Overview

• Ruoming Pang, Apple’s former head of AI models, joined Meta’s Superintelligence Labs with a reported $200 million compensation package over several years.
• Meta has offered total compensation packages as high as $300 million over four years, with signing bonuses surpassing $100 million.
• Under chief AI officer Alexandr Wang, the division has recruited more than a dozen senior scientists from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind and Apple.
• Industry figures including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Dell Technologies CEO Michael Dell have cautioned that deep pay gaps could strain Meta’s corporate culture.
• Meta has backed its talent spree with a $14 billion investment in Scale AI to secure infrastructure for advanced generative AI research.