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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently publicly criticised
Meta
Platforms' aggressive
talent recruitment
tactics, revealing that the company offered signing bonuses of up to $100 million to poach top OpenAI engineers—but failed to win them over. However, a new online report by WSJ tells a different story. As reported by WSJ, some of the key OpenAI researches have joined Meta for its
AI initiatives
. This new development now raises questions towards Sam Altman and the retention strategy at OpenAI.
OpenAI's top engineers are joining Meta
As per the report, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has succeeded in hiring some key engineers from OpenAI. The Facebook-parent company has reportedly hired Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai from OpenAI. All the three engineers were stationed at the Zurich office of the company.Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is building a high-powered team to pursue his Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) ambition. The company recently invested $14.3 billion in Scale AI and brought on its founder Alexandr Wang to lead the initiative.Another online report suggests that Meta also held preliminary discussions to purchase Perplexity, led by CEO Aravind Srinivas, and Safe Superintelligence (SSI), the new venture from former OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever. It has also been claimed that Zuckerberg showed interest in buying Thinking Machines Lab, a startup founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati.
Citing sources familiar with the matter, The Verge said that the talks did not advance to the formal offer stage due to disagreements over valuation and strategic alignment. Notably, Murati’s AI startup has closed on a $ 2 billion investment at a $10 billion valuation.
Sam Altman on Mark Zuckerberg’s aggressive recruitment
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently stated that Meta has aggressively tried to poach OpenAI employees, offering signing bonuses as high as $100 million along with substantial annual compensation packages.Speaking on the "Uncapped" podcast, Altman addressed the rivalry between the two companies. “I've heard that Meta thinks of us as their biggest competitor,” he said.“Their current AI efforts have not worked as well as they have hoped, and I respect being aggressive and continuing to try new things,” he added.
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