Former OpenAI Board Member Questions Zuckerberg AI Hiring Spree

Meta Platforms Inc.’s lavish multimillion-dollar budget for recruiting top AI talent may not guarantee success, said Helen Toner, former OpenAI board member and director of strategy at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology.

The poaching of artificial intelligence researchers from the likes of OpenAI — with salaries in the tens of millions of dollars — and the debut of Meta’s new Superintelligence group comes after the Facebook operator developed a reputation for “having a dysfunctional team,” Toner said in an interview with Bloomberg TV. The practice of luring away high performers from each other’s AI labs has intensified among Silicon Valley companies since the launch of ChatGPT, she said.