I have heard numerous stories over the years of math-and-science guys who understand how to run to the latest thing, present themselves as experts, and get some rich dumbdumbs to give them lots of money.
As Mark Zuckerberg staffs up Meta’s new superintelligence lab, he’s offered top tier research talent pay packages of up to $300 million over four years, with more than $100 million in total compensation for the first year, WIRED has learned.