KEY TAKEAWAYS
- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Meta Platforms offered signing bonuses as high as $100 million to poach the ChatGPT maker’s staffers.
- Speaking on his brother’s “Uncapped with Jack Altman” podcast, Sam Altman added that the Facebook parent was offering even larger annual compensation packages. “I’m really happy that at least so far none of our best people have decided to take (Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg) up on that.”
- The alleged attempts to poach OpenAI staffers come as Zuckerberg reportedly has been frustrated with Meta’s level of AI progress.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Meta Platforms (META) offered signing bonuses as high as $100 million to poach the ChatGPT maker’s staffers.
Speaking on his brother’s “Uncapped with Jack Altman” podcast, Sam Altman added that the Facebook parent was offering even larger annual compensation packages. “I’m really happy that at least so far none of our best people have decided to take (Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg) up on that.”
Altman added, “I’ve heard that Meta thinks of us as their biggest competitor,” and that “their current AI efforts have not worked as well as they have hoped.”
Meta didn’t immediately respond to an Investopedia request for comment.
The alleged attempts to poach OpenAI staffers come as Zuckerberg reportedly has been frustrated with Meta’s level of AI progress. The tech giant recently made a “significant new investment” in Scale AI that valued the startup at more than than $29 billion and hired CEO Alexandr Wang to boost its efforts in the technology.
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