforts in recent months. The company underwent a reorganization after reorganization. Currently, it is at its fourth major overhaul in just over six months. The company has thrown money on the problem, offering massive remuneration plans to the biggest names in the field while Meta tries to catch up with Openai and Anthropic, as well as more established players like Google. Zuckerberg has apparently been blinded by his VR glasses while he was all in the metavese to see the AI ​​revolution coming, but all his efforts to compensate for the lost time seem simply to put the business further behind the eight balls.

The situation would not have been improved by the presence of Alexandr Wang, the former CEO of the AI ​​scale, which was absorbed by the role of the Meta AI chief officer when Zuck paid $ 15 billion to the scale to get their hands on their talent and their infrastructure. Wang, however, has apparently been up to his name and is a real cock, colliding with Zuck and rubbing the employees in the wrong direction, according to FT.

The advantage of having the problem of infinite money, as Meta does, is that most problems can be solved by buying as many talents as possible and understanding the rest later. Unfortunately for Zuck, although he can afford any IA expert in the field, he can never buy a new personality.