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Meta’s Superintelligence Lab Expands with Open-Source Pledge and $1B Recruit Offers

Apple’s AI team has lost four key researchers, prompting the exploration of external models for Siri after marginal pay increases failed to match Meta’s offers.

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Overview

  • Meta has extended compensation packages worth up to $1 billion to attract researchers to its Superintelligence Labs, though no staff from Thinking Machines Lab have accepted offers to date.
  • The company plans to open-source its advanced AI models to undercut competitors and broaden access to its technology.
  • Meta continues to build out infrastructure with multigigawatt superclusters and a $14.3 billion stake in Scale AI to support its superintelligence ambitions.
  • Apple’s foundation models team has seen four departures in one month, including its head and key multimodal researchers, despite marginal salary hikes.
  • Facing talent losses and computational limits from on-device processing, Apple is considering integrating third-party AI models from companies like OpenAI and Anthropic to power upcoming Siri and Apple Intelligence features.