Sources: two AI researchers hired by Meta for its Superintelligence Labs returned to OpenAI after less than one-month stints; a third researcher also left Meta
CEO Mark Zuckerberg went on a recruiting blitz to lure top AI researchers to Meta. WIRED has confirmed that three recent hires have now resigned.
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@agarwl_
Rishabh Agarwal
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This is my last week at @AIatMeta. It was a tough decision not to continue with the new Superintelligence TBD lab, especially given the talent and compute density. But after 7.5 years across Google Brain, DeepMind, and Meta, I felt the pull to take on a different kind of risk.
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@khoomeik
Rohan Pandey
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“In a world that's changing so fast, the biggest risk you can take is not taking any risk”
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@mgsiegler
M.G. Siegler
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Well this seemingly squares that circle... https://spiral.spyglass.org/ ... [image]
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@haydenfield
Hayden Field
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“Two of the staffers have returned to OpenAI, where they both previously worked, after less than one-month stints at Meta.” This comes after two Anthropic employees left Anthropic for just 2 weeks for Anysphere (Cursor) then immediately returned. https://www.wired.com/...
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@shakeelhashim
Shakeel
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Oh, things are *bad* bad at Meta.
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@teamblind
Blind
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2 weeks at Anysphere, 1 month at Meta... those staff went for a coffee break
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@chatgpt21
Chris
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Many missed this gem in @agarwl_ 's announcement: his team used RL and synthetic data to push an 8B dense model close to DeepSeek-R1 on reasoning tasks. No public release yet fingers crossed for a paper or weights. Curious about his next “riskier” pursuits. Lastly I hope he's …
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@tenderizzation
@tenderizzation
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imagine being in a situationship with your employer
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@suchenzang
Susan Zhang
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> everyone else just planning a 2 week/3 month/6 month exit > going through the motions before retirement and so it begins (continues?)... 🍿
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@kelseytuoc
Kelsey Piper
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this is absolutely the most absurd hiring/talent market I've ever seen
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@devahaz
Deva Hazarika
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Restructuring seems off to a great start
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@_arohan_
Rohan Anil
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So 1 month means, 1/12 of 100M, so thats roughly 8M before taxes?
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@egrefen
Edward Grefenstette
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Significant loss for @metaai. If they lose @j_foerst or @MinqiJiang, then ngmi I'm afraid.
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@brycent_
@brycent_
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Sheesh Meta AI engineer just basically said Meta is far behind in the AI race.
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@_arohan_
Rohan Anil
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Rishabh is an amazing researcher. His algorithms underpin post training at Gemini. I got to work together at meta for a short while and was truly impressed. Whichever group got Rishabh is so lucky to have him!
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@tbpn
@tbpn
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BREAKING: After stints at Google Brain, DeepMind, and most recently Meta AI, @agarwl_ is leaving the company rather than joining the new Superintelligence lab. He's headed to take on “a different kind of risk.” [image]
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@zoeschiffer
Zoë Schiffer
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Mark Zuckerberg went on a hiring spree to lure top AI research talent to Meta. At least three recent hires have resigned: www.wired.com/story/resear...
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@timmarchman
Tim Marchman
on bluesky
Things seem to be going well at Meta, per @zoeschiffer.bsky.social and @willknight.bsky.social!
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@laurengoode
Lauren Goode
on bluesky
New from @zoeschiffer.bsky.social @willknight.bsky.social: At least three AI researchers have resigned from Meta's new superintelligence lab. Two of the staffers have returned to OpenAI, where they both previously worked, after less than one-month stints at Meta www.wired.com/st…
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