The trio of OPENAI engineers who co -founded the company’s Zurich office last year will leave to join Meta, but they will not get $ 100 million each to do so.
Lucas Beyer Posted on X Thursday than him, AlexAnder Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai would leave Openai to join the $ 1.8 Billion company led by Mark Zuckerberg. Beyer said it was “false news” that Zuckerberg paid him this level of compensation. However, this news came from the CEO of Openai, Sam Altman himself, who called “crazy” offers this month.
“They started making giant offers, to many people in our team – $ 100 million in bonus signature, more than this composition per year,” Altman told his brother Jack Altman in a Podcast episode Non -ceiling. “I am really happy that, at least so far, none of our best people have decided to take it on it.”
Hey to all, couple of fast notes:
1) Yes, we will join Meta.
2) No, we did not obtain the authentication of 100m, this is false news.Excited by what awaits us, however, will share more in due time!
Cc @__kolesnikov__ And @Xiaohuazhai.— Lucas Beyer (Bl16) (@giffmana) June 26, 2025
Beyer, Kolesnikov and Zhai have been members of the OpenAi technical staff since December 2024, which they joined after being poache from the Google Deepmind rival. They leave for Meta at a time when the competition for talents among IA companies reaches frantic field, with Zuckerberg would have on a wave of recruitment to counter the story that he is lagging behind in the development of AI. Reports say that the company hires a “superintendent” team of 50 people to accelerate its AI efforts. Meta also bought a participation of $ 14 billion in the AI scale, to bring CEO Alexandr Wang into the Giron.
Zuckerberg earns only $ 1 as CEO at Meta, although the company offers him an allowance of $ 14 million for security -related costs for Zuckerberg and his family. It holds around 13% of the actions of the technological giant and its fortune is estimated at $ 250 billion per Forbes.
Among the best -paid leaders in Meta, the chief of the farm Javier Olivan was paid last year, with a remuneration worth 25.5 million dollars. No other senior Meta leader has been paid $ 100 million in one of the last three years, according to the company’s financier deposit.
The median of the total annual remuneration of all meta-employees other than Zuckerberg was $ 417,400 Last year.
On X, a commentator has hypothesized that Altman “clearly threw the 100 meters of 100 m to make people think of potential takers that they were based on.”
“Yes, it was a brilliant decision, Gotta gives him that,” posted Beyer in response.
OPENAI and META did not immediately respond to requests for comments.
