Meta has been aggressively pursuing AI talent from top labs, mostly OpenAI, in an effort to get a leg up on its competition. The details of the developing story are so dramatic and foreign to the rest of the world that it's become stranger-than-fiction fodder for the internet watching it unfold in real time.

Mark Zuckerberg is aggressively poaching OpenAI's top researchers, forcing the AI giant to temporarily shut down its operations. The latest high-profile hires are part of Zuckerberg's bold push to build Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL),