Meta Platforms has recruited two senior artificial intelligence (AI) researchers from Apple Inc., in what marks another major coup in the intensifying competition for top-tier AI talent.

OpenAI is the world's leading AI startup. For how long will depend on how well it fends off multi-front attacks from competitors like Meta and Google.

As Mark Zuckerberg lures away top research talent to Meta, OpenAI executives say they're ‘recalibrating comp,’ according to an internal memo.

Meta has reportedly hired at least four more researchers from OpenAI. The new hires are Shengjia Zhao, Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, and Hongyu Ren. This follows news that Meta had already recruited OpenAI researcher Trapit Bansal and three others earlier this week.

Tesla, xAI, and Meta—strengthening its backend scaling team that powers its AI infrastructure. The new recruits will support major initiatives like Stargate, OpenAI's high-performance compute project.

The new hires are joining OpenAI’s scaling team, according to an internal Slack message sent by cofounder Greg Brockman.

Zuckerberg is picking off top talent from across the industry, and OpenAI might be more vulnerable than most.

OpenAI’s $10 million+ AI consulting division is more than a premium price tag — it’s a strategic pivot onto a path where every company adopts AI, with no excuses. As every AI model becomes a commodity, execution now becomes the determining factor for success. This pivot in its playbook will rewrite the rules of AI competition and implementation.

OpenAI halts operations for a week as Meta intensifies its AI talent war, poaching top researchers with massive offers. Employee burnout

Mark Zuckerberg said on Monday that Meta Platforms would spend hundreds of billions of dollars to build several massive artificial intelligence (AI) data centres for superintelligence, intensifying his pursuit of a technology he has chased with a talent war for top engineers.

Meta has been aggressively pursuing AI talent from top labs, mostly OpenAI, in an effort to get a leg up on its competition. The details of the developing story are so dramatic and foreign to the rest of the world that it's become stranger-than-fiction fodder for the internet watching it unfold in real time.