it's almost like investors are saying a hundred million isn't enough dear make it two you're right make it billions it doesn't matter just spend as much as you can and that really at the core of this is that this talent spend it's the new signal to investors just like capex spend in the first few years of the race no one wants to be the first to pull back because cutting comp doesn't just risk losing talent it risks signaling that you're losing momentum and now an internal meta memo suggests that Zuckerberg's war on talent is even more aggressive even bigger than we thought it was it says that Zuck has upped the number of researchers poached to 11 coming from the buzziest and earliest AI native firms OpenAI Anthropic Deep Mind and this is part of a major reorganization that puts Alexander Wang and Nat Friedman two of the highest profile hires of the past few weeks at the head of a new group at Meta called Super Intelligence Labs but what may be the most critical part of this memo Zuckerberg writing that quote "As the pace of AI progress accelerates super intelligence is coming into sight." And this could actually be the more concerning piece for Sam Alman and open AI super intelligence it is seen as the holy grail of AI and whoever reaches it first will take the lead in the race that is why it is so important so for Altman um to lose that to someone like Mark Mark Zuckerberg and Meta that would be far more damning than just losing a few researchers alman meanwhile has tried to play down Zuckerberg's recruiting as a side quest but the internal reaction it shows a different story in an internal memo to employees over the weekend a source confirms Wire's reporting that OpenAI's chief research officer described it as if quote someone has broken into our home and stolen something he vowed to be proactive creative recalibrate comp to recognize and reward top talent but Kelly Zuckerberg reaching super intelligence before Alman does that would be like taking over the whole house itself yeah it'd be like showing up at the door and just saying like this is my house now wow I got the keys yeah dear Joe thank you for now we appreciate it dear Jabosa