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Sam Altman likens Meta’s poaching spree to mercenaries, warns of cultural risks in leaked memo

Sam Altman likens Meta’s poaching spree to mercenaries, warns of cultural risks in leaked memo

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The rift between Meta and OpenAI seems to be far from over. Meta recently released its list of AI researchers that were poached from OpenAI and Google’s DeepMind. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who had earlier expressed his displeasure with Meta’s transgressions, seems to have been hitting back. According to a report in Wired, Altman, in […]

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Who is part of Meta’s AI ‘dream team’? Full list of researchers poached from OpenAI, Google DeepMind

Who is part of Meta’s AI ‘dream team’? Full list of researchers poached from OpenAI, Google DeepMind

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Days after OpenAI’s chief researcher likened Meta’s aggressive poaching to a home burglary, the social media giant has released a list of names and bios of recently hired employees who previously held roles at OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind. The poached AI researchers will be part of Meta’s newly formed artificial superintelligence lab that will […]

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OpenAI hires team behind startup Crossing Minds as AI talent war heats up

OpenAI hires team behind startup Crossing Minds as AI talent war heats up

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OpenAI has recruited several employees from Crossing Minds, the startup that develops AI recommendation systems, said in an announcement on Thursday, June 30.  “Joining OpenAI allows us to bring our work — and our values — into a mission we deeply respect: to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. We’re thrilled to bring […]

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In pursuit of godlike technology, Mark Zuckerberg amps up the AI race

In pursuit of godlike technology, Mark Zuckerberg amps up the AI race

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In April, Mark Zuckerberg’s lofty plans for the future of artificial intelligence crashed into reality. Weeks earlier, the 41-year-old CEO of Meta had publicly boasted that his company’s new AI model, which would power the latest chatbots and other cutting-edge experiments, would be a “beast.” Internally, Zuckerberg told employees that he wanted it to rival […]

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Why both Apple and Meta are interested in buying Perplexity AI

Why both Apple and Meta are interested in buying Perplexity AI

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In Silicon Valley, what matters most is staying ahead of the competition. If you are Apple or Meta and find yourself short on talent or unable to build the technology in-house, the typical approach is to spend big. That usually means acquiring a successful company, bringing in the team behind the product, and either integrating […]

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Sam Altman likens Meta’s poaching spree to mercenaries, warns of cultural risks in leaked memo

Sam Altman says Meta offered $100 million bonuses to OpenAI employees

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that Meta has offered his employees bonuses of $100 million to recruit them, as the tech giant seeks to ramp up its artificial intelligence strategy. The alleged attempts by Meta to hire OpenAI staffers are the latest signs of a frenzy to hire top engineers to develop AI models, and […]

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