capital · May 18, 2026
Meta AI Chief Alexandr Wang Rejects Money-Only Narrative for Talent Hires
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Meta’s AI chief Alexandr Wang says top AI researchers joined for culture and compute, not just multimillion-dollar pay packages. Wang himself joined Meta’s nascent Meta Superintelligence Labs team last June after Meta acquired a 49 percent stake in Scale AI in a deal valued at $14.3 billion. The largest group in MSL focuses on advanced AI research and includes talent from Google DeepMind, Anthropic, and OpenAI. Meta allegedly offered some OpenAI researchers signing bonuses of up to $100 million. Yann LeCun described Wang as young and inexperienced in a January Financial Times interview.
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