Meta Freezes AI Hiring After Blockbuster Spending Spree

20 polrjoy 13 8/21/2025, 1:11:26 AM wsj.com ↗

Comments (13)

coro_1 · 18m ago
> As of mid-August, Meta had successfully hired more than 20 researchers and engineers from OpenAI for the effort, at least 13 from Google, three from Apple, three from xAI and two from Anthropic for a total of 50-plus new employees.

The rest of us look for cultural fit.

impish9208 · 1h ago
hooloovoo_zoo · 40m ago
Meta already bought all openAI’s secrets; now it just needs to let the GPUs cook.
ipnon · 14m ago
When it is framed in this way the compensations are rational.
yahoozoo · 5m ago
Surely Meta is going to be the company that turns LLMs into, not just AGI, but ASI.
seatac76 · 1h ago
Makes sense the payroll numbers of true are those of a 300+ person AI startup.
IncreasePosts · 47m ago
You'd think instead of paying 1 really good engineer $250M you could pay 5 really good engineers $50M each.
SOLAR_FIELDS · 38m ago
This is a Bighead on the roof scenario. They aren't paying $250m to actually have $250m worth of work produced. They're paying it so that their competition doesn't have it.
guluarte · 54m ago
Zuckerberg is like the billionaire version of the average Twitter idiot that jumps on the current memes, like crypto, NFTs, the metaverse, and now AI.
add-sub-mul-div · 51m ago
Sounds like another thing he stole from the Winklevoss twins.
nutribueno · 48m ago
LOL nice
xqcgrek2 · 50m ago
I'd be embarrassed to work for Meta or have it on my resume/CV
animitronix · 1h ago
Lol. Meta has always been such a clownshow...