Meta reportedly hires four more researchers from OpenAI

Seems like Meta isn’t accomplished poaching expertise from OpenAI.

Earlier this week, TechCrunch reported that Meta had hired influential OpenAI researcher Trapit Bansal, and according to The Wall Street Journal, it additionally employed three different researchers from the corporate.

Now The Info is reporting four more Meta hires from OpenAI: Researchers Shengjia Zhao, Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, and Hongyu Ren.

This hiring spree comes after the April launch of Meta’s Llama 4 AI models, which reportedly didn’t carry out in addition to CEO Mark Zuckerberg had hoped. (The corporate was additionally criticized over the version of Llama that it used for a popular benchmark.)

There’s been some back-and-forth between the 2 firms, with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman suggesting that Meta was providing “$100 million signing bonuses” whereas including that “to date, none of our greatest individuals” have left. Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth then advised workers that whereas senior leaders could have been provided that type of cash, “the precise phrases of the supply” had been more complex than a simple one-time signing bonus.