TECH - Mark Zuckerberg Reportedly Woos AI Talent From Google's DeepMind With Personal Emails: Meta CEO Offers No Interviews Higher Salaries | Benzinga
Meta Platforms Inc. (NASDAQ:META) CEO Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly making a personal effort to recruit top AI talent from Alphabet Inc.'s (NASDAQ:GOOGL) (NASDAQ:GOOG) Google subsidiary DeepMind, offering positions without interviews and higher salaries.
What Happened: Zuckerberg has been reaching out to AI researchers at DeepMind with personal emails, reported The Information, citing sources who have seen the emails.
The Meta CEO has also been offering jobs without interviews and relaxing the company’s policy on higher salaries for employees with competing job offers.
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These aggressive recruitment tactics are part of Zuckerberg’s broader strategy to position Meta as a leading player in the AI industry.
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