Former OpenAI researcher Lucas Beyer pours cold water on $100 million Meta signing bonus 

Lucas Beyer released on Thursday that he is, Alexander Kulusnikov, and Siuhawa Chai will leave Openai to join a $ 1.8 trillion company led by Mark Zuckerberg. Bayer said it was “fake news” that Zuckerberg was paying this level of compensation. However, this news came from the CEO of Openai Sam Altman himself, who was “crazy” this month.

“They started to present these giant offers, for many people in our team – signing bonuses worth $ 100 million, more than those companies annually.” Indisputable. “I am really happy because, at least yet, none of the best people decided to take it on it.”

Hello, quick notes:
1) Yes, we will join Meta.
2) No, we did not get 100 million marks, this is fake news.

Enthusiastic for what awaits us, more will share in time!

copy ___Kolesnikov__ and Xiaohuazhai. Lucas Bayer (BL16) (GIFFMANA) June 26, 2025

Bayer, Kulusnikov, and Chi’a members of technical staff in Openai since December 2024, who joined him after his rival from Google DeepMind. They leave for Meta at a time when competition for talents between artificial intelligence companies reaches a feverish stadium, where Zuckerberg is reported that in a group of employment to confront the narration that fails to develop artificial intelligence. Reports claim that the company is appointed by the “Supertelligence” team, which is 50 people to increase its efforts from artificial intelligence. Meta also bought a $ 14 billion in Scale Ai, to bring Alexandr Wang CEO to the barn.

Zuckerberg only earns one dollar as an executive head of Meta, although the company provides him with a value of $ 14 million for safety costs for Zuckerberg and his family. It holds about 13 % of technology shares, valued at $ 250 billion Forbes.

Among the executives paid at Meta, the Executive Director of Operations, Javier Olivan, was paid last year, with a compensation value of $ 25.5 million. No other executive official in Meta has been paid $ 100 million in any of the past three years, according to the company’s financial files.

The average annual annual compensation for all Meta employees, unlike Zuckerberg 417400 dollars last year.

In X, one of the commentators speculated that Altman “has just had just removed 100 meters from this to make potential retirees believe that they are suffering from football.”

“Yes, it was a great step, I must give him that,” Bayer published in response.

Openai and Meta did not respond immediately to the suspension requests.