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July 22, 2025 9 mins

You might have heard Meta has been on a bit of a hiring spree recently as it tries to build out its new AI Superintelligence team. The company has reportedly been offering hundreds of thousands of dollars or more to attract leading AI researchers from rivals like OpenAI, Google and Apple.


And it's not just Meta doing the poaching. Tech companies big and small are jumping into the AI Wars.


Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Natasha Mascarenhas, a reporter at The Information, about the AI talent wars happening behind the scenes of Silicon Valley.


More on this


“Meta hires two Apple AI researchers for Superintelligence push, Bloomberg News reports” - from Reuters


“Anthropic Revenue Hits $4 Billion Annual Pace as Competition With Cursor Intensifies” - from The Information

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