OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that Meta has offered his employees bonuses of $100 million to recruit them, as the tech giant seeks to ramp up its artificial intelligence strategy.

Sam Altman claims Meta has attempted to poach OpenAI staff with massive bonuses as high as $100 million as the Facebook owner works to build its superintelligence unit.

New York (CNN) — Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta offered employees of rival OpenAI signing bonuses of $100 million to switch companies, according to Open AI CEO Sam Altman.

"No, we did not get 100M sign-on, that's fake news," Lucas Beyer, a former researcher at OpenAI, wrote on X.

Sam Altman says Meta has offered some OpenAI employees $100 million signing bonuses. So far, “none of our best people have decided to take them up on that,” according to Altman.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that Meta has offered his employees bonuses of $100 million to recruit them, as the tech giant seeks to ramp up its artificial intelligence strategy.