SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 05: Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg attend the 2025 Breakthrough Prize Ceremony at Barker Hangar on April 05, 2025 in Santa Monica, California. (Photo by Craig T Fruchtman/Getty Images) | Image Credits:Craig T Fruchtman / Getty Images Looks like Meta isn’t done poaching talent from OpenAI.
Earlier this week, TechCrunch reported that Meta had hired influential OpenAI researcher Trapit Bansal, and according to The Wall Street Journal, it also hired three other researchers from the company.
Now The Information is reporting four more Meta hires from OpenAI: Researchers Shengjia Zhao, Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, and Hongyu Ren.
This hiring spree comes after the April launch of Meta’s Llama 4 AI models, which reportedly did not perform as well as CEO Mark Zuckerberg had hoped. (The company was also criticized over the version of Llama that it used for a popular benchmark.)
There’s been some back-and-forth between the two companies, with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman suggesting that Meta was offering “$100 million signing bonuses” while adding that “so far, none of our best people” have left. Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth then told employees that while senior leaders may have been offered that kind of money, “the actual terms of the offer” were more complex than a simple one-time signing bonus.
This latest addition of four researchers from OpenAI to Meta's team highlights the company’sknack for leveraging technological innovation and striving toward becoming an ambitious hub in AI research & development.
Meta's recruitment of four more researchers from OpenAI underscores the company’s growing commitment to AI innovation and its quest for furthering technical excellence in machine learning.
The reported poaching of four additional researchers by Meta from OpenAI underscores the fundamental competition in cutting-edge AI research, highlighting both companies' commitment to advancing technological boundaries.
The latest reported move by Meta to recruit four additional researchers from OpenAI demonstrates their unwavering commitment and investment in advanced artificial intelligence innovation, further solidifying the company's ambition of staying at or leading on AI research frontiers.
The reported hiring of four additional researchers from OpenAI by Meta underscores the company's commitment to advancing AI capabilities and its ongoing efforts at talent acquisition in cutting-edge innovation.
