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Mark Zuckerberg himself appears in the list of direct contributors to Llama 3

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45 pointsjonbraun17 comments

He's certainly smart enough to contribute to the work, if he had the time and wanted to do it.

But in all likelihood his contribution to Llama 3 consisted of... approving Llama 3.

Not sure why would this be surprising, he built a smart assistant in 2016: https://www.businessinsider.com/how-mark-zuckerberg-personal...

He does seem genuinely passionate about it during interviews so makes sense that he spent some time on it

Highest paid QA in the world

Mark makes $1 a year. Now if we count his dividends sure, but I wouldnt say that those are payment for his work since he'd get them if he was working or not.

No longer true.

Assertions without cite[1; pp. 62 and 68] are less meaningful than Zuck's base salary.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326801/000132680124...

His base salary was $1. But his total compensation was around $23 million which includes his fringe benefits like personal security, private jet, health insurance, etc.

At the end of the day he still owns 13.5% of the company on paper. Any listed compensation was already ~1/8ths his.

That's ~$24.4 million in explicit fringe benefits allocated by Meta's board; it's not like Zuck is willy-nilly exchanging family security allowance for Gucci bags.

To the GP's original remark, Meta paid out a quarterly dividend of $0.50/share a few weeks ago[1]...I'm sure you can ballpark what Zuck's cut of that was. When you do, square that notional figure against the limited use total comp above and tell us why the latter even matters.

[1] https://investor.fb.com/investor-news/press-release-details/...

Meta pays for his security and he uses the companies pj but he doesnt take a salary and hasnt received stocks for a decade.

He uses the company's what? Pajamas?

I never quite understand why people use ambiguous or uncommon abbreviations in comments. In this case I'm pretty sure they were talking about private jets (because it was spelled out in another comment), but I can't image most persons talk THAT much about private jets that they are used to that abbreviation.

Eh, poor guys base salary pathetic, like $1/yr

https://github.com/meta-llama/llama3/commits?author=zuck

turns up empty though. Maybe he just paid them

it's like in Silicon Valley when Erlich puts on his carpal tunnel gloves and finally starts contributing to the Pied Piper codebase

or there might be more than one zuck in meta

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