$100M per brain. And that – four times over!

🤖 Meta lured ChatGPT developers – $100M each

Meta (formerly Facebook) pulled off the AI transfer of the year – the company hired four top engineers from OpenAI, all of whom helped develop GPT-4, GPT-4.1, and cutting-edge multimodal AI systems.

Among them is Yuhuai “Tony” Wu, one of GPT’s core architects. He confirmed the move, while social media is buzzing with jokes that Meta is building its own AI Dream Team.

How much?

Rumor has it, each developer was offered $100 million – yes, that’s not a typo.
One AI engineer now costs about as much as Cristiano Ronaldo in his prime.
As someone joked on X:

“Now we know why OpenAI models got slimmer – they’re losing weight along with the team.”

What does it mean?

• Meta is beefing up its AI power – especially in the area of open models, to compete with OpenAI and Anthropic.
• The company is betting on multimodal AI – text, voice, images, and video in one package.
• A new R&D hub will focus on open-source models at GPT-4 level, which could reshape the market.

📌 Why it matters

This kind of talent shift shows the AI space is entering a new phase of intellectual warfare – the fight isn’t just for users anymore, but for brains. Literally.

Stock options used to be enough. Now it’s hundreds of millions.