Meta is Attempting to Poach OpenAI Staff With $100M Signing Bonuses: Sam Altman

Multinational technological giant Meta offers OPENAI employees who sign up up to $ 100 million, along with the annual compensation packages exceeding this amount, Openi Openi Director Sam Altman, “Uncepped” Podcast said on Monday.

The target gave “giant offers to many people from our team,” Altman said on Podcastwho aired on Tuesday and hosted by his brother Jack Altman.

In an interview, Altman said that none of his “best people” of his company had accepted these packages to this day.

The Meta Employment efforts were allegedly the CEO of Mark Zuckerberg personally contacted researchers and held meetings at his private residences in Lake Tahoe and Palo Alto, he states Bloomberg report quoting the people who approached Zuckerberg.

Altman’s claims of huge offers compensation from the target look like they are confirming report from Information Last year, in which Zuckerberg allegedly sent an E -Post and a “fast offer” for top -notch talent to join his team.

Altman’s comments are not substantiated. Meta and Openai did not immediately respond Decipherptic Request for comment.

Altman’s podcast conversation comes when the target tries to step up its efforts on AI.

Last week, invested $ 14 billion In the AI ​​for the AI ​​starting ladder, hoping to capture their rivals, forming a “division of superintelligence” led by Alexandr Wang, 26-year-old founder and CEO of Scale AI.

Talent Ai acquisition wars

Significant demand for AI talent has increased the fee in the industry. Industry data Composed by the company’s risk capital company shows that there are significant changes in the AI ​​sector.

Among the elite laboratories from the best AI companies, Top Talent is locked: Anthropically leads with 80% of a two -year retention rate, followed by Google’s Deep at 78% and Opena at 67%.

But while the target spends two million dollars a year for AI talent, “they are still losing them to open and anthropy,” he states X post Deedy Das, Chief Investor in Menlo Ventures.

The report also shows that top -notch talent gravitate to anthropic, which draws more employees than rivals such as Deepmind -A Openi than it loses.

Deepmind is considered to be one of the most significant sources of talent for other laboratorys, which suggests that he is facing significantly exhausted. In the meantime, smaller players like a face embrace get attraction, pulling researchers from major companies.

Some companies, such as safe supereintelligence (SSI), founded by former Openi Ilya Sutskever scientist, have been offered to retain packages involved in two million dollars and an increase in capital of $ 20 million or more, and some arrangements require one-year obligations for complete compensation, accordingly Reuters report In May.

These moves opened the US government supervision, with three senators questioning the practice in an open letter last year.

Edited Sebastian Sinclair