Zuck goes Superintelligence Founder Mode: $100M bonuses + $100M+ salaries + NFDG Buyout?
**Meta AI** is reportedly offering **8-9 figure signing bonuses and salaries** to top AI talent, confirmed by **Sam Altman**. They are also targeting key figures like **Nat** and **Dan** from the AI Grant fund for strategic hires. **Essential AI** released the massive **24-trillion-token Essential-Web v1.0 dataset** with rich metadata and a 12-category taxonomy. **DeepLearning.AI** and **Meta AI** launched a course on **Llama 4**, featuring new MoE models **Maverick (400B)** and **Scout (109B)** with context windows up to **10M tokens**. **MiniMax** open-sourced **MiniMax-M1**, a long-context LLM with a 1M-token window, and introduced the **Hailuo 02** video model. **OpenAI** rolled out "Record mode" for **ChatGPT Pro, Enterprise, and Edu** on macOS. **Arcee** launched the **AFM-4.5B** foundation model for enterprise. **Midjourney** released its **V1 video model** enabling image animation. These developments highlight major advances in model scale, long-context reasoning, multimodality, and enterprise AI applications.