OpenAI's CEO says Mark Zuckerberg's Meta has been making 'giant offers' to try and poach the company's staff. 'You know, like a $100 million signing bonus,' Sam Altman says.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman didn’t hold back. In a podcast hosted by his brother, he revealed that Meta Platforms dangled $100 million signing bonuses to lure OpenAI staff, only to fail. “None of our best people have decided to take them up on that,

While Meta had sought to hire “a lot of people” from OpenAI, none of its best people have accepted the offers. The news comes amid efforts from Mark Zuckerberg to ramp up Meta's AI talent pool. Meta recently hiring Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang as part of a $14 billion deal.