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Meta allegedly offered $100 million to poach OpenAI employees, says Sam Altman

Meta allegedly offered $100 million to poach OpenAI employees, says Sam Altman

Would you be willing to give up your position at OpenAI, one of the most followed companies of the moment, to join Meta for a very nice check for $100 million? This is the dilemma that some OpenAI employees have reportedly faced, according to Sam Altman, the company's current CEO.

In the latest Uncapped podcast episode, hosted by Jack Altman's brother, who is none other than Sam Altman, the latter did not hesitate to reveal the practices of his competitors, and more specifically, Mark Zuckerberg's company...

A Meta AI development "made in OpenAI"?

While Meta was initially heavily criticized for being behind the curve in the battle of artificial intelligence, the company has continued to make numerous announcements in recent months.

Last April, Meta even made a big leap forward by announcing Meta AI, its mobile application that competes with directly ChatGPT and Google Gemini, in addition to being integrated into its social networks.

With this new information revealed by Sam Altman, which remains to be proven for the moment, a first question remains: did many OpenAI employees accept this proposal?

In his brother's podcast, Sam Altman clarified that none of the "best" elements of OpenAI accepted Mark Zuckerberg's proposal. However, the latter does not have any information on whether some employees accepted this proposal, especially since Meta has refused to comment on the subject so far.

Although this remains to be confirmed, this could explain the rapid development of artificial intelligence projects at Meta, and the $65 billion investment planned in AI this year.

Sam Altman criticizes the lack of innovation at Meta

In addition to highlighting the aggressive practices of his competitor, in his own words, and although he claimed to respect this way of doing things in Uncapped, Sam Altman did not hesitate to tackle Meta.

According to the CEO of OpenAI, this attempt by Meta unfortunately reflects its lack of innovation in artificial intelligence. According to Bloomberg, Mark Zuckerberg even decided to meet directly with some OpenAI experts, and went so far as to ask to change the entire layout of the company's headquarters in Menlo Park to launch a team dedicated to "superintelligence".

For his part, Sam Altman believes that Meta still knows "a lot" about the field, and does not seem worried by this competitor who seems to want to do everything to overtake him...

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