AI researcher Rishabh Agarwal is currently in the news for rejecting an offer from Meta. After studying at IIT Bombay, he has worked at several companies, including Google and Meta.

Rishabh Agarwal has rejected Meta's offer of crores.

AI researcher Rishabh Agarwal: AI researcher Rishabh Agarwal is being widely discussed these days. Rishabh turned down a multi-crore rupee package from Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and is now working on his own new AI startup. Indeed, for some time now, Meta has been lavishing money on AI talent, recruiting AI researchers and engineers with hefty salaries. Rishabh also received an offer from Meta , offering a salary of crores, but he declined. Rishabh himself has confirmed this. Let's find out who Rishabh is and where his journey began.

The story came out from X Post.

A post on the social media platform X claimed that Rishabh had turned down a package of approximately ₹8.5 crore (approximately ₹8.5 crore) from Meta. After working at Meta for just a few days, he is now working for his own AI startup. Rishabh himself responded to the viral post, writing that Meta's offer was much larger than the amount stated in the post.

Who is Rishabh Agarwal?

Rishabh is a well-known AI researcher. After securing AIR 33 in the JEE, he studied Computer Science at IIT Bombay. From there, he moved to Canada for further studies. He completed his PhD in Artificial Intelligence from Mila, an AI research institute in Montreal, Canada. Subsequently, he worked with major companies in the field of AI, including Google Brain, Google DeepMind, Waymo, and Meta Superintelligence Labs. He also taught at McGill University for a period. Rishabh has conducted research on reinforcement learning and large language models. He also worked on Google's Gemma and Gemini AI models.

Joined Meta last year

Rishabh started working with Meta's Superintelligence Lab in April of last year, but resigned after just five months. Explaining his decision, he wrote that after 7.5 years of working with Google Brain, DeepMind, and Meta, he wanted to take a different kind of risk. Rishabh subsequently joined Periodic Labs as a founding member. Jeff Bezos and Nvidia are funding this startup.