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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.


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?


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.


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.


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.


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?


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


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


He is leaving to join Meta.


He is leaving to now work at Meta.


ah whoops, thanks.




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