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Meta Launches Superintelligence Labs and Floats $300 Million Offers to OpenAI Researchers

OpenAI’s top executives warn that Meta’s unprecedented pay packages threaten mission-driven research culture.

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced he is restructuring the company's AI efforts around a new "Superintelligence" drive and revealed a clutch of key hires from rival AI labs as he tries to catapult Meta into a leadership position in the development of the most capable AI systems.
Sam Altman is pushing back on Mark Zuckerberg's aggressive AI recruitment drive after the Big Tech company poached several key researchers from OpenAI.

Overview

  • Meta has formally created Meta Superintelligence Labs to unify its AI foundations, product teams and FAIR research under Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang and co-lead Nat Friedman.
  • The company has reportedly approached over ten OpenAI researchers with compensation packages worth up to $300 million over four years, including large up-front equity grants.
  • OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Chief Research Officer Mark Chen have denounced the recruitment drive as “distasteful,” cautioning that mercenary hires risk undermining their mission-focused ethos.
  • Meta spokespeople, including Andy Stone and CTO Andrew Bosworth, have challenged the scale and structure of the reported offers, saying they have been misrepresented.
  • The aggressive talent push has stoked widespread FOMO across Silicon Valley as Meta doubles down on data-center spending and global computing capacity to accelerate its AI ambitions.