In the fight for elite AI talent, the salary is the easy part. At Cursor, the $60 billion company behind a suite of popular coding tools recently acquired by SpaceX, hiring a candidate is a bit like trying to win over someone who’s completely out of your league. “Closing is a team sport,” Matt Ward,
Meta publicly released a new version of Muse Spark on Thursday, a multimodal AI model designed for agent coding that aims to compete with similar products offered by OpenAI and Anthropic. Spark 1.1, the first version of which was announced in April, can engage in multi-step reasoning and handle complex processes, manage digital workflows, and
Replacing people with AI doesn’t seem to be that easy to do, if you can look at Meta as an example. Reuters reports that in an internal meeting on Thursday, CEO Mark Zuckerberg told staff that the pace of development of AI agents had not “accelerated in the way” executives had previously expected. Earlier this
When Bernstein analyst Mark Shmulik sent a note to clients about Meta’s reported plans to cut 20% or more of its roughly 79,000-person workforce, he issued a warning. If Meta succeeds in redrawing the blueprint for an AI-enabled organization, he wrote, “others will rush to replicate it,” potentially triggering “a cascade of hurried pivots, half-formed