Zuckerberg’s Meta offered $100m bonuses to poach my staff – OpenAI CEO Altman

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Meta offered $100 million bonuses to OpenAI employees in an unsuccessful bid to poach the ChatGPT maker’s talent and strengthen its own generative AI teams, the startup’s CEO, Sam Altman, has said.

Facebook’s parent company — a competitor of OpenAI — also offered “giant” annual salaries exceeding $100 million to OpenAI staffers, Altman said in an interview on the “Uncapped with Jack Altman” podcast released Tuesday.“It is crazy,” Altman told his brother Jack in the interview.

“I’m really happy that at least so far none of our best people have decided to take them up on that.”

The OpenAI cofounder said Meta had made the offers to “a lot of people on our team.”

Meta did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The social media titan has invested billions of dollars in artificial intelligence technology amid fierce competition in the AI race with rivals OpenAI, Google and Microsoft.

Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said in January that the firm planned to invest at least $60 billion in AI this year, with ambitions to lead in the technology.

Last week, Meta entered into a deal reportedly worth more than $10 billion with Scale AI, a company specializing in labeling data used in training artificial intelligence models.

As part of the deal, company founder and CEO Alexandr Wang will join Meta to help with the tech giant’s AI ambitions, including its work on superintelligence efforts. Vanguard