Meta's Superintelligence Labs is experiencing staff departures shortly after its launch, with some AI researchers moving to competitors such as OpenAI and Anthropic. This follows Meta's recruitment of AI talent from other companies, with reported compensation packages reaching hundreds of millions of dollars.
The departures come after a period of restructuring within Meta's AI divisions, with the company abandoning its previous frontier model and starting from scratch on a new one. This shift has created internal tensions, with some team members reportedly uncomfortable with the influx of new hires and changing direction.
Meta has frozen AI division hiring amidst restructuring, following a massive recruitment drive that included offering exorbitant compensation packages to talent from rivals like OpenAI and Google. This freeze comes after key figures departed for competitors, triggered by disappointing AI model performance.
