AI talent war intensifies: OpenAI criticizes Meta's hiring tactics
OpenAI's Chief Research Officer, Mark Chen, isn't happy with Meta's push to hire away his team.
In a memo, he compared Meta's tactics to "someone has broken into our home and stolen something."
With tech giants battling for top AI talent, Chen says OpenAI is fighting back by boosting pay and finding new ways to keep people from leaving.
Chen says meta has been at it for months
Chen revealed that Meta has been offering huge signing bonuses—sometimes up to $100 million—to lure OpenAI researchers.
He described these moves as "aggressive," saying Meta has been at it for months.
This isn't the first time he's spoken out; earlier, he called their approach "cutthroat."
Chen's background and role at OpenAI
Mark Chen leads research at OpenAI, overseeing projects like DALL*E and GPT-4 vision updates.
Before joining in 2018, he was a quantitative trader and studied math and computer science at MIT.
Fun fact: he also coaches the USA Computing Olympiad team.