The AI talent war in Silicon Valley: Meta offers $300 million in salaries over four years, with fewer than a thousand top experts worldwide

Data shows that the annual salary range for AI engineers at Meta is $186,000 to $3.2 million, surpassing OpenAI's range of $212,000 to $2.5 million. Fortune magazine pointed out that there are fewer than 1,000 top AI experts globally. Dr. Tom Zhang, a senior HR expert in Silicon Valley, stated in an interview that the phenomenon of "labeling" in Silicon Valley is very serious. Only those who have worked in the core teams of companies like OpenAI, Google, and Meta and have served as team leaders can be called "top AI talent," thus qualifying for "astronomical salaries." Even so, multiple media outlets have confirmed that Meta is indeed offering "far above market average" compensation to attract top AI researchers. According to Wired magazine, Meta is providing compensation packages of up to $300 million over four years to some AI researchers to build a superintelligent laboratory