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Meta’s $100 Million Offers Fail to Lure OpenAI’s Top AI Talent

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman credits mission-driven culture for keeping his top researchers in place despite Meta’s delayed model launches and staffing challenges at its superintelligence lab.

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Overview

  • Sam Altman revealed on the Uncapped podcast that Meta dangled $100 million signing bonuses and multi-year compensation packages to attract OpenAI engineers.
  • To power its superintelligence initiative, Meta invested $14.3 billion in Scale AI and recruited its founder, Alexandr Wang, along with other star researchers from rivals.
  • According to Altman, none of OpenAI’s leading staffers have accepted Meta’s offers, underscoring loyalty to OpenAI’s AI-focused mission over outright financial incentives.
  • Meta’s AI labs have experienced delayed releases of open-source models and notable departures that have complicated its efforts to compete with OpenAI and Google DeepMind.
  • The surge in high-stakes recruitment reflects a broader arms race among tech giants vying for the scarce pool of researchers capable of advancing toward artificial general intelligence.