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Zuckerberg lures AI talent from OpenAI with huge offers

wired.com [$] — July 1, 2025 at 08:00 PM UTC

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is aggressively recruiting top AI talent from OpenAI, offering massive compensation packages, potentially reaching $300 million over four years. This is to staff Meta's new superintelligence lab. Sources indicate Meta has made at least ten high-value offers, with first-year compensation exceeding $100 million. The packages include immediate stock vesting. OpenAI is responding to the poaching by recalibrating its own compensation. Zuckerberg's recruitment drive includes promises of unlimited access to cutting-edge chips, a key resource in AI research. Meta has already hired at least seven OpenAI staffers, prompting a response from OpenAI leadership.

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