{"id":37715,"date":"2025-06-18T11:38:34","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T03:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/?p=37715"},"modified":"2025-06-18T11:38:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T03:38:34","slug":"%e5%a5%a5%e5%b0%94%e7%89%b9%e6%9b%bc%ef%bc%9ameta-%e6%9b%be%e5%bc%80%e5%87%ba-1-%e4%ba%bf%e7%be%8e%e5%85%83%e9%ab%98%e4%bb%b7%e8%af%95%e5%9b%be%e6%8c%96%e8%b5%b0-openai-%e4%ba%ba%e6%89%8d%ef%bc%8c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/37715.html","title":{"rendered":"Altman: Meta tried to poach OpenAI talent with a $100 million offer, but failed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>June 18, 2011 - Foreign media outlet TechCrunch reported today that<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/meta\" title=\"[View articles tagged with [Meta]]\" target=\"_blank\" >Meta<\/a> CEO Mark Zuckerberg is picking up the pace of hiring, trying to net the newly formed superintelligence team from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/openai\" title=\"[View articles tagged with [OpenAI]]\" target=\"_blank\" >OpenAI<\/a> and top AI researchers at Google DeepMind. Rumor has it that in an effort to lure this talent to join a team led by former Scale AI CEO Alexander Wang, and in close proximity to Zuckerberg himself in terms of office space, Meta offered<strong>Compensation package of up to $100 million (note: approximately RMB 718 million at current exchange rates)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-37716\" title=\"397deca0j00sy18re0023d000v900jep\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/397deca0j00sy18re0023d000v900jep.jpg\" alt=\"397deca0j00sy18re0023d000v900jep\" width=\"1125\" height=\"698\" \/><\/p>\n<p>OpenAI CEO Altman confirmed these claims in a podcast episode he co-participated in with his brother Jack Altman, which went live on Tuesday. He pointed out that despite Zuckerberg's high salary, little substantive progress has been made, all the while making snide remarks.<\/p>\n<p>Meta did make amazing offers to a lot of our team, like a $100 million signing bonus,\" said Altman.<strong>The annual salary is much more than that.<\/strong>...... I'm relieved that by far our best member<strong>Neither accepted such an invitation.<\/strong>. &quot;<\/p>\n<p>He argued that employees politely rejected Meta because they believed that OpenAI\u00a0<strong>More likely to be generalized<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e4%ba%ba%e5%b7%a5%e6%99%ba%e8%83%bd\" title=\"[View articles tagged with [artificial intelligence]]\" target=\"_blank\" >AI<\/a><\/strong>He also pointed out that Meta's culture of hiring people while ignoring its mission may not make it a truly innovative company. He also pointed out that Meta is heavy on recruiting but neglects its mission, a culture that may not breed a truly innovative atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>Meta reportedly tried to poach OpenAI core researcher Norm Brown, and Google's head of AI architecture, Koraj Kavuksoglu, but failed.<\/p>\n<p>Altman further stated that the key to OpenAI's success is that it<strong>Always Innovate<\/strong>And Meta's current AI program isn't living up to expectations. He said there are still aspects of Meta that he respects, but also said bluntly, \"I don't think Meta is good at being innovative.\" He added that if companies want to stay ahead of the AI race, it's not enough to just play catch-up; they have to<strong>A real breakthrough<\/strong>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to June 18, TechCrunch today, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is trying to recruit top AI researchers from OpenAI and Google DeepMind for a new super-smart team. It has been reported that, in order to attract these people to a team led by former CEO of Scale AI Alexander Wang, and close to Zuckerberg himself, Meta offered a remuneration of up to $100 million (note: the current exchange rate is approximately $718 million). In a joint podcast with brother Jack Altman, Chief Executive Officer Ortmann confirmed this statement<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[297,190,204],"collection":[],"class_list":["post-37715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-meta","tag-openai","tag-204"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37715"},{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=37715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}