Sam Altman said Meta was offering $100 million signing bonuses to OpenAI employees to jump ship.

But an OpenAI researcher who recently joined Meta said he wasn’t given such a bonus.

Andrew Bosworth, Meta’s CTO, said Altman and OpenAI had countered Meta’s offers.

A former OpenAI researcher who left the ChatGPT maker for Meta said he didn’t receive a $100 million signing bonus when he joined the social media giant.

Lucas Beyer joined OpenAI in November and helped set up its Zurich office with two of his colleagues, Alexander Kolesnikov and Xiaohua Zhai. On Thursday, Beyer wrote in an X post that the three had moved to Meta.

Meta’s hiring of Beyer, Kolesnikov, and Zhai was first reported by The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday. The trio had worked as research scientists at Google DeepMind before they joined OpenAI.

Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, said in an episode of the “Uncapped with Jack Altman” podcast that aired last week that Meta had tried to poach his best employees. Altman said he found it “crazy” that Meta was dangling $100 million signing bonuses to recruit his staff.