Meta paying 24-year old AI researcher $250 million

September 8, 2025

Why spend so much money? Today’s tech bros believe that artificial general intelligence is imminent and want to be the first to commercialize it. This relies on three questionable assumptions: that AGI is imminent; that the commercial value of large language models, or LLMs, will be far larger than the costs; and that only the best of the best researchers can get us where we want to go…