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Meta’s $100 Million AI Talent Push Fails to Lure OpenAI Researchers

Mark Zuckerberg’s aggressive hiring drive backed by a $14.3 billion Scale AI deal has failed to sway OpenAI’s core engineers.

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Overview

  • Meta offered top OpenAI researchers signing bonuses of up to $100 million and annual compensation packages exceeding that amount.
  • OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirmed that none of his best team members have accepted Meta’s offers so far.
  • Meta formed a new superintelligence team led by former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang following its $14.3 billion investment in the data-labeling firm.
  • Zuckerberg has been personally recruiting AI experts and reconfigured Meta’s Menlo Park offices to position the new team close to his workspace.
  • OpenAI’s mission-driven culture and belief in its own path to artificial general intelligence have kept key staff loyal despite Meta’s compensation-focused approach.