[laborcontract]

This is by all indications the world's most expensive acquihire of a single person. Reporting has been that Zuckerberg has seen Wang as a confidant of sorts, and has proposed a vision of AI that's said to be non consensus.

[Bjorkbat]

Fair enough. If you aren't willing to give your friend $14 billion to join your company so you can hang out more, then are you two really friends?

[michaelrwolfe1]

Wang didn't get $14b, he only owns about 15% of Scale. We also don't know how much he sold. He could have sold all of his stock (netting him around $4.5b), none, or something in the middle.

[mjburgess]

I could see a friend giving me 4% of his net worth on those terms, esp. if i might return a few percent, in the fullness of time.

[bee_rider]

It also seems like a sort of different situation with Zuck because, I’m pretty sure, he’ll still be able to get by with only 96% of his net worth.

[rokobobo]

If a friend doesn’t give you 4% of their net worth, how can you be certain you are one of their 25 closest friends?

[egillie]

Where did you find the reporting about the non consensus ai view? That’s the most interesting take I’ve heard on this

[krosaen]

but did you see that now Wang is leaving as part of this?

[paxys]

He is leaving to join Meta.

[laborcontract]

He is leaving to now work at Meta.

[krosaen]

ah whoops, thanks.