Meta has offered a $100 million bonus to employees at Poach Openai: CEO Altman

Meta has provided Openai employees with a $100 million bonus to poach the talent of ChatGpt makers and strengthen their own generative AI teams.

Competitors of Facebook’s parent company Openai also provided Openai staff with “huge” annual salary of over $100 million, Altman said in an interview with the “No Cap with Jack Altman” podcast released Tuesday.

“It’s crazy,” Altman told his brother Jack in an interview.

“I’m really pleased that, at least so far, our best people have never decided to take them up.”

Openai’s co-founder said Meta had made an offer to “many people on our team.”

Meta did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Social media Titan has invested billions of dollars in artificial intelligence technology amid fierce competition in AI races with rivals Open, Google and Microsoft.

Meta Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said in January that the company plans to invest at least $60 billion in AI this year and is planning to lead the technology.

Last week, Meta was reportedly worth more than $10 billion with Scale AI, specialized in labeling data used to train artificial intelligence models.

As part of the deal, the company’s founder and CEO Alexandre Wang will join Meta to support the high-tech giant’s AI ambitions, including work on super-intelligence efforts.

Comparing Meta to his company, Altman said on the podcast that “Openai has a much better shot at offering Superintelligence.”

“I think it’s a lot of pre-guaranteed comp strategies and the reason you say you want someone to join… I don’t think that’s going to set a great culture,” the Openai boss added.

According to US media reports, Meta also offers nine-digit annual salary to expand AI executives.

“There’s a lot to respect about the meta as a company,” Altman said. “But I don’t think they’re a company that’s good at innovation.”

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