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Sam Altman Slams Meta's AI Talent Poaching Spree: 'Missionaries Will Beat Mercenaries'

Sam Altman Slams Meta’s AI Talent-Poaching Spree: 'Missionaries Will Beat Mercenaries' | WIRED

“What Meta is doing will, in my opinion, lead to very deep cultural problems,” said OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in a leaked memo sent to OpenAI researchers.

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Sam Altman is calling out Meta’s AI talent spree as “mercenary” hiring that risks cultural rot and betting that passionate “missionaries” at OpenAI will prevail. He’s even teasing company-wide pay raises, doubling down on OpenAI’s quirky, mission-driven culture and long-term AGI goals vs Meta’s flashy, short-term poaching.

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