Meta lures three OpenAI researchers to its artificial intelligence team

Meta continues its aggressive hiring campaign in the field of AI, bringing in three researchers from OpenAI. According to The Wall Street Journal, Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai, who previously worked at OpenAI’s Zurich office, have joined the Meta Superintelligence team.

Meta has been conducting a large-scale campaign to lure key specialists for several months, offering compensation packages of over $100 million. This process is personally managed by Mark Zuckerberg - he independently contacts leading researchers and organizes private meetings at his residences in Palo Alto and Lake Tahoe.

Despite its aggressive strategy, Meta has failed to attract some key players. In particular, OpenAI co-founders Ilya Sutskever and John Shulman have already launched their own startups. At the same time, Meta recently invested $14 billion in Scale AI and brought in its founder Alexander Wang, in one of the largest deals in the industry.

Incidentally, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in an interview that "at least for now" the company's top researchers are not accepting Meta's offers. However, the involvement of the Swiss OpenAI team suggests that Zuckerberg's strategy has already begun to bear fruit.