OpenAI Leadership Responds to Meta Offers: ‘Someone Has Broken Into Our Home’

Mark Chen, the The director of research in Openai, sent an energetic service note to staff on Saturday, promising to compete with the war giant for the best research talents. This note, which was sent to Openai employees in Slack and obtained by Wired, came a few days after the Meta PDG Mark Zuckerberg managed to recruit Four senior researchers of the company to join the Meta superintendent laboratory.

“I feel a visceral feeling right now, as if someone had entered our house and stole something,” wrote Chen. “Please believe that we were not sitting on the ground.”

Chen promised that he was working with Sam Altman, the CEO of Openai, and other managers of the company “24 hours a day to speak to those who have offers”, adding: “We were more proactive than ever, we recalibrate Comparting Comp, and we extend the creative means of recognizing and rewarding the best talents.”

However, even if the management of Openai seems desperate to keep his staff, Chen said he had “high -equity personal standards” and wanted to keep the best talents in this spirit. “While I will fight to keep each of you, I will not do it at the cost of equity for others,” he wrote.

The news comes as the competition for the best IA researchers heats up in Silicon Valley. Zuckerberg was particularly aggressive in his approach, offering signing bonuses of $ 100 million to certain staff of Openai, according to the comments that Altman made on a Podcast with his brotherJack Altman. Several sources in Openai with direct knowledge of the offers confirmed the number. The meta-PDG has also personally stretched the hand to potential recruits, according to the Wall Street Journal. “During the last month, Meta has built her new IA effort aggressively, and tried several times (and especially without success) to recruit some of our strongest talents with focused packages,” wrote Chen on Slack.

A source close to Meta’s efforts confirmed that the company has considerably increased its research recruitment, with a particular eye towards the talents of Openai and Google. AnthropicAlthough also a high -level rival, less an adjusted culture in Meta, said a Wired source. “They did not necessarily extend the group, but for the best talents, the sky is the limit,” explains the source.

OPENAI and META did not respond to requests for comments.

Chen’s note included messages from seven other research managers of the company, where they wrote notes to staff members in an apparent effort to encourage them to stay. A leader of the research team has encouraged the staff to reach out if he has received a Meta offer: “If he puts pressure on you, or the ridiculous explosion offers simply tell them to retreat, it is not pleasant to put pressure on people who, potentially, the most important decision. Wired did not name it and I don’t know all their offers. ”.