Why Meta Is Offering $100 Million for AI Geniuses

为什么Meta愿意出资1亿美元招募AI天才

The Journal.

2025-07-04

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In the battle for AI supremacy, Meta’s models have lagged. Now CEO Mark Zuckerberg is racing to hire new AI talent to close the gap with rivals. He’s dangling huge pay packages to lure experts away from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic. WSJ’s Meghan Bobrowsky explains how Meta’s AI efforts fell short, and who will be joining the company’s new “Superintelligence Labs” to turn things around. Annie Minoff hosts. Further Listening: -The Battle Within Meta Over Chatbot Safety  -Why the New Pope Is Taking on AI  Sign up for WSJ’s free What’s News newsletter.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  • Hundreds of top AI researchers recently found themselves in an unusual position.

  • They were getting personalized messages from one of the tech industry's most famous people,

  • Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

  • His pitch?

  • Come to Meta.

  • He's sort of become Meta's recruiter-in-chief.

  • That's our colleague Megan Bobrowski.

  • She covers the tech industry.

  • In some cases,

  • people didn't even believe it was actually Mark Zuckerberg because why would you, right?

  • I mean, can you imagine the CEO of this company reaching out to you?

  • You know,

  • one instance where a researcher didn't respond for several days

  • because they thought it was a hoax.

  • I mean, fair.

  • Yeah, right?

  • Zuckerberg is on a mission to win over AI's brightest minds to supercharge Meta's AI efforts.

  • Do we know what's in the message?

  • Is it just like, hey, I'm Mark Zuckerberg.

  • Can we get coffee?