Therefore, the fierce battle for talent in the AI ​​field of major technology companies can be seen. The industry generally believes that top engineers are crucial to the success or failure of corporate AI development. Altman said he heard that Meta regarded OpenAI as its "biggest competitor."

Altman said: "So far, none of our excellent employees have accepted their poaching."

Meta was originally one of the leaders of open source AI models. It has recently faced talent loss, and the release of new models has been postponed, and the competitive pressure has continued to intensify.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed that Facebook's parent company Meta recently offered OpenAI employees a signing bonus of up to US$100 million (about S$129 million) to openAI employees in an attempt to poach to strengthen its talent reserves for artificial intelligence (AI).

According to Reuters, Altman made the above statement in the podcast program "Uncapped" aired on Tuesday (June 17). He said Meta has recently offered "huge offers" to many members of the OpenAI team. In addition to signing bonuses, it also has contracts with annual salary far exceeding $100 million.

Meta has not responded to Reuters' inquiries yet. Just a few days ago, Meta just invested $14.3 billion to Scale AI. The starting company specializes in providing large technology companies with data labeling required for training AI models.

Meta also invited its founder and former CEO Alexandr Wang to lead the newly formed technical team.