OpenAI hires Meta AI researcher Ruoming Pang, who joined Meta from Apple about seven months ago for a pay package reportedly worth $200M+ over several years
OpenAI has hired a high-profile AI researcher at Meta Platforms who had joined the company from Apple about seven months ago, a spokesperson from OpenAI confirmed.
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@amir
Amir Efrati
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👀OpenAI hired Meta's $200 million man. @theinformation @waynema @steph_palazzolo @theo_wayt [image]
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@theo_wayt
Theo Wayt
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Meta poached AI research superstar Ruoming Pang from Apple last summer with a pay package worth a reported $200 million-plus, part of a series of flashy and expensive hires by Mark Zuckerberg. Now, 7 months later, Pang has left for OpenAI. Scoop w/ @steph_palazzolo @waynema
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@parsley72
Tom Isaacson
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Pangs of regret. [embedded post]
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@marypcbuk
Mary Branscombe
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Meta literally can't pay people enough to stay? [embedded post]
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@symonebeez
Symoné B. Beez
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They are paying tech professionals $200M but you think $100K Salary is out of reach.
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@steph_palazzolo
Stephanie Palazzolo
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Ruoming Pang, who led AI infra at Meta and model development at Apple, has left Meta for OpenAI after just 7 months at the company. More here, w/ @theo_wayt @waynema: https://www.theinformation.com/ ...
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@basedjensen
@basedjensen
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What's MSL doing bros
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@scobleizer
Robert Scoble
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Dang. When someone getting paid that much chooses to go somewhere else they usually are trying to escape a toxic culture.
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@aakashgupta
Aakash Gupta
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This is the third time a $200M+ Meta AI hire has bounced in under a year. Avi Verma and Ethan Knight left Meta's Superintelligence Lab after less than a month to return to OpenAI. Rishabh Agarwal quit after five months. Shengjia Zhao threatened to leave and had to be given the