Meta is reportedly offering up to nine figures in compensation for AI researchers, amounting to $100 million signing bonuses and even higher overall pay. CNBC reports that earlier this year, Meta attempted to acquire Safe Superintelligence (SSI), a top AI startup valued at $32 billion. Gross and Friedman will reportedly work on AI products at Meta under another new hire: Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang. According to a Bloomberg report last week, Meta is offering up to a nine-figure pay for researchers on its Superintelligence team. Meta is currently offering $2M+/yr in offers for AI talent and still losing them to OpenAI and Anthropic.