The huge Meta pay packages were roughly "net neutral" for top researchers
- Alexandr Wang (the chief AI officer of Meta and co-founder of Scale AI)
Meta's famously giant offers to AI researchers were not really a pay jump for many of them, because their OpenAI and Anthropic stock had grown so much that staying would have paid about the same
so the real pull was the mission
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Full video on "David Senra" YouTube channel, (link in comment)