{"id":26937,"date":"2025-07-28T07:24:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T07:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/26937\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T07:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T07:24:08","slug":"war-cry-angry-openai-ceo-sam-altman-responds-to-mark-zuckerberg-poaching-openai-employees-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/26937\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018War Cry’: Angry OpenAI CEO Sam Altman responds to Mark Zuckerberg ‘poaching’ OpenAI employees, says …"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\u2018War It appears that the competition for top artificial intelligence talent is not going to end anytime soon. Now OpenAI<\/a> CEO Sam Altman<\/a> has issued a fiery response to Meta\u2019s aggressive hiring of top AI talent, calling the escalating competition a \u201cwar cry\u201d and declaring: \u201cWinning is fun. And I expect to win.\u201d Speaking at a recent podcast interview, Altman addressed the claims that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg<\/a> was using “mafioso poaching style,” in order to poach top AI talent from rival companies. \u201cI mean, you know, they want to get into the AI game. I understand it. So, and if he\u2019s going to do this, he needs to hire some people. So, bring it,\u201d Altman said.<\/p>\n

Angry OpenAI CEO Sam Altman responds to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg ‘poaching’ employees <\/p>\n

Earlier this month, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman for the first publicly addressed the aggressive hiring by Meta. Replying with a brief “fine” and “good” when asked about the talent battle with Mark Zuckerberg, Altman said he hasn’t spoken to the Meta CEO since the poaching began.”We have, obviously an incredibly talented team, and I think they really love what they are doing. Obviously, some people will go to different places,” Altman told reporters at the Sun Valley conference. “There’s a lot of excitement, I guess you could say, in the industry. But no, I think we feel fine.”As reported by Benzinga, at a recent podcast appearance, Altman said Meta\u2019s hiring tactics resemble \u2018mafioso\u2019 moves\u201c. I mean, you know, they want to get into the AI game. I understand it. So, and if he\u2019s going to do this, he needs to hire some people. So, bring it,\u201d Altman said, adding, \u201cwinning is fun. And I expect to win.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meta\u2019s billion-dollar hiring spree<\/p>\n

The comments come after Meta successfully recruited at least seven OpenAI researchers for its new Meta Superintelligence Labs, including key contributors to OpenAI’s reasoning models. Meta\u2019s Superintelligence Labs are headed by former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang. Multiple online reports suggest that the Meta offered a compensation package of $20 million annually to reachers from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and Apple. Notable hires include Apple\u2019s former Foundation Models head Ruoming Pang and seven OpenAI researchers specializing in large language models.Recently, Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth also acknowledged this rivalry. In a recent interview to CNBC, Andrew Bosworth, said, \u201cSam neglected to mention that he\u2019s countering those offers,\u201d referencing rumors of $100 million signing bonuses from OpenAI.With only around 2,000 researchers globally capable of building foundational AI models, the battle for talent is fierce\u2014and increasingly public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It appears that the competition for top artificial intelligence talent is not going to end anytime soon. Now…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,26156,26155,26154,254,255,64,63,2455,1333,5044,13961,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-26937","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-ai-competition","10":"tag-ai-industry-news","11":"tag-ai-talent-poaching","12":"tag-artificial-intelligence","13":"tag-artificialintelligence","14":"tag-au","15":"tag-australia","16":"tag-mark-zuckerberg","17":"tag-meta","18":"tag-openai","19":"tag-sam-altman","20":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}