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Meta is offering multi-million pay for AI researchers, but not $100M ‘signing bonuses’


Meta is offering multi-million pay packages to AI researchers. But no one is really getting an $100 million "signing bonus."

Tech companies typically offer the biggest chunks of their pay to senior leaders in restricted stock unit grants (RSUs), dependent on either tenure or performance metrics. Certainly, Scale co-founder and CEO Alexandr Wang is getting a healthy chunk of cash, likely more than $100 million, as part of Meta’s deal to buy 49% ownership of his company. That person took a smaller, but still healthy offer, from a buzzier AI startup: Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab.

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