Meta Freezes AI Hiring After Blockbuster Spending Spree

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impish9208 · 43m ago

Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta-ai-hiring-freeze-fda6b3c4?s...

hooloovoo_zoo · 11m ago

Meta already bought all openAI’s secrets; now it just needs to let the GPUs cook.

seatac76 · 41m ago

Makes sense the payroll numbers of true are those of a 300+ person AI startup.

IncreasePosts · 18m ago

You'd think instead of paying 1 really good engineer $250M you could pay 5 really good engineers $50M each.

SOLAR_FIELDS · 9m 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.

xqcgrek2 · 20m ago

I'd be embarrassed to work for Meta or have it on my resume/CV

guluarte · 24m 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 · 21m ago

Sounds like another thing he stole from the Winklevoss twins.

nutribueno · 18m ago

LOL nice

animitronix · 32m ago

Lol. Meta has always been such a clownshow...

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Meta Freezes AI Hiring After Blockbuster Spending Spree

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