Even in the money-soaked world of AI, the hiring efforts of Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg stood out this year as he enticed top machine learning researchers with payments reportedly reaching up to $1 billion to defect from their employers and come work for him instead.

The overtures weren't always successful; in one embarrassing case, an individual was offered 10-figures to work at Meta's so-called Superintelligence initiative — but turned it down to stay at Thinking Machines Lab, a venture started by former OpenAI executive Mira Murati.

And now, amid reporting that Zuckerberg's micromanaging already has the company's AI efforts crumbling into internal chaos, it sounds like the Facebook parent company is already bleeding some of the talent that Zuckerberg paid top dollar to acquire.

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