Going hard on AI

Mark Zuckerberg is really going hard on artificial intelligence. Meta is spending hundreds of billions of dollars on new data centers and offering huge sign-on bonuses and pay packages to attract the best AI engineers. They are being poached from Apple, OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, and GitHub.

I was intrigued to see the names and ages of these new Meta employees. They are called the Superintelligence Team.

Bowen Zhang (aged 26) just left Apple, hot on the heels of his boss Ruoming Pang, who got a compensation package valued at more than $200 million. Another key team member is chief scientist Shengjia Zhao, who is 30.

The top dog is Alexandr Wang, who joined Meta after the $14.3 billion acquisition of his startup, called Scale AI. He's US-born and only 28 years old. That's him in the picture here.