Elon Musk claimed multiple "strong Meta engineers" have already joined and others are in process of joining his firm xAI while Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg spends billions to poach rival firms' AI talent. Saying he poached Meta employees "without need for insane initial compensation", Musk said, "We're hyper merit-based." "xAI has vastly more m-cap growth potential than Meta," Musk added.