“Someone broke into our home.”

Mark Chen, and Openai’s chief research official sent a strong note to the employees on Saturday, and promised to go face to face with the social giant in the war to obtain the best research talents. This memo, which was sent to Openai’s employees in Slack and obtained by WIRED, came days after the CEO of Meta Mark Zuckerberg was successfully appointed Four senior researchers From the company to join the Meta’s SuperInte Britivity Laboratory.

Chen wrote: “I feel a brutal feeling at the present time, as if someone broke into our house and stole something,” Chen wrote. “Please trust that we were not sitting idle.”

Chen promised that he was working with Sam Altman, CEO of Openai, and other leaders of the company “around the clock to speak with those who have offers,” adding, “We were more active than ever, and we are calibrating companies, and we are defining creative ways to learn about higher talents and reward them.”

However, although Openai’s leadership seems desperate to keep its employees, Chen said he had “high personal standards of fairness”, and he wants to keep the higher talents while taking this into consideration. “While I will fight to keep each of you, I will not do it at the price of fairness to others,” he wrote.

The news comes at a time when artificial intelligence researchers competed in Silicon Valley. Zuckerberg was particularly aggressive in his approach, as he presented signing bonuses worth $ 100 million to some Openai, according to the comments made by Altman on A. Podcast with his brotherJack Taman. Multiple sources in Openai confirmed with direct knowledge of the number shows. Also, the CEO of Meta was personally contacted to potential recruits, according to Wall Street Journal. “Over the course of last month, Meta built their new effort, and he tried again and again (and most of them in vain) to employ some of our strongest talents with packages focusing on companies,” Chen wrote on Slack.

A source close to the efforts made in Meta confirmed that the company has increased greatly from the recruitment of research, with a special eye towards talents from Openai and Google. manAlthough he is also a higher competitor, it is believed that a less appropriate culture in Meta, but one of the sources tells WIRED. The source says: “They have not necessarily expanded the band, but for higher talents, the sky is the maximum.”

Openai and Meta did not respond to the suspension requests.

The Chen Memorandum of Seven Other Research Leaders included in the company, where they wrote notes to employees in a clear effort to encourage them to stay. Encouraged one of the leaders in the research team to communicate if they received a offer from Meta: “If they press you, or make ridiculous offers, tell them only to retreat, it is not good to pressure people in a possible decision.