Overview

• Reuters reports that Meta will split Superintelligence Labs into a TBD Lab, a products team, an infrastructure group and the Fundamental AI Research lab in its fourth AI restructuring this year.
• Business Insider accounts say Meta offered former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati a reported $1 billion package, which she turned down, before making $200 million to $500 million offers to her startup colleagues.
• Current and former Meta AI staff describe a morale crisis as internal teams feel sidelined by high-value external hires and publicized mega-offers.
• Mark Zuckerberg defends the compensation strategy as a minor share of Meta’s more than $10 billion annual AGI investment and insists a compact elite team is key to breakthroughs.
• Rival AI firms have launched pay-review and retention measures in response to Meta’s aggressive talent poaching, intensifying the industry-wide competition.