Openai Leadership reacts to Meta offers: “Someone broke into our house”.

Mark Chen, the Chief Research Officer at Openai sent a powerful memo to the employees on Saturday and promised to go against the social giant in the war for top research talents. This memo, which was sent to Openaai employees in Slack and received by WIRED, came days after Meta -ceo Mark Zuckerberg was successfully recruited Four senior researchers from the company to connect the Superintelligence laboratory from Meta.

“I just have a visceral feeling as if someone had broken into our house and stolen something,” wrote Chen. “Please trust that we were not idle.”

Chen promised that he worked with Sam Altman, the CEO of Openai, and other managers of the company.

Nevertheless, when the Openai leadership seems desperate to keep his staff, Chen said that he has “high personal standards of fairness” and wants to keep an eye on with that. “While I fight to keep each of you, I won’t do this for the price of fairness for others,” he wrote.

The news comes that the competition for TOP -KI researchers heats up in Silicon Valley. Zuckerberg was particularly aggressive in his approach and offers some Openai employees 100 million US dollars who sign bonuses, as Altman made on one Podcast with his brotherJack Altman. Several sources at Openaai with direct knowledge of the offers confirmed the number. According to this, the Meta CEO has personally contacted potential recruits Wall Street Journal. “In the past month, Meta aggressively built up its new AI efforts and repeatedly (and mostly unsuccessfully) tried to recruit some of our strongest talents with comp-focused packages,” Chen wrote about slack.

A source near the efforts at Meta confirmed that the company has significantly increased its recruitment of research work, with a special view of Talents from Openaai and Google. AnthropicWhile a top rival is also assumed that it is less culturally fit in meta, one source says wired. “You have not necessarily expanded the band, but for top talents the sky is the border,” says the source.

Neither Openaai nor Meta answered inquiries about comments.

Chen’s note contained news from seven other research managers of the company in which they wrote notes to the employees to encourage them to stay. A leader of the research team encouraged the employees to contact whether they have received an offer from META: “If you put you under pressure or make ridiculous explosion offers, tell them to retreat, it is not nice to put people under potentially important decisions. WIRED do not call the leader because they are not a C-Suite leadership.

The remarks are summarized by Openai employees with an intensive workload, in which many employees grind 80 hours a week. Openaai will be largely closed next week when the company tries to give employees time to charge after several sources. Managers are still planning to work, say the same sources.