While Meta had sought to hire “a lot of people” from OpenAI, none of its best people have accepted the offers. The news comes amid efforts from Mark Zuckerberg to ramp up Meta's AI talent pool. Meta recently hiring Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang as part of a $14 billion deal.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has criticized Meta's aggressive talent acquisition strategy, revealing failed attempts to poach OpenAI engineers with offers up to $100 million. Altman suggests that such high compensation packages don't foster a strong work culture conducive to long-term AI innovation.