It appears that Meta is not yet finished recruiting talent from OpenAI, as Meta recently recruited four additional researchers from OpenAI.

TechCrunch reported that Meta had recruited Trapit Bansal, an influential OpenAI researcher.

The Wall Street Journal also reported that Meta had engaged three other researchers from the company.

The researchers: Shengjia Zhao, Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, and Hongyu Ren, have each agreed to join.

This hiring frenzy follows the April introduction of Meta’s Llama 4 AI models, which reportedly did not perform as well as CEO Mark Zuckerberg had anticipated. (The company was also criticized for the version of Llama that was employed for a prominent benchmark.)

There has been some back-and-forth between the two companies. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has suggested that Meta was offering “$100 million signing bonuses,” while also stating that “so far, none of our best people” have departed.

Andrew Bosworth, the Chief Technology Officer of Meta, subsequently informed employees that the circumstances of the offer were more intricate than a straightforward one-time signing incentive, despite the fact that senior executives may have been offered that amount of money.