New Delhi, July 1 -- OpenAI has had a major headache on its hands in recent days as Meta has poached many of its top AI researchers. If OpenAI chief Sam Altman is to be believed, Meta is offering its new joiners from OpenAI signing bonuses of up to $100 million to lure them into joining the social media giant's AI efforts.

One of the employees who left OpenAI for Meta is Trapit Bansal, who had worked at the company since 2022 and is credited with kickstarting the ChatGPT maker's reinforcement learning efforts alongside co-founder Ilya Sutskever.

According to Bansal's X account (formerly Twitter), he is also a foundational contributor to the company's first-ever reasoning model, o1. He holds a Master of Science degree in Mathematics and ...