Artificial intelligence researchers are increasingly being treated like high-profile CEOs, receiving substantial compensation and media attention. The competition for AI talent has intensified, especially after Mark Zuckerberg's recruiting push, motivated by advice from OpenAI's Mark Chen. Zuckerberg aims to form a small, highly skilled team at Meta, focusing on quality over quantity. He believes having the most talented individuals is crucial for effective AI development, reflecting a broader trend in the tech industry where top researchers hold significant value in driving innovation.
AI's top researchers, who number somewhere in the dozens to the hundreds, are parlaying big companies' hunger for talent into pay packages typically reserved for flashy founders and tested CEOs.
Zuckerberg launched an intense recruiting push, reportedly meeting with many of the field's top researchers and attempting to lure some to Meta, where he's building massive data centers to run their experiments.
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