Appears like Meta isn’t executed poaching expertise from OpenAI.
Earlier this week, TechCrunch reported that Meta had employed influential OpenAI researcher Trapit Bansal, and in line with The Wall Avenue 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 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 “to date, none of our greatest individuals” have left. Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth then instructed workers that whereas senior leaders might have been provided that form of cash, “the precise phrases of the provide” have been extra advanced than a easy one-time signing bonus.
