Zuckerberg’s $100 Million AI Job Offers Pay Off: Parmy Olson

Nothing says talent war like a $100 million job offer. Mark Zuckerberg has been on a hiring blitz for AI’s most revered scientists, sending them cold emails and offering them roles in his new Superintelligence Labs division whose goal is nothing less than to build artificial-intelligence software that’s smarter than humans.

You might wonder why the Meta Platforms Inc. chief executive officer, whose company already prints money from clever ad targeting and recommendation software, needs to build god-like AI, but you’d be underestimating the hottest prize in tech, which Alphabet Inc.’s Google and OpenAI have been vying to win. Zuckerberg is ...