More than a dozen people at the startup of 50 people in Mirati, Thinking Machines Lab, have been approached or have received offers from the technology giant. (Murati, for those who do not remember, was previously the Chief Technology Officer of Openi.) One of those offers was over $ 1 billion in an arc of multi -year, a source with knowledge of the negotiations says to Wired. The rest was between $ 200 million and $ 500 million in a span of four years, they confirm multiple sources. In the first year alone, some staff members were guaranteed to earn between $ 50 and $ 100 million, say the sources (a laboratory spokesman refused to comment).
So far in Thinking Machines Lab, not one person has taken the offer.
The Director of Meta Communications Andy Stone contested this report in a statement to Wired. “We only made offers to a handful of people at the TML and while there was a considerable offer, the details are off,” he said. “In the end, all this asks the question that this narrative is turning and why.”
Zuckerberg’s initial awareness is to Chiara Key, according to the messages seen by Wired. In some cases, he sent recruit a direct message on WhatsApp asking to speak. From there, the interviews move quickly: a long call with the CEO itself, followed by conversations with the head of the Andrew “Boz” Bosworth and other leaders manager.
Here is a Pre -Meta Superintelligence Labs Zuckerberg recruitment message sent to a potential recruit (the tone has not changed much today):
“We’ve Been Following Your Work on Advancing Technology and The Benefits of Ai For Everyone Over the Years. We’re Making Some Important Investments Across Research, Products and Our Infrastructure in Order to Build the Most Valuable Ai Products and Services for People. We’re Optimistic That EVEYONE WHO USES OUR SERVICES WILL HAVE A World-Class Ai Assistant to Help Get Things Done, Every Creator Will Have An Ai Their Community Can Engage With, Every Business Will Have An Ai Their Customers Can Interact With To Buy Things and Get Support, and Ever the Developer will have a model a model will have a model. cutting -edge open source to build with.
During these conversations, Boz was in advance of his vision of how he will challenge herself with Openi. While the technology giant has remained behind compared to its smaller competitor in the construction of cutting -edge models, it is willing to use its open source strategy to underestimate Openii, the sources say. The idea is that Meta can commodify technology by releasing open source models that compete directly with the catgpt maker.
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