{"id":944095,"date":"2025-07-05T11:32:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T06:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=944095"},"modified":"2025-07-05T11:32:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T06:02:19","slug":"did-openai-shut-down-for-a-week-to-stop-metas-ai-talent-poaching-spree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/05\/did-openai-shut-down-for-a-week-to-stop-metas-ai-talent-poaching-spree\/","title":{"rendered":"Did OpenAI shut down for a week to stop Meta&#8217;s AI talent poaching spree?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI has reportedly ordered a week-long mandatory break for all employees in what appears to be a desperate attempt to stem internal unrest and retain talent, following an aggressive recruitment campaign by Meta. The development comes amid growing concerns over a wave of high-profile departures from the AI firm, including at least eight researchers who have recently joined Meta&#8217;s new \u201csuperintelligence\u201d team.<\/p>\n<p>The unexpected move highlights the deepening crisis at OpenAI as it battles to stay ahead in the increasingly cut-throat artificial intelligence race. According to sources cited by Wired, Meta has been actively poaching top AI talent from OpenAI, offering eye-watering incentives, including signing bonuses rumoured to be as high as $100 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI has reportedly ordered a week-long mandatory break for all employees in what appears to be a desperate attempt to stem internal unrest and retain talent, following an aggressive recruitment campaign by Meta. The development comes amid growing concerns over a wave of high-profile departures from the AI firm, including at least eight researchers who have recently joined Meta&#8217;s new \u201csuperintelligence\u201d team. The unexpected move highlights the deepening crisis at OpenAI as it battles to stay ahead in the increasingly cut-throat artificial intelligence race. According to sources cited by Wired, Meta has been actively poaching top AI talent from OpenAI, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-944095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=944095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}