Meta Offered $100M Signing Bonuses to OpenAI Engineers But No One Left, Claims Sam Altman

Meta is aggressively trying to build its superintelligence team, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is offering massive pay packages to top AI researchers. Meta has recently approached employees from OpenAI and Google DeepMind. Some offers included signing bonuses worth more than $100 million.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has confirmed the reports on a podcast hosted by his brother, Jack Altman. He revealed that Meta made big offers to many OpenAI team members. “They started making giant offers, like $100 million signing bonuses, even more than that in total comp per year,” Altman said.