Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has hired three new researchers from OpenAI to work on his “superintelligence” team, just days after OpenAI CEO Sam Altman accused Meta of trying to poach his company’s staff.
Altman said Meta offered $100 million in cash rewards to attract employees. The three were reportedly Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai, who worked at OpenAI’s Zurich office.
Meta pivots to become a leader in AI
An OpenAI spokesperson confirmed that three employees had left the company but did not provide further details. Meta has not yet commented officially on the hiring.
Meanwhile, despite being seen as a leader in open-source AI, Meta is facing a talent crunch and struggles to deploy new models to compete with Google, OpenAI, and China's DeepSeek.
Altman had heard that Meta saw them as the main competitors in the artificial intelligence race.
Meta recently signed a deal with Alexandr Wang, the 28-year-old CEO of Scale AI, which focuses on “superintelligence” projects. The company also invested $14.3 billion to own a 49% stake in Scale AI.
Meta is now trying to change its strategy, with Zuckerberg reportedly assembling a team of experts to work toward the goal of “artificial general intelligence” (AGI).
Zuckerberg is reportedly hiring about 50 people, including a lead AI researcher for the AGI team, due to disappointment with the performance and reception of Meta's latest large language model (LLM), Llama 4.
Meta delayed the release of the new LLM after Llama 4 failed to meet internal benchmarks, particularly in reasoning and math. Data also showed that Llama 4 was worse than OpenAI's models at human-like speech communication.
Competitors like OpenAI are also considering adjustments to attract more investment to develop AGI.
This year, Meta plans to spend up to $65 billion to expand its AI infrastructure, as investors push tech giants to generate returns on AI investments.
Tech companies aggressively hunt for top researchers in AI talent race
Meta’s hiring strategy marks an escalation in the race for top engineers to develop AI models. The competition for talent has become so fierce that star researchers are sought after like professional athletes, because they can make or break a company.
In an episode of the Uncapped podcast that aired on June 17, the OpenAI CEO revealed to his brother — the host — that Meta had made generous offers to many members of the team.
Altman said that in addition to the large signing bonus, Meta also promised a much higher annual salary. However, OpenAI's key talent has not accepted the offer.
Zuckerberg reportedly sent hundreds of emails and WhatsApp messages to the brightest minds in the field of AI in a frantic effort to close the gap.
He reaches out to researchers, scientists, infrastructure engineers, product stars, and entrepreneurs to get them to join the new superintelligence lab.
Many people who received the message did not believe it was sent by Zuckerberg. Meanwhile, Altman continued to spend money, buying a startup from legendary former Apple designer Jony Ive for billions of dollars.
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