🚫 Meta fails to poach OpenAI staff

Wednesday’s AI Report

• 1. 🚫 Meta fails to poach OpenAI staff
• 2. 👶 Use the AI browser for kids with AngelQ
• 3. 🌍 How this coffee shop saved time with AI
• 4. 🔒 Protect your online info with Incogni
• 5. ⚙️ Trending AI tools
• 6. 🔥 Musk burns $1B p/m on AI
• 7. ⚠️ Amazon warns AI will take jobs
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Meta fails to poach OpenAI staff

🚨 Our Report

OpenAI’s CEO, Sam Altman, has confirmed that Meta has been (unsuccessfully) trying to poach his top talent—including lead researchers Noam Brown and ex-Google, Koray Kavukcuoglu—by offering them $100M bonuses and compensation packages, exceeding that amount.

🔓 Key Points

Meta CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, has been trying to hire top-tier AI researchers from competing labs in a bid to build a superintelligence team, which will be led by ex-Scale AI CEO, Alexandr Wang.
Altman confirmed that although Zuckerberg had been making “giant offers” to a lot of people on his team, he was “really happy” that none of his “best people” had “decided to take him up on that.”
He thinks his staff believe that OpenAI will reach AGI before Meta, as Meta is too busy prioritising high bonuses and compensation packages over AGI developments, creating a lack of innovation and a poor culture.

🔐 Relevance

Increasing demand for top AI talent has driven up compensation packages, but top AI labs are managing to lock in their top-tier employees: Anthropic has an 80% 2-year staff retention rate, Google has a 78% 2-year staff retention rate, and OpenAI has a 67% one, whereas Meta, which spends $2M p/y on AI talent, is “still losing them to OpenAI and Anthropic.”

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Elon Musk’s AI start-up, xAI, is reportedly burning through $1B p/m—mainly on AI infrastructure—and will have spent around $13B by the end of this year, while making just $500M in revenue.
To help with his spiraling costs, Musk is close to finalizing a further $4.3B equity funding round—after he already landed $6B in December—and will attempt to raise a further $6.4B to cover 2026.
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Amazon CEO, Andy Jassy, has told Amazon workers that, as they continue to deploy AI agents, corporate jobs are likely to be reduced over the next few years, and urged staff to "be curious about AI."
In a "prediction memo” he sent to employees, he said that AI will bring efficiency gains, so Amazon will likely “need fewer people” doing their current jobs, and “more people doing other types of jobs."
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