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Meta Didn’t Win Top A.I. Talent With Cash Alone, Says MSL Chief Alexandr Wang

Meta’s A.I. chief pushes back on claims the company simply bought its way into the race.

Meta spared no expense in building up a new A.I. team last year, shelling out multimillion-dollar pay packages to poach researchers at the heart of its superintelligence strategy. But those who joined weren’t driven by money alone, according to Alexandr Wang, Meta’s A.I. chief who joined from his startup, Scale AI.

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“It’s an incorrect assumption to think that the researchers are just money-motivated,” said Wang during an episode of the Core Memory Podcast published yesterday (May 13). “For most of them, actually, the financial prospects of them staying wherever they were looked........

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