Mark Chen, The The Openai research director sent a mighty note to the staff on Saturday, promising to go to the head with a social giant during the war for the best research talents. This note, which was sent to Opeli employees in Slack and obtained by Wired, appeared a few days after Mark Zuckerberg General Director General successfully recruited four older researchers from the company to join the Superinteligence Meta laboratory.
“At the moment I feel a visceral feeling, as if someone broke into our house and stole something,” Chen wrote. “Please trust that we were not sitting idly.”
Chen promised that he was cooperating with Sam Altman, the general director of OPENAI and other leaders at the company “Total to talk to offers”, adding: “We were more proactive than ever before, we calibrate the complex again, and we set creative ways of recognizing and rewarding the best talent.”
Despite this, even when Opeli’s management seems desperate to keep its staff, Chen said he has “high personal standards of honesty” and wants to keep in mind the best talents. “While I will fight to maintain each of you, I will not do it at the price of honesty for others,” he wrote.
The message appears because the competition for the best AI researchers warms up in the Silicon Valley. Zuckerberg was particularly aggressive in his approach, offering a $ 100 million bonus for some OPENAI employees, according to Altman’s comments on Podcast with brotherJack Altman. Many sources at OpenAI with direct knowledge of offers have confirmed the number. According to Meta, CEO personally reaches potential recruits Wall Street Journal. “Over the past month, Meta aggressively builds his new effort AI and repeatedly (and above all unsuccessfully) tried to recruit some of our strongest talents with packages focused on components,” Chen in Slack wrote.
The source similar to efforts in Meta confirmed that the company significantly increases the recruitment of research, with a special eye on the talent of Opeli and Google. It is believed that anthropic, although this is the best rival, is less matched to the culture to the finish line, says one source. “They have not necessarily expanded the band, but for the best talents heaven is a border,” says the source.
Both OpenAI and Meta did not respond to requests for comment.
The CHENA note contained messages from seven other research leaders in a company where they wrote notes for employees to encourage them to stay. One of the leaders of the research team encouraged employees to achieve if they received an offer from the finish: “If they put pressure on you, or make entertaining explosions simply tell them to withdraw, it is not nice to put pressure on people in a potentially most crucial decision. Wiried does not call the leader because they are not executive power.