{"id":986639,"date":"2026-01-20T11:11:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T05:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=986639"},"modified":"2026-01-20T11:11:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T05:41:14","slug":"facing-one-of-its-worst-crisis-openai-ceo-sam-altman-does-mark-zuckerberg-kind-hiring-and-the-biggest-victim-so-far-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/20\/facing-one-of-its-worst-crisis-openai-ceo-sam-altman-does-mark-zuckerberg-kind-hiring-and-the-biggest-victim-so-far-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Facing one of its &#8216;worst crisis&#8217;, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman does &#8216;Mark Zuckerberg kind hiring&#8217; and the biggest &#8216;victim&#8217; so far is\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI has poached three founding members from Thinking Machines Lab\u2014the AI startup led by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati\u2014in what appears to be a calculated strike against a rising competitor. Barret Zoph, Luke Metz, and Sam Schoenholz are all returning to OpenAI, with reports suggesting more researchers are in talks to follow.<\/p>\n<p>The move echoes Meta&#8217;s aggressive talent raids last year, when Mark Zuckerberg&#8217;s company offered compensation packages reportedly worth $200 million to lure AI researchers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI has poached three founding members from Thinking Machines Lab\u2014the AI startup led by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati\u2014in what appears to be a calculated strike against a rising competitor. Barret Zoph, Luke Metz, and Sam Schoenholz are all returning to OpenAI, with reports suggesting more researchers are in talks to follow. The move echoes Meta&#8217;s aggressive talent raids last year, when Mark Zuckerberg&#8217;s company offered compensation packages reportedly worth $200 million to lure AI researchers.<\/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-986639","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\/986639","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=986639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}