IIT Kanpur's Tripit Bansal joins Meta with $100 million 'signing amount'

Ashad 20, 2082

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IIT Kanpur's Tripit Bansal joins Meta with $100 million 'signing amount'

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After Mark Zuckerberg gave Tripit Bansal of Indian origin a 'signing amount' of 100 million dollars to join the superintelligence unit of Meta (Facebook) to leave OpenAI, this news is now widespread in the technology sector.

 Bansal also posted on social media this week saying that he is connected with Meta. Lately, Silicon Valley companies have increased the tendency to attract employees with attractive 'transfer amount'.   

Sam Altman, the head of OpenAI, creator of ChatGPT, has said that Bansal, including high-level employees and researchers from various technology companies, are being recruited by Meta with a $100 million (more than 13 billion rupees) 'joining bonus package' to his company.

Meta, which is looking to make a leap into artificial intelligence (AI), recently announced that it would invest $14.3 billion in Scale AI and appointed Alexander Wang, the 28-year-old founder of Scale, as the head of the 'superintelligence' unit .    

Bansal, who graduated from IIT Kanpur in India, joined OpenAI in 2022. There  He  Worked on the development of 'Reinforcement Learning and AI Reasoning Model'. Technology news portal 'TechCrunch' has described him as an 'influential researcher in OpenAI'. He has done special research in Natural Language Processing, Deep Learning and Meta-Learning .  According to

NDTV, Bansal graduated from IIT Kanpur in Mathematics and Statistics and has a Masters in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a PhD in Computer Science from the same university. During his studies, he did internships at IISC Bangalore, Facebook, Google and Microsoft. During his undergraduate studies in 2017, he also worked as an intern at OpenAI for four months.

After Altman, the head of OpenAI, accused his employees of being recruited by Meta, Meta responded that this was not true . Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth called Altman's claims "false" and exaggerated. He has claimed that it is not true that new employees were 'packaged'.

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