Sam Altman, chief executive officer (CEO) of OpenAI, says Meta offered signing bonuses as high as $100 million to poach talent from his company.
Altman spoke during an episode of the Uncapped Podcast
hosted by Jack Altman, his brother, on Tuesday.
“They started making giant offers to a lot of people on our
team,” Sam said.
“You know, like $100 million signing bonuses.”
However, he added that the recruitment attempts have been
unsuccessful so far, as none of OpenAI’s employees have accepted Meta’s offers.
Altman also criticised Meta’s approach to artificial intelligence
(AI), saying the company’s efforts have yet to deliver the expected results.
“Their current AI efforts have not worked as well as they
have hoped, and I respect being aggressive and continuing to try new things,”
he said.
“There are many things I respect about Meta as a company,
but I don’t think they’re a company that’s great at innovation, I think we
understand a lot of things they don’t.
The CEO’s statement comes amid Meta’s recent intensified
efforts on AI.
According to Bloomberg, Mark Zuckerberg, owner of Meta, has
invited several AI experts to join the company’s superintelligence lab and
contribute to a reboot of Llama, its open-source large language model.
Meta is also reportedly in talks to hire Nat Friedman,
former GitHub CEO, and Daniel Gross, his investment partner, to strengthen its
AI team.
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