Altman: Meta once offered $100 million to try to poach OpenAI talent, but failed

Passionategeekz June 18th news, according to foreign media TechCrunch today, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is accelerating the pace of recruiting people, trying to recruit top AI researchers from OpenAI and Google DeepMind for the newly established super intelligent team. It is said that in order to attract these talents to join the team led by former Scale AI CEO Alexander Wang and similar to Zuckerberg himself in his office location, Meta openedUp to US$100 million (Passionategeekz Note: the current exchange rate is approximately RMB 718 million)。

OpenAI CEO Altman confirmed the statement in a podcast episode jointly with brother Jack Altman, which went live on Tuesday. He pointed out that although Zuckerberg offered high salaries, he made almost no substantial progress, and he did not forget to sarcastically.

Altman said: “Meta has indeed given amazing offers to many people in our team, such as the signing bonus of $100 million.Annual salary is far more than that… I am very pleased that by far our best membersNo such invitation was accepted。”

He believes that the reason why employees declined Meta is because they believe in OpenAI More likely to implement universal artificial intelligencemay also become a company with higher value in the future. He also pointed out that Meta’s heavy money to poach but neglects the sense of mission, and this culture may not necessarily give birth to a real atmosphere of innovation.

It is reported that Meta tried to poach OpenAI core researcher Nom Brown and Google AI architecture head Korai Kavuksuglu, but neither did it work.

Altman further stated that the key to OpenAI’s success lies in itAlways keep innovativewhile Meta’s current AI project has not met expectations. He said he still respects Meta in some aspects, but also said bluntly: “I don’t think Meta is good at innovation.” He added that if companies want to stay ahead in the AI ​​competition, it is not enough to catch up alone.Really achieve a breakthrough。

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