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Meta Confirmed to Be Hiring Multiple Multimodal AI Researchers from OpenAI
Friday, December 5, 2025 at 06:51 AM
News reports confirm that Meta has been successfully recruiting several top AI researchers, including specialists in multimodal models, from OpenAI to bolster its internal 'superintelligence' team. The original post also mentioned Google's competitive edge in multimodal AI.
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In mid-2025, Meta established Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL), initiating an aggressive hiring spree for top AI talent. This included poaching multiple multimodal and reasoning researchers from OpenAI, such as Trapit Bansal, Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, Shengjia Zhao, and Hongyu Ren, along with key leaders like Alexandr Wang and Nat Friedman. These strategic hires underscore Meta's intensified focus on advanced AI capabilities.
The talent acquisition drive involved unusually large compensation packages, with reports citing offers as high as $100 million. Concurrently, Meta made a significant investment of approximately $14.3 billion into Scale AI to bolster its data and labeling infrastructure. This move aims to enhance Meta's competitive positioning against rivals like Google and DeepMind, who currently maintain a 'multimodal edge'.
These developments are expected to yield visible advancements in Meta's AI capabilities by 2027, signaling a material shift in the AI landscape and the ongoing talent war within the industry.
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