Meta’s leader is looking for talent in the field of artificial intelligence.
Mark Zuckerberg writes personal emails to AI specialists at Google DeepMind to lure them to Meta, writes The Information, citing two people who reviewed the messages.
One of the interlocutors said that Zuckerberg wrote to the researchers that artificial intelligence is very important for Meta and expressed hope that they would join the company. Additionally, some candidates were offered jobs without interviews.
Aggressive recruitment efforts appear to be part of a coordinated strategy aimed at making Meta a dominant player in AI. In January, Zuckerberg said the company plans to have more than 340,000 Nvidia H100 graphics processors by the end of 2024 (according to Raymond James analysts, Nvidia sells H100 chips for between $25,000 and $30,000, and on eBay they can cost over $40,000 — if Meta paid the minimum, it would spend about $9 billion on this).
Meta also seeks to distinguish itself from competitors like OpenAI with its open-source approach — in July, the company released a public version of its large language model Llama 2.
“In terms of investment priorities, artificial intelligence will be our largest area of investment in 2024 for both engineering and computational resources,” Zuckerberg told investors during a earnings call last year.