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🎯 AI Talent Wars: Apple & Meta Go All-In

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The race to own the future of AI is heating up — and Apple & Meta are pulling out all the stops. From billion-dollar deals to eye-popping signing bonuses, the AI talent wars over top minds and startups are reshaping Big Tech’s power plays.


🚨 The Scoop:


Apple has reportedly courted Perplexity AI, a buzzy startup building an AI-native search engine — a strategic move to hedge against its lucrative but vulnerable $20B+ Google Search deal.


Meta was in on the same action, holding talks with:


  • Perplexity AI


  • SSI (Safe Superintelligence), co-founded by ex-OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever


  • Thinking Machines, led by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati


Meta ended up pouring $14.3B into Scale AI instead and is now negotiating to bring on power players Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross to boost its brand-new superintelligence division.


💸 AI Talent Wars Heat Up with $100M Signing Bonuses


Yes, you read that right.

Sam Altman says Meta tried to poach OpenAI talent with $100M signing offers.

No one took the bait — but it’s a massive signal of how fierce the AI recruiting game has become.


🧩 What It All Means:


  • Apple is scrambling to future-proof itself in AI after years of playing catch-up — and building its own search engine could cut reliance on Google.


  • Meta is going all-in on long-term bets like AGI, and Zuck clearly wants to rewrite the company’s entire AI playbook.


  • Meanwhile, AI startups are becoming the hottest M&A targets in tech — often before they even hit unicorn status.


🔮 What’s Next?


Expect more:


  • Big-money acquisitions (looking at you, Mistral and Adept 👀)


  • High-stakes bidding wars


  • Regulatory heat — especially if Big Tech tries to corner core AI infrastructure like search and inference.


The battle for the brains behind tomorrow’s AI isn’t just a hiring frenzy — it’s a power shift in motion.



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