Former OpenAI board member questions Mark Zuckerberg AI hiring spree

By Saritha Rai and Haslinda Amin, Bloomberg

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...