Meta's huge AI pay packages were 'net neutral': the real pull was the mission, says Alexandr Wang
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-10-13
Alexandr Wang, Meta's Chief AI Officer and Scale AI co-founder, says on David Senra's podcast that Meta's famously giant offers were roughly pay-neutral for top researchers, whose OpenAI and Anthropic stock appreciation meant staying would have paid about the same — so the real pull was the mission.
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