In short
- Altman says that Meta offers $ 100 million signing bonuses, plus substantial annual compensation, to attract AI researchers.
- OpenAI employees choose to stay despite considerable financial incentives.
- The compensation of the AI industry reaches new heights when companies compete for talent.
Multinational Tech Giant Meta offers OpenAI employees who sign bonuses up to $ 100 million In addition to annual compensation packages that exceed that amount, OpenAi CEO Sam Altman claimed on the “Uncapt” podcast of Monday.
Meta had “made huge offers to many people in our team,” Altman said on the podcastThat Tuesday was broadcast and organized by his brother, Jack Altman.
In the conversation Altman said none of the “best people” of his company has accepted these packages so far.
Meta’s recruitment efforts reportedly have contacted CEO Mark Zuckerberg personal contact with researchers and organizing meetings in his private homes in Lake Tahoe and Palo Alto, according to a prior Bloomberg report With reference to people approached by Zuckerberg.
Altman’s claims of massive compensation offers from meta seem to be one report by The information Last year, in which Zuckerberg is said to have sent e -mails and “fast offers” for top talent to become a member of his team.
Altman’s comments are not substantiated. Meta and OpenAi did not respond immediately Decrypts Request for comments.
Altman’s podcast interview comes when Meta tries to increase his AI efforts.
Last week, it Invested $ 14 billion In data-labeling start-up scale AI, hoping to catch up with its rivals, causing a “Superintelligence Division” to be led by Alexandr Wang, scale AI’s 26-year-old founder and CEO.
AI Talent Acquisition Wars
Significant demand for AI talent has increased compensation in the industry. Industry facts Signalfire, compiled by risk capital company, shows that there are significant changes in the AI sector.
Top talent is locked up under Elite Labs from Top AI companies: Anthropic Leids with a retention rights of 80% two years, followed by Google’s Deepen At 78% and OpenAi at 67%.
But while Meta spends $ 2 million a year on AI talent, it is “still losing them to OpenAI and anthropic,” one X By Doy Das, main investor at Menlo Ventures.
The report also shows that Top AI talent is attracted to anthropic, which attracts more employees from rivals such as DeepMind and OpenAi than loses it.
DeepMind is considered one of the most important sources of talent for other laboratories, which suggests that it has a considerable wear. In the meantime, smaller players such as a hug face are winning and attract researchers from larger companies.
Some companies, such as SAFE Superintelligence (SSI), founded by former OpenAI Chief Scientist Ilya Sutkever, offered retention packages to those $ 2 million bonuses and equity increases of $ 20 million or more, with some regulations that require a year of obligations for full compensation, according to a Reuters report in May.
These movements have opened the investigation of the US government, in which three senators question the practice in one open letter Last year.
Edited by Sebastian Sinclair
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