India, Oct. 23 -- Sudarshan Kamath, founder of Smallest AI, is among the many entrepreneurs eager to hire from the 600 employees that Meta has laid off from its AI division. The US-based IITian took to social media this morning to announce that laid-off Meta employees were welcome to apply to his company.

The announcement came just hours after Meta laid off 600 employees, primarily from its AI infrastructure units, Fundamental Artificial Intelligence Research unit (FAIR) and other product-related positions.

"Laid off from Meta? We are hiring in speech team for Smallest AI in San Francisco!" the founder of Smallest AI announced.

Kamath offered high salaries as incentive. He said that compensation could range between $200,000 to $600,000...