Meta began to take radical steps to become more ambitious in the field of artificial intelligence. The company presented high -consistency proposals from competitors such as OpenAI and Google Deepmind to include high -level researchers. These offers include salary and signature bonuses exceeding $ 100 million. However, it turned out that these remarkable initiatives were not effective.
OpenAI CEO, Sam Altman, participated in his brother Jack Altman’s Podcast broadcast and made remarkable statements on this issue. According to Altman, Meta offered extraordinary high wage packages to OpenAI employees. However, the most talented team members rejected these offers. This showed once again that it was not easy to attract talented people with money.
Why didn’t the OpenAI employees face the proposal presented by Meta?
Altman, Meta’s focus on high salaries, argued that employees are insufficient to attract. According to him, OpenAI’s long -term goals, that is, the desire to reach AGI, is more convincing and motivating for employees. In this context, it is seen that companies that offer a visionary target instead of high salary constitute a more sustainable team structure. Although Meta’s financial means are quite wide, it is understood that this approach is not enough for talented researchers.
According to Altman’s statements, Meta tried to transfer Noam Brown, one of the leading researchers of OpenAI. Similarly, Koray Kavukcuoğlu, one of the important names of Google Deepmind, entered the radar of Meta. However, both initiatives failed. In addition to all these, meta managed to add some names to the staff, but could not create the targeted AS squad.
Altman thinks that OpenAI’s open to innovation and creative culture plays a major role in these preferences. According to him, employees prefer to work not only by salary, but for a purpose they believe. Although Meta’s salary is attractive, OpenAI’s vision is more impressive. This stands out as an element that strengthens the loyalty of the company.
On the other hand, it is stated that Meta has not yet created the expected effect on artificial intelligence projects. Although Altman acknowledges that Meta has made serious efforts in the field of AI, he says that these efforts have not gained enough results so far. Altman, “Meta is successful in many areas, but it is difficult to say the same thing about innovation,” he puts the boundaries of Meta in this field. These comments contain serious criticism of Meta’s innovation capacity.
During Podcast, Altman also expressed their thinking about social media platforms working with artificial intelligence. He stated that they pondered on a system that offers content according to user preferences instead of traditional algorithms. Such an approach can offer a different experience from existing social media applications. It seems likely that this idea will give birth to a new competition between Meta and Openai in the future.
Allegedly, the OpenAI began to develop a social media application with artificial intelligence within the company. This application will create special flows for users’ interests. Meta aims to offer a similar experience through the Meta AI application. However, it is also seen that this application is complex and from time to time by users.