In order to gain a greater advantage in the competition for artificial intelligence researchers, The Information reported.Meta A series of "unconventional measures" are being taken to further increase the intensity of the AI talent war.
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The report said that this series of measures includedMaking job offers to candidates without interviewing themetc., and even increased salaries for employees who had previously threatened to leave - before this, Meta's "long-standing practice" was not to increase salaries.
According to two people who have viewed Meta-related emails,CEO Mark Zuckerberg personally wrote to researchers at Google's DeepMind division, asking to recruit them., indicating that the social media company is taking the competition for AI talent “very seriously.”
In some of the notes, Zuckerberg stressed the importance of AI to Meta and said he hoped the recipient and the company could work together, one of the people said.
Meta is also one of Nvidia's largest customers, having purchased hundreds of thousands of H100 accelerator cards. Zuckerberg announced in January that the company plans to stockpile about 350,000 H100s by the end of this year. He added that combined with other GPUs,Meta will then have the equivalent of about 600,000 H100 .
In the middle of this month, a Meta spokesperson said the company expects to receive Nvidia's latest flagship later this year. AI Chips ——B200This will be Nvidia’s first batch of shipments of this chip.