Mark Zuckerberg offers $100m signing-up bonuses to poach tech talent

Mark Zuckerberg has been offering $100m (£74m) signing-on bonuses to lure staff from the maker of ChatGPT as Meta steps up its race to develop artificial intelligence (AI).

Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, ChatGPT’s creator, claimed Mr Zuckerberg’s company had been making “giant offers” to poach staff from his business.

Speaking on a podcast, Mr Altman said: “They started making these giant offers to a lot of people in our team. $100m signing bonuses, more than that comp per year. It is crazy.”

“I am really happy that so far none of our best people have decided to take them up on that,” he added.

It comes as Meta plays catch-up in the race to develop next-generation artificial intelligence, a field pioneered by OpenAI. Mr Zuckerberg has taken a personal interest in the technology and has been spending billions to close the gap with rivals.

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