India, June 18 -- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says Meta has tried, and failed, to poach his company's best engineers with eye-watering compensation packages.
Speaking on the Uncapped podcast, Altman claimed Meta has offered signing bonuses as high as $100 million, with even larger annual pay packages, in an effort to build a world-class artificial intelligence team. Despite these "giant offers," Altman said, "so far none of our best people have decided to take them up on that."
Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, has ramped up its AI ambitions, recently investing $14.3 billion to acquire a 49% stake in Scale AI.
The company is also reportedly recruiting top talent for its new "superintelligence" lab as it races to catch up with...