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holy shit these guys are already centimillionaires so we’re not talking $100m signing bonus anymore first $1b signing bonus in history this is going to COST. Zuck clearly is in spend mode – if you think $100m bonuses are high – this is a guy who LOST $14b in 2022, $16b in https://x.com/swyx/status/1935468206019461470

Sam Altman says Meta is offering $100M signing bonuses to OpenAI staff. Not $100M annual compensation, just the signing bonus! He clowned Meta: “that’s not how you build a great culture.” Also said none of OpenAI’s best people are leaving. This AI talent war is crazy. https://x.com/Yuchenj_UW/status/1935116041866330378

Sam Altman says Meta offered $100 million bonuses to OpenAI employees | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/business/sam-altman-says-meta-offered-100-million-bonuses-openai-employees-2025-06-18/

Founder, Alexandr Wang, Joins Meta to Work on AI Efforts | Scale https://scale.com/blog/scale-ai-announces-next-phase-of-company-evolution

Our vision is for AI that uses world models to adapt in new and dynamic environments and efficiently learn new skills. We’re sharing V-JEPA 2, a new world model with state-of-the-art performance in visual understanding and prediction. V-JEPA 2 is a 1.2 billion-parameter model, https://x.com/AIatMeta/status/1932808881627148450

META attempted to buy Ilya Sutskever’s  Safe Superintelligence, and also attempted to hire him, according to reporting tonight by CNBC. https://x.com/AndrewCurran_/status/1935853120472612955

US Army appoints Palantir, Meta, OpenAI execs as Lt. Colonels – The Grayzone https://thegrayzone.com/2025/06/18/palantir-execs-appointed-colonels/

Meta announces Oakley smart glasses that shoot 3K video | The Verge https://www.theverge.com/news/690133/meta-oakley-hstn-ai-glasses-price-date

Meta in Talks to Hire AI Investors Friedman and Gross, Partially Buy Out Their Venture Fund — The Information https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-talks-hire-former-github-ceo-nat-friedman-daniel-gross-join-ai-efforts

Introducing “”Building with Llama 4.”” This short course is created with @Meta @AIatMeta, and taught by @asangani7, Director of Partner Engineering for Meta’s AI team. Meta’s new Llama 4 has added three new models and introduced the Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture to its https://x.com/AndrewYNg/status/1935350552692658202

Meta shrunk headcount by 24% and doubled down on AI agents. Here’s how to build one in under 5 steps with @OpenAI’s Agents SDK and @AgentOpsAI 👇 100% open-source https://x.com/n_sri_laasya/status/1932755309912854740

🧠 New in LlamaIndex: Custom Multi-Turn Memory for Agents We’ve just added a new example that shows how to build your own multi-turn memory implementation in LlamaIndex — perfect for agentic workflows that need control, transparency, and customization. Why it matters: 💬 Most https://x.com/llama_index/status/1932173369858003304

Outlines v1.0 is out!”” / X https://x.com/ollama/status/1935712844701442245

Introducing the V-JEPA 2 world model and new benchmarks for physical reasoning https://ai.meta.com/blog/v-jepa-2-world-model-benchmarks/

6/ LlamaFS is a self-organizing file manager. It automatically renames and organizes your files based on their content and well-known conventions (e.g., time).  It supports many file types , including images and audio. Super cool project by @AlexReibman! https://x.com/AtomSilverman/status/1932988830904365480

stop using VLMs blindly ✋🏻 compare different VLM outputs on a huge variety of inputs (from reasoning to OCR!) 🔥 > has support for multiple VLMs: Gemma 3, Qwen2.5VL, Llama4 > recommend us new models or inputs, we’ll add 🫡 https://x.com/mervenoyann/status/1935708014645784713

Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg Creating New Superintelligence AI Team – Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-10/zuckerberg-recruits-new-superintelligence-ai-group-at-meta?embedded-checkout=true

oh they’re BUYING THE FUND TOO. https://x.com/swyx/status/1935497934864531781

Meta’s $15 billion investment in Scale AI comes with a hidden perk | Semafor https://www.semafor.com/article/06/10/2025/metas-15-billion-investment-in-scale-ai-comes-with-a-hidden-perk

imagine if sam is saying meta is offering $100 million dollar signing bonuses so people are offended when their number is lower”” / X https://x.com/typedfemale/status/1935206470985072991

zucc FOUNDER MODE masterplan https://x.com/dylan522p/status/1935454786918432833

Exclusive: Google, Scale AI’s largest customer, plans split after Meta deal, sources say | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/business/google-scale-ais-largest-customer-plans-split-after-meta-deal-sources-say-2025-06-13/

Google reportedly plans to cut ties with Scale AI | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/14/google-reportedly-plans-to-cut-ties-with-scale-ai/

This was expected and just natural move. Meta’s 49% Scale AI buy triggers major clients to walk away from Scale AI. Google was Scale AI’s biggest customer and now plans to pull out after Meta took nearly half the company. It had budgeted around $200 million for human-labeled https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/1933850591249281108

The response to our first-ever Llama Startup Program was astounding, and after reviewing over 1,000 applications we’re thrilled to announce our first group. This eclectic group of early-stage startups are ready to push the boundaries of what’s possible with Llama and drive https://x.com/AIatMeta/status/1935004555210846271

Alexandr Wang – CEO, Scale AI | SRS #208 – YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvfCHPCeoPw

zuck should publicly punish yann lecun by removing all convnet related functionality from pytorch”” / X https://x.com/typedfemale/status/1935577381953241300

With just 5 nodes in n8n + Apify, I’ve automated Instagram market research. Here’s exactly how I built it: https://x.com/samruddhi_mokal/status/1924379123096420366

No, they need Nat and then to fire their current managers. They have enough technical talent to train up-to-date models. I don’t buy the theory that engineers at Meta are inept brainlets and you need some Shazeer-tier wizard. This smells like corrupt suits shifting the blame.”” / X https://x.com/teortaxesTex/status/1935820274437677252

XGS Energy and Meta to Partner on 150 MW Advanced Geothermal Project https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250612778008/en/XGS-Energy-and-Meta-to-Partner-on-150-MW-Advanced-Geothermal-Project

Upgraded from Llama 3 to Qwen3 as my go-to model for research experiments, so I implemented qwen3 from scratch: https://x.com/rasbt/status/1936041873099063333

It is intuitively obvious that reasoning in continuous embedding space is dramatically more powerful than reasoning in discrete token space. This paper from @tydsh and team show that it is the case theoretically.”” / X https://x.com/ylecun/status/1935253043676868640

RT @arankomatsuzaki: From Bytes to Ideas: Language Modeling with Autoregressive U-Nets Presents an autoregressive U-Net that processes raw…”” / X https://x.com/ylecun/status/1935481174673223717

Sam says Zuck🦎 is luring OpenAI researchers with $100M signing bonuses and $100M+ yearly salaries : r/ChatGPT https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1leciub/sam_says_zuck_is_luring_openai_researchers_with/

OpenAI Is Phasing Out Its Work With Scale AI After Meta Deal – Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-18/openai-is-phasing-out-its-work-with-scale-ai-after-meta-deal?embedded-checkout=true

2/  @llama_index provides a data framework for LLM applications, facilitating efficient data indexing and retrieval. It is the simplest framework for connecting custom data sources to large language models. https://x.com/AtomSilverman/status/1932988797115117740

From Bytes to Ideas 💡 @AIatMeta ‘s new paper. Model invents its own tokens while it learns, by having one network pools bytes into words on the fly. LLMs rely on a fixed split chosen before training, which limits how far they can look ahead and how well they transfer across https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/1935540383171174495

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