Looks like Meta isn’t carried out poaching expertise from OpenAI.
Earlier this week, Ztoog reported that Meta had employed influential OpenAI researcher Trapit Bansal, and based on The Wall Street Journal, it additionally employed three different researchers from the corporate.
Now The Information is reporting four more Meta hires from OpenAI: Researchers Shengjia Zhao, Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, and Hongyu Ren.
This hiring spree comes after the April launch of Meta’s Llama 4 AI fashions, which reportedly didn’t carry out in addition to CEO Mark Zuckerberg had hoped. (The firm was additionally criticized over the model of Llama that it used for a preferred benchmark.)
There’s been some back-and-forth between the 2 firms, with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman suggesting that Meta was providing “$100 million signing bonuses” whereas including that “so far, none of our best people” have left. Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth then advised workers that whereas senior leaders might have been provided that sort of cash, “the actual terms of the offer” have been more advanced than a easy one-time signing bonus.