Meta’s $1B AI Offer Gets Rejected!

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Jason Hood
July 30, 2025

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News of the Day

Zuckerberg’s $1B AI Hunt Fails

Meta is aggressively recruiting AI experts from ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab, offering massive pay, one package even topping $1B, but so far, no one has accepted.

  • Zuckerberg personally reached out to candidates via WhatsApp, followed by interviews with top Meta executives.

  • Offers included $200–500M over four years, with some first-year guarantees up to $100M, and one offer over $1B.

  • Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth pitched open-source AI models to challenge rivals like OpenAI, but candidates remain skeptical of Meta’s AI strategy.

Meta’s inability to secure talent despite enormous offers shows both the confidence of Thinking Machines Lab in its own work and the industry’s uncertainty about Meta’s AI roadmap. It also highlights the intense competition for top AI talent as big tech races toward superintelligence.
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Social Media

Second News of the Day

AI Mode for Students Is Leveling Up

Google has added new features to its AI Mode in Search, making it easier for students to study, solve assignments, and explore topics in depth.

  • Image uploads are now available on desktop AI Mode, allowing users to ask questions about math problems, plants, or any object in a picture.

  • Canvas tool lets students create structured study plans and organize materials for exams.

  • Live camera and PDF upload support are coming soon, along with better integration of Google Lens in Chrome for AI-powered page summaries.

These updates make AI Mode a more powerful learning assistant, giving students interactive, visual, and organized ways to study. It also brings AI help directly into everyday browsing, making research and problem-solving faster and more accessible.
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Everything else

🪜 Startup Starter Kit: Entrepreneur and podcast host Greg Isenberg has shared a list of AI tools he uses to take his startups from idea to launch at breakneck speed.

🪖 Agent Armada: Entrepreneur Ian Nuttall has shared a repo of 40 specialized Claude Code agents to streamline your business, while X user Aakash Chopra has dropped a list of AI agents designed to mimic an entire workforce.

🤖 Context Cheatcode: X user Pawel Huryn has dropped a cheat sheet for context engineering, with 6 powerful templates to help you boost AI agent performance.

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