The boss of OpenAI, Sam Altman, says members of his team have been getting "giant offers" from rival tech firm Meta, including $100m (£74.3m) "signing bonuses." ...

Peter Deng spent more than a decade working at Meta. The venture capitalist was also OpenAI's vice president of consumer product. Deng said he expects new hires to be able to work independently ...

Sam Altman said Meta was offering $100 million signing bonuses to OpenAI employees to jump ship. But an OpenAI researcher who recently joined Meta said he wasn't given such a bonus.

Meta has been aggressively poaching AI talent from rivals like OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic. But a former OpenAI board member said "it'll be difficult" for Meta to succeed with its new hires.

Meta has reportedly poached as many as 10 of OpenAI’s top researchers and model developers, with some pay packages reportedly adding up to $300 million over four years, including equity.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman tried to play it cooler, telling staff, “Missionaries will beat mercenaries,” and downplaying the importance of the employees Meta managed to poach.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on a podcast this week that Meta has dangled $100 million signing bonuses in front of the startup's employees, but that his company's best people have opted to stay.

Meta Platforms tried to poach OpenAI employees by offering signing bonuses as high as $100 million, with even larger annual compensation packages, OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman said.

Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg on Monday unveiled a restructuring of the company’s AI operations as it pursues what he dubbed “superintelligence,” – and Wall Street cheered by pushing the stock ...

OpenAI has been winding down its work with Scale AI over the last year, according to a spokesperson. Meta is investing $14.3 billion into Scale AI and will have a 49% stake in the startup, which ...