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Meta Secures AI Prodigy With $250 Million Offer as $1.5 Billion Poaching Falls Short

Record compensation paired with a $72 billion infrastructure investment underlines Meta’s aggressive superintelligence push

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is seen here. Meta is committed to spending $72 billion on capital expenditures in 2025.
Anthropic’s billionaire boss Dario Amodei is refusing to match sky-high salaries to keep his staff—yet retention is higher there than at Meta, OpenAI, or Google DeepMind.

Overview

  • Meta doubled its original $125 million bid to $250 million after 24-year-old researcher Matt Deitke initially declined to join its Superintelligence Labs.
  • Australian AI expert Andrew Tulloch rejected a reported $1.5 billion package, choosing to remain at his startup, Thinking Machines Lab.
  • Meta’s planned $72 billion in capital expenditures for 2025 will fund expanded compute capacity and specialized AI training facilities.
  • Mark Zuckerberg has publicly stated that Meta’s AI systems are beginning to improve themselves, marking a claimed step toward superintelligence.
  • Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei criticized the lavish recruitment campaign as inequitable for existing staff and ineffective at luring his company’s talent.