Meta has strengthened its recruitment efforts as it actively recruits AI (AI) talent from top AI companies.
Tech Giant is reportedly compiled a list of the finest talents they plan to hire, offering a $100 million salary package and other luxurious perks. The rumoured index, called “The List,” includes Hotshot engineers and scientists who worked for rivals Openai and Google Deepmind, earning their PhDs from top universities.
Remember that Meta successfully drove eight senior open-rai researchers in a tightly escalated competition among Silicon Valley’s top AI talents. Recruitments reported by various outlets, including TechCrunch and The Wall Street Journal, include influential researchers such as Trapit Bansal, Shengjia Zhao, Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi and Hongyu Ren. This followed the launch of Meta’s Llama 4 AI model in April 2025, and reportedly prompted CEO Mark Zuckerberg to reach out to potential recruits.
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As Meta is recruiting many senior Openai researchers, company executives reportedly reassuring team members that the company’s leadership was not sitting. Open leadership, including Chief Research Officer Mark Chen and CEO Sam Altman, are tirelessly trying to maintain staff amidst the fierce AI talent race. In a Slack memo obtained by Wired, Openai’s Chief Investigation Officer Mark Chen expressed his response to the departure and compared them to a home invasion.
“I feel the feeling of my guts now, like someone broke into our house and stole something,” Chen wrote. “Trustrate that we aren’t sitting vaguely.”
While Openai’s leadership appears desperate to keep staff, Chen says he has “high standards of personal fairness” and wants to keep that in mind and maintain his best talent. “While I fight to protect one of you, I will not do so, paying the other people the price of fairness,” he wrote.
He assures team members that Openai is re-adjusting compensation and exploring creative ways to reward talent while maintaining fairness. Amid Meta’s aggressive employment, CEO Altman accused Meta of offering a “$100 million signature bonus.”
Meta’s aggressive AI employment continues, with the Wall Street Journal reporting that the tech giant has compiled a list of the finest talents that it plans to bring courts to justice with a $100 million salary package and other luxurious perks. The rumoured index, called “The List,” includes “Hotshot Engineers and Scientists,” who work for rivals Openai and Google Deepmind and own a doctorate from top universities. The intense employment and poaching efforts reflect the extreme length of the meta, with its competitors willing to secure top candidates.
At all hand meetings across the company, some of Meta’s top executives were asked about the bonuses Openai CEO Sam Altman said Meta had offered to top researchers. Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth pointed out that only a small number of people with very advanced leadership roles are offered such money, but the “actual terms of the offer” was not a “sign-on bonus.” That’s all these different things. In other words, it’s not a chunk of cash right away.
Under the leadership of CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Meta aims to be critical employment aimed at building a new “super intelligence” team. This initiative is part of a broader strategy to enhance AI capabilities and compete more effectively with industry leaders.
It is understood that Meta has recently invested $14.3 billion in Scale AI, a key data labeling company to train machine learning models. This investment is part of Meta’s strategy to strengthen AI research capabilities and increase competitiveness.
As part of this employment, Meta has appointed Scale AI founder Alexandre Wang to lead the new AI team. This move is seen as an important step in shaping leading groups of AI researchers and fostering innovation within the company.
Openai is expanding its services to include customized AI models, but only reported by customers who are willing to pay at least $10 million, citing anonymous sources. The shift to AI customization is a competitor of software and consulting companies such as Palantir and Accenture, and will strengthen its own AI capabilities and budgets to drive enterprise clients and sales. The AI giant recently secured a $200 million contract to build a custom model for the US Department of Defense.
Active employment reflects the meta-enhanced focus on AI research targeting Openai and Google’s talent. Meanwhile, Openai’s leadership strives to maintain top researchers in this high-stakes talent war, and its leadership emphasizes the fairness of its sustaining efforts.
In particular, Meta’s employment highlights the fierce competition in the AI sector, with important financial resources allocated to attract top talent. As the company is looking to establish itself as an AI leader, the outcome of these efforts will be closely monitored by industry observers and competitors.
