Overview

• Meta secured 24-year-old AI researcher Matt Deitke on a four-year, $250 million package after doubling an initial $125 million offer following a meeting with Mark Zuckerberg.
• Andrew Tulloch, co-founder of Thinking Machines Lab, reportedly turned down a disputed $1.5 billion deal to join Meta, which later called the figure “inaccurate and ridiculous.”
• Meta Superintelligence Labs, led by Alexandr Wang, has kicked off operations backed by a $72 billion 2025 capital-expenditure plan to build personal superintelligence on multi-gigawatt compute clusters.
• Elon Musk’s xAI says it is hiring former Meta engineers without matching the sky-high upfront compensation packages offered by Zuckerberg.
• Critics including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei argue these mega-deals create unfair pay disparities and risk pressuring profitability across the AI industry.