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Sam Altman, Managing Director of Openaai, has accused Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta to poach its developers with the promise of $ 100 million registration and even higher compensation, as the social media platform races in the AI battle.
Altman said that Meta, which has a market capitalization of 1.8 TN of 1.8 m, started to make the employees in his team the “huge offers” after they had decreased at their current KI push. “I heard that Meta saw us as its greatest competitor.” Altar said on the Unpacked Podcast, which is moderated by his brother.
“I think it’s rational that you continue to try. Your current AI efforts did not work as well as you hoped and I respect (you) that are still aggressive.” He added that no of his “best people” Zuckerberg had included his offers.
Meta Has races to poach top researchers and engineers from competing groups to build a new “superintelligence” team to develop artificial general intelligence.
Zuckerberg, the managing director, personally selected and referred to Talent as part of the Superintelligence Push, as a person familiar with the matter and as Bloomberg reports for the first time. Meta announced last week An investment of USD 15 billion In the data message Start-up scale KI and also stopped his co-founder Alexandr Wang.
Although Zuckerberg has repeatedly declared his intention that the company will become a “AI leader”, Meta has difficulties this year to keep up with its competitors and to suffer several setbacks.
Meta has claimed that it increased the performance indicators for Lama 4, the latest publication of its large language model, and exposed to an online criticism because he did not publish a complete technical report to accompany the model. In a post on X in April, Ahmad Al-Dahle, Meta director Genai, recognized the “mixed quality” users, but refused to claim that his performance tests did not meet any congress.
It has also delayed the publication of its flagship AI model with the name “Gigeoth” and was unprepared by a smaller Chinese rival by rapid progress in this area. Deepseekmade a fraction of the costs.
Meta has recently experienced an exodus of AI talents. Several key researchers that have built the LAMA models in recent months, as well as Joelle Pineau, head of AI research. Zuckerberg has redesigned its generative KI leadership to catch up. Meta did not immediately respond to a request for comments.
Altman said that the strategy “a lot of ahead of guaranteed comp” was bad and “criticized the degree in which they concentrate on it and not on work and not the mission”. He added: “I don’t think you are a company that is great in innovation.”
According to Finanzpaket -Tracking -Werbent -Livele, the salaries for software engineer at Openai are between $ 238,000 and USD 1.34 million, while the salaries of META varied between $ 212,000 and around $ 3.7 million.
