Overview

• Meta doubled an initial $125 million offer to AI researcher Matt Deitke after CEO Mark Zuckerberg personally intervened, securing a four-year, $250 million package.
• A reported $1.5 billion proposal to AI expert Andrew Tulloch was declined and publicly dismissed by Meta spokesman Andy Stone as “inaccurate and ridiculous.”
• The company plans $72 billion in capital expenditures for 2025 and has already spent over $1 billion assembling talent, including former Apple AI lead Ruoming Pang.
• Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei argued that soaring compensation alone cannot guarantee commitment or fairness within AI organizations.
• OpenAI and Anthropic have launched retention and pay-review initiatives in reaction to Meta’s aggressive talent-acquisition tactics.