Overview
- Meta grew its superintelligence unit to seven former OpenAI researchers by hiring Shengjia Zhao, Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi and Hongyu Ren.
- Meta invested $14 billion for a 49% stake in Scale AI and tapped its CEO, Alexandr Wang, to head the superintelligence lab.
- CTO Andrew Bosworth clarified that the reported $100 million compensation packages reflect multi-year equity grants rather than one-time signing bonuses.
- Lucas Beyer confirmed on X that he and his Zurich colleagues joined Meta without receiving a $100 million bonus and described the figure as fake news.
- Meta continues to court additional AI talent, including direct outreach to OpenAI cofounders Ilya Sutskever and John Schulman.