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


“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.

“Al Twitter is toxic; Meta is acting in a way that feels somewhat distasteful; I assume things will get even crazier in the future. On Monday, the Meta CEO sent a memo to staff introducing the company’s new superintelligence team, which will be helmed by Alexandr Wang formerly of Scale AI and Nat Friedman, who previously led GitHub. OpenAI’s chief research officer Mark Chen told staff that it felt like “someone has broken into our home and stolen something.”

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