Zuckerberg offered ₹22,700 crore in total to poach talent from OpenAI, Google, TML: Report
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Sunday, 3 August, 2025 Mark Zuckerberg, who's on an AI talent poaching spree for employees at competitors like OpenAI and Google, offered $2.6 billion (nearly ₹22,700 crore) in total to persuade employees, HT reported. This included $1.5-billion offer to Thinking Machines Lab (TML) Co-founder Andrew Tulloch and $250-million offer to college dropout Matt Deitke. He made $300-million offers to multiple OpenAI employees.