Appears to be like like Meta isn’t executed poaching expertise from OpenAI.
Earlier this week, Trendster reported that Meta had employed influential OpenAI researcher Trapit Bansal, and in response to The Wall Road Journal, it additionally employed three different researchers from the corporate.
Now The Data is reporting 4 extra 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 corporate was additionally criticized over the model of Llama that it used for a well-liked benchmark.)
There’s been some back-and-forth between the 2 corporations, with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman suggesting that Meta was providing “$100 million signing bonuses” whereas including that “to this point, none of our greatest folks” have left. Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth then informed workers that whereas senior leaders could have been supplied that type of cash, “the precise phrases of the supply” had been extra advanced than a easy one-time signing bonus.
