Openai CEO Sam Altman said that Meta has offered a bonus of $ 100 million (about Rs 863 crore) to recruit its employees, as Tech giants want to ramp their artificial intelligence strategy.
Alleged attempt by Meta For rent Openi Employees are the latest signs of a frenzy to appoint top engineers to develop AI models, and when they come at a time when they come at a time Facebook The owner is working on the construction of its superintending unit to catch with the contestants.
Competition for Aye Talent has reached a fever pitch as superstar researchers are being placed or broken like professional athletes on the belief that individual contributors can make or break companies.
Altman said on the podcast aired on Tuesday, “He (Meta) started making huge proposals to many people of our team.” “You know, such as $ 100 million (about 863 crore rupees) signing a bonus, more than compensation per year (in).”
“At least, so far, none of our best people have decided to take them on it,” Altman said.
Meta did not immediately respond to a request for commenting out of commercial hours regularly, and the Reuters could not verify the information.
“I heard that Meta thinks us as his biggest contestant,” Altman said.
A few days after his comments, Meta invested $ 14.3 billion (about Rs 1,23,421 crore) at a data-labeling startup scale AI, and hired his top boss, Alexandra Wang to lead his new superintending team.
Meta, once recognized as a leader in the open-source AI model, is suffering from the departure of the employees and postponed the launch of the new open-source AI model which can be rival rival like Google, China Deepsek And Openai.
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