New Delhi, July 17 -- Mark Zuckerberg has called reports on Meta's million dollar pay packages to poach artificial intelligence staff from competitors "inaccurate", but did not elaborate on the actual numbers in an interview with The Information.

Speaking to the publication on reports of "$100-200 million" pay packages for Meta's "Superintelligence" AI team, Mark Zuckerkberg called it a "hot market" adding that it makes "sense" to spend big on gaining the right talent.

"A lot of the specifics that have been reported aren't accurate by themselves. But it is a very hot market," the 41-year-old CEO of Meta acknowleged, adding, "There's a small number of researchers, which are the best, who are in demand by all of the different labs. So I t...