Meta says he wins the war of talents with Openai

During a meeting of all the company’s hands on Thursday, some of the main leaders of Meta were questioned about the “signing bonuses of $ 100 million” that the CEO of Openai Sam Altman claimed They proposed to poach its employees.

“Sam is just dishonest here,” Andrew BosworthMeta’s CTO, said at the meeting when he was asked about Altman’s remarks. “He suggests that we do this for each person … Look, you guys, the market is hot. It’s not that hot.”

The title “100 million dollars” has rightly become a meme on social networks since Altman said the number on his brother’s podcast. “What Sam neglects to mention is that he thwarts all these offers, creating a small market for a very, very small number of people who are for high -level roles” in the New superintelligence Ai Team Meta is buildingBosworth told Meta Employey today. “It is not the general thing that happens in the AI ​​space. And of course, it does not mention what the real terms of the offer are. It is not (a) a connection bonus. These are all these different things.”

Bosworth then referred to recent stories on a handful of Openai researchers who join Meta and said that there was “a lot more in the pipeline that I cannot announce or share for the moment”.

“Sam is known to exaggerate, and in this case, I know exactly why he does, it is because we manage to obtain the talent of Openai,” he said. “He is not very happy with that.”

During Thursday’s meeting, many employees were present in the company’s engineering “Bootcamp”, a several week integration program which attributes new hits to various teams. “For all the new bootcampers here, you have not messed up,” Bosworth told the laughter and applause of the public. “You made an excellent decision. Comp is right where it should be.”

Bosworth was not the only Meta Exec to mention Openai during the internal meeting. Cpo Chris Cox Also recognized that, although Meta AI has a billion monthly users, commitment “is not as deep as the way people use Chatppt”. The Meta AI Autonomous application has only 450,000 daily users, he told employees, and “many of these people” use it to manage their Ray-Ban meta-lunes.

“We are not going to go just after Chatgpt and try to do a better job by helping you write your emails at work,” said Cox. “We have to differentiate ourselves here by not obsessively focusing on productivity, which you see Anthropic and Openai and Google.

Meta refused to comment on the internal meeting.

When I spoke with Jason Thursday, I wanted to understand why he continues the most influential company of technology.

AI system startup of Rugolo, Iyo, recently won a temporary ban prescription which prevents the OpenAi from the use of the “IO” brand for Sam Altman New material division with Jony IVE. In response, Altman taken from his x account To suggest that Rugolo has filed his trial on the sidelines because Openai refused to invest or buy Iyo, who is preparing to release his first intra-ear headset powered by AI later this year.

Rugolo recognizes (and the documents submitted to Court Confirm) that he presented Altman on the investment several times. He also discussed an acquisition with the members of the IO team this year. However, he says that his trial is not part of a revenge crusade, but rather intended to eliminate any confusion between his neighbor Yours a helmet and Io d’Altman.

The marks’ proceedings are a penny a dozen, but it has broken for a good reason. There is an intense interest in what Altman and IVE build (the first device Apparently, it will not be a “intra-ear” product or a “laptop”), and the case is a Rorschach test for what you think of Altman, which is undoubtedly polarizing.

“I had a huge change of opinion on the guy,” said Rugolo about Altman. “While I met them, I was in love with Sam Altman being a great entrepreneur and a really interesting person.

“”Am I screwed here?“Rugolo remembers having thought.” When I spoke to him on the phone and he made a threat of sopranos to continue, I said to myself: “Okay, this guy is a bad guy”. “Now he says that Altman tries to” manipulate the arguments in the public sphere “and” makes me look like a grubber

“This is a baseless brand dispute and not a case on stolen ideas or technology,” said Openai spokesperson Kayla Wood Said in a press release shared with me. “Iyo demonstrated a product in May 2025 which did not work properly or did not meet our standards in the hope that we would acquire Iyo. We have exceeded. Jason Rugolo was also well aware of the name IO and never raised concerns before our announcement. ”

Thanks to the millions of dollars he recently collected from his manufacturer, Pegatron, and a billionaire he refuses to appoint, Rugolo says that Iyo has enough track to last it until the end of 2026. When I ask if the device he has teased in his Viral discourse Ted Last year was indeed dispatched later this year, he said that he is about to fly to China to “live mainly at the factory”.

Although he is ready to go through the process of legal discovery and to bear his trial, he hopes that Optai “will put their firearms” and “complete as adults on the product”.

“I will meet them on the market,” he said to me. “We will both try to launch things that are really cool and see if we can serve our customers. They will compete just right and cease to use the name. They have some of the best designers in the world, apparently. Think of a new name. You cannot use the one I’ve already told you about, and that I have been using since 2019.”

Until now, the track is known for Bring an AI generative to Hollywood. From now on, the $ 3 billion startup throws its goal on the game industry.

This week, I had access to a new interactive gaming experience that Runway plans to provide everyone from next week, according to the CEO Cristóbal Valenzuela. The consumer -oriented product is currently quite naked, with a cat interface that only supports the generation of text and image, but Valenzuela says that the video games generated later this year. He says that Runway is also in talks with game companies on both the use of its technology and access to their data sets for training.

Based on its recent conversations, Valenzuela thinks that the game industry is in a position similar to Hollywood when it was introduced for the first time at generating AI. There was considerable resistance, but over time, AI was gradually adopted in more areas of the production process. Valenzuela says that Amazon’s recent emission, David’s houseWas partially manufactured with Runway technology and that his business works with “almost all major studios” and “most of the fortune companies 100”.

“If we can help a studio to make a 40% film faster, then we will probably be able to help game developers to make games faster,” he said. “They wake up and move faster than I would say that the studios moved two years ago.”

Naturally, I couldn’t let Valenzuela get out of our zoom call without asking him questions about her Recent acquisition conferences With Zuckerberg: “I think we have more interesting intellectual challenges being independent and remaining independent for the moment.”

No one knows what I act really means. It clearly emerges from this excellent deep Information in Microsoft’s agreement with Openai. There have been many good reports on the negotiations between the two companies, but this piece is the most complete and the most detailed I have seen. It indicates that Microsoft will no longer receive exclusive access to OpenAi IP if it realizes “sufficient”, which is defined contractually as when the board of directors of Openai determines that AI “has the capacity to generate” the maximum benefit that its investors are entitled. Surprisingly, Openai does not have to generate these benefits.

Two agreements under the radar: Although they did not make the headlines, Openai announced an interesting partnership and a small acquisition this week. The first is a Facing applied intuition To “advance new generation experiences, fueled by AI, in vehicles”. The second is the acquisition of the small team to Crossing MindsAn AI startup that has helped electronic commerce companies offer more personalized product recommendations. “Personally, joining the Openai research team to focus on agents and information recovery is a unique honor,” said Crossing Minds founder Alexandre Eobicque writing. “These are precisely the problems that always fascinate me: how systems learn, reason and recover knowledge on a large scale, in real time.”

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