Overview

• Meta has offered over $200 million in total compensation to recruit Ruoming Pang, a former Apple AI executive, to its newly formed Superintelligence Labs.
• The division, led by Mark Zuckerberg with Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross as co-heads and Alexandr Wang as chief AI officer, promises unlimited GPU access and infrastructure.
• OpenAI has boosted its team by hiring four senior engineers for its Stargate scaling project, including talent from Tesla and xAI.
• Google DeepMind, Microsoft and Amazon Web Services have unveiled multi-million dollar packages and faster equity vesting to retain and attract AI researchers.
• Industry analysts warn that the escalating salaries risk inflating costs unsustainably and deepen the gap between well-funded corporate labs and academic research groups.