AMD CEO Says She Would not Do What Zuckerberg Did to Snag AI Expertise

AMD CEO Lisa Su says that in relation to attracting prime AI expertise, it is the mission, not cash, that issues.

Su spoke to Wired in an interview printed Tuesday, when she was requested concerning the hefty pay packages Mark Zuckerberg has been utilizing to draw prime AI researchers to Meta.

The 55-year-old advised the outlet she did not assume she would ever supply a billion-dollar pay package deal to a possible AMD rent.

“I feel competitors for expertise is fierce. I’m a believer, although, that cash is essential, however frankly, it isn’t essentially a very powerful factor whenever you’re attracting expertise,” Su mentioned.

“It is essential to be within the ZIP code of these numbers, however then it is super-important to have individuals who actually imagine within the mission of what you are attempting to do,” she added.

AMD and Meta didn’t reply to requests for remark from Enterprise Insider.

The continued battle for AI expertise has seen tech giants like Meta and Microsoft supply multimillion-dollar salaries to safe hires.

The competitors has develop into so cutthroat that some firms are even cold-emailing candidates who’ve already secured job provides with rival firms.

Yangshun Tay, an AI engineer primarily based in Singapore, advised Enterprise Insider’s Charles Rollet that he acquired a near-instant e-mail from Meta after he posted his job supply from OpenAI on LinkedIn. Meta requested Tay if he’d be concerned about working for them.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman mentioned in a June podcast that he discovered it “loopy” that Meta was attempting to poach his workers with $100 million signing bonuses. He added that he was “actually completely happy that, no less than to date, none of our greatest folks have determined to take them up on that.”

Altman shared an analogous view to Su’s on Meta’s use of beneficiant pay packages to lure expertise.

“The technique of a ton of upfront assured comp and that being the explanation you inform somebody to affix, like actually the diploma to which they’re specializing in that and never the work and never the mission, I do not assume that is going to arrange an important tradition,” he mentioned on the June podcast.