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Title: Altman Says Meta Targeting OpenAI Staff With $100 Million Bonuses as
AI Race Intensifies

Link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/06/18/0751...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman accused Meta of attempting to poach his developers with
$100 million sign-on bonuses and higher compensation packages as the social
media giant races to catch up in AI race. Altman said Meta, which has a $1.8
trillion market capitalization, began making the offers to his team members
after falling behind in AI efforts. "I've heard that Meta thinks of us as
their biggest competitor," Altman said on the Uncapped podcast [video] hosted
by his brother. None of his "best people" had accepted Zuckerberg's offers,
he said. Meta has been recruiting top researchers and engineers from rival
companies to build a new "superintelligence" team focused on developing AGI.
The Facebook parent company has struggled this year to match competitors,
facing criticism over its Llama 4 language model and delaying its flagship
"Behemoth" AI model.

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