Meta Triggers Gold Rush for AI Talent in ‘Rational’ Bid to Win Out

July 24, 2025

Meta Triggers Gold Rush for AI Talent in ‘Rational’ Bid to Win Out – Bloomberg

Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc., during the Meta Connect event in September 2024 at the company’s Menlo Park, California, headquarters.Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg

Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Kurt Wagner wonders just how rational it is for Big Tech companies to spend millions to hire artificial intelligence researchers.

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