India, July 9 -- A viral social media post highlighting the career of tech researcher Rishabh Agrawal has sparked widespread admiration, including a nod from billionaire Nikesh Arora. The IIT Bombay graduate responded to a tweet claiming he had opted to leave Meta's Superintelligence Labs to work at an AI startup backed by Nvidia and Jeff Bezos.

It all started with a tweet about Rishabh Agrawal, which claimed that he left his job at Meta despite "Mark Zuckerberg personally" offering him $1 million.

"And do you know what he's a doing today? But-generation AI company called Periodic Labs," it continued, adding, "Many of us might not know him well, but in the AI world, he is a big deal. The reason is that he has worked at some of the most ...