$250 million to work for Meta

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🗓️ 28 August 2025

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Meta Mark is going all-out to put his superintelligence lab on superdrive. What is superintelligence, you ask? This episode was produced by Gabrielle Berbey with help from Denise Guerra, edited by Miranda Kennedy, fact checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Andrea Kristinsdottir and Matthew Billy, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Listen to Today, Explained ad-free by becoming a Vox Member: vox.com/members. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast. Mark Zuckerberg, head of Meta, showing off a prototype of computer glasses. Photo by Andrej Sokolow/picture alliance via Getty Images. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	How much would Mark Zuckerberg have to pay you for you to want to go work for him over at Meta?
0:07.0	Maybe it's your dream job, so let's say just like 100K.
0:10.3	Maybe you hate Mark with every fiber of your being, so you'd ask for like 10 million.
0:15.6	But if you could sell him on your super intelligence, he might offer you $250 million.
0:23.6	Superintelligence was something that could invent a fusion reactor that humans didn't even understand
0:29.6	or figure out how to do faster than light travel. And so people here in Silicon Valley started
0:34.6	to get really excited and started to spend a lot of money on designing ever more capable artificial intelligence.
0:40.3	A personal superintelligence that helps you achieve your goals, create what you want to see in the world, be a better friend, and grow to become the person that you aspire to be.
0:50.3	We're going to explain super intelligence and why Meta Mark will offer you the moon to help him build it on today Explain from Box.
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