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Getty imagesOpeni’s boss, Sam Altman, says his team members are getting “huge proposals” from rival tech firm Meta, including $ 100M (£ 74.3m) “signing bonus”.
Meta – who owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp – is trying to promote its business’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) side, including recent startups, spending $ 14bn (£ 10.4bn) to buy 49% of Scale AI.
However, Mr. Altman said that “at least no ship had agreed to jump at least” his “best people”.
BBC News has contacted Meta for response.
Forester chief analyst Indranil Bandyopadhyay said that the figures reflected the confidence within the technical industry that “some aristocrats and engineers of some elite could provide a decisive competitive advantage.”
Talent acquisition with investment in AI running at extraordinary levels is a “high-risk, high-managed gambling”, he told the BBC.
“Is this intense level of investment durable, it remains to be seen, but for now, the AI Gold Rush continues at a breaknake speed, its most precious and fiercely fought resources with talent.”
Culture vs compensation
Speaking His brother Jack’s podcastSam Altman said that he respected Meta’s aggression in competition with OpenaiI, which makes the world’s most famous AI-operated product, chatgipt.
He said that in addition to the signed bonus, the meta was offering more than “compensation per year”, although it was not reported whether it was in wages or stock options and other incentives.
But Mr. Altman said that he felt that people were living in Openai due to their “really special culture” and “mission” and “Economic Awards” and “Mission” due to “Mission” due to “Economic Awards”.
Openai and other AI firms feel that artificial General Intelligence (Agi) is not far away, which would mean that the AI system can also perform better than humans.
The Superintendent is the next step, where the objective is to create AI which can further enhance human cognitive abilities.
Mr. Altman told his brother, “There are many things about Meta as a company, but I don’t think they are a company, such as, great in innovation,” Mr. Altman told his brother.
Big tech firms are spending large amounts of money to do research and develop on AI.
For example, Openai in January Announced a joint deal To spend $ 500BN at many new data centers with other funds – which power AI in the US.
The amount spent on AI “reflects a belief … that we are in the morning of a transformational change, which will reopen almost every business area,” said Edward Kelan, Partner of Octopus Ventures, an Venture Capital Fund located in the UK.
“Very top talent has the ability to define the AI model and the future of infrastructure, and can attract exceptional offers as a result,” he said.
Tech bros and their barbes
Sam Altman’s comments are the latest examples of leading figures in the technique offering, which is a popular medium for in -nice -evaluation sometimes with podcasts what his rivals are doing.
In January, at Rosen’s podcast, Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg praised Apple’s iPhone, “clearly one of the most important inventions of all time.”
But he said The company recently took away from its game in terms of not releasing many new things. “
However, it is not that there is nothing with the pair, compared to the stormy relationship with Mr. Zuckerberg’s fellow Tech Titan Elon Musk. Threat to fight each other in the cage.
Musk is also currently included A legal battle With Sam Altman on the establishment of Openai.
