Meta undoubtedly offers high multi-million dollar payment packages to AI researchers when you wake them up to their new superintelligent lab. But no one really gets a $ 100 million “signature bonus”, according to a post -researcher and comments from a filtered internal meeting.
During a corporate all-hand meeting on Thursday leaked to the shoreSome of Meta’s best executives were asked about the bonuses that the Openai Director General said Sam Altman Meta offered top researchers.
Andrew Bosworth of Meta implied that only a few people for very senior leadership roles may have been offered such money, but explained “the actual terms of the offer” were not “a signature bonzo. It’s all these various things.” In other words, not immediate money. Technical companies typically offer the largest pieces of their salary to senior leaders in restrictive stock units (RSUs), depending on either holding or activity.
A four -year total salary package with about $ 100 million for a very senior boss is not inconceivable for Meta. Most by the so -called Meta OfficersEven Boswell himself has earned total compensation between $ 20 million and nearly $ 24 million for years.
Altman “suggested that we do this for every human being,” said Bosworth said at the meeting. “Look, you kids, the market is hot. It’s not that hot.” (Meta did not immediately respond to our request for comment.)
Thursdayaud, researcher Lucas Beyer confirmed that he is leaving Openai to join Meta along with the other two who led the Zurich office of Openai. He tweeted: “1) Yes, we will join Meta. 2) No, we didn’t get a 100m signature, that’s fake news.” (Beyer politely refused to comment further on his new role to Techcrunch.)
Beyer’s expertise is in computer vision AI. This is in keeping with what Meta is pursuing: Entertainment ai, instead of productivity AI, reportedly Bosworth said at that meeting. Meta already has participation in the land in this area with its Quest VR headphones and its Ray-Ban and Oakley Ai eyeglasses.
However, some of the people that Meta are trying to nabi are worthy of large payment packages in this tight AI talented market. As Techcrunch first reported, Meta hired Openai’s Trapitan BansalKnown for his innovative work on AI -resonance models. He has worked at Openai since 2022.
Certainly, a scale co -founder and general manager Alexandr Wang raise money from money, probably over $ 100 million, as part of the Meta Agreement to buy 49% possession of his company. As we previously reported, the $ 14 billion of meta payments are distributed to shareholders as a cash dividend. Wang is almost certainly a major shareholder in a scale entitled to those dividends.
However, while Meta does not deliver $ 100 million, it still spends big to hire in AI.
Once an investor told Techcrunch that he saw AI – a explorer get – and suspend – a job offer of $ 18 million from Meta. That person took a smaller, but still healthy offer, from older AI -startup: Working from Mira Murati’s thought machines.
