OpenAI’s Altman: Meta unsuccessfully tried poaching its employees with $100 million offers

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Mark Zuckerberg is on a hiring spree as he tries to build a “superintelligence” team at Meta to achieve AGI before anyone else. According to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Zuckerberg has been unsuccessful at poaching the company’s top engineers, even while offering them “$100 million signing bonuses” and compensation packages worth more than that.

Meta just agreed to pay $14 billion to acquire a 49% stake in training data startup Scale AI and hired away its CEO, Alexandr Wang, to lead the effort. Now they just need to figure out what AGI actually looks like, and when it might appear.

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The Microsoft-backed OpenAI now has 800 million weekly users for ChatGPT— up from 700 million last month — according to CEO Sam Altman, who spoke during the company’s developer conference today. For those who’re counting, that’s about 736 million more users than Grok has each month.

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The buzzy AI video generation app is tweaking its lax controls for generating copyrighted characters in users’ videos.

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Musk’s xAI spending $18 billion for another 300,000 Nvidia GPUs for “Colossus 2”

Elon Musk’s xAI is racing to finish its “Colossus 2” AI data center in Tennessee, and will need to spend at least $18 billion for the remaining 300,000 Nvidia GPUs, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal.

Musk is spending billions to keep the company’s Grok AI model at the front of the pack in the AI race, and he’s taking any shortcuts he can to get there.

According to the report, the site for the Colossus 2 data center sits on the border with Mississippi, and the company is building out a 1-gigawatt power station across state lines and running the power back to Tennessee.

By importing the power across state lines, Musk is taking advantage of looser regulations for power generation in Mississippi. The first Colossus used temporary gas turbines to get around permitting requirements, as Musk was reportedly too impatient to wait for local infrastructure to be upgraded.

Recent reports say the company is burning through as much as $1 billion per month and hopes to turn a profit in 2027.

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Recent reports say the company is burning through as much as $1 billion per month and hopes to turn a profit in 2027.

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More details about OpenAI’s AI device: Palm-sized with multiple cameras potentially

The screenless AI companion device is supposed to launch next year.

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Tesla jumps after posting videos teasing tomorrow’s date. Will a long-awaited new model be announced?

Tesla is up more than 2% premarket after posting videos online that teased what seems to be an imminent product announcement or event. One video posted on X Sunday depicts a spinning Tesla wheel and ends with “10/7.” Another shows just the headlights of a vehicle against a black background.

It’s not clear yet whether the company will showcase its long-awaited Roadster, its long-awaited affordable car (which is likely just a stripped-down Model Y), or something else. Tesla promised more affordable models would go into production in the first half of the year, but we’re midway through the second half and this is the first potential indication of their arrival.

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