Meta’s Superintelligence Team Currently Comprises Of 44 Employees, With 50 Percent Of Them Hailing From China, And 40 Percent Of The Total Headcount Previously Employed At OpenAI

Mark Zuckerberg can pour in outrageous amounts of cash when it comes to a specific bet in the technology industry, such as investing a mammoth $46 billion in the metaverse, which the majority of people know, did not work out at all. Now, Meta’s Chief Executive has been hiring talent left, right, and center and has placed these individuals in its Superintelligence Labs, where teams work on various foundation models as they aim to take the lead in the artificial intelligence race. As for the people working at this division, a detailed list reveals that there are 44 people employed there, and interestingly enough, 50 percent of them are from China, with 40 percent leaving their position at OpenAI, along with other ‘eye-opening’ finds.

A hiring spree is currently underway at Meta, where it has attempted to poach talent from notable firms such as OpenAI, Apple and others by giving them offers they probably cannot refuse. Before recruiting the iPhone maker’s head of foundation models that was accompanied by a $200 million signing bonus, Meta had already snatched three former OpenAI employees, with one of them claiming that they did not receive a $100 million signing bonus.

While Meta only knows what figure it promised to lure talent, @deedydas got hold of a detailed employee list at the social media giant’s Superintelligence Labs, which he claims he got from an anonymous company employee. As mentioned above, 50 percent of the hires are from China, with 75 percent of them being PhDs, while 70 percent of them comprise of researchers. The highest number of hires has come from OpenAI at 40 percent, followed by Google’s DeepMind at 20 percent, with 15 percent coming from Scale.

In short, Meta has quite a diversified headcount at its Superintelligence Labs, with a majority of them not even completing a whole month at the company. The post on X also mentions that each of these hires are probably clearing between $10-$100 million a year, but that figure has yet to be confirmed. Probably the most notable detail from this list is that 50 percent of the 44 employees are from China, which could put Meta in a difficult position when the Trump administration starts investigating the company for committing any security violations.

We will not be surprised if Mark Zuckerberg gets questioned about these Chinese researchers in the future, and we will provide every and all updates in the future, so stay tuned.

News Source: @deedydas