Meta Pursues AI Talent With Quick Offers, Emails From Zuckerberg

Company has made job offers without interviewing candidates and relaxed its longstanding practice of not increasing compensation for employees threatening to leave.

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To better compete for artificial intelligence researchers, Meta Platforms is making unconventional moves, including extending job offers to candidates without interviewing them and relaxing a longstanding practice of not increasing compensation for employees threatening to leave.

In a sign of how seriously the social media company is taking the competition for AI talent, CEO Mark Zuckerberg has personally written to researchers at Google’s DeepMind unit to recruit them, according to two people who viewed the emails. In some notes, Zuckerberg emphasized the importance of AI to Meta and said he hopes the recipient and the company will work together, one of those people said.