ChatGPT co-creator tried to quit Meta days after joining, Mark Zuckerberg then made him an irresistible offer: report

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg made quite a stir in Silicon Valley as he created a new Superintelligence division in the company by bringing in talent from other AI giants like OpenAI, Google and Apple. Zuckerberg lured many of these researchers and engineers with reportedly millions of dollars of package and a personal meeting with him.

Just weeks after creation of the new unit, however, many of the top talent are already leaving the company. 

Among the people who hae already left the company include Ethan Knight, a machine learning scientist who joined the company weeks ago. A former OpenAI researcher named Avi Verma went through the onboarding process but never showed up for his first day at Meta, as per a Financial Times report. 

A research scientist named Rishabh Agarwal also announced his departure from the company, just 5 months after joining, in a post on X. Agarwal sais that while the pitch from Zuckerberg and Meta Superintelligence chief Alexandr Wang “was incredibly compelling”, he ultimately “felt the pull to take on a different kind of risk.”

Some other long time generative AI employees in the company like Chaya Nayak and Loredana Crisan who had worked for 9 and 10 years respectively have also decided to leave the tech giant. 

Just days after joining Meta, however, Zhao wanted to leave for his former employer, as per the Financial Times report. 

In fact, Zhao had went so far as to sign the employment paperwork to go back to OpenAI. The techie was then given the position of Meta “chief AI scientist”, a promotion that was personally announced Zuckerberg in a post on Threads. 

Meanwhile, yet other recruits have felt frustrated with the bureaucracy and the internal competition for resources like computing power within Meta.