Meta hired three senior experts from OpenAI in the war of AI; Sam Altman made serious allegations
Artificial Intelligence: The competition for top talent in the AI sector has intensified. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has accused Meta of luring his employees by offering them crores. Meta has already hired three senior researchers from OpenAI.
In business circles around Artificial Intelligence (AI), competition today visibly seems shifting from competition over market share and customers towards talent poaching and undercutting each other. Some time back there was a mammoth statement given by Sam Altman, CEO at OpenAI, that Meta is doing its best to poach his people with humongous packages.
Sam Altman says that Meta had offered up to $ 100 million (about Rs 833 crore) to some employees. He also alleges that Meta considers OpenAI to be its biggest competitor, and that is why it is adopting an aggressive strategy.
Now, a report by the Wall Street Journal has further strengthened Altman's claim. According to the report, Meta has hired three senior AI researchers working in OpenAI's Zurich office, Alexander Kolesnikov, Lucas Bayer, and Xiaohua Zhai. These experts were counted among OpenAI's most experienced and technically capable team.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is now engaged in the exercise of building a strong team based on super intelligence, for fear of lagging behind in the AI race. According to reports, in the last few years, many AI employees of Meta have left the company, due to which the pace of its AI projects has slowed down. Now, Zuckerberg himself is engaged in direct and aggressive hiring of top talent to reverse this situation.
While OpenAI and Google are already ahead in this race, Meta is making every possible effort to strengthen its position. Sam Altman's allegations and Meta's new appointments indicate that the competition in the AI industry is now not just for technology, but also for talent.
