Game of Kings. Hi everyone. Thanks to Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the price to compete in the AI arms race has just gone up this week. Way up.

"Here, people say, 'I want the fewest number of people reporting to me and the most GPUs,'" Mark Zuckerberg said about the AI talent war.

I’m focused on building the most elite and talent-dense team in the industry,” Meta’s CEO said in a post regarding the superintelligence effort.

For Silicon Valley giants, getting ahead in the artificial intelligence race requires more than building the biggest, most capable models; they’re also competing to get third-party developers to build new applications based on their technology.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said top AI researchers are joining the company not just for high pay, but for greater autonomy and access to powerful compute. He highlighted small, well-equipped teams and the chance to build from scratch as key draws,

Meta has reportedly poached two top OpenAI researchers, Jason Wei and Hyung Won Chung, for its new superintelligence lab, escalating the fierce AI talent war between leading tech giants.

When I sat down with Meta CEO and founder Mark Zuckerbergto talk artificial intelligence, I expected that he would want to discuss the company’s new supercomputer plans and talk about why he’s been working the phones all summer in a red-hot AI recruiting blitz.