Meta has been aggressively pursuing AI talent from top labs, mostly OpenAI, in an effort to get a leg up on its competition. The details of the developing story are so dramatic and foreign to the rest of the world that it's become stranger-than-fiction fodder for the internet watching it unfold in real time.

Meta’s push to poach OpenAI talent sparks internal turmoil, bold countermeasures, and a heated battle over the future of artificial general intelligence.

OpenAI facing a wave of senior staff departures to Meta has launched an urgent effort to revise compensation and explore new incentives to keep employees from defecting.