Meta on Wednesday pushed back on reports that the Mark Zuckerberg-led company has offered as much as $300 million to poach talent from OpenAI in the battle for artificial intelligence supremacy. Zuckerberg allegedly extended the highly lucrative offers to at least 10 staffers at OpenAI who were given the option of taking equity in Meta — with $100 million of the stock vesting in the first year and up to $300 million over four years,

When news broke last week that Mark Zuckerberg had splashed “up to $100 million” signing bonuses on top AI talent (from the likes of OpenAI and others), little did the tech world realize something seismic was underway within Meta.