The poaching of AI researchers from the likes of OpenAI — with salaries in the tens of millions of dollars — and the debut of Meta’s new Superintelligence group comes after the Facebook operator

Meta Platforms Inc.’s lavish multimillion-dollar budget for recruiting top AI talent may not guarantee success, said Helen Toner, former OpenAI board member and director of strategy at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology.

Meta's AI investments, open-source strategy, and Zuckerberg's bold vision position it as a leader against OpenAI & Google. See more on META stock here.

Announced by President Donald Trump in January 2025, Stargate is a $500 billion generative AI infrastructure venture in the US, led by OpenAI, Oracle, Japanese telecoms giant SoftBank, and MGX, an investment firm based in the United Arab Emirates. OpenAI intends to operate the data centres. Oracle will provide server infrastructure and leasing.

OpenAI has agreed to lease 4.5 gigawatts of computing power from Oracle in a deal worth about $30bn a year that is one of the largest cloud agreements to date for artificial intelligence. The deal marks a big expansion of OpenAI’s “Stargate” data centre project,