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Everyone Mark Zuckerberg has hired so far for Meta's 'superintelligence' team
- JLvL 1y ago• Trapit Bansal: pioneered RL on chain of thought and co-creator of o-series models at OpenAl. • Shuchao Bi: co-creator of GPT-4o voice mode and o4-mini. Previously led multimodal post-training at OpenAl. • Huiwen Chang: co-creator of GPT-4o's image generation, and previously invented MaskIT and Muse text-to-image architectures at Google Research. • Ji Lin: helped build o3/o4-mini, GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.5, 4o-imagegen, and Operator reasoning stack. • Joel Pobar: inference at Anthropic. Previously at Meta for 11 years on HHVM, Hack, Flow, Redex, performance tooling, and machine learning. • Jack Rae: pre-training tech lead for Gemini and reasoning for Gemini 2.5. Led Gopher and Chinchilla early LLM efforts at DeepMind. • Hongyu Ren: co-creator of GPT-4o, 4o-mini, o1-mini, o3-mini, o3 and o4-mini. Previously leading a group for post-training at OpenAl. • Johan Schalkwyk: former Google Fellow, early contributor to Sesame, and technical lead for Maya. • Pei Sun: post-training, coding, and reasoning for Gemini at Google Deepmind. Previously created the last two generations of Waymo's perception models. • Jiahui Yu: co-creator of o3, o4-mini, GPT-4.1 and GPT-4o. Previously led the perception team at OpenAl, and co-led multimodal at Gemini. • Shengjia Zhao: co-creator of ChatGPT, GPT-4, all mini models, 4.1 and o3. Previously led synthetic data at OpenAl.
- heyheyhey 1y agoAnybody have an idea of how much these people are making?
- mslansn 1y agoMinimum wage in California is $16.50 per hour, so they are making that at least.
- sandspar 1y agoAltman said on a recent podcast that Zuckerberg is poaching OpenAI researchers, giving offers of up to $100,000,000 (one hundred million).
- trainerxr50 1y agoMany worrisome aspects with this in terms of smelling like a super bubble. Even being bullish on LLMs, it is not obvious this is the right paradigm even for AGI let alone something beyond AGI. Seems like it could be 10 years from now "Remember during the peak of the bubble when Zuckerberg was paying researchers 100 million dollars to try to make a super humanoid robot out of just a mouth?"
- paxys 1y agoAlso Alexandr Wang, Nat Friedman.
- darkwizard42 1y agoThis list is specifically about the poaching from OpenAI / DM I believe
- weird_trousers 1y agoSo much wasted money it makes me sick… There are so much money needed to solve another problems, especially for health. I don’t blame the new comers, but Zuckerberg.
- dekhn 1y agozuck funds health research (a lot, and very ML focused) already
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- linotype 1y agoBetter on ML than the next VR vaporware.
- twoodfin 1y agoThis stuff is ridiculously important for healthcare: It’s a demographic fact that both the US and the world at large are simply not training enough doctors and nurses to provide today’s standard of care at current staffing levels as the population ages. We need massive productivity boosts in medicine just as fast as we can get them.
- hn_throwaway_99 1y agoI sincerely doubt this understaffing of medical professionals is a technology problem, and I believe it much more likely to be an economic structural problem. And overall, I think that powerful generative AI will make these economic structural problems much worse.
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- dang 1y ago[stub for offtopicness] Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44432526 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44432526
- goatlover 1y agoWill the Superintelligence finally make the Metaverse profitable and popular?
- jxjnskkzxxhx 1y agoIs mark Zuckerberg systematically behind the curve on every hype?
- pyman 1y agoHe's just trying to figure out how to monetise your WhatsApp messages
- 4ndrewl 1y agoIn the "metaverse"
- JumpCrisscross 1y ago> Is mark Zuckerberg systematically behind the curve on every hype? Trend following with chutzpah, particulalry through acquisitions, has been a winning strategy for Zuckerberg and his shareholders.
- bamboozled 1y agoThis in includes fashion and hairstyles it seems...
- pyman 1y agoMark Zuckerberg hiring top AI researchers worries me more than Iran hiring nuclear scientists.
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- dang 1y agoCome on everybody, please don't post shallow dismissals. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. That includes personal attacks, regardless of who it's about. When a comment has a high bile/information ratio, it's off topic here. You may not owe $CelebrityBillionaire better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.
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- HardCodedBias 1y agoI'm couldn't be more disgusted by sama@'s response to Zuck's strategy: 23:05 the strategy of a ton of upfront guaranteed comp and that being the reason you tell someone to join like 23:10 really the degree to which they're focusing on that and not the work and not the mission Um I don't think that's 23:17 going to set up a great culture Uh and you know I hope that we can be the best 23:24 place in the world to do this kind of research Uh I think we built a really special culture for it and I think that 23:30 we're set up such that if we succeed at that and a lot of people on our research team believe we will or we're have a 23:36 good chance at it then everybody will do great financially and it's I think it's incentive aligned with like mission 23:42 first and then economic awards and everything else flowing from that So I think that's good There's many things I respect about Meta as a company Um but I Un hun. Sam Altman's critique of Meta's recruitment strategy is a textbook example of startup rhetoric. By framing high, guaranteed compensation as a cultural failing that detracts from the "mission," he attempts to moralize a clear economic disadvantage. This is the core of the startup playbook: persuade employees to forsake their financial best interests in favor of high-risk, high-reward "adventures." There's nothing inherently wrong with that pitch, but the subsequent sanctimony is galling. When talented individuals make a rational choice for their own benefit, Altman's insinuation that they aren't the "people that mattered" is both revealing and repulsive. He's not angry about a breach of principle; he's angry that Zuckerberg is outbidding him. Sources
- abc_lisper 1y agoWell said. Though 20 year old me would have judged you on this comment for being "greedy" ;) Such is the cycle of life - you think you are beyond earthly affairs only to discover earthly affairs matter until you are above the earth