With Meta successfully poaching a number of its senior researchers, an OpenAI executive reportedly reassured team members Saturday that company leadership has not “been standing idly by.”

Mark Zuckerberg has been hiring aggressively to build an AI team and had offered signing bonuses as high as $100 million to some OpenAI employees, Sam Altman said in his brother’s podcast. The Facebook cofounder is building a new 50 people AI ‘superintelligence’ team after Meta’s latest Llama models failed to gain traction compared to rivals.

Meta has successfully recruited four artificial intelligence researchers from OpenAI to join its newly formed superintelligence laboratory, underscoring the fierce competition between the two firms in AI development and talent acquisition.