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Why: Zuck knows exactly one trick, and that is to throw money at a problem.

I don't know what the current tally on his metaverse fiasco is, but if he can spend billions upon billions on that, then poaching AI researchers and engineers for a fraction of that isn't really out of character.

At least part of is is that the capex for LLM training is so high. It used to be that compute was extremely cheap compared to staff, but that's no longer the case for large model training.

How: Meta has the money because they presumably have infinite margins.

Why: Its a bubble.