Revealed on: Aug 03, 2025 06:47 pm IST
Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei claimed that Meta’s makes an attempt to recruit employees have failed and criticised Mark Zuckerberg’s strategy to AI expertise acquisition.
Amid stories of Meta’s latest poaching makes an attempt on Apple, OpenAI and Google employees, AI startup Anthropic has claimed that it isn’t matching competing gives to retain its workers. Talking on the “Huge Know-how Podcast”, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei revealed he lately despatched a Slack message to all his workers and informed them that the corporate wouldn’t “compromise our compensation rules” or “rules of equity” when any of them obtain gives from different international locations.
Calling Meta’s poaching makes an attempt a “unifying second,” he added that matching such gives could be unfair to the opposite workers. “If Mark Zuckerberg throws a dart at a dartboard and it hits your identify, that does not imply that you have to be paid 10 occasions greater than the man subsequent to you who’s simply as expert, simply as gifted,” he mentioned.
He additionally added that in comparison with different corporations, Meta’s gives had captured fewer Anthropic workers, with some refusing to “even discuss” to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Nonetheless, the tech big did poach Anthropopic software program engineer Joel Pobar.
Based on media stories, Meta has supplied greater than $200 million in compensation to 1 Apple AI researcher to work on his superintelligence group.
Amodei additionally attacked Zuckerberg, accusing him of “making an attempt to purchase one thing that may’t be purchased”, referring to the AI firm’s mission. The Meta CEO, in the meantime, has mentioned that his aim was to carry superintelligence to each particular person by means of his new lab and never use AI to automate the workforce like “others within the business”.
