Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s AI hiring spree
Artificial intelligence researchers recently posed a copy of the question, “Is this really Zuke?“
As I mentioned for the first time before BloombergMeta CEO was personally requested Top Ai Talent to join the new “AI LAB” and RESBOOT LLAMA. Its recruitment process usually runs like this: Cold communication via email or WhatsApp cates the recruitment record and requests a 15 -minute chat. Dozens of researchers got these types of messages in Google alone.
For those who agree to hear his stadium (surprisingly, not all), Zuckerberg highlights the latitude that will have to make his risky beta, the size of Meta products, and the money that is preparing to invest in infrastructure to support them. He made it clear that this new team will be enabled and sit with it at the Meta headquarters, where it was told that the offices have already been rearranged for the next team.
Most of the main headlines have focused so far on the eye compensation packages provided by Zuckerberg, some of which are in the eight numbers group. As I previously covered it, hiring the best artificial intelligence researcher is similar to the appointment of a stars basketball player: there are very few of them, and you have to pay. An example of this: Zuckerberg has just paid 14 Instagrams to employ AI Scale CEO Alexander Wang.
It is easy to be the most expensive rental in all ages, as the billions that have spent Google are stunt for rehabilitation Sleep Shazir And his primary team from the character. “The chances of this size often come at a cost,” Wang wrote in his observation of employees this week. “In this case, this cost is my departure.”
He has already begun to recruit Zuckerberg to get rid of his competitors. On the day before the date of its presentation to some of the old Openai’s employees, Sam Taman I dropped an article announcing that “before anything else, we are a private research company.” After Zuckerberg tried to rent Deepmine CTO Koray KavukcuogluHe won the title of SVP is larger and now it is submitted directly to the CEO of Google Sondar Pachay.
I expect Wang to receive the title “Senior AI Officer” in Meta when the new laboratory is announced. Jack RayDEPMIND head, he will lead pre -training. Meta definitely needs to be reset. According to my sources, Llama has left it out of the fact that the Meta products teams have recently discussed the use of artificial intelligence models from other companies (although this is unlikely to happen). Meta’s interior coding tool, is already used as Claud.
While Meta’s current researchers in Meta have a good reason to consider their shoulders, Zuckerberg’s investment of $ 14.3 billion in size has made many employees long, or Scaliens, is very rich. They were showing champagne in the office this morning.
Then, Wang held his last meeting in all hand to say goodbye and cry. He did not mention what he would do in Meta. I expect his new team to be revealed in the next few weeks after Zuckerberg will get a decisive number of members for official signing.
Apple used to be at the head of the technology industry, and for a good reason: the company has almost unparalleled domination.
After spending time in Apple HQ this week for WWDC, you are not sure that its leaders appreciate the meteorite heading to their way. The arrogance they offer indicates that they do not understand how artificial intelligence mainly changes how people use and create programs.
With the keyword on Monday, everyone knew that they would not expect Siri the renewed that he promised in the previous year. Apple admitted, according to her discretion, that it had dropped the ball there, and it appears that a large linguistic model for rebuilding Siri is being implemented and comes in 2026.
The artificial intelligence industry moves much faster than the Apple launch schedule. By the time when Siri may be well enough to keep up with it, he will have to face the Openai lock and others through their memory features. Apple and Openai are currently partners, but the two companies want to control the interface in the end to interact with artificial intelligence, putting them in a collision cycle.
Apple’s decision to allow developers seems to use their foundational models on the device for free in their strategic smart applications, but unfortunately, models look out of driving. Apple has operated its own standards, which are not impressive, and confirmed a familiar context window of 4,096 symbols. She also says that models will be updated alongside their operating systems – the snail pace compared to the speed that artificial intelligence companies move.
I will be amazed if any serious developers use these Apple models, although I can see them useful for independent world who have just started and do not want to spend on the leading cloud models. I don’t think most people are interested in the privacy angle claimed by Apple as a discrimination; They are already sharing their darkest secrets with ChatGPT and other assistants.
Some of the new Apple Intelligence features that you tried this week were impressive, such as translating the living language. Mostly, it came out of the impression that the company is strongly inclined to its partnership in ChatGPT as a party that stops so that both Apple Intelligence and Siri are where they should be.
Artificial intelligence is likely not to be risk in the near -term Apple business. No one has charged anything close to the Siri context that was tried at WWDC last year. People will continue to purchase Apple devices for a long time, even then Sam Taman and Johnny IVE He announced the first artificial intelligence device for ChatGPT next year. The AR cups are not going anytime as well, although we can expect to see more glasses from Meta, Google and Snap over the next year.
At a total, these artificial intelligence devices can start to stay away from the iPhone, but I do not see people replacing their full smartphones for a long time. The biggest question after this week is whether Apple has what is necessary to upgrade this occasion and reinstall itself culturally to the era of artificial intelligence.
I loved to hear Tim Cook Treating this issue directly, but the only interview he had for WWDC was a cover story in diverse About the new company F1 film.
- Artificial intelligence agents are coming. I recently signed with the CEO of Databrics Ali Godsi Before the annual developer conference of his company this week in San Francisco. Looking at the databricks position, it has a unique view of the birds of the place where things are tending to artificial intelligence. He does not imagine in the short term as artificial intelligence agents completely automate tasks in the real world, but he predicts a wave of startups during the next year that will be limited to completing procedures in areas such as travel reservation. He believes that humans will need (and want to agree to what the agent does before he explodes and completes a mission. “We have most of the aircraft that fly the mechanism, and we still want the pilots there.”
- The acquisitions are the new regular in Google. This is evident after the start of this week of the “volunteer exit program” in basic engineering, the research institution, and some other departments. In his internal notes, search at SVP Nick Fox It was clear that the administration believed that the acquisitions had succeeded in other parts of the company that I tried. In a separate note I saw, engineering Exec Jin Fitzbathrick It is called the acquisitions “an opportunity to create internal movement and fresh growth opportunities.” Google seems to be trying to reset a cultural, which will be a difficult task for a company of its size. We’ll see if it can be pulled.
- Ivan Spiegel wants to help with AR glasses. I doubt that announcing that consumer glasses will come next year only for AR developers. The plan sends and announces that Snap has spent $ 3 billion on devices so far, it aims at more potential partners who want to run larger glasses, such as Google. Strategic investment can help isolate the surprise of the stock market pain. The full acquisition of the table may not be either. When asked recently if he would be open to a sale, Spiegel did not always closed as it was, but he said instead that he was “thinking about anything” that helps the company to “create the next computing platform”.
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2025-06-14 00:16:00
