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Altman Says Meta Targeting OpenAI Staff With $100 Million Bonuses as AI Race Intensifies

Slashdot.org - Wed, 06/18/2025 - 06:01
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman accused Meta of attempting to poach his developers with $100 million sign-on bonuses and higher compensation packages as the social media giant races to catch up in AI race. Altman said Meta, which has a $1.8 trillion market capitalization, began making the offers to his team members after falling behind in AI efforts. "I've heard that Meta thinks of us as their biggest competitor," Altman said on the Uncapped podcast [video] hosted by his brother. None of his "best people" had accepted Zuckerberg's offers, he said. Meta has been recruiting top researchers and engineers from rival companies to build a new "superintelligence" team focused on developing AGI. The Facebook parent company has struggled this year to match competitors, facing criticism over its Llama 4 language model and delaying its flagship "Behemoth" AI model.

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Hear a podcast discussion about Gemini’s coding capabilities.Hear a podcast discussion about Gemini’s coding capabilities.

GoogleBlog - Wed, 06/18/2025 - 05:28
The latest episode of the Google AI: Release Notes podcast focuses on how the Gemini team built one of the world’s leading AI coding models.Host Logan Kilpatrick chats w…
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