OpenAI researcher who moved to Meta didn't receive $100 million. Says it's not true
A former OpenAI researcher who left ChatGPT developer for Meta said he didn't receive a $100 million signing bonus when he joined the social media giant.
A former OpenAI researcher who left ChatGPT developer for Meta said he didn't receive a $100 million signing bonus when he joined the social media giant.
Lucas Bayer joined OpenAI in November and helped set up the company’s Zurich office with two of his colleagues, Alexander Kolesnikov and Xiaohua Zhai. On Thursday, Bayer wrote in an X post that all three have moved on to Meta.
The trio worked as research scientists at Google DeepMind before joining OpenAI, Business Insider writes .
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently said that Meta tried to lure away his best employees by offering them compensation packages worth more than $100 million.
"No, we did not receive $100 million, this is fake news," Bayer wrote on X on Thursday, but did not specify what kind of offer they received.
Zuckerberg's AI talent hiring tactics are already being called aggressive. This month, Meta invested $14.3 billion in AI startup Scale AI and hired its CEO Alexander Wang.
Meta also wanted to acquire AI startup Safe Superintelligence and hire its co-founder and former OpenAI chief scientific officer Ilya Sutzkever. After being rejected, it hired its CEO Daniel Gross.
Andrew Bosworth, Meta's chief technology officer, told CNBC that the talent shortage in AI means that a "relatively small group of people" can command an "incredible market premium" for their skills.
"The free market will do its thing. People will see these numbers and start to gain experience. In a couple of years, things will probably be very different, and there will be a lot of people with this talent pool. But today it's a relatively small number, and I think they deserve it," Bosworth said.
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