- Mark Zuckerberg is doing everything he can to hire AI talent for Meta.
- According to The Information, he used personal emails to lure AI researchers at Google's DeepMind.
- According to the report, Mehta offers jobs to candidates without conducting interviews.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is stepping up efforts to attract and hire AI talent.
Meta chief is recruiting AI researchers from Google's DeepMind in a privately written email, The Information reported on Monday, citing two people who saw the message.
One anonymous person told The Information that Zuckerberg had written a letter about how important AI was to Meta and wanted him to join Meta and work together.
And it's not just email. According to The Information, Meta has been offering jobs to candidates without conducting any interviews. According to the Information, the company has also relaxed its policy of not giving higher salaries to staff who have competing job offers.
Meta's aggressive recruiting efforts appear to be part of Zuckerberg's concerted strategy to turn the company into a dominant player in the AI space.
In January, Zuckerberg told The Verge that Meta would have more than 340,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs by the end of 2024.
The chips, which companies use to train and deploy AI models, have become a popular item among tech companies.
“We've built the ability to do this at a larger scale than any other individual company, and a lot of people may not realize that,” Zuckerberg told The Verge.
Meta has sought to differentiate itself from rivals such as OpenAI. The company has promoted his open source approach to AI development. In July, Meta released Llama 2, his mostly open source AI model.
“In terms of investment priorities, AI will be the number one investment area in 2024, both engineering and computing resources,” Zuckerberg told investors on an earnings call last year.
Representatives for Meta did not immediately respond to Business Insider's request for comment outside of normal business hours.
