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Amazon, Google, Meta, and the AI long game, with Baird’s Colin Sebastian
Baird analyst Colin Sebastian joins the GeekWire Podcast to discuss Amazon, Google, and Meta’s AI strategies, tech investing ...
Meta And OpenAI’s Talent Wars: How AI Mints Elites But Displaces Others
As tech giants compete for talents, the AI gold rush displaces programmers and software engineers whose jobs were once envied ...
Michael Dell said Meta's AI hiring spree could raise questions of fairness among employees
"It'll be a challenge culturally for sure," Dell said of Meta's aggressive hiring of top AI talent with huge signing bonuses.
Zuckerberg Spends Big: $200M+ to Snag Apple’s AI Lead For Meta’s Superintelligence Team
Meta finalized the hire within a week, securing an AI leader with a compensation package combining salary, bonus, and stock ...
Meta is trying to win the AI race with money — but not everyone can be bought
Zuckerberg is picking off top talent from across the industry, and OpenAI might be more vulnerable than most.
Meta reportedly closes deal to buy AI voice replicator PlayAI
Meta has finalized the agreement to purchase Play AI, a startup based in California providing users with an AI voice cloning tool, according to Bloomberg. The news organization says the "entire PlayAI ...
Meta Has Surged on the Back of AI Software. Why Hardware Is the Next Play.
Meta Platforms is looking to deepen its relationship with its smart-glasses partner as part of a new vision of the Metaverse.
Meta lured AI exec away from Apple with blockbuster $200M pay package
Meta's poaching of a top Apple Intelligence executive has been a costly exercise, with the social giant doling out $200 ...
Meta Platforms Enticed Apple AI Executive With $200M Pay Package, Report Says
Meta Platforms has reportedly offered a more than $200 million pay package to poach Apple’s top executive in charge of ...
Pokee AI, a new AI agent startup led by ex-Meta manager, lands $12M to automate online workflows
Michael Cai, head of product engineering), Christopher Wu (head of ML engineering), Zheqing (Bill) Zhu (founder and CEO), and ...
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta pays ‘tens of millions of dollars’ to poach top Apple AI exec — adding to murderers’ row of new hires
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has reportedly poached one of Apple’s top artificial intelligence researchers as part of its ongoing ...
Why Mark Zuckerberg’s AI talent spending spree is no guarantee that Meta will catch up to rivals
The Meta CEO is counting on his spending spree to fuel AI innovation as his tech giant falls behind its peers.