Meta, the American tech giant behind Facebook and Instagram, has hired two former Apple AI specialists, Mark Lee and Tom Gunter, shortly after recruiting their former supervisors. According to sources familiar with the matter,

"Here, people say, 'I want the fewest number of people reporting to me and the most GPUs,'" Mark Zuckerberg said about the AI talent war.

Ellison also amended his Giving Pledge to focus resources on his Oxford-based institute tackling healthcare, hunger, and climate change.

Mark Zuckerberg dismissed reports of Meta's $100-200 million pay packages for AI talent as inaccurate, but emphasised the market for talent is competitive, adding that it is important to recruit top researchers.

During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) claimed the Meta CEO approved using stolen material to train AI models.

Meta is constructing AI data centers inside tents to rapidly expand capacity, mirroring Tesla's 2018 strategy. This prioritizes speed over traditional construction, inspired by xAI's time-to-market. While challenging due to heat,

Zuckerberg reportedly maintains a “ literal list ” of AI all-stars he is targeting for Meta’s new Superintelligence Labs, which is tasked with consolidating Meta’s foundational AI research and product development.

(Reuters) -Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has pledged hundreds of billions of dollars towards building massive data centers, days after ratcheting up the AI race with the launch of a division made up of engineers poached from rivals he hopes to challenge.