Meta itself has lost a lot of its top AI talent over the years, who’ve either left to start their own companies or to join rivals like OpenAI, the former Meta AI employee told Forbes. “A lot of people left to go to OpenAI…. This is Mark trying to undo the loss of talent,” they said.

The poaching of AI researchers from the likes of OpenAI — with salaries in the tens of millions of dollars — and the debut of Meta’s new Superintelligence group comes after the Facebook operator