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META SNAGS MORE AI TALENT FROM OPENAI
Techlife News
|July 05, 2025
Meta has added four more researchers from OpenAI to its roster, boosting its push to build advanced artificial intelligence.
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A GROWING AI TEAM
The hires—Shengjia Zhao, Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, and Hongyu Ren—join a team led by Meta’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who is personally driving efforts to create a “superintelligence” group. These researchers, known for their work on models like GPT-4.1 and OpenAl’s 01, bring expertise in machine learning, computer vision, and multimodal Al, strengthening Meta’s bid to catch up in the race for artificial general intelligence.

Zuckerberg's strategy includes offering hefty compensation packages, with reports of $100 million signing bonuses, though Meta's CTO, Andrew Bosworth clarified these offers are complex, not just one-time payouts.
The hires come after Meta’s Llama 4 model underperformed, prompting a need for top talent to close the gap with rivals like OpenAl and Google’s DeepMind.
The move has stirred tension. OpenAl's chief research officer, Mark Chen, likened the poaching to a theft, vowing to fight back with better pay and creative rewards to keep staff. Despite the losses, OpenAl insists its top researchers have stayed, but the departures highlight the fierce competition for Al expertise in a field where a few brilliant minds can shift the balance.
WHY THESE RESEARCHERS MATTER
This story is from the July 05, 2025 edition of Techlife News.
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