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SCOOP: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is hitting back at Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s recent AI talent poaching spree. "Missionaries will beat mercenaries," Altman wrote in an response to OpenAI researchers reviewed by WIRED. @zoeschiffer.bsky.social has more.

“What Meta is doing will, in my opinion, lead to very deep cultural problems,” Altman said in the leaked memo. This comes on the heels of a major announcement from Zuckerberg. On Monday, the Meta CEO sent a memo to staff introducing the company’s new superintelligence team.

OpenAI’s chief research officer Mark Chen told staff that it felt like “someone has broken into our home and stolen something.”

A number of high-ranking employees who’ve worked at Meta followed up in Slack with their own stories about why OpenAI’s culture is superior. “[T]hey constantly rotate their top focus,” wrote one.