New Delhi, June 27 -- Three key OpenAI engineers, who founded the company's office in Zurich last year, are indeed leaving Sam Altman's firm and joining Mark Zuckerberg's Meta - but there is a catch.

Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai are not getting a $100 million joining bonus per person as was reported earlier.

Beyer on Thursday junked all reports of the engineers getting $100 million, calling it a fake news but confirmed that all three of them will, in fact, join Meta.

"Hey all, couple quick notes: 1) yes, we will be joining Meta. 2) no, we did not get 100M sign-on, that's fake news. Excited about what's ahead though, will share more in due time! [sic]," he wrote in a post on X.

The claim of Beyer, Kolesnikov and ...