Anthropic CEO Tells Zuck to Shove It Newsletter, AI Secret, July 31, 2025.
📌 What’s happening: While Meta drops $100M signing bonuses like candy and poaches CEOs like trading cards, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei publicly slammed the brakes on joining the AI talent arms race. No negotiations. No bidding. No Zuck DMs.🧠 How this hits reality: Anthropic’s level-based comp structure is a middle finger to Big Tech’s talent grab. It's a calculated bet: keep the cult-like mission intact or risk culture collapse chasing Meta's money. Meanwhile, Meta flaunts its fresh kill list on earnings calls, positioning itself as the Real Madrid of AI, minus the trophies.🛎️ Key takeaway: Meta’s buying horsepower; Anthropic’s selling belief. One burns cash, the other burns slowly.
Coff!!!
ReplyDelete"Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta gave a 24-year-old artificial intelligence whiz a staggering $250 million compensation package, raising the bar in the recruiting wars for top talent — while also raising questions about economic inequality in an AI-dominated future.
Matt Deitke, who recently dropped out of a computer science doctoral program at the University of Washington, initially turned down Zuckerberg’s “low-ball” offer of approximately $125 million over four years, according to the New York Times.
But when the Facebook founder, a former whiz kid himself, met with Deitke and doubled the offer to roughly $250 million — with potentially $100 million paid in the first year alone — the young researcher accepted what may be one of the largest employment packages in corporate history, the Times reported.
https://nypost.com/2025/08/01/business/meta-pays-250m-to-lure-24-year-old-ai-whiz-kid-we-have-reached-the-climax-of-revenge-of-the-nerds/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44763714
https://www.wired.com/story/anthropic-revokes-openais-access-to-claude/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44762856
Yeah, this is just crazy. These people are acting cluess and desperate. The big numbers are just to fool themselves into believing that they know what's going on. Because, you know, the size of those numbers means that something obviously deep is at state.
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