Meta has so far been unsuccessful in an attempt to tempt the AI specialists at Thinking Machines Lab (TML), despite reportedly making offers of 200mto1bn over four years to more than a dozen TML employees.
Not a single person at TML, a 50-person startup valued at $12bn, has so far taken the offer, according to Wired.
Instead, they have turned down the offers in favour of the company’s “laudable mission”, as one TML employee told wired.
This comes after Meta failed to acquire AI charity OpenAI and poaching several of OpenAI’s top researchers.
The company has now set up Meta Superintelligence Labs to focus on AI, after founder Mark Zuckerberg sent out preprepared messages to potential recruits.
However, the fast-paced interviews have led to concerns over CEO Andrew “Boz” Bosworth’s lack of experience, with some candidates not keen to work for him.
