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Meta’s $100M Offers Fall Flat as OpenAI Retains Top AI Talent

The setback follows Meta’s $14.3 billion stake in Scale AI as it builds a new superintelligence unit

OpenAI logo is seen in this illustration taken February 8, 2025. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is seated to testify before a Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee hearing titled “Winning the AI Race: Strengthening U.S. Capabilities in Computing and Innovation,” on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 8, 2025. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo
Meta logo is seen in this illustration taken, August 22, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
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Overview

  • On June 17, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed that Meta’s offers of up to $100 million in signing bonuses and annual pay have yet to lure the startup’s leading researchers.
  • OpenAI employees reportedly cite the company’s mission-driven culture and stronger prospects for achieving artificial general intelligence as reasons to stay.
  • Meta has placed former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang at the helm of its new superintelligence team following its multibillion-dollar investment in the data-labeling firm.
  • Earlier attempts to recruit high-profile AI experts such as Noam Brown from OpenAI and Koray Kavukcuoglu from Google DeepMind also failed to materialize.
  • OpenAI is reportedly developing a prototype social networking app that could compete with Meta’s emerging AI-powered features, though details remain unconfirmed.