AI Talent Market / Researcher Comp
$100M+ packages as a scarce-input chokepoint
The 2025 talent war (Meta's reported $100M+ offers, mass poaching for its Superintelligence Lab) exposed elite researchers as the scarcest input in AI. Talent concentration and non-competes function as a real moat and a cost line that reshapes lab economics.
2025 signal
$100M+ packages
How it fits the stack
AI Talent Market / Researcher Comp with what it depends on (above) and what it feeds (below). The figure renders as a crawlable diagram and upgrades to an interactive 3D graph as it scrolls into view.
AI Talent Market / Researcher Comp in the AI stack. AI Talent Market / Researcher Comp with its immediate upstream dependencies (top) and downstream dependents (bottom) in the AI value chain. Hover a node in 3D, or read the full relationships below.
Graph data (text) — 4 entities, 3 relationships
- Meta AI (FAIR) —depends on→ AI Talent Market / Researcher Comp
- Safe Superintelligence (SSI) —depends on→ AI Talent Market / Researcher Comp
- Thinking Machines Lab —depends on→ AI Talent Market / Researcher Comp