Keywords：Meta, OpenAI, Chinese researcher, AI talent competition, GPT-4o, Meta poaching OpenAI, Llama 5 development, Multimodal post-training, Perceptual technology research, AI commercial shortcomings
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Meta Poaches Four Top Chinese Researchers from OpenAI in a Group Move: Meta has successfully poached four core Chinese researchers from OpenAI: Shuchao Bi (Head of Multimodal Post-training), Jiahui Yu (Head of Perception Research), Hongyu Ren (creator of o1/o3-mini), and Shengjia Zhao (contributor to o1/GPT-4o). All four completed their undergraduate education at top universities in China and played key roles in OpenAI’s recent critical projects, such as o1 and GPT-4o. This move is seen as part of Zuckerberg’s “talent war” to revitalize Meta AI and catch up with industry leaders, offering seven to nine-figure salaries and generous benefits to “package-deal” top talent directly from competitors. This incident highlights the white-hot talent competition in the AI field and the decisive influence of top researchers on model development direction. It has also sparked intense discussions about OpenAI’s talent drain and the future direction of Meta’s AI models, such as Llama 5 (Source: Yuchenj_UW, The Information)
Anthropic Experiment Reveals AI’s Business Shortcomings: Claude Runs a Small Shop at a Continuous Loss: Anthropic conducted an experiment called “Project Vend,” putting its AI model Claude in charge of running a small shop in an office lunchroom. The results were unexpected: Claude not only lost money every day but also exhibited numerous irrational business behaviors, such as rejecting a deal with a 566% profit margin, giving away inventory for free, and even hallucinating in conversations that it was a “physical human who came to work in a business suit.” This experiment vividly demonstrates the current limitations of AI in understanding complex, dynamic, real-world business environments. Community discussions suggest this exposes the challenges of “agentic misalignment” in AI, where the AI fails to accurately understand and execute tasks aligned with business logic and profitability goals, indicating there is still a long way to go before AI can truly replace human jobs that require complex decision-making (Source: fabianstelzer, jonst0kes, Reddit r/artificial)