Top AI researcher Rishabh Agarwal quits Meta’s Superintelligence Lab despite million-dollar pay

Rishabh Agarwal, a prominent AI researcher, has left Meta’s Superintelligence Lab (MSL) just months after joining on a million-dollar salary. Sharing the news on X, he wrote, “This is my last week at @AIatMeta. It was a tough decision not to continue with the new Superintelligence TBD lab, especially given the talent and compute density.”

After spending over seven years at top tech firms such as Google Brain, DeepMind, and Meta, Agarwal said he is ready to take “a different kind of risk”.

He said that despite receiving a strong pitch from…