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New York, June 18 (EFE).- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that his employees have received offers from Meta of $100 million bonuses to leave the company and join Meta, at a time of great competition for artificial intelligence strategies, but that "for now" none of them have accepted.
"Meta started making huge offers to a lot of people on our team," Altman stated on the Uncapped podcast, which aired on Tuesday and was hosted by his brother.
In the program, Altman detailed that Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp's parent company offered "$100 million hiring bonuses" and that Meta considered them "their biggest competitor."
"At least, so far, none of our best employees have decided to accept the offer," declared the company executive behind ChatGPT.
Altman noted that Meta's efforts to advance in the artificial intelligence (AI) race "haven't worked as well as they hoped" and that's why the tech giant is opting for a more "aggressive" tactic, something he said he respects.
"There are many things I respect about Meta as a company, but I don't think it's a company that stands out for its innovation," the executive added.
Last week, Meta announced it will pay $14.3 billion to acquire 49% of the startup Scale AI and hire its CEO, Alexandr Wang.
As part of the agreement, Wang - who 7 years ago, at 21, became the youngest billionaire in the world - will report directly to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and will remain on the Scale board of directors. In addition, according to specialized media, Wang will lead a new AI lab at Meta, in charge of developing "superintelligence".
The New York Times notes that Meta has offered multimillion-dollar figures to dozens of researchers from leading AI companies like OpenAI and Google, and that several have already agreed to join.
According to the specialized press, Zuckerberg's goal is to create a new "superintelligence" team dedicated to building the world's most advanced artificial intelligence (AI) platform, a hypothetical AI system that surpasses the capabilities of the human brain.
OpenAI, Google, and other tech companies have already announced that their goal is to develop artificial general intelligence (AGI), a machine that for now is only fiction.
