Meta's AI chief says he turned down a job as a Google director in 2002 partly because of low pay

• Meta's AI chief says he turned down an early job offer for director of research at Google.
• Yann LeCun said there were several reasons for the decision, including the compensation package.
• He acknowledged, however, that "the stock option package would have ended up stratospheric."

Meta's chief AI scientist, Yann LeCun, says he turned down a job offer for director of research at Google in 2002.