“No, we did not get $100 million bonus,” says ex-OpenAI employee on joining Facebook parent Meta

Is Meta awarding $100 million signing bonuses to members of its newly formed AI superintelligence team? According to one of those geniuses who decided to make the move to Mark Zuckerberg’s camp, that’s not happening. “…that’s fake news,” says Lucan Beyer, ex-OpenAI researcher.

The alleged multi-million dollar offers have been a subject of widespread speculation in tech circles, particularly following reports of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s aggressive recruitment drive for top AI talent. However, Beyer took to X to directly address these claims.