The Financial Times reports on the front page that employee departures are shaking Zuckerberg's artificial intelligence plans.
Senior new employees resign, and Meta bonuses failed to prevent staff from leaving, which has hindered efforts to create "superintelligence."
Zuckerberg's effort to lead artificial intelligence with billions of dollars is being undermined by the rapid departure of AI employees hired with high salaries and threats of resignation. According to sources, including machine learning experts and research scientists, new employees have decided to leave after a short tenure, and some senior employees have also left.
In one case, Shenglia Zhao, co-founder of ChatGPT, threatened to resign and signed documents to return to his former employer just days after joining OpenAl. Soon after, according to four sources, he was granted the new title of "Chief Artificial Intelligence Scientist" at Meta.
This turmoil occurs as Zuckerberg tries to carry out the most significant top-level leadership restructuring in the group's 20-year history, part of his effort to build "personal superintelligence."
As one of the last few founders and CEOs of major tech companies, Zuckerberg has relied on long-time followers such as Chief Product Officer Chris Cox to lead his favored departments. However, in the competition for dominance in artificial intelligence, he is turning to a new generation of executives he recently hired, including Zhao, Alexander Wang, former Scale AI head, and Nate Friedman, former GitHub head.
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, accused Meta of trying to lure his developers with a $100 million signing bonus and higher pay.
Some new employees now try to exert their influence while adapting to the characteristics of working within this massive company, which has a $1.95 trillion valuation and a hands-on CEO. An investor close to some of Meta's AI leaders said, "There are many big names in the company." Some of the people who left include Ethan Knight, a machine learning scientist who joined Meta a few weeks ago. According to one source, another person was Avi Verma, a former OpenAI researcher, who did not even show up on his first day of work.
Additionally, Rishab Agarwal, a research scientist who joined in April, also announced his resignation. According to another source, Wang and Zuckerberg have had difficulty reaching an agreement on the timeline for achieving the CEO's goal of superintelligence (artificial intelligence that surpasses human capabilities). Meta called this accusation "fabricated tension without factual basis." It also added that Zhao has been the scientific leader of Meta's superintelligence project from the beginning, and the company waited until the team was properly assembled before officially confirming his position.
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