Can you just buy the best AI developers? Meta tries with Openai employees with offers of up to $100 million. Sam Altman reveals Zuckerberg’s aggressive strategy – but remains calm.
The competition for top talents in the AI industry is taking on increasingly more extreme forms. Openai boss Sam Altman now revealed that Meta-CEO Mark Zuckerberg is trying to recruit employees of his company with a literally astronomical sums. The offers include signing bonuses of up to $ 100 million – with annual remuneration packages that even go beyond.
You started making huge offers to many people in our team. You know something like $ 100 million signing bonus, more than that of annual remuneration. So far, none of our best people have decided to go into it. Sam Altman, Openai CEO
Altman made these revelations in the “Uncapped” podcast, which is moderated by his brother Jack Altman. The attempts at the departure are part of a larger strategy of Meta to strengthen its position in the AI race race. Zuckerberg is currently building a new team for “superintelligence” and is personally involved in the recruitment efforts. The meta-CEO sits at a billion dollar assets and seems ready to dig deep into the pocket to win the best heads in the industry.
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Metas aggressive recruitment strategy
Meta’s recruitment efforts are not limited to Openai. The company, Alexandr Wang, the founder of Scale Ai, recently won the company as part of a 14.3 billion dollar deal. Wang will now lead the newly founded “superintelligence” department of meta. In addition, the company Jack Rae, a leading researcher from Google’s AI research laboratory Deepmind. Altman further: “I heard that Meta considered us as its greatest competitor.
Your current AI efforts did not work as well as hoped, and I respect it to be aggressive and continue to try new things.” This statement alludes to METAS previous challenges with its LLAMA model, which, despite considerable investments, has not yet achieved the desired market penetration. In any case, the numbers speak a clear language: Meta invested over $ 40 billion in AI research and infrastructure in 2024 alone. The company now employs over 3000 AI researchers and engineers.
Altman criticized Metas strategy of high remuneration. The concentration on guaranteed advance payments would distract from the actual work and not create a winning culture: “I believe that there are many people, and Meta will be a new example that says: ‘We will just try to copy Openai.’ Basically, this never works.
The Openai boss emphasized that his employees had probably come to the conclusion that Openai had better chances of achieving general artificial intelligence (AGI) and being the more valuable company in the long term.
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