Openai bets millions of people building AI talent from scratch amid rival Meta’s poaching bids
White Hot Race for the advantages of artificial intelligence in Silicon Valley A heart-warming wage package This is part of the industry recruitment. However, at Openai, the company’s residency program is committed to attracting and maintaining it. Top talent By looking completely outside the industry.
The six-month full-time paid program offers aspiring AI researchers in adjacent fields such as physics and neuroscience a path to the AI industry rather than recruiting individuals who have already invested heavily in AI research and work. According to Jackie Hehir, Openai’s Research Residency Program Manager, residents are not people seeking doctorates in machine learning or AI, nor are employees of other AI labs. Instead, She said During the program information session, “They are really passionate about space.”
So what’s in there for Openai? Hot celebrities with reduced prices. With six-figure salaries, Openai residents are in the top 5% of American workers, but they are a rare world bargain for AI, and in the war of bidding for talent, some companies are throwing around nine-figure bonuses.
By providing a foothold in the AI world, Openai appears to have developed talent embedded in the company’s mission. The strategy, led by CEO Sam Altman, was part of the company’s approach to keeping employees and driving innovation. One of the former Openai staff members We explained about employee culture In Business Insider “As obsessed with the actual mission of creating AGIs,” or as artificial general information.
Mission-driven or not, too, too It’s brilliantly compensatedearning a salary of $210,000 a year, which is about $105,000 for the six-month program. The company will also pay residents to move to San Francisco. Unlike internships, the program treats participants as full-fledged employees and fully equipped with a set of benefits. Almost every resident who works well received a full-time offer, and according to Hehir, all residents have previously offered a full-time contract. Each year, the company welcomes around 30 residents.
The qualifications of Openai residents are somewhat unconventional. In fact, the company claims there are no formal education or job requirements. Instead, they hold a “very high-tech bar” in parity for what they want from full-time employees involved in mathematics and programming.
“You don’t need to get an advanced mathematics degree, but you need to be really satisfied with the concepts of advanced mathematics,” says Hehir.
When Openai tries to build talent from scratch, its rivals are MetaPulling out all stops and poaching top talent Reports claimed That meta CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, personally identifies top open-eye staff on what insiders called “lists,” and attempts to recruit them with offers over $100 million bonuses.
Meta’s reward package for AI talent reportedly could reach more than $300 million over four years for elite researchers. Cash floods have been reported in some insiders.SummerAs an AI expert, I’m considering whether to stay loyal to my current employer or leave on record-breaking payday.
Zuckerberg’s method has achieved some success Many Openai employees For Meta’s new Superintelligence team. In response to news of employee departures, Openai’s Chief Research Officer, Mark Chen; I told the staff Feeling “someone broke into our house and stole something.”
Meanwhile, Openai CEO Sam Altman It is called Meta recruitment tactics “Crazy”, warning that money alone will not secure the best people. “What Meta is doing, in my opinion, leads to a very deep cultural issue,” Altman told employees this week in a leaked internal memo.
Ultimately, instead of trying to outdo the meta, fostering new talent may prove Openai’s more sustainable path in the quest to remain highly mission-oriented, supporting its commitment to the rarity of the finest talent. estimate suggest There are only about 2,000 people worldwide who can push the boundaries between large-scale language models and advanced AI research. It remains unclear whether the talent cultivated by Altman and Openai are loyal to the company. However, Altman says that the AI will “mations will defeat the mercenaries.”