The Facebook mother group Meta has imposed a stopover for the AI division. Investors are increasingly concerned about the exploding costs in the tech set-up for AI talent.
• Meta imposes stopover in the AI area
• Settings stop comes after an aggressive search for talent
• analysts worried
According to Wall Street Journal, Meta Platforms has suspended all new settings in its AI division. The stopping stop came into force last week and follows a phase in which the company had recruited over 50 top -class researchers and engineers. A META spokesman has now confirmed this measure and spoke to the portal of “basic organizational planning: the creation of a solid structure for our new superintelligence efforts after we have hired employees and carried out annual budgeting and planning measures”.
The measure goes far beyond normal attitude stops: Even employees already employed are prohibited from switching between teams within a department, according to the WSJ. How long the recruitment stop should apply was not communicated internally. There could be exceptions for special external candidates – however – they need the personal approval of Metas Chief Ai Officer Alexandr Wang, as it is said by the person familiar with the matter.
Billions of offers in the fight for the smartest heads
Meta had grabbed the pocket particularly deeply in the race for AI tipstalent. The group attracted salary packages in three-digit millions and used so-called “Reverse Acquihires” to retrieve their key employees. Meta founder Zuckerberg personally became active and led the recruitment offensive and contacted potential candidates directly by email and WhatsApp. According to Wall Street Journal, Meta is said to have offered a package worth up to $ 1.5 billion to the researcher Andrew Tulloch, co -founder of the Thinking Machines Lab – which he refused.
Massive restructuring of the AI departments
As part of a comprehensive reorganization, METAS AI activities, insiders, are now divided into four teams: the TBD Lab for superintelligence, a team for AI products, an infrastructure group and a research department for long-term projects (fundamental AI research). These four units operate under the roof of “Meta Superintelligence Labs”.
A previous team called “Agi Foundations”, which worked on the latest versions of the large voice models, was completely dissolved. At least three members of this team announced their departure for mid -August after the recent models at the management level remained behind the expectations.
Investor concerns for exploding costs
The aggressive personnel policy of tech giants is increasingly causing unrest among investors. According to the WSJ, analysts from Morgan Stanley recently warned that the rapidly increasing stock -based remuneration at Meta and Google could endanger their ability to return capital to shareholders.
By mid -August, Meta had more than 20 researchers from Openaai, at least 13 from Google, three from Apple, three from Xai and two from Anthropic – a talent drain that is second to none in the industry and apparently no longer seems to be financially portable.
In pre-exchanging Nasdaq trading, the meta share at times is 0.82 percent lower at $ 741.60.
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