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Beatrice Nolan

Sam Altman scoffs at Mark Zuckerberg’s AI recruitment drive and says Meta hasn’t even got their ‘top people’

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Sam Altman speaking into a microphone. (Credit: Chip Somodevilla—Getty Images)
  • Sam Altman is fighting back after Meta recruited a string of top OpenAI researchers, accusing the tech giant of acting “in a way that feels somewhat distasteful.” In a sharply worded internal message to staff, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman claimed Meta was settling for second-tier hires, rather than some of the “top people” it had tried to poach.

Sam Altman is pushing back on Mark Zuckerberg’s aggressive AI recruitment drive after the Big Tech company poached several key researchers from OpenAI.

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