Meta’s ambitious Superintelligence Lab, built with high-profile hires from OpenAI … – LinkedIn

AIM’s Post Meta’s ambitious Superintelligence Lab, built with high-profile hires from OpenAI, Google, and Apple, is now facing early turbulence. Just five months after reportedly joining on a million-dollar salary, AI scientist Rishabh Agarwal announced his departure, saying he is ready for “a different kind of risk.” “This is my last week at @AIatMeta. It was a tough decision not to continue with the new Superintelligence TBD lab, especially given the talent and compute density. But after 7.5 years across Google Brain, DeepMind, and Meta, I felt the pull to take on a different kind of risk,” Agarwal posted on X. He added that while the pitch from Mark Zuckerberg and Alexandr Wang was “incredibly compelling,” he chose to follow Zuckerberg’s own advice: “In a world that’s changing so fast, the biggest risk you can take is not taking any risk.” Agarwal is not the only exit. Reports suggest at least three researchers have recently left the lab, including Avi Verma and Ethan Knight, both of whom have returned to OpenAI. These departures raise questions about Meta’s ability to retain talent despite offering multi-million-dollar packages to lure top minds from rivals like Google DeepMind, OpenAI, and xAI. For Agarwal, an
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