Can Meta Buy the Future of AI?

The most incredible thing about the incredible offers – some might call them "Godfather" offers – that Meta is making to some AI talent, are incredibly not the offers themselves. It's that everyone has thus far turned them down.

Now, that very well may change. I mean, they're reported to be offering $300M over 4 years – with perhaps $100M+ up-front in that first year. It has to change at some point, right? Someone has to take that offer? Right? But the fact that no one has yet – none of the people jumping from OpenAI to Meta's new Superintelligence team reportedly got that offer, but instead smaller ones (which are undoubtedly still incredible) – is fascinating. Again, incredible. And it's a really bad look for Meta. Which is, perhaps, why they feel the need to make such an offer!