Sam Altman slams the poaching of Meta’s AI talent: “Missionaries beat the mercenary.”
Openai CEO SAM Altman is back at Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s recent AI talent pouching spree. Sent to Openai researchers on Monday evening and with the full answer obtained by Wired, Altman made a pitch on why staying at Openai is the only answer for anyone looking to build artificial general information, and the only answer suggesting that the company is assessing compensation across the research organization.
He also rejected Meta’s recruitment efforts, saying what the company is doing could lead to deep cultural issues in the future.
“We went from horn nerds to the most interesting people in the tech industry (at least),” he wrote in Slack. “Al Twitter is toxic. Meta is acting in a way that feels somewhat offensive. I think things will get even more crazy in the future. After being fired and back, I said it wasn’t the craziest thing in open history. Certainly not this either.”
The news comes just after a massive announcement from Zuckerberg. Monday, Meta CEO I’ve sent a note To the staff who introduce the new Superintelligence team from the company led by Ai and Nat Friedman, who previously led Github, were previously led by Ai and Nat Friedman Alexandr Wang. The new recruiting list included many Openai peopleincluding Shengjia Zhao, Shuchao Bi, Jiahui Yu and Hongyu Ren. Mark Chen, Chief Research Officer at Openai I told the staff Feeling “someone broke into our house and stole something.”
Altman threw another tone about his departure in his memo on Monday.
“Meta certainly won a few great people, but overall it’s hard to exaggerate that they couldn’t get the top people and had to go down the list quite a bit. They’ve been trying to recruit people for a very long time. “We’re proud of how mission-oriented our entire industry is. Of course, there will always be some mercenaries.”
He added that “missioners will beat the mercenaries,” and said Openai is evaluating compensation across the institution. “I think open stock has far more benefits than meta stocks,” he writes. “But I think it’s important that there are big benefits after great success. In my opinion, what Meta is doing leads to a very deep cultural issue. I need to share this right away, but it’s very important to me, not just the person that Meta was a target.”
Altman then created a pitch to keep people open. “I wasn’t more confident in our research roadmap,” he wrote. “We have an unprecedented bet on computing, but we love that we are doing it and we are sure we will make good use of it. Most importantly, I think we have the most special teams and culture in the world.
“And more importantly, I’m really concerned about building AGIs in a good way,” he added. “Other companies care more about this as the goal of instruments on other missions. But this is our number one thing and will always be. We’ve been here every year since the meta moved to the next taste this week or defended the social moat.
Many high-ranking employees who have worked at Meta have followed up on Slack with their own stories about why Openai’s culture is great. ”