Meta exec calls OpenAI’s Sam Altman ‘dishonest’ – Business News
A high Meta government known as OpenAI’s Sam Altman “dishonest” for claiming that Mark Zuckerberg was offering $100 million pay packages to poach the startup’s high AI researchers.
“Sam is just being dishonest here,” Andrew Bosworth, Meta’s chief technology officer, mentioned during a companywide all-hands assembly on Thursday, in response to The Verge. “He’s suggesting that we’re doing this for every single person… Look, you guys, the market’s hot. It’s not that hot.”
Meta, the mum or dad company of Facebook and Instagram, is locked in a heated competitors with the ChatGPT maker to develop superior artificial intelligence. Recent strikes by Zuckerberg embody creating a new AI lab targeted on reaching “superintelligence” and investing $14.3 billion in Scale AI.
Altman stirred the pot additional final week when he mentioned Meta had “started making giant offers to a lot of people on our team” during an look on the “Uncapped” podcast.
“You know, like $100 million signing bonuses, more than that (in) compensation per year,” Altman mentioned on the time. He added that “so far, none of our best people have decided to take them up on that.”
Sam Altman claimed Meta was offering $100M signing bonuses to lure OpenAI researchers. Getty Images
However, within the week since Altman’s remarks surfaced, a handful of OpenAI researchers have jumped ship to affix Meta.
Among them was Lucas Beyer, who confirmed in an X post that he and colleagues Alexander Kolesnikov and Xiaohua Zhai had been lured away by Zuckerberg.
However, Byers famous that the trio “did not get 100M sign-on, that’s fake news.”
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth known as Sam Altman “dishonest.” REUTERS
Key OpenAI researcher Trapit Bansal – a primary contributor to OpenAI’s first-ever AI reasoning model o1 – has additionally switched groups, a source accustomed to the matter advised TechCrunch.
In Thursday’s all-hands assembly, Bosworth advised Meta’s staff that Altman’s claims had been lacking key context.
“What Sam neglects to mention is that he’s countering all these offers, creating a small market for a very, very small number of people who are for senior, senior leadership roles,” Bosworth mentioned.
Mark Zuckerberg is pouring billions into the AI race. AP
“Sam is known to exaggerate, and in this case, I know exactly why he’s doing it, which is because we are succeeding at getting talent from OpenAI,” he added. “He’s not very happy about that.”
OpenAI didn’t instantly return a request for touch upon Bosworth’s remarks.
