Mark Zuckerberg has refuted claims about Meta offering multi-million dollar pay packages to attract artificial intelligence professionals from rival firms.

Zuckerberg has pushed back against reports of compensation packages being the primary reason for top AI researchers joining the tech giant.

Mark Zuckerberg said on Monday that Meta Platforms would spend hundreds of billions of dollars to build several massive AI data centers for superintelligence, intensifying his pursuit of a technology he has chased with a talent war for top engineers.