Facebook parent Meta has lost some top artificial intelligence scientists in recent weeks as the company continues with its pivot toward the metaverse.
, a start-up set up by DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman and LinkedIn billionaire Reid Hoffman. Kuttler joined Meta in Jan. 2019 after spending over two years at DeepMind.
And last year, in December, Douwe Kiela left his research scientist role at Meta after spending five years at the company. He's now head of research at AI start-up Hugging Face.A number of other Meta AI staff have either left or are expected to leave in the coming weeks, a person familiar with the matter told CNBC, asking to remain anonymous due to the sensitive nature of the issue. They added that there's no one reason why people were leaving.
"Others go because comp or hiring potential for their team is better elsewhere," the source added. "Others just want to do a start-up or get involved with a smaller company. For some it might be tied to Meta stock tanking, but I wouldn't say that's necessarily the main reason." He added: "Ed [Grefenstette] is joining an unnamed start-up. I'm sad he has left. But I understand that people's interests shift. I'm not sure what Heinrich's plans are. There is no underlying common cause that I know about. There has been no detectable migration from FAIR London nor from the other sites."
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