Meta continues to strengthen its AI capabilities by hiring influential researchers from rival company OpenAI. This move comes after the April launch of Meta’s Llama 4 AI models, which underperformed expectations and drew criticism.
In a series of recent reports, it has been confirmed that Meta recruited not only Trapit Bansal but also three other OpenAI researchers: Shengjia Zhao, Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, and Hongyu Ren.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg had reportedly expected the Llama 4 models to perform better, sparking a heated exchange between the two companies’ leaders, Sam Altman and Andrew Bosworth. Despite Altman’s claims that OpenAI researchers received $100 million signing bonuses, Bosworth clarified that actual terms were more complex.
Source: https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/28/meta-reportedly-hires-four-more-researchers-from-openai